Every Monday at 06:00 UTC, FolioKit hands the week's data (events, revenue events, screen views, new users, Apple proceeds, and any statistical anomalies) to an AI analyst and stores the result in your dashboard. The generator has strict rules: be specific and numeric, compute the week-over-week deltas itself, say when the data is too thin for a claim instead of inventing one, exclude internal and test traffic, never invent numbers for pre-launch apps, and stay under 400 words. Here is what one looks like.
TL;DR
A good week, driven by one release: LuminaClean v2.4 lifted trials and
proceeds, and the portfolio grew to $3,982 (+12% WoW). One thing needs your
attention before you trust any TicFlow chart — paywall_shown
appears to be double-firing since 1.4.2.
Highlights
- LuminaClean — proceeds $2,410 (+18% WoW). v2.4 is the cause: trial starts from users who completed onboarding rose from 14.2% to 16.1%, while the skipped-onboarding rate stayed flat at 3.8%. DAU 1,240 (+6%).
- Inkfall — proceeds $181 (+38% WoW) off a small base: 9 purchases vs 6 last week. Too thin to call a trend; worth one more week.
- BookBinge — steady: $918 (+4% WoW), D7 retention holding at 22%, WAU 940 (+2%). Nothing needs you here.
Concerns
- TicFlow instrumentation bug —
paywall_shownfired 2,140 times against roughly 1,050 paywall screen views: almost exactly 2×, starting with the 1.4.2 rollout on 8 July. This looks like the event is attached to a view update, not to the paywall's presentation. Until it's fixed, TicFlow's funnel understates trial rate by about half. Don't act on any TicFlow conversion number this week. - LuminaClean refunds from Japan — 3 refunds against a zero baseline (z = 3.1). All three were v2.4 purchases refunded within 24 hours. Not conclusive at this volume, but watch it.
- TicFlow proceeds — $473 (−3% WoW), the only decline in the portfolio.
Revenue
Portfolio proceeds $3,982 (+12% WoW): $1,730 from new subscriptions and purchases, $2,252 from renewals. 214 trials started (+9%); trial-to-paid conversion 38% on the cohort that resolved this week. Top countries: US 58%, DE 11%, JP 8%. Refunds: 5 totalling $54 — all noted above.
Focus this week
- Fix TicFlow's
paywall_showndouble-fire. It corrupts every downstream read on the app — nothing else about TicFlow is worth deciding until this ships. - Port LuminaClean's v2.4 paywall copy to TicFlow once the events are trustworthy — TicFlow's trial rate trails the portfolio even after correcting for the double-fire.
- Watch LuminaClean's Japanese refunds. If two more land this week, review the JP price tier before assuming a product problem.
How this brief gets made
- Anchored to your data, not vibes. The generator receives raw weekly aggregates plus detected anomalies (daily z-scores against each app's trailing 28 days) — the Japan-refunds line above is what a woven-in anomaly looks like.
- Instrumentation checks are part of the job. Paired events with mismatched counts, sudden per-session volume changes, and release-aligned jumps get flagged as bugs, not celebrated as growth.
- Thin data is called thin. At indie scale most weekly numbers are small; the brief says "too thin to call" instead of trend-fitting nine purchases.
- Internal traffic excluded. Your own devices and simulators are flagged and removed before the analysis runs.