— PULSE

See who’s slipping, stuck or ready to pay. Before they tell you.

Most customers who churn never complain, so reviews can’t warn you. Pulse watches how people use your product and lets you reach them in the same flow.

pulse · activation board · 1,284 people tracked · 6 segments live
Pulse activation board showing where signups stop, activation and retention, and a list of customers slipping
— Outcomes

Reviews only hear from the ones who speak up.

What changes when how people use your product sits next to what they said.

— Retention
Catch the quiet churn.
See who’s using it less than their own normal while there’s still time to reach them.
What changes
· before the renewal
— Activation
Know if what you built lands.
See how many signups reach your aha moment, and how many of those stick around.
What changes
· after every release
— Revenue
Find who’s ready to pay.
Spot power users and the people getting the value without paying for it, already sorted into a list.
What changes
· ready to email
— 01 · From a number to an email

Go from a number to the people behind it. Then email them.

Click any number and you get the people behind it. Save them as a list and it stays live, so anyone who crosses the line tonight is on it tomorrow. Point a sequence at the list and they’re enrolled automatically.

Build an audience →
drill → sequence · "Customers slipping" · 23 people
Customers slipping23
j.moreau@harbourlabs.io21d ago
sam@quarterdeck.io18d ago
+ 21 more
Sequence · audience Lists › Customers slipping (23, live)
Enrol 23 peoplePreview
pulse · retention grid · stickiness 4.3 days
▦Retention grid1½
CohortM0M1M2M3
Mar 2694756981
Apr 2688475353
May 26100715057
Jun 2691555545
Jul 26896858·
Aug 269654··
Share of each signup cohort still active, month by month.
◎Is aha working?1½
Reached the aha metric
Still active71%
Sticky48%
Never reached it
Still active22%
Sticky6%
— 02 · Activation & retention

Did people activate on what you built?

Pick the moment that means someone got what they came for, and push one event when it happens. Pulse tells you how many signups get there, and how many of those stick around. If everyone hits it and nobody sticks, it’s the wrong moment.

FunnelCohortsStickinessPredictors
Test your aha metric →
— 03 · One person, both halves

The person who filed the bug is the person who stopped logging in.

Pulse and Workbench share the same contacts and product areas. So when people complain about Checkout, you can see whether they’re still using it, right on the same contact record.

See what to fix first →
contact · j.moreau@harbourlabs.io
★What they said
G2 · ★2 · 11 Jul
"Checkout times out on multi-currency orders and we have to re-run them by hand."
InsightBug · Checkout timeout on multi-currency
18 mentions · in progress
∿What they did
Slipping14 active days in the last 30
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sept
Planpro · last seen 21 days ago
You find out while you can still do something.
The account that churns next quarter is already using it less this week. Pulse shows you that person, with their email attached, so the save is a message you send on Tuesday rather than a cancellation you read about in March.
— WHAT PULSE UNLOCKS
— 04 · Connect

Live in an afternoon. One line, no SDK.

You don’t need to send us your event stream. Paste the UseReviews line (the same one that runs the feedback widget), then add three one-line pushes: who’s signed in, when they sign up, and when they hit your aha moment. Plan, stage and revenue come from your CRM and Stripe. Prefer your backend? One call works too.

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Install in one line →
— 05 · Segments

The people to reach out to, already sorted.

The groups you’d want to message are sorted for you: slipping, stuck before the aha moment, one-and-done, sticky, power users, and the ones getting the value without paying for it.

See who's slipping →
— how it connects

Found who’s slipping? Reach them in Customers.

Every Pulse list lands in Customers next to what each person said, ready to email. Rules can enrol them in a sequence on its own.

Reach the right people →

Questions & answers

Do I need to add an SDK or define events?

No. Paste the UseReviews line (the same one that runs the feedback widget) and add three one-line pushes: who is signed in, when someone signs up, and when they reach your activation moment. Rather not add a tag? One call from your backend works too.

Is this product analytics?

Not the usual kind. Event analytics model actions; Pulse models people, with six segments ready on day one. And a drill in Pulse is an email audience — no reverse-ETL between seeing a group and writing to it.

What counts as "activated"?

Whatever you decide. You push one event when someone does it; Pulse never guesses. When you pick the moment, aim for one that 20–60% of your signups reach: any lower and the bar is too high to tell anyone apart, any higher and people hit it by accident.

How are people counted against my plan?

Tracked people per billing period — a person counts once however many visits they make. People already tracked keep recording if you hit the limit.

Where does the data live, and how long?

The EU. Pulse keeps one row per person per day they used your product, plus the pages they were on. Anything older than your data retention (12, 24 or 36 months, set once for the whole app in Settings → Privacy) is deleted automatically, and you can look up or erase one person by email from Settings.

Add one line. See who's slipping this month.

Know who's going quiet, who never got to the good part, and who's ready to pay.