Pulsecheck

PulseCheck 📊

Query your analytics dashboards using natural language. No more logging in, clicking through tabs, or squinting at charts at 2 AM.

When to Use

✅ USE this skill when:

• "How many signups did we get yesterday?"
• "Show me bounce rate for the homepage"
• "Compare this week's revenue to last week"
• "What's our top traffic source today?"
• "Did the blog post launch move the needle?"
• Quick metric checks without context switching
• Checking numbers from your phone
• Sharing quick stats with the team

When NOT to Use

❌ DON'T use this skill when:

• Building custom dashboards → use the analytics platform directly
• Exporting raw event data → use platform APIs or data warehouse
• Real-time streaming analytics → use dedicated monitoring tools
• Complex funnel analysis → use the full analytics interface
• Attribution modeling → requires specialized tools
• Creating visualizations → use Looker, Tableau, etc.

Setup

Install the PulseCheck CLI:

npm install -g @pawhub/pulsecheck

Connect your analytics platform (choose one or more):

# Google Analytics
pulsecheck connect google-analytics --property-id UA-12345678-1

# Plausible
pulsecheck connect plausible --site-id example.com --api-key your-api-key

# Fathom
pulsecheck connect fathom --site-id ABC123 --api-key your-api-key

# Mixpanel
pulsecheck connect mixpanel --project-id 12345 --api-key your-api-key

# PostHog
pulsecheck connect posthog --project-id 1234 --api-key your-api-key

# Verify connection
pulsecheck status

Link to Telegram (optional but recommended):

pulsecheck setup telegram

Example Interactions

Quick Metrics

You: How many visitors yesterday?

Paw: stretches and checks the numbers

Yesterday: 2,847 visitors (+12% vs previous day)

• Pageviews: 8,103
• Bounce rate: 42%
• Avg session: 3m 22s

Top pages:

1. /blog/launch-post — 1,204 views
2. /pricing — 892 views
3. / — 654 views

Looks like the launch post is doing well. Want the full breakdown? 📈

You: Show me signups this week

Paw: taps keyboard with one paw

This week (Mon–today): 137 signups

Breakdown:

• Monday: 18
• Tuesday: 31 ⬆️
• Wednesday: 24
• Thursday: 42 🔥 (best day)
• Today so far: 22

Conversion rate: 4.8% (up from 4.1% last week)

That Thursday spike is interesting. Any campaigns running? 🤔

You: Compare revenue this month vs last month

Paw: pulls up the numbers while yawning

This month (so far): $24,380 Last month (full): $31,200

📉 Trending -22% (but we're only 18 days in)

Projected end-of-month: ~$40,500 (+30% vs last month)

Daily average:

• This month: $1,354/day
• Last month: $1,006/day

Looking good actually. Revenue per day is way up. 💰

You: What's our top traffic source?

Paw: checks the logs

Top traffic sources (last 7 days):

1. Organic search — 1,847 visits (43%)

   • Google: 1,623
   • Bing: 224

2. Direct — 982 visits (23%)

3. Social — 756 visits (18%)

   • Twitter: 512
   • LinkedIn: 244

4. Referral — 498 visits (12%)

   • news.ycombinator.com: 287 🔥
   • reddit.com: 156

5. Email — 201 visits (5%)

That HN spike is still paying dividends. Nice. 🎯

You: Did the blog post launch move the needle?

Paw: digs into the data

Blog post published: Wednesday 3 PM

Impact analysis:

Traffic:

• Wed (before): 1,204 visitors
• Wed (after): 3,102 visitors (+158%)
• Thursday: 4,287 visitors (sustained)
• Friday: 2,918 visitors (normalizing)

Signups:

• Wed: 24 → 42 after publish (+75%)
• Thursday: 38 (still elevated)

Top referrers (post-launch):

• twitter.com/yourhandle — 1,203 visits
• news.ycombinator.com — 847 visits
• Direct: 654 (probably newsletter)

Short answer: Yes. Big yes. 🚀

The spike is real and converting well. HN + Twitter combo is lethal.

Commands

Quick Queries

# Visitors yesterday
pulsecheck query "visitors yesterday"

# Signups this week
pulsecheck query "signups this week"

# Top pages today
pulsecheck query "top pages today"

# Bounce rate for homepage
pulsecheck query "bounce rate /homepage"

# Compare time periods
pulsecheck query "compare revenue this month vs last month"

Scheduled Reports

# Daily summary at 8 AM
pulsecheck schedule daily "summary" --time "08:00" --telegram

# Weekly report every Monday
pulsecheck schedule weekly "full report" --day monday --time "09:00"

# List scheduled reports
pulsecheck schedule list

# Remove a scheduled report
pulsecheck schedule remove <report-id>

Custom Metrics

# Define a custom metric
pulsecheck metric create "mrr" \
  --query "sum(subscriptions.amount) where status=active" \
  --format "currency"

# Query your custom metric
pulsecheck query "mrr this month"

Telegram Integration

Once connected, you can ask Paw directly via Telegram:

You: /pulse visitors today

Paw: 1,847 visitors so far today (+22% vs yesterday same time). Traffic is looking healthy. 📊

You: /pulse top sources this week

Paw: sends formatted table

Source         Visits    %
─────────────────────────────
Organic        3,102    45%
Direct         1,847    27%
Social         1,203    18%
Referral         654    10%

Organic is crushing it this week. 🔍

Natural Language Processing

PulseCheck understands flexible queries:

• "How many people visited yesterday?"
• "Show me yesterday's visitors"
• "Visitor count for yesterday"
• "What was traffic like yesterday?"

All work the same way. No rigid syntax required.

Supported Platforms

Configuration

# Show current config
pulsecheck config show

# Set default time zone
pulsecheck config set timezone "America/Los_Angeles"

# Set default date range
pulsecheck config set default-range "7d"

# Toggle Telegram notifications
pulsecheck config set telegram-notifications true

Tips from Paw

"I check metrics while you're making coffee. That's the whole point. Quick answers. No dashboards. No friction."

"Set up the daily summary. Wake up to numbers. Make decisions before breakfast. It's a vibe."

"The natural language parser is pretty good, but if it fails, just rephrase. I'm a cat, not a mind reader."

"Don't spam the analytics APIs. Rate limits are real. I'll cache aggressively so you don't hit walls."

Pricing

• Free tier: 100 queries/month, 1 connected platform
• Pro: $9/month — unlimited queries, all platforms, Telegram integration
• Team: $29/month — shared access, custom metrics, scheduled reports

Install from PawHub or pawhub.ai/pulsecheck

Notes

• Queries are cached for 5 minutes to respect API rate limits
• Telegram integration requires the PulseCheck skill enabled on your OpenPaw gateway
• Data is never stored; queries are proxied through your own API keys
• All analytics platforms require their respective API keys or OAuth tokens
• PulseCheck respects all privacy settings from your analytics platform

Built for founders, marketers, and anyone tired of opening 14 tabs to check one number. 📊🐾