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Trenith Brief· Apr 20, 2026

Net +$284 MRR, but a leak worth your Tuesday.

from brief@trenith.com→to you
tl;dr

Good week on the top line, a bad cohort forming at the bottom. Spend 45 minutes this week on the Reddit cohort — they're the leak.

Where the growth came from

  • Your Thursday tweet on "the math of SaaS pricing" pulled 9 signups. 7 converted.
  • Avg plan: $39. That thread is now 34% of new MRR.
  • If it dries up, you're flat next week. Post the follow-up.

Where the leak is

  • 11 users from the Mar 28 Reddit post are churning at day ~12. All of them.
  • They sign up, use it twice, never open the dashboard again.
  • Current bleed: $319 / mo.

One thing to do this week

  • Reddit cohort has a day-3 activation problem — nobody reaches Export.
  • Send them a day-2 email that opens directly on the Export flow.
  • Nothing else. One email, one link.
net mrr — wk 16
+$284+11.1%
Growth this week came from one Reddit comment. Find the commenter. Thank them.·
4 users cancelled citing "pricing." All 4 were on annual. Your monthly pricing is scaring them off annual.·
The $99 plan has 3× the churn of the $29 plan. Either it's underpriced or the feature set is wrong.·
Trial-to-paid is up 14% since you removed the credit card wall. Don't touch it.·
31% of failed payments this week were on American Express. Check your Stripe Radar rules.·
Your power users (top 10% by MRR) all signed up through the changelog page. Nobody else does.·
The $49 tier is earning $7,200 MRR with one-fifth the support load of $29. That's where your business is.·
Cohort from the TechCrunch article (Mar 4) is 82% gone. That audience is not your audience.·
Growth this week came from one Reddit comment. Find the commenter. Thank them.·
4 users cancelled citing "pricing." All 4 were on annual. Your monthly pricing is scaring them off annual.·
The $99 plan has 3× the churn of the $29 plan. Either it's underpriced or the feature set is wrong.·
Trial-to-paid is up 14% since you removed the credit card wall. Don't touch it.·
31% of failed payments this week were on American Express. Check your Stripe Radar rules.·
Your power users (top 10% by MRR) all signed up through the changelog page. Nobody else does.·
The $49 tier is earning $7,200 MRR with one-fifth the support load of $29. That's where your business is.·
Cohort from the TechCrunch article (Mar 4) is 82% gone. That audience is not your audience.
The gap

Stripe tells you the numbers.
It doesn't tell you the story.

Every founder we've talked to has the same Monday ritual: open Stripe, stare at MRR, feel something vague, close the tab. Numbers without narrative are just anxiety with a chart.

Stripe · Monday 9:14 am
dashboard.stripe.com
MRR
$2,847
+4.2%
Active subscriptions
74
+3
Churn rate (30d)
5.8%
+2.1pp
Trial conversions
11 / 34
32%
Failed payments
$187
4 customers
…and now what?
Trenith · Monday 6:47 am
your inbox
what moved

MRR up $114 on paper. Real growth: $284 — offset by a $170 leak from last month's Reddit cohort. Net number hides the story.

why churn jumped

Of the 4 cancels, 3 cited “pricing” — all on annual. Your monthly tier is visible and cheaper; they're downgrading mentally before you notice.

the cohort warning

Users from the Mar 28 Reddit post are at 82% churn. They never reach Export. Send a day-2 email that opens directly on it.

one thing to ignore

The $187 failed payments — 3 of 4 will auto-retry successfully. Don't email the customers. Don't check again until Thursday.

→ 1 thing to do this week
The setup

You'll spend longer making coffee.

No dashboards to configure. No goals to set. No metrics to pick. If you have Stripe, you have Trenith.

  1. 01

    Connect Stripe

    30 seconds

    OAuth, read-only. We never touch card data, never trigger charges, never modify a subscription. You can revoke access in two clicks.

  2. 02

    We read the last 90 days

    done in 3 minutes

    Customers, subscriptions, invoices, disputes, every webhook event. We reconstruct your revenue history so Week 1 is not starting from zero.

  3. 03

    Brief lands Monday 7am

    every week, forever

    Written in plain English, 5 minutes to read, one clear thing to do. Forwardable to your co-founder without context. Ignorable if you're on vacation.

Under the hood

Every chart earns its pixels.

The dashboard exists for when you want to dig in after the brief. Not the other way around. Every cohort, every pricing test, every channel — annotated so you don't have to remember what happened six weeks ago.

trenith · overview · last 90d
live · updated 6 min ago
MRR
+11.1%
$2,847
real growth: $284
Active subs
+3
74
of 89 trial starts
Churn (30d)
+2.1pp
5.8%
driven by 1 cohort
Est. LTV
−4.2%
$672
avg 11.6 mo. tenure

MRR · annotated

Dots mark events Trenith flagged in a brief.

Cohort retention · by signup channel

Percentage still paying, week over week.
healthywatchleaking
CohortnW1W2W3W4W5
Mar 23 · Reddit post11
100
73
55
36
18
Mar 16 · Organic8
100
100
88
88
75
Mar 09 · Twitter thread14
100
93
86
79
71
Mar 02 · TechCrunch22
100
64
36
23
18
Feb 23 · Paid (Google)6
100
83
67
50
Feb 16 · Organic9
100
100
89
89
78
Trenith notes · The TechCrunch cohort retains 18% at W5 vs. 78% for organic. That audience isn't your audience — and the 22 users they brought cost you $197 in support time. Consider not chasing that channel.
Pricing

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  • Pricing-test detection
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  • Experiment tracking (pricing, onboarding, copy)
  • Invoice-level failed-payment triage
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  • Daily check-ins (not just Monday)
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