We don't know what to focus on

By
Mukund Kabra

When teams say "We don't know what to focus on", it usually means the system that should drive decisions is unclear or untrusted. Define one source of truth, standardize definitions, and instrument the funnel so decisions are driven by comparable numbers.

Category:
Measurement
Reading time:
2
min read
Published on:
January 24, 2026

We don't know what to focus on

Problem

If you don't know what to focus on, you lose the ability to make confident tradeoffs. Without trusted instrumentation, you cannot separate a real signal from noise, so the safest choice becomes doing nothing or doing more of the same. Teams start debating numbers instead of customers, and every meeting becomes a negotiation over definitions, filters, and time windows. The cost is not just reporting confusion. It is slow decisions, misaligned priorities, and growth bets that are impossible to prove or kill. Until this is fixed, every improvement will feel slower than it should.

Insight

When teams don't know what to focus on, it's rarely a strategy problem, it's a signal problem. Most companies have plenty of ideas, data, and opinions, but no shared system for identifying leverage. Marketing looks at campaign metrics, product looks at usage, finance looks at cost, and leadership tries to connect the dots manually. The deeper issue is that your feedback loops aren't aligned. Without a unified view of impact, every function optimizes for its own success, not the company's growth. You don't need more priorities, you need a hierarchy, a clear, evidence-based way to decide what matters most right now and what can wait. Focus isn't about saying no to ideas. It's about knowing which few truly compound.

How Velocity Approaches It

We help companies replace noise with focus. Velocity starts by mapping your growth drivers, how acquisition, retention, and revenue actually connect, then we quantify where leverage really exists. From there, we align your marketing, product, and data teams around a single operating model that turns focus into action. No more guessing which initiative matters. No more chasing everything at once. Every effort ties to measurable impact, every decision backed by data. If you're tired of spinning in circles, we'll help you find the signal that makes growth simple again.

Tags:  
Attribution Framework; Marketing Mix Modeling; multi-touch Attribution; post-iOS Measurement; Data Stitching; Incrementality Testing

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