Looker vs. Roadway: When to Use Each
While Looker is great for BI reporting, Roadway is purpose-built to help growth marketers discover what works, cut what doesn’t, and drive more return on digital marketing spend.
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When should I use Looker? And when should I use Roadway?
Business intelligence and growth marketing share data but serve different purposes. While BI tools like Looker excel at broad reporting for finance, product, and operations, growth teams need day-to-day answers about which campaigns drive revenue and where to shift budget—fast, without waiting on analysts. That’s where Roadway comes in.
Looker is an excellent general-purpose BI platform: it centralizes metrics for finance, product, and ops, lets analysts build rich LookML models, and gives the whole company a shared source of truth. What it doesn’t do—by design—is automate growth-specific attribution or push those insights back into the tools where marketers act.
Roadway fills that gap. Running directly on your Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift data, it layers AI-driven attribution on top of raw tables and turns findings into next-step recommendations that sync back to Salesforce, HubSpot, and your ad platforms.
Add Roadway to your Looker stack when…
You’re stuck waiting on analysts for answers
Every attribution request turns into a LookML ticket and days in the queue; with Roadway, marketers can slice campaigns, compare cohorts, and get answers on their own in minutes.
You’re seeing “what” happened but not “why”
Looker shows which metrics moved but not the drivers behind them; Roadway’s AI surfaces the exact channels, creatives, and cohorts boosting or draining revenue so you know where to focus.
You're not getting insights that drive revenue growth
Data sits idle in dashboards until someone exports and massages it; Roadway pipes modeled results straight into Salesforce, HubSpot, and ad platforms, triggering workflows and budget shifts automatically.
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Flexible and fast integration options
One-click connectors
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Bring your full-funnel metrics into one place
Marketing metrics
- Visits
- Unique visitors
- New visitors
- Sign up conversion rate
- Sign ups
- Account creation conversion rate
- Accounts created
Sales metrics
- Leads
- Lead to opportunity conversion rate
- Opportunities
- MQL conversion rate
- Marketing qualified leads (MQLs)
- SQL conversion rate
- Sales qualified leads (SQLs)
- Closed won conversion rate
- Closed won
- Closed lost
Revenue metrics
- New customer conversion rate
- New customers
- Total revenue
- New customer revenue
- Expanded customers
- Expansion customer revenue
- Reactivated customers
- Reactivated customer revenue
- Contracted customers
- Contraction revenue
- Churned customers
- Customer churn rate
- Churned revenue
- Revenue churn rate
- Average revenue per user
- Average revenue per customer
Marketing spend metrics
- Marketing spend
- CAC
- Payback period
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