CUSTOMER JOURNEYS

Keep a customer journey connected to current evidence

Combine the intended lifecycle map with observed paths without confusing either one for complete customer truth.

Skene maps tracking calls and database-backed steps, names gaps, and reviews tracking changes. Your team decides what to build or send from that evidence.

PROBLEM

A workshop map and an observed path answer different questions

The journey states what should happen. Flows shows captured page movement. Both need source labels and neither replaces research.

  • A journey step remains in the map after its tracking call disappears.

  • Observed navigation is mistaken for intent or satisfaction.

  • Different personas are inferred without enough evidence to support the split.

WHAT THE GAP COSTS

Teams act on incomplete history

When evidence is missing, a change in the report can look like a change in customer behavior.

  • Teams cannot tell whether a metric moved or its collection changed.
  • The people reviewing path and journey data spend time reconstructing what happened.
  • A later fix restores collection, not the missing historical period.
WHY EXISTING TOOLS FAIL

A dashboard cannot review the pull request that changed its input

  • Analytics and customer systems remain useful destinations for reports and workflows.

  • They do not replace a review of the tracking code before merge.

  • A schema shows what can be observed in the database; it does not prove that a code event fired.

  • Each evidence source must keep its own meaning.

SKENE'S SYSTEM APPROACH

Keep planned steps and observed paths separate

  • Build the lifecycle map from repository and optional schema evidence.

  • Use Flows for captured page transitions, click targets and exit points.

  • Use Questions to state what each journey decision needs to answer.

  • Review tracking changes before they create an unobservable step.

WHERE SKENE FITS

Skene protects measurement; your team owns the response

Skene provides reviewable evidence and verdicts. It does not replace your analytics, messaging or customer-success systems.

Skene keeps it trustworthy

  • A lifecycle map grounded in repository and optional schema evidence.
  • An Events inventory that names detected evidence and missing tracking.
  • Pull-request review plus a separate deterministic plan-versus-scan check.
  • Measurement plans that compare a stated target with connected evidence.

You and your agent own

  • Defining the business outcome and the metric that represents it.
  • Choosing what product, messaging or customer action follows a finding.
  • Maintaining the analytics and delivery systems that consume the evidence.
SIGNALS AND OUTPUTS

Signals in

  • Routes and tracking calls found in the repository.
  • Table relationships and state columns from the optional schema connection.
  • Observe interaction events retained for 90 days.
  • Team-defined questions attached to lifecycle steps.

Outputs

  • A lifecycle canvas with source-backed steps.
  • An Events inventory naming detected evidence and gaps.
  • Observed page nodes and weighted transitions in Flows.
  • Questions whose required events are visible or missing.
WHO THIS IS FOR

A good fit for

  • Teams shipping product changes faster than they can audit tracking by hand.
  • Product, growth and customer teams that need to defend journey decisions.
  • Developers who want tracking findings in pull requests or coding-agent workflows.

Not a good fit for

  • ×Teams looking for a replacement for their analytics dashboard, CRM or campaign tool.
  • ×Teams expecting Skene to invent missing history after an event failed to fire.
  • ×Teams that want automated customer interventions without human ownership.
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GET STARTED

Review the evidence behind customer journeys

Run the free audit on a repository. Add read-only schema evidence when it helps, then enable pull-request reviews for ongoing tracking changes.