Produce branded monthly reports for each client

Kite pulls each client's numbers from their own ad, analytics, email, and CRM accounts every month, explains what changed and what to do next, and publishes the report in that client's branding for you to review and send.

Key Takeaways

  1. A good monthly client report answers three questions in the client's own brand: what happened this month, why it happened, and what you're doing next. The charts are the easy part. The explanation is what clients actually read.
  2. Kite runs each client in its own Kite team, so every client's brand, goals, connected accounts, and past reports stay separate. Kite applies that client's logo, colors, and fonts to every report it publishes for them.
  3. Each month, Kite reads the client's numbers from their own Google Analytics, Google Ads, Meta Ads, LinkedIn Ads, Mailchimp, and HubSpot accounts, compares them with last month and with the goals you agreed, and writes the commentary.
  4. You agree on the report once. After that, Kite runs it on a schedule, measures everything the same way every month, and hands you a finished draft to review instead of a blank template to fill in.
  5. Kite publishes each report as a hosted page at its own link, keeps every past month listed, and drafts the email to the client for you to approve.
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Why monthly client reports eat the first week of every month

Most agencies spend the first few days of every month rebuilding the same reports. Someone logs into each client's Google Ads account, then their Meta Ads Manager, then Google Analytics, then Mailchimp, and copies the numbers into a slide deck or a spreadsheet with the client's logo on it. Multiply that by fifteen clients and you've lost most of a week before anyone has done any new work.

The copying is tedious, but it isn't the real cost. The real cost is that the person building the report runs out of energy before they reach the part the client cares about. The client doesn't need to be told that clicks went from 4,210 to 3,880. They need to know whether that matters, what caused it, and what you're going to do about it. When the numbers take three hours to assemble, the commentary gets written in ten minutes.

Reporting tools solve part of this. They connect to the ad and analytics accounts and fill in a branded template automatically. What they can't do is read the numbers the way an account lead would, notice that the drop in clicks came from a paused campaign rather than a weaker one, and write that down in plain language for the client.

That's work an AI agent is well suited to. It can pull the same numbers from the same accounts every month without getting bored, apply the same definitions every time, and spend its effort on the explanation. Kite is an AI marketer. It researches your business, builds a growth strategy, and ships the work that brings you new customers. Agencies use Kite to run marketing for their clients, and the monthly report is one of the most common jobs they hand it.

What should a monthly client report include?

A monthly client report should lead with a short summary of results against the client's goals, then show the numbers for each channel, explain the biggest changes, and close with the plan for next month. A client should be able to read the first section alone and know whether the month went well.

For most marketing clients, the report covers:

  • Results against goals. The two or three numbers the client is paying you to move, such as leads, booked demos, revenue from email, or cost per acquisition, compared with the target and with last month.
  • Paid advertising. Spend, impressions, clicks, conversions, and cost per conversion for each ad platform, broken out by campaign where it helps.
  • Website traffic and conversions. Visitors, the channels they came from, the pages they landed on, and how many of them filled in a form or bought something.
  • Email. Each campaign sent that month with its open rate, click rate, and unsubscribes, plus how the list grew.
  • Pipeline. For clients with a CRM, the new contacts, deals created, and deals won that came from marketing.
  • What changed and why. A few short paragraphs on the movements that matter, with the reason for each.
  • Next month's plan. The specific work you'll do next, tied to what the numbers showed.

The last two sections are where a report earns its keep. They're also the sections that get cut when the deadline is close.

How Kite produces branded monthly reports for each client

Kite starts by learning each client the way a new account lead would. It researches the client's business, records their brand, and asks you what the client is paying you to achieve. Then it connects to the client's own accounts, builds the first report with you, and agrees on what goes in it.

Once the first report is right, Kite puts it on a monthly schedule. On the day you choose, it pulls last month's numbers, compares them with the month before and with the client's goals, writes the commentary, and publishes the report in the client's branding. You review the draft, adjust anything you want, and approve the email that sends it to the client. The next month, Kite runs the same report again and builds on what it learned.

  1. Set up each client in its own Kite team
  2. Pull each client's numbers from their own accounts
  3. Explain what changed and what to do next
  4. Publish the report in the client's brand
  5. Review, send, and schedule the next one

Set up each client in its own Kite team

Kite keeps each client's work separate by giving every client its own Kite team. One person can belong to several Kite teams and switch between them, and each team keeps its own research, brand, connected accounts, and settings. That means the report Kite builds for a dental group never borrows a number, a color, or a phrase from the one it builds for a software company.

