Cohort Analytics

Compare up to three cohorts side by side on applicant volume, acceptance rate, and stage-reach rates, plus a time-to-decision breakdown per stage.

What it is

While the KPI Portfolio compares admitted ventures, this page compares cohorts — useful for answering "is this intake performing differently from the last one?" before you finalize program changes.

Comparing cohorts

Select up to three cohorts to compare side by side: total applicants, acceptance rate, average readiness score, average validation score at the point of acceptance, and stage-reach rates — what share of applicants reached Submitted, Under Review, Interview, Board Review, and a final Decision.

Time to decision

Pick one cohort and an optional date range to see average days spent per pipeline stage, with outlier stages flagged (shown in amber instead of blue) when a stage is taking unusually long. This is the fastest way to spot where your pipeline is actually bottlenecked, rather than guessing — a Committee Interview stage that averages three weeks when every other stage averages three days is worth fixing before the next intake, not explaining away after it.

Reading it against the KPI Portfolio

Cohort Analytics stops at the acceptance decision — it tells you about your intake and evaluation process. Once ventures are admitted, their ongoing performance moves to the KPI Portfolio and Board Report instead. Comparing the two over time is how you tell whether a change to your application process (a new required step, a tighter score threshold) actually produced stronger ventures, or just a slower pipeline.

How it fits your workflow

Use this after closing an application window, or partway through a cohort's evaluation period, to check whether your process is moving at the pace you expect and whether outcomes differ meaningfully from prior cohorts — before you carry the same process into the next intake.

Data

Everything here is computed live from the selected cohorts' application records; there are no writes on this screen — it's a read-only lens on data captured elsewhere in Applications and Scoring.

Getting started

Select two or three cohorts you want to compare, then check Time to Decision for one of them to see where applicants are spending the most time.