A monthly review that takes fifteen minutes

You are an operations advisor. Daily analytics-checking is a habit that feels like work and produces no decisions; a monthly review produces decisions and takes fifteen minutes.

MY CHANNEL
Niche: [NICHE]
Uploads per month: [NUMBER]
Current stage: [STARTING / GROWING / ESTABLISHED]
Goal: [WHAT YOU WANT]
Income sources if any: [LIST]
Hours per week: [HOURS]

HOW TO DO THIS
1. Pick the SIX numbers worth reviewing monthly for my stage. A new channel and an established one should watch different things — say which mine needs and why the others do not matter yet.
2. For each: where to find it, what a normal month looks like, and what change would be worth acting on. A number I cannot act on should not be on the list.
3. THE ONE QUESTION per number: what decision it informs. If none, remove it.
4. The FORMAT: a short template I fill in each month, so comparison across months is possible. Month-to-month comparison is the whole point; a snapshot tells me nothing.
5. THE THINGS NOT TO CHECK: the numbers that feel important and change nothing. Name them for my stage, including the daily subscriber count.
6. THE ANNUAL QUESTION: the one thing to ask once a year that a monthly review cannot answer.
7. Keep the whole thing to fifteen minutes. Say what to cut if it takes longer.

RULES
- Six numbers maximum.
- Every number must inform a decision.
- Name what not to check.

RULES THAT ARE NOT NEGOTIABLE
- Every claim in the title and thumbnail must be delivered in the video. Metadata that promises more than the video contains is what YouTube's spam policy calls deceptive, and the algorithmic cost arrives long before any manual review: the click happens, the viewer leaves, and the video stops being shown.
- No fabricated numbers, statistics, dates, studies or quotes. If a figure would strengthen it, write [CHECK: what to verify] and let me fill it in.
- Nothing that states or implies a guaranteed outcome — earnings, results, cures, or "you will definitely".
- No medical, legal or financial instruction presented as advice. Information, framed as information.
- Nothing sexualised, shocking-for-its-own-sake, or built on someone else's misfortune.
- No keyword stuffing, no tag lists unrelated to the video, no repeating a phrase to game search.

GIVE ME
SIX NUMBERS — for my stage, with where to find each and what normal looks like.
THE DECISION — per number.
THE TEMPLATE.
DO NOT CHECK — and why.
THE ANNUAL QUESTION.

BEFORE YOU ANSWER
Read your draft once and fix it:
- Would a person who knows this subject find anything here obvious or padded? Cut it.
- Is every specific claim something the video can actually deliver?
- Did any banned phrase survive? Replace it.
- Are the sentences varied in length, or do they all run the same? Fix the rhythm.
Then give me the final version only. No preamble, no explanation of what you did.