A KPI dashboard is the page where a team’s key performance indicators live. It shows a small set of headline figures — revenue against plan, gross margin, on-time delivery, win rate — each next to a target or the previous period, with one trend chart and one breakdown that explain why the numbers moved. It answers a single question for a single audience: are we on track?
It is different from an operational dashboard, which shows everything happening right now, and from an exploratory one, where analysts dig. A KPI dashboard should take under a minute to read. If it needs scrolling on a laptop, or a tile has no comparison, readers cannot tell whether to worry, and they stop opening it.
A worked example: a restaurant group’s KPI dashboard has six tiles — covers, average spend, food cost %, labour cost %, revenue against budget and guest rating — then a 13-week trend of revenue and a table of sites ranked by labour cost, worst first. The area manager reads it at 7:30 every Monday from a PDF in her inbox and knows which two sites to visit. Rule of thumb: five to seven KPIs, each defined once, each with an owner.
In Klayara, a KPI is defined once as a metric and reused in every tile, scheduled report and AI answer, so the numbers always agree. Start from the executive overview template, or describe the dashboard and let Klayara AI draft it.