Thursday · Jul 14 · Sprint 07 · day 5 of 7
Good morning, Bob.
▲ 2 decisions waiting
While you were out, Elana ran 8 plays and moved 0 of 3 north stars up. Retention's the foundation, activation's the lever.
Demandlive
Waitlist signups
10/ 100
Site → signup rate
Pipelinelive
Design partners
7/ 10
Demos booked / wk
Revenue+ connect
MRR
—pre-revenue
Trial → paid
The engine 5 running·2 decaying·1 winner·33% win rate
Elana · while you were out
ELneeds your ok to schedule the launch threadapprove3m
ELstaged SEO fixes on 18 pages losing rank8m
ELqualified 6 of 10 healthcare creators for the push17m
# demand · Elana owns · 3 online
The room
BO BobWaitlist's flat two weeks straight. What's actually happening with demand?
KI KiltyBoard asked the same on Monday. Need a real answer by Friday.
EL ElanaagentStraight talk: signups are stuck at 10 and I can't see why. The site has no analytics, so we're blind to the funnel.
EL ElanaagentFixing that first. Then here are three plays against demand, reverse-engineered from teams that already cracked it:
Plays drafted · need your ok
Build-in-public milestones after LovableApprove
First-value onboarding after GammaApprove
Programmatic compare pages after NotionApprove
Sprint 07 · reverse-engineered from the best · you pick the winners
Plays
Proposed
▸ Lovable
Build-in-public revenue milestones
Virality · loop
public ARR posts → waitlist at $0 CAC
▸ Notion
Templates for the job, not the tool
Content · loop
51M-dup pattern → programmatic pages
Running 5
▸ Gamma
'First vault in 2 min' onboarding
Activation · loop
▸ Perplexity
FAQ + comparison schema for LLM citation
AI-visibility
▸ Vercel
Founder-led design-partner calls
Sales · loop
Winners
▸ Replit
'Share → fork' viral loop
Product loop
forks/share 1.9 and climbing
Decaying
Cold email — insulin providers
Outbound · linear
Elana drafted a signal-triggered swap
EL Elana gold tier
Your GTM engineer · hired
Drafts the plays, runs them, kills the losers, and tells you the number. You bring the taste and the calls. She brings the grind, at machine speed, on your data.
Growth model
Owns the whole model. Knows which number moves which.
Activation
Rebuilds onboarding around the first aha moment.
Retention loops
Finds the compounding loops, kills the linear ones.
Experiment velocity
Drafts, runs, and reads plays faster than a team.
AI-visibility
Gets you cited in ChatGPT and Perplexity answers.
SEO + content
Programmatic pages and pillars that rank in weeks.
Positioning
Sharpens the story until the market repeats it.
Lifecycle
Nudges stalled trials to value, converts to paid.
One brain · everything your team already runs
Connectors