Metrics, Traction & AI — Building Your 2026 Growth Strategy

In 2026, investors will not ask about your ideas — they will ask about your metrics, traction, and execution discipline. This comprehensive, hands-on workshop is designed to help startups translate strategy into clear KPIs, measurable traction, and realistic milestones for the year ahead.Together with experienced practitioners, you will build a data-driven growth framework for your startup — covering customer traction, revenue traction, and the smart use of AI for faster, better decision-making.This is not a lecture. It is a working session, where each participant will actively refine their metrics and leave with a concrete tracking system for 2026.

By the end of the workshop, you will:

• Better understand a suitable traction model for your business
• Create customer and revenue KPIs fully aligned with your business model
• Learn how to understand your customer via activation and cohort based metrics
• Learn how to efficiently leverage AI for your startup

Agenda

• Your Startup Pitch
• Traction 101
• How to Track Your Progress
• Hands-on pair and group exercises to define: Core customer and revenue traction metrics, Growth inputs vs. vanity metric

• In-Depth Customer Traction
• Hands-on pair and group exercises to define: Customer activation metrics, Cohort analysis metrics
• AI to the Rescue
• An interactive session on how to efficiently leverage AI in your startup journey