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Before You Start

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🎬 Full Workflow

See README.md "Capstone" section for the complete problem→solution arc.

⛰️ Contoso Outdoor Gear

Product Brain

Where PM decisions live

A demo workspace showing how product teams organize research, specs, insights, and roadmaps—all connected by real customer data.

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🔥 The Challenge

Checkout is bleeding revenue

Our Q4 2025 analytics revealed a checkout experience that's actively driving customers away.

68%
Cart Abandonment
Industry avg: 55%
34%
Drop at Account Creation
Forced signup friction
4.2m
Avg Checkout Time
Target: under 2 min
22
Mobile NPS
Desktop: 36

What customers are saying

"The keyboard keeps covering the field I'm typing in. I literally cannot see what I'm entering for my address."

— Mobile usability participant, iPhone 13

"I had items in my cart and just gave up. Too many steps, and I didn't want to create yet another account."

— NPS respondent, score 4

"Your checkout is stuck in 2015. No Apple Pay, no saved addresses, forms that don't work on mobile."

— NPS respondent, score 4

"Summit Co-op's app just works. Why don't you have an app?"

— Usability study participant P12

Mobile is the crisis point

Our mobile checkout completion rate is 42% — meaning more than half of mobile customers who start checkout abandon it. A SUS usability score of 52 places us in the bottom 15% of e-commerce sites.

58% filter failures 3.2 input errors/checkout 2.4× slower than desktop
42%
Mobile checkout
completion
🔬 Deep Dive

What the data tells us

Combining NPS analysis, customer interviews, and behavioral data reveals patterns we can act on.

😊
48%
Promoters
Love our product quality
😐
36%
Passives
Could go either way
😤
16%
Detractors
Shipping + checkout friction
🆕

New Customers

First purchase NPS
24

Primary detractor driver: Checkout (62%)

The first impression is failing. Checkout friction is filtering out potential loyal customers.

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5+ Purchases

Loyal customer NPS
51

Primary detractor driver: Support (41%)

Customers who survive checkout become loyal. We need more customers to reach this stage.

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Counter-intuitive finding

Smooth returns drive loyalty

78%
Repurchase rate after smooth return
41%
Repurchase rate after friction return
62%
Baseline (no return)

Customers with smooth returns are MORE likely to repurchase than those who never returned. Returns are a moment of truth we're currently failing.

"The tent I bought has survived three camping trips in brutal weather. Worth every penny. I recommend Contoso to everyone in my hiking group."

— NPS 10, verified purchase (Promoter)

Product quality drives promoters. 67% of promoters cite quality, 52% cite selection. We're not lacking great products—we're losing customers before they experience them.

The Path Forward

Building a better journey

Two flagship initiatives address the core problems: frictionless checkout and meaningful loyalty.

🛒

Checkout Redesign

Launching March 15

Transform 5 painful steps into one scrollable page with guest-first checkout and express payments.

One-page progressive checkout
Guest checkout as default
Apple Pay, Google Pay, PayPal
Address autocomplete (Google Places)
Target Abandonment
68% → <50%
Target Checkout Time
4.2m → <2m
⛰️

Trail Rewards

Beta May 1

Replace confusing points with experiential tiers. Members climb from Explorer → Trailblazer → Summit.

🧭
Explorer: 5% back, birthday rewards
⛰️
Trailblazer: 10% back, AllTrails Pro
🏔️
Summit: 15% back, gear try-before-buy
🌱
Sustainability: donate gear for bonus rewards
Target Redemption
12% → 30%
Target Program NPS
+12 → +40
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Checkout
First Purchase
⛰️
Loyalty
💚
Promoter

The funnel connects: Fix checkout → Acquire customers → Retain with loyalty → Create promoters

🎨 See It In Action

Interactive prototypes

Working prototypes validate our solutions with stakeholders and users before engineering begins.

Checkout Flow Prototype

Interactive one-page checkout with guest mode, express payments, and progress tracking.

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Trail Rewards Explainer

Executive-ready presentation of the new tier-based loyalty program with all benefits.

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📅 H1 2026

Execution roadmap

Focused on conversion optimization and customer retention—our highest-impact levers.

Key Milestones

Design Complete
January 30, 2026

Checkout redesign wireframes approved. Final review passed.

Engineering Sprint 1
February 3, 2026

Building core checkout infrastructure. Apple Pay integration in progress.

Beta Rollout (10%)
February 24, 2026

A/B testing framework ready. Initial traffic exposure.

Checkout Full Launch
March 15, 2026

95% traffic on new checkout. Monitoring metrics closely.

Trail Rewards Beta
May 1, 2026

5,000 member invite-only pilot. All tiers active.

Loyalty Full Launch
June 30, 2026

2.3M accounts migrated. Marketing campaign live.

Team Focus

Frontend Engineering 6 engineers
Checkout 80% Loyalty 20%
Backend Engineering 5 engineers
Checkout API 60% Loyalty Backend 40%
Platform Team 3 engineers
Cart Migration Partners Tech Debt 20%
Deferred to H2: Search personalization, Mobile app v3, International expansion
📂 Dive Deeper

Explore the repository

Product Brain organizes all PM artifacts in a connected workspace. Everything links together.