When you set up a client's team, Kite researches the client from their website. It records their positioning, products, customers, and competitors in that team's knowledge base, along with their logo, colors, and fonts. You add what only you know: the goals in the client's contract, the metrics they care about most, who reads the report, and anything they've asked you to avoid, such as "never show spend by campaign" or "call them patients, not customers."

Kite treats those instructions as standing rules for that client. When you correct something in a report, such as "they count a lead only after a form submission, not a phone click," Kite records the correction as a rule for that client's work, so next month's report gets it right without being told again.

Pull each client's numbers from their own accounts

Kite reads each client's numbers directly from the accounts where they live, so nobody has to log in and export anything. You connect each account to the client's Kite team once, and Kite reads from it every month.

  • Google Analytics. Kite runs reports on the client's property for visitors, sessions, traffic sources, landing pages, and the key events the client counts as conversions. It can also run funnel reports to show where visitors drop out.
  • Google Ads. Kite builds reports at the account, campaign, ad group, and ad level, covering spend, clicks, conversions, and cost per conversion.
  • Meta Ads. Kite reads performance insights for the client's ad account, including spend, reach, results, and cost per result across campaigns and ad sets.
  • LinkedIn Ads. Kite pulls analytics for the client's advertiser account and for each campaign over the report's date range.
  • Mailchimp. Kite reads the report for every campaign sent in the month, including opens, clicks, bounces, and unsubscribes.
  • HubSpot. Kite reads contacts, deals, and campaign metrics, so the report can show how many leads marketing produced and how many became deals.

If Kite hosts the client's website, it reads the site's traffic and conversions from its own built-in analytics without another connection. It can also measure how often the client appears in answers from ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Claude, which many clients now want to see in their report.

Kite uses the same definitions every month. If you agreed that "leads" means HubSpot contacts created from a form submission, that's what it counts in March, April, and May. Month-over-month comparisons only mean something when both months are measured the same way, and that consistency is hard to keep when a different person builds the report each time.

Explain what changed and what to do next

Kite writes the part of the report that usually gets rushed: what changed, why, and what happens next. It compares each number with the previous month and with the client's goal, picks out the movements that actually matter, and looks for the cause in the data before it writes anything.

Here's what that looks like in practice. Say a client's leads fell from 142 to 118. A report that only shows numbers would leave it there. Kite checks where the drop came from. It finds that Google Ads leads held steady at 61, Meta leads fell from 58 to 34, and Meta's cost per lead rose from $38 to $52 in the same month. Looking at the ads themselves, it sees that the two best-performing Meta ads had been running for eleven weeks and their click rates had been falling for a month. The commentary says that plainly: the drop came from tired creative on Meta, not from the offer or the website, and next month's plan is to replace those two ads with new ones built from the same angle.

Kite writes in the voice you want the client to hear. For most agencies that means your agency speaking to the client: "we," "your," and the client's name. It keeps the summary short enough to read in a minute, and it flags anything it isn't sure about so you can check it before the client sees it.

The plan for next month is specific. Instead of "optimize campaigns," Kite proposes concrete work, such as two new Meta ads, a rewrite of the landing page that converts worst, or a re-engagement email to subscribers who haven't opened in ninety days. Kite can do much of that work itself once you approve it, so the plan in the report becomes the next month's task list.

Publish the report in the client's brand

Kite publishes each report as a hosted web page with charts, tables, and the written commentary, styled in the client's logo, colors, and fonts. Because each client has its own Kite team, the team's report style is the client's brand, and every report Kite publishes for that client follows it.

Each report gets its own link, and every past month stays listed on the client's report index, so the client can look back at February while reading May. Report pages can also carry screenshots of the ads that ran, images, and downloadable files such as the raw data in a spreadsheet. The page is laid out for printing too, so a client who wants a PDF can save one from their browser.

A report opens from its link without signing in by default. If the numbers are sensitive, you can limit the report to people at your agency and people at the client's company, who sign in with their work email before it opens. A limited report still opens from its own link, but it doesn't appear on the report index.

Review, send, and schedule the next one

Kite hands you a finished draft to review, not a half-built template. You read the summary and the commentary, change anything you'd say differently, and approve it. Kite drafts the email to the client with a short note and the link, and sends it from your team's Kite address or your connected email account once you approve it.

