Table 24 Sept 2026From “What is a value metric?”

Three-Year Performance and Financial Valuation Trajectory

Table 2Three-Year Performance and Financial Valuation Trajectory

Commercial Performance Dimension	Year 0 (Legacy Per-Seat)	Year 1 (Migration)	Year 2 (Expansion)	Year 3 (Scaled Maturity)
Total Enterprise Accounts	600	690	820	1,040
Total Active Platform Users (Internal Adoption)	12,000 seats	28,500 users	54,000 users	88,000 users
Base Platform Accounts (50k MTEs @ \$12k)	0 (All per-seat)	260 (37.7%)	270 (32.9%)	290 (27.9%)
Growth Tier Accounts (250k MTEs @ \$30k)	0	280 (40.6%)	340 (41.5%)	410 (39.4%)
Scale Tier Accounts (1M MTEs @ \$57k)	0	115 (16.7%)	155 (18.9%)	230 (22.1%)
Enterprise Tier Accounts (5M MTEs @ \$107k)	0	35 (5.0%)	55 (6.7%)	110 (10.6%)
Base Platform Fee Revenue	\$0	\$8,280,000	\$9,840,000	\$12,480,000
Tiered MTE Capacity Revenue	\$0	\$18,800,000	\$27,330,000	\$42,660,000
MTE Overage Add-On Revenue	\$0	\$1,240,000	\$4,850,000	\$11,200,000
Transitional Grandfathering Credits	\$0	-\$1,850,000	-\$420,000	\$0
Total Realized ARR	\$21,600,000	\$26,470,000	\$41,600,000	\$66,340,000
Average Revenue Per Account (ARPU)	\$36,000	\$38,362	\$50,731	\$63,788
Net Revenue Retention (NRR)	102.0%	116.5%	126.8%	134.2%
Gross Revenue Retention (GRR)	84.0%	90.2%	93.4%	95.1%
Customer Gross Margin %	72.0%	76.8%	79.5%	81.8%
Implied ARR Valuation Multiple	5.5x	7.0x	8.5x	10.0x
Enterprise Valuation	\$118,800,000	\$185,290,000	\$353,600,000	\$663,400,000

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Pricing & revenue architecture

What is a value metric?

A value metric defines how price scales with customer utility. Distinguish what you meter from packaging tiers to align expansion with delivered value.

4 Sept 2026

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@misc{isoglu-2026-what-is-a-value-metric-fig03,
  author = {Isoglu, Sinan},
  title = {{Three-Year Performance and Financial Valuation Trajectory}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {Table 2, isoglu.com},
  url = {https://isoglu.com/insights/exhibits/isoglu-2026-what-is-a-value-metric-fig03/},
  note = {From the essay {What is a value metric?}}
}

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