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"Are new users getting it?"

Product / App Review

A focused expert review of your first-run experience and activation flow to find where new users get confused, stall out, or drop off entirely.

What's included

  • First-run experience walkthrough
  • Activation flow friction points
  • Empty state & guidance review
  • Time-to-value assessment
  • Prioritized findings report
  • 48-hour turnaround

Best for

First-run & activation flows

How the review works

AI prepares the evidence and draft observations. A reviewer validates, prioritizes, and approves every finding. You receive a person's judgment, not an automated report.

AI prepares

  • •Onboarding flow capture
  • •Step-by-step screenshots
  • •Time-to-value heuristic scan
  • •Empty state & guidance extraction
  • •Draft friction observations
  • •Priority suggestions

Your reviewer decides

  • •Validate the activation-flow findings
  • •Discard false positives
  • •Identify missing context or dead ends
  • •Apply product judgment to priorities
  • •Recommend activation improvements
  • •Approve the final report

Expertise matched to this review

Product designers, UX professionals, product managers and user researchers with onboarding and activation expertise.

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The exact expertise matched depends on your submission and may include additional specialists where needed.

What to prepare

  • •URL or staging access
  • •First-run / activation flow to focus on
  • •Current activation metric if known

What your report looks like

Every report follows the same clear structure, so you always know what you're paying for and what to do with it.

01

Executive summary

High-level read on what the reviewer found and where to start.

02

Prioritized findings

Issues ranked by impact (critical, high, medium, minor), not by count.

03

Why each finding matters

Context, evidence, and the consequence of leaving it alone.

04

Recommendations

Specific, plain-language suggestions for each finding.

05

Action plan

A sequence for what to fix first, and what can wait.

06

Reviewer sign-off

The report is approved and signed off by a person accountable for it.

$99/ review

Turnaround: 48 hours

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