Drivepoint

Cyber Week customers come back less often. On Shopify, they spend about the same. We looked at Q4 2025 data from 82 consumer brands, each compared with its own January to September: 🏷️ Cyber Week discount rate: +9.1 points 🔁 Day-90 repeat rate: −3.5 points 📉 Margin after marketing: −2.4 points Set this year’s offer with last year’s numbers. Free benchmarks: https://lnkd.in/e4rd_RuN/?utm_campaign=CampaignBucket2:TOFUDemandGeneration&utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=paid&utm_id=892310464&hsa_acc=518382202&hsa_cam=892310464&hsa_grp=905272604&hsa_ad=1617362194&hsa_net=linkedin&hsa_ver=3

The response to our Claude 101 session was awesome. Packed room, a full Q&A, and the same question over and over: “When’s the next one?” So Austin Gardner-Smith is back for Claude 201 for Finance Teams. 💡 We’re going past the basics into the three things that turn Claude from a chat window into part of how your finance team actually runs: 📁 Setting up and managing projects ⏰ Creating scheduled tasks 💻 An introduction to Claude Code Tuesday, Oct 27 at 1 PM ET. Live demos and plenty of time for your questions. 👉 Save your seat: https://lnkd.in/ek9cnb6T #FPandA #CPG #Claude #FinanceTeams

We benchmarked food & beverage brands straight from their reconciled P&Ls. The number that matters: $1.00 of gross wholesale becomes $0.81 of net revenue at the median brand. Trade, promotions, and deductions take the rest. Is your dollar worth more or less than that? The full benchmark is free: CAC, repeat rates, margins by channel, and the gross-to-net waterfall nobody else publishes. https://lnkd.in/eUrvwN2c/?utm_campaign=CampaignBucket2:TOFUDemandGeneration&utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=paid&utm_id=892310464&hsa_acc=518382202&hsa_cam=892310464&hsa_grp=905272604&hsa_ad=1617283204&hsa_net=linkedin&hsa_ver=3

📅 Claude 101 for finance teams. Live on Sept 29. In 45 minutes, Drivepoint CEO Austin Gardner-Smith demos four Claude workflows you can copy: ⏰ A Monday pacing brief that writes itself 🔌 Data sources connected the right way, with permissions the whole team can trust 🧹 A messy 3PL export turned into a clean table, with every change logged 📊 Claude inside your Excel model: explain, audit, build No code. No hype. Every demo runs on a fictional sample brand. 🗓️ Tuesday, Sept 29 · 1:00 PM ET / 10:00 AM PT 👉 Save your seat: https://lnkd.in/ef5jb3kQ

Early on at TIES, hiring a financial analyst while running the rest of the business wasn’t feasible or fiscally responsible. But I also wasn’t willing to fly blind on the numbers. So we brought in Drivepoint. Our QuickBooks, Shopify and 3PL data flow into one model that updates itself, and I can ask questions of my own data instead of rebuilding spreadsheets. I sat down with the Drivepoint team to talk about it: https://lnkd.in/gEVCqvtP

Claude 101 was one of the most fun sessions I’ve run in a while. The best part was the questions afterward. Almost all of them amounted to “OK, what’s next?” That’s Claude 201. Tuesday, Oct 27, 1 PM ET. We’re going past the chat window: projects your whole team can share, scheduled tasks that run without you, and a first look at Claude Code for finance. Link in comments. The 101 recording is there too.