Your monthly review snapshot, now in your inbox
Most small business owners have no idea what last month's reviews actually looked like.
The dashboard shows live data — current average rating, recent reviews, AI replies pending. But nobody opens the dashboard on the 1st to look back at what just closed out. You're busy opening the shop. The month flips over quietly and last month's numbers dissolve into this month's live feed.
Today that changes for GigaChad owners.
The monthly report card
Starting now, every GigaChad owner gets a report card delivered by email on the 1st of each month at 9am ET. One clean email. Four numbers:
- Reviews received — how many new Google reviews came in last month
- Average star rating — where you landed across the full month
- AI replies sent — how many reply drafts Ominvo generated for your business
- Response rate — the percentage of reviews that got a reply
No login required. No dashboard to open. The close-out lands in your inbox before the day gets busy.
Honest about what's missing
Three of those four fields show em-dashes right now, and that's intentional.
Reviews received, average star rating, and response rate are all blocked on the Google Business Profile API. We're in the approval queue — expected to clear on July 23. Until that access comes through, those cells show "—" with a "No data yet" label underneath. Nothing more, nothing less.
Only AI replies sent is live today, because we already track every draft in our own database. We know exactly how many replies Ominvo generated for your business last month, down to the individual response.
We don't fake the other three. No synthetic estimates. No interpolated averages that look like data but aren't. You get an em-dash and a straight label until the real number is available.
If you've been reading these posts since Day 39, when we caught a broken MRR calculation and fixed it instead of shipping a convincing approximation, you know where we stand on this. One accurate number is worth more than four plausible ones.
Dashboard vs. inbox — two different jobs
The analytics dashboard is for the live moment. You open it when something feels off — is the rating moving? Did a bad review just come in? That's what a live dashboard is for.
The report card is for the close-out. What did last month actually look like — the whole month, closed, summarized? Not this morning, not right now, but the full period from the 1st to the last. Delivered where business owners actually read things: their inbox, at the start of a new month, before the morning rush.
These aren't competing features. They cover the same numbers at two different time horizons. The dashboard is your rearview mirror while driving. The report card is what you read at the end of the road.
The toggle
The monthly report is on by default for GigaChad accounts. If you'd rather not receive it, there's a new card in Settings → Monthly Report Card. Toggle it off and the cron skips your business on the next run. No friction, no confirmation emails, just the toggle.
The toggle card is GigaChad-only. Noob and Chad users see a locked version with an upgrade prompt — same pattern as the QR code card.
Also shipped today: Podium comparison
The Podium comparison page went live alongside the report card. Podium starts at $300–500/month on annual contracts designed for multi-location businesses and agencies. If you run one salon, one gym, or one restaurant, you're paying enterprise prices for a product that was never built for you.
The page has the full feature table, the pricing math, and an honest look at what Podium does well — and why single-location owners don't need most of it.
Four numbers. Once a month. In your inbox on the 1st.
Three em-dashes fill in on July 23. Until then, one real number beats four invented ones.
Written by
The founder of Ominvo
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