Every KPI on the vendor dashboard now says what it means

Until now, what a number on the vendor dashboard actually counted lived in whoever wrote the query. Two figures describing the same thing could disagree, and there was no way to answer “where does that come from?” that survived being checked.

Vendors now have a KPI dictionary. Every KPI is listed with the question it answers, why it matters, what is counted and what is deliberately left out, which date decides whether something falls inside the period, and the arithmetic in words you can repeat back. The dashboard carries the same definitions where the numbers stand: open a section and its definition is one click away, with a link straight to that KPI in the dictionary.

You can look at the figures over the last 90 days, the current quarter, or the last 12 months. A period that has not finished yet is labelled as still in progress, so a part-quarter is never quietly compared against a whole one. Day boundaries follow your own business timezone.

Admins have the matching register of the same definitions. It is deliberately read-only: changing a definition is the only write anyone has over these numbers — no role can enter, adjust or override a reported figure.

This release lands the vocabulary and the surface. The figures on the dashboard are unchanged for now; the KPIs themselves move onto these definitions over the releases that follow.