Good forecasting is necessary to predict performance or make tough decisions about your game. But it’s not just about the numbers. Winning demands a single source of truth, insights into real-time data and a departure from the timework tools and approaches that have allowed team members to pass the blame, not the benchmarks. Fortunately, this week’s guests are uprooting traditional forecasting practices for a more democratized, innovative and granular cohorts-based approach. “Fundamentally, [forecasting] is a process of alignment,” says Angus Lovitt, Co-Founder of Ramp, a startup that integrates data across departments to provide studios with unified and accurate forecasts. In this first episode of a special two-part series, Angus and Hong Nguyen, CFO at SpaceApe Games, teach the entire team —from devs to marketers to finance —how to make better decisions informed by data.