You agree on the schedule once, in your timezone. For example, you might ask Kite to build the report at 8 a.m. on the 3rd of each month, which gives the ad platforms a couple of days to finish counting last month's conversions. Each run arrives in the client's Slack channel, in your email, or in the Kite web app, depending on how your team works with Kite.

Your edits make the next report better. When you correct how Kite did something, such as rewriting a sentence or asking it to drop a chart, Kite records the correction as a proposed rule. Once its nightly review confirms the rule, it guides every later report for that client.

What you get

A report definition for each client

The goals, metrics, sections, and definitions you agreed on once, saved in the client's Kite team so every month is measured the same way.

A monthly report in the client's brand

A hosted page with results against goals, channel-by-channel numbers, charts and tables, and written commentary in the client's logo, colors, and fonts.

An explanation of what changed

Short paragraphs on the movements that matter, with the cause Kite found in the data for each one.

A specific plan for next month

The concrete work Kite recommends, which it can start on once you approve it.

A history of every report

Each month's report at its own link, with all past months listed on the client's report index.

A drafted email to the client

A short cover note with the link, ready for you to approve and send.

How to get started

Start with one client. Create a Kite team for them, and tell Kite what you want in plain language. You might say, "Build Harbor Dental's monthly report from their Google Ads, Meta Ads, and Google Analytics. They care most about new-patient bookings and cost per booking."

Kite researches the client, records their brand, and proposes what the report should contain and how each number should be counted. It tells you which of the client's accounts it needs. Connect those accounts to the client's team, and Kite builds the first report from last month's data so you can see exactly what the client will get.

Expect a round or two of changes on the first report, such as a metric the client doesn't care about or a definition you want counted differently. Once you're happy with it, agree on the schedule. From then on, Kite builds the report every month and brings it to you for review. When the first client runs smoothly, set up the next one the same way. You can work with Kite in the Kite web app or in Slack.

Integrations used for monthly client reports

Kite reads each client's numbers from their own accounts. Connect the accounts each client uses to that client's Kite team. Most clients need an analytics account, at least one ad platform, and their email or CRM.

Common questions

What's the best way to create white-label marketing reports?

The best white-label report carries the brand the reader expects and explains the numbers in plain language. With Kite, you decide whose brand each report carries. Most agencies put the client's own logo, colors, and fonts on it, so the report feels like part of the client's business. If you'd rather send reports under your agency's brand, tell Kite, and it uses your agency's logo, colors, and fonts on that client's reports instead. Either way, the commentary is written in your agency's voice, speaking to the client.

Can I run all my clients in one Kite team instead?

You can, but a separate team for each client is the better setup for reporting. Separate teams keep each client's brand, connected accounts, goals, and rules apart, so nothing from one client can leak into another's report. If you do keep several clients in one team, you can still ask Kite to publish a particular report in a particular client's brand, and Kite applies that client's recorded brand to that report page only.

How long does it take to set up a new client's report?

The first report takes a conversation and one round of review. Kite does the research on the client and drafts the report from last month's data, so most of your time goes into connecting the client's accounts and telling Kite what the client cares about. After that, each monthly report takes you only as long as it takes to read it and approve it.

Can the client see the report change during the month?

A monthly report is a snapshot of a finished month, so it stays fixed once it's published. If a client wants to check their numbers between reports, ask Kite to build a separate dashboard for them. A dashboard lives at a stable link and refreshes its data whenever someone opens it, while the monthly reports keep their place as the official record of each month.

Which AI model is best for making client reports?

The model matters less than what the AI can reach. A chat assistant can write a good summary of numbers you paste into it, but you still have to collect those numbers from every account by hand each month. Kite connects to each client's ad, analytics, email, and CRM accounts, remembers each client's goals and definitions, publishes the branded report, and runs the whole job on a schedule.

Can Kite act on the plan in the report?

Yes. The plan for next month is work Kite can usually start on once you approve it. It can write and design new ad creative, rewrite a landing page on a site it hosts or through a supported content system, draft and send email campaigns, and build landing pages for new campaigns. The following month's report then shows whether that work moved the numbers.

Questions this page answers

  • How do I produce branded monthly reports for each client with AI?
  • Can an AI marketing agent produce branded monthly reports for each client?
  • How do agencies automate monthly client reporting?
  • What's the best way to create white-label marketing reports?
  • How do I pull each client's data into a branded report every month?
  • How do I stop spending days building client reports at the end of every month?

About the author

Devon Wells leads product marketing at Kite, the AI marketer. He spent a decade marketing industrial AI, from self-driving trucks to computer vision, but now Kite handles most of the work itself.

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