--- name: customer-behavior-pattern-analyzer description: "Analyzes customer usage data and qualitative signals to surface 8-12 actionable behavioral patterns — segmenting users by behavior, identifying activation and churn signals, mapping drop-off points, and recommending product interventions ranked by expected impact. Use when diagnosing why users churn, identifying activation drivers, segmenting a user base by behavior, or turning raw usage data into product decisions." argument-hint: "[product-type] [data-available]" allowed-tools: ["Read"] --- # Customer Behavior Pattern Analyzer ## Purpose Turn raw customer usage data and qualitative signals into a clear set of behavioral patterns — who does what, where they drop off, what separates retained users from churned ones — and translate those patterns into ranked product interventions a team can act on this quarter. ## When to Use Invoke this skill when the user asks to: - Diagnose why users are churning or going inactive - Identify the behaviors that predict activation, retention, or expansion - Segment a user base by behavior rather than demographics - Understand where users drop off in onboarding or a key workflow - Turn analytics exports or session data into product decisions - Make sense of mixed quantitative and qualitative signals (usage logs + survey responses + support tickets) ## Inputs Required Before starting, collect: - **Product type**: Marketplace, B2B SaaS, B2C app, etc. — and the core value action (the thing users do that delivers value) - **Data available**: What's been provided — event/usage logs, funnel metrics, retention cohorts, survey responses, support tickets, interview notes, or a description if no raw data - **Key metrics**: Current activation rate, retention curve, churn rate, or whatever the team tracks (with numbers if available) - **The question driving this**: What decision the analysis should inform (reduce churn, improve onboarding, find expansion triggers, etc.) - **User segments of interest**: New vs. power users, free vs. paid, buyer vs. seller, or none specified - **Known hypotheses**: Anything the team already suspects, so the analysis can confirm or disprove it - **Time window**: The period the data covers, if relevant If raw data isn't provided, work from the qualitative description and flag which patterns are inferred vs. observed. ## Instructions ### Step 1: Establish the Behavioral Baseline Before finding patterns, define what "normal" and "successful" look like. - Identify the **core value action** — the single event most tied to retention (e.g., for a marketplace: completing a transaction; for SaaS: inviting a teammate) - Establish the **activation moment** — the point where a user has experienced enough value to likely stick (the "aha" event or threshold) - Define **the retained user profile** — the behaviors that retained users share that churned users don't - State assumptions explicitly when data is thin ### Step 2: Behavioral Segmentation Group users by what they do, not who they are. Build 4-6 behavioral segments: - **Power users**: High-frequency, high-depth — using multiple features or completing the core action repeatedly - **Steady users**: Consistent but shallow — getting value but not expanding usage - **Dabblers**: Signed up, took a few actions, never activated - **Dormant/at-risk**: Previously active, usage declining or stopped - **Single-session**: Came once, never returned For each segment: estimated % of base, defining behaviors, and the trajectory (growing, stable, shrinking). ### Step 3: Funnel & Drop-Off Mapping Trace the critical path from signup to value and beyond. - Lay out the key stages (signup → setup → first value action → habit → expansion) - Identify the **single largest drop-off point** and quantify it if data allows - Distinguish **leaks** (users who try and fail) from **no-shows** (users who never attempt the step) - Note any **time-to-value** signal — how long it takes successful users to reach activation ### Step 4: Surface 8-12 Behavioral Patterns This is the core deliverable. Each pattern must be structured as: - **Pattern name**: A short, memorable label - **What's happening**: The observed behavior, with a number or directional signal - **Why it likely matters**: The mechanism or motivation behind it - **Evidence type**: Observed (in data) / Inferred (from qualitative signal) / Hypothesis (needs validation) - **So what**: The implication for the product or business Cover patterns across at least three of these lenses: - **Activation patterns**: What separates users who reach the aha moment from those who don't - **Retention/churn patterns**: Leading indicators of churn that appear before the user leaves - **Engagement-depth patterns**: Feature adoption sequences, habit formation, frequency cliffs - **Friction patterns**: Where users repeatedly stall, abandon, or contact support - **Segment-specific patterns**: Behaviors unique to a buyer/seller, free/paid, or persona split ### Step 5: Rank Interventions by Expected Impact Translate the top patterns into 6-8 product interventions, ranked. For each: 1. **The intervention**: What to build, change, or test 2. **The pattern it addresses**: Which finding it acts on 3. **Expected impact**: High / Medium / Low — tied to how many users the pattern affects 4. **Effort**: High / Medium / Low — rough build/operational cost 5. **How to validate**: The metric that proves it worked Rank by impact-to-effort ratio, not just raw impact. ### Step 6: Define the Measurement Plan Specify how the team will know patterns are shifting: - The 2-3 **leading indicators** to instrument or watch - The **review cadence** for re-running this analysis - The single **north-star behavioral metric** the team should optimize against ## Output Format - **Structure**: Six sections following the steps; behavioral patterns and interventions presented as structured cards/blocks; segmentation and funnel as tables where data supports it - **Length**: 1,100–1,500 words - **Format**: Structured document — scannable blocks, not dense prose; tables for segments and funnel - **Sections**: Behavioral baseline → Behavioral segmentation → Funnel & drop-off mapping → 8-12 patterns → Ranked interventions → Measurement plan - **Tone**: Senior product analyst — analytical, hypothesis-aware, willing to label uncertainty, decisive on recommendations ## Quality Checklist Before delivering output, verify: - [ ] Between 8 and 12 patterns are surfaced (count them) - [ ] Every pattern is labeled Observed / Inferred / Hypothesis — no pattern is presented as fact when it's a guess - [ ] The single largest drop-off point in the funnel is explicitly named - [ ] Behavioral segments are defined by behavior, not demographics, with an estimated % of base each - [ ] Interventions are ranked by impact-to-effort — not listed arbitrarily — and each has a validation metric - [ ] A single north-star behavioral metric is named in the measurement plan ## Notes - When data is qualitative-only, the value is in structuring hypotheses for testing — be explicit that these are directional and propose how to instrument validation - The most actionable patterns are usually leading churn indicators, not lagging ones — a usage decline three weeks before cancellation is more useful than the cancellation itself - Resist over-segmenting: 4-6 behavioral segments are usable by a team; 15 are not - If a known hypothesis is contradicted by the data, say so directly — disproving a wrong assumption is often the highest-value output --- ## How to use this skill This file is a Claude Code skill in [Anthropic's standard format](https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/skills) — markdown with YAML frontmatter at the top. **Installing in Claude Code:** - `~/.claude/skills//SKILL.md` — auto-loads in every session anywhere on your machine (recommended for skills you'll use across multiple projects) - `/.claude/skills//SKILL.md` — auto-loads only when working in that project (recommended for project-specific skills) Restart Claude Code or open a new session to register. **Using in Claude.ai, ChatGPT, Gemini, or other AI tools:** 1. 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