How to send a weekly marketing report on Starch

Marketing & Growth11 roles covered4 Starch apps

A weekly marketing report is the ritual that keeps everyone — you, your team, investors, channel partners — reading from the same page on what's working and what isn't. At its simplest, it's a recurring summary of your key marketing metrics: traffic, signups, conversion rates, ad spend, email performance, and whatever channel-specific numbers drive your business. The hard part isn't knowing what to include. It's that the raw data lives in five different places, someone has to pull it every week, and by the time it's assembled it's already a little stale.

What this looks like in practice depends on your business — a DTC brand cares about ROAS and CAC by channel; a SaaS company wants signup trends and activation rates; a services firm might focus on pipeline coverage and content-driven inbound. The underlying problem is the same: manual assembly every Monday morning.

On Starch, you end up with a report that writes itself. The numbers from your analytics tools, ad platforms, and email provider flow into one place. Growth Analyst — Starch's pre-built marketing analytics app — connects to PostHog and emails you a weekly digest covering what changed, what's driving traffic, and where to focus. Describe anything else you need on top of that and Starch builds it: a Slack summary, a slide deck, a cross-channel dashboard. The output hits your inbox or your channel on schedule, without anyone manually stitching a spreadsheet together on Sunday night.

Marketing & Growth11 roles covered4 Starch apps
Context

Why it matters

Why this is hard today

Without a consistent weekly report, marketing decisions get made on gut feel or on whoever shouted loudest in the last meeting. You miss when a channel starts degrading — ad ROAS slipping, email open rates falling — until the damage is already done. Get it right and you have a forcing function: every week, the numbers surface what needs attention, and the team spends the meeting on decisions instead of status updates. That compounds over quarters.

Watch out for

Common pitfalls

Where this usually goes wrong

Reporting on too many metrics: when everything is tracked, nothing is acted on. Pick five to eight numbers that actually drive decisions and stop there. Pulling data manually every week: one missed week becomes a gap, and gaps make trends invisible. Mixing metrics that aren't comparable — sessions from GA4, users from PostHog, and 'visitors' from your ad platform — without normalizing the definitions first. And sending the report to everyone instead of tailoring it: the channel-level breakdown your paid team needs is noise for an investor, and vice versa.

Toolkit

Starch apps used

See this running on Starch

Connect your tools, describe what you want, and the agent builds it. Closed beta is free.

Try it on Starch →
Pick your role

Choose your operator

A version of this guide tailored to your role — same recipe, different starting context.

Run send a weekly marketing report on Starch

You're on the list! We'll be in touch soon.