diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index b3ca7eb..14d8a45 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -5248,6 +5248,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "reth-primitives",
  "rsp-client-executor",
  "rsp-host-executor",
+ "serde",
  "serde_json",
  "sp1-helper",
  "sp1-sdk",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 19883ad..e6eaf88 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ tokio = { version = "1.21", default-features = false, features = [
     "rt-multi-thread",
 ] }
 serde_json = "1.0.94"
-serde = { version = "1.0", default-features = false }
+serde = { version = "1.0", default-features = false, features = ["derive"] }
 futures = "0.3"
 url = "2.3"
 thiserror = "1.0.61"
diff --git a/bin/host/Cargo.toml b/bin/host/Cargo.toml
index 427418b..b872196 100644
--- a/bin/host/Cargo.toml
+++ b/bin/host/Cargo.toml
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ tracing-subscriber = "0.3.18"
 dotenv = "0.15.0"
 clap = { version = "4.5.7", features = ["derive", "env"] }
 serde_json.workspace = true
+serde.workspace = true
 bincode = "1.3.3"
 csv = "1.1"
 # workspace
diff --git a/bin/host/src/execute.rs b/bin/host/src/execute.rs
index 6ccad5d..0424dfd 100644
--- a/bin/host/src/execute.rs
+++ b/bin/host/src/execute.rs
@@ -1,8 +1,23 @@
-use csv::Writer;
+use csv::WriterBuilder;
 use rsp_client_executor::{io::ClientExecutorInput, ChainVariant};
+use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
 use sp1_sdk::ExecutionReport;
 use std::{fs::OpenOptions, path::PathBuf};
 
+#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize)]
+struct ExecutionReportData {
+    chain_id: u64,
+    block_number: u64,
+    gas_used: u64,
+    tx_count: usize,
+    number_cycles: u64,
+    number_syscalls: u64,
+    bn_add_cycles: u64,
+    bn_mul_cycles: u64,
+    bn_pair_cycles: u64,
+    kzg_point_eval_cycles: u64,
+}
+
 /// Given an execution report, print it out and write it to a CSV specified by report_path.
 pub fn process_execution_report(
     variant: ChainVariant,
@@ -20,54 +35,38 @@ pub fn process_execution_report(
     let number_cycles = execution_report.total_instruction_count();
     let number_syscalls = execution_report.total_syscall_count();
 
-    let bn_add_cycles = execution_report.cycle_tracker.get("precompile-bn-add").unwrap_or(&0);
-    let bn_mul_cycles = execution_report.cycle_tracker.get("precompile-bn-mul").unwrap_or(&0);
-    let bn_pair_cycles = execution_report.cycle_tracker.get("precompile-bn-pair").unwrap_or(&0);
-    let kzg_cyles =
-        execution_report.cycle_tracker.get("precompile-kzg-point-evaluation").unwrap_or(&0);
+    let bn_add_cycles = *execution_report.cycle_tracker.get("precompile-bn-add").unwrap_or(&0);
+    let bn_mul_cycles = *execution_report.cycle_tracker.get("precompile-bn-mul").unwrap_or(&0);
+    let bn_pair_cycles = *execution_report.cycle_tracker.get("precompile-bn-pair").unwrap_or(&0);
+    let kzg_point_eval_cycles =
+        *execution_report.cycle_tracker.get("precompile-kzg-point-evaluation").unwrap_or(&0);
 
     // TODO: we can track individual syscalls in our CSV once we have sp1-core as a dependency
     // let keccak_count = execution_report.syscall_counts.get(SyscallCode::KECCAK_PERMUTE);
     // let secp256k1_decompress_count =
     //     execution_report.syscall_counts.get(SyscallCode::SECP256K1_DECOMPRESS);
 
-    let report_file_exists = report_path.exists();
+    let report_data = ExecutionReportData {
+        chain_id,
+        block_number,
+        gas_used,
+        tx_count,
+        number_cycles,
+        number_syscalls,
+        bn_add_cycles,
+        bn_mul_cycles,
+        bn_pair_cycles,
+        kzg_point_eval_cycles,
+    };
 
     // Open the file for appending or create it if it doesn't exist
     let file = OpenOptions::new().append(true).create(true).open(report_path)?;
 
-    let mut writer = Writer::from_writer(file);
-
-    // Write the header if the file doesn't exist
-    if !report_file_exists {
-        writer.write_record([
-            "chain_id",
-            "block_number",
-            "gas_used",
-            "tx_count",
-            "number_cycles",
-            "number_syscalls",
-            "bn_add_cycles",
-            "bn_mul_cycles",
-            "bn_pair_cycles",
-            "kzg_point_eval_cycles",
-        ])?;
-    }
-
-    // Write the data
-    writer.write_record(&[
-        chain_id.to_string(),
-        block_number.to_string(),
-        gas_used.to_string(),
-        tx_count.to_string(),
-        number_cycles.to_string(),
-        number_syscalls.to_string(),
-        bn_add_cycles.to_string(),
-        bn_mul_cycles.to_string(),
-        bn_pair_cycles.to_string(),
-        kzg_cyles.to_string(),
-    ])?;
+    // Check if the file is empty
+    let file_is_empty = file.metadata()?.len() == 0;
 
+    let mut writer = WriterBuilder::new().has_headers(file_is_empty).from_writer(file);
+    writer.serialize(report_data)?;
     writer.flush()?;
 
     Ok(())