[Online] Metric Trees 101: From Dashboards to Computable Business Models

​Continuing our DPM webinar series aimed at upskilling & knowledge-sharing, we're joined by Vijay Subramanian - Founder & CEO of HelloTrace, building metric trees as computable models of the business!

​Most teams measure the business through dashboards - hundreds of disconnected charts that tell you what happened but never why. A metric tree is a different idea: a computable model of how the business actually works, where revenue, orders, and the drivers behind them are expressed as executable logic you can decompose, attribute, and interrogate.

​In this foundational session, Vijay unpacks what metric trees are, why the old reporting models are running out of road, and how a computable model changes the way data teams support decisions.

​What we'll unpack

• ​What a metric tree actually is - and why it's a data model, not a diagram

• ​Why dashboards plateau, and the pain points that push teams toward modelling

• ​The pre-AI genesis of the idea - and why AI makes it more relevant, not less

• ​Where computable models open up automation: decomposition, attribution, anomaly detection

​What you'll walk away with

• ​A clear mental model of metric trees and where they fit alongside BI

• ​A sense of when a computable model earns its keep vs a dashboard

• ​A view on how AI is reshaping the modelling layer of the data stack

​Perfect for: data leaders, analytics engineers, and product/finance teams who live in dashboards and suspect there's a better way to model the business.

​About our speaker

​Vijay Subramanian is Founder and CEO of HelloTrace, where he's building Trace - metric trees as computable, SQL-executable data models. Over 20 years running data teams, he kept wanting a tool that could express the business as a model you can actually compute against, not just visualise. He thinks about metric trees as living data models that enable decomposition, attribution, and anomaly detection - not static cause-effect diagrams on a canvas.

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