Most tools built for creators measure activity. Very few of them think.
They count opens and clicks, which was a reasonable idea twenty years
ago, when an open still meant a person had read something. It has not
reliably meant that for a while. Meanwhile the way people find, read,
and decide to pay for writing has changed almost entirely, and the
numbers we use to describe it have stayed roughly where they were.
I work in this space. I have watched friends make real decisions about
their publications on the strength of metrics that could not carry the
weight. Not bad decisions made carelessly. Careful decisions made
blind, which is worse, because you cannot tell the difference until
much later.
Creators deserve visibility. Not another dashboard, but guided
visibility: what is happening, why it is happening, and what is worth
doing next.
That is the whole reason PulseLens exists.