Michael Carter
Founder & CEO, Chartcastr
Building Chartcastr — an AI analyst that lives in Slack instead of behind a dashboard.
Michael founded Chartcastr after a decade of watching teams build dashboards nobody opens. He writes about push analytics, the economics of reporting, and why AI changes the shape of internal communication.
Writes about
- push analytics
- Slack-first reporting
- AI for business intelligence
- product-led growth
- SaaS metrics
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Posts by Michael Carter
Reading the org through its data: how cross-tool correlation surfaces problems before anyone notices
The most important business signals never live in one tool. Four anonymized case studies of cross-tool patterns — ticket volume as a churn signal, ad spend as a support driver, time-to-first-pulse as an activation signal — and the framework for finding your own.
We tested 12 AI Slack analytics bots side-by-side on eight real questions
Most "AI for Slack" tools claim to answer business questions. We bought them, connected the same dataset to each, and ran eight realistic prompts. Three handled most prompts well, two answered confidently with wrong numbers, and five mostly failed.
The anatomy of a daily Slack update people actually read (with three annotated examples)
Most daily metric updates get muted within a week. The ones that survive share six traits. Three real (anonymized) examples annotated line by line, and a template you can copy.
Why most AI-generated insights are useless, and the four patterns that aren't
Most "AI insights" are commodity rephrasing dressed up as analysis. After shipping AI summaries on tens of thousands of pulses, four patterns consistently deliver value. Four don't.
The Push Analytics Manifesto: why dashboards are losing the next decade of work
Dashboards are a pull model in a world that has moved to push. The case for replacing the dashboard ritual with scheduled, AI-narrated deliveries into the tools people already use.
Slack vs. Dashboards: Why the Best Data Teams Push, Not Pull
Dashboards require people to go look at data. Slack delivers it where they already are. Why push analytics is winning, and what it means for how teams make decisions.
10 Things That Make an AI Slack App Great
What separates an AI Slack app people actually use from one they uninstall in a week. A framework for evaluating AI bots, with specific examples of what good looks like.
