Agree the metric before week one.
A business outcome, recorded before anything changes: completed applications, recovered carts, verified transactions, retained customers.
The honest test of whether a business team can complete the loop unaided is to let one try, on a journey that matters, against a baseline. The pilot is optional and starts after a demo.
| Weeks | What happens | Exit condition |
|---|---|---|
| 1–2 | Turn on event capture. Agree the baseline metric. | Events arriving, schema visible, baseline recorded. |
| 3–4 | Build audiences. Ask real questions. | Your team is querying without help. |
| 5–6 | Build and test the journey. Dry-run and preview. | Journey approved, execution traces reviewed. |
| 7–8 | Run live against the audience. Measure. | Result compared to baseline, decision made. |
Your business team drives from week 3. Scope and timing are agreed around your integration and approvals.
If it fails to beat the baseline, that is a real answer, and worth having in eight weeks rather than after a platform commitment.
A business outcome, recorded before anything changes: completed applications, recovered carts, verified transactions, retained customers.
If the pilot succeeds only because our engineers built the journey, it has tested the wrong thing.
A journey that branches on a keypress, a reply or a button shows what the platform is for.
Everything after event capture is portal work.