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WHAT CAN FUEL DO FOR ME?

I am a startup
  • a startup
  • a corporate
  • an investor
and I want to:
  • Optimize pricing

    Find opportunities to increase revenue, reduce churn, and align product offerings to customer segments

  • Accelerate business building

    Enable rapid growth through our comprehensive strategic and implementation services

  • Rapidly prioritize verticals and use cases

    Determine which verticals, use cases, and routes to market get to faster product adoption, lower churn, and higher conversion

  • Enhance sales and marketing

    Understand how to shorten sales cycles and improve conversions through better value propositions, sales processes, and sales capabilities

  • Define a growth strategy

    Find the next vectors of growth and the plan to get there

  • Scale organizational capabilities

    Build and maintain a strong and healthy organization, encompassing my company's culture, value, capabilities, and management processes

  • Design product to customer value and cost

    Design products that maximize customer value while balancing development and manufacturing costs

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    Deeply understand the mindsets and behaviors of my consumers and the product, marketing, and loyalty levers to pull to maximize acquisition and retention

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    Keep a pulse on technology innovation in my industry and accelerate my own digital roadmap

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    Deploy Fuel’s suite of offerings, analytics tools and training across my portfolio for maximum impact

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How does your SaaS business compare?

Enter the metrics below to see how you measure up to other SaaS companies.

CLTV to CAC Ratio Graph

Customer Lifetime Value to Customer Acquisition Cost

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CLTV/CAC

ABOUT YOUR COMPANY

Enter the three metrics below to see where you stand.

Great work!

Your CLTV/CAC ratio is low, and this suggests you may not be getting enough value for your marketing and sales spend. Most often, a successful strategy to address this includes a program to reduce churn and improve sales and marketing efficiency. SaaSRadar can help you figure out which levers will be most effective for you.

Most SaaS companies like you are in a similar range, meaning they meet typical expectations for a return on marketing and sales spend. But one metric never tells the whole story, SaaSRadar can help you get deeper with over 50 metrics to identify the biggest opportunities to accelerate your growth.

While this suggests your return on marketing and sales spend is better than most, it's not all good news. If your ROI is too high, you may be leaving safe opportunities to grow much faster on the table. SaaSRadar's 50 different benchmarks can help you identify what those might be.

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With SaasRadar, a McKinsey proprietary benchmarking tool for financial and operational metrics, we compare you against relevant SaaS peers and make data-based recommendations that clear your path for growth.

Try the live SaaSRadar demo to see the core features, experiment with your own data, or join a pilot to integrate your API.

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Thanks to Fuel, we now understand what levers to pull to really move our numbers and lead the next wave of disruptive innovation.

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