AI FEATURE LAUNCH
Instrument your AI feature before launch — what to measure defined, the adoption funnel built, and a test design ready to run. Day 30 gives you a verdict, not a dashboard to interpret.
Instrumentation live before your launch date
WHAT YOU HAVE AT THE END
Fixed price · scope confirmed on kickoff call
You get a clear adoption funnel, the right things to measure, and a 30-day test plan. We tell you if users stick around or just try it once.
PRODUCT MANAGER
"Is anyone actually using our new AI assistant?"
We track if users come back to the assistant after their first try. You'll see if it's becoming a habit or just a one-time novelty. This tells you if the feature has real staying power.
MARKETING DIRECTOR
"Did our launch just attract curious tire-kickers?"
We separate people who just click to see the demo from those who use it to complete a real task. You'll know if your campaign brought real users or just window-shoppers.
CEO
"Is this AI investment improving customer loyalty?"
We check if users with the AI feature stay subscribed longer than those without it. In 30 days, you get a clear answer on whether it's driving retention or just costing money.
ENGINEERING LEAD
"What should we actually track from day one?"
We define the key actions that signal real adoption, not just vanity metrics. Your team gets a ready-built tracking plan so you can launch and learn immediately.
Your feature ships with the right events in place — not retrofitted after the fact. The measurement framework is ready before launch.
A clear answer at 30 days: users reaching the value moment (the specific action that confirms the AI output actually helped) and returning, or not. Working, marginal, or not working — no interpretation required.
At 30 days, your team has a clear answer: users are reaching value and returning, or the data shows exactly where they’re not.
Teams Jake has worked with




WHAT HAPPENS WHEN AI FEATURES SHIP WITHOUT A MEASUREMENT PLAN
Six months post-launch — nobody can say if it’s actually helping anyone
“We have interaction numbers. They look reasonable. But we can’t tell whether users are finding value, coming back, or just clicking the button once and never returning. Without a value moment in the funnel, all we have is noise.”
VP Product — B2B SaaS
Events were added after launch — they measure what was easy, not what matters
“We track ‘AI feature used’ but the value moment — the specific downstream action that confirms it actually helped — was never defined. The dashboard shows clicks. It doesn’t show adoption.”
Head of Growth — Series A
Pricing decision made by gut — no data running at launch to inform it
“We bundled it in because we didn’t know how to price it. Now we can’t tell whether it’s a growth driver or a cost centre. No test ever ran. The window to run one at launch is gone.”
CEO — Seed stage
WHY AI FEATURES NEED A DIFFERENT MEASUREMENT APPROACH
Watching DAU after an AI feature ships tells you about curiosity. It tells you nothing about adoption.
An AI feature has a different adoption curve than a standard product feature. The first interaction tells you the feature was discovered. Whether the user reaches the value moment — the specific downstream action that confirms the AI output was actually useful — tells you whether it delivered. Whether they return within 7 days tells you whether there is a habit loop or just a curiosity loop. These are three different things, and they require three different measurement points in the funnel.
Most teams build an AI feature, ship it, and watch a “users who clicked the AI button” chart. Six months later, the feature is still live, the chart looks acceptable, the AI cost is on the P&L, and the team still cannot answer the question their board will ask: is this feature delivering value or just avoiding being noticed enough to cut?
This sprint gets the right measurement in place before the feature ships. The value moment is defined in a working session before any events are built. The adoption funnel is designed around that definition. The benchmark is set. Day 30 produces a verdict — not another month of waiting to see if the data says something.
TIMELINE
A working session to understand what the AI feature does and what a useful outcome looks like in practice for a real user. The value moment is defined here — the specific action a user takes that confirms the AI output was genuinely helpful. This definition drives everything else. Current instrumentation, if any, is reviewed and gaps are documented.
The four-stage adoption funnel designed around the value moment your product team agreed. Event schema documented with specific names, properties, and trigger conditions for every stage — exposure, first interaction, value moment, and repeat use. Failure events included. Adoption benchmark set with 30 / 60 / 90-day thresholds. Engineering receives a spec they can implement directly.
The PostHog adoption dashboard built and connected to the event taxonomy before launch — so the first day of data flows into a measurement system that already knows what it is looking for. Pricing test designed with two variants, a clear hypothesis, target segment, and the success criteria that produce a decision at Day 30. Launch readout template structured.
A 60-minute session with your product and engineering team. Every deliverable walked through. Implementation confirmed before the feature ships. Day 30 review date set — when adoption data is read against the benchmark and the verdict is produced. Your team ships knowing exactly what Day 30 will measure.
WHAT YOU GET
A structured session to define exactly when a user has experienced genuine value from the feature — not just opened it, but used it in a way that makes them more likely to stay and pay. Without this definition, adoption metrics are measuring the wrong thing.
Your AI feature gets a purpose-built adoption funnel: exposure, meaningful interaction, and value moment reached. This structure lets you identify where adoption stalls — awareness, engagement, or the payoff moment itself.
The patterns that predict poor adoption in AI features — high initial use followed by drop-off, low repeat engagement, feature abandonment after one session — are documented against benchmarks from comparable launches. You know the warning signs before you see them.
Adoption targets are anchored to your actual user behaviour, not industry averages that don't reflect your audience. This produces 30/60/90-day thresholds that are both ambitious and credible.
AI features introduce a different willingness-to-pay dynamic than standard product functionality. This assessment gives you a documented read on how your users are likely to respond to usage-based, tiered, or add-on pricing before you commit to a model.
A complete event taxonomy covering exposure, meaningful interaction, value moment reached, and failure signals. Engineers get a spec they can implement directly — no ambiguity about what to track or why.
Written benchmarks for what healthy adoption looks like at 30, 60, and 90 days post-launch, calibrated to your user base. Your team knows from day one what success looks like and when to act if numbers fall short.
Built in your live PostHog instance and connected to real data before the engagement ends. You're not inheriting a mockup — you're inheriting a working dashboard your team can open on launch day.
A structured test for validating your AI feature pricing, including two variant definitions, targeting criteria, and a defined success metric. You can run this immediately after launch rather than waiting months for organic pricing signals.
A reusable template for reviewing adoption performance at each 30-day milestone, with your benchmark thresholds already embedded. Running a structured post-launch review goes from a two-hour preparation task to a 20-minute exercise.
The single most important event in your AI feature's lifecycle — the moment a user gets real value — is instrumented and verified before launch. Without this, you're measuring vanity engagement rather than the behaviour that predicts retention.
Every event, property, and expected value is documented in a format your engineering team can implement without clarification. This cuts instrumentation time and prevents the tracking gaps that make post-launch analysis unreliable.
A written explanation of how each benchmark threshold was set, so your team can defend the targets in a board review or investor conversation without needing to reconstruct the logic from scratch.
Step-by-step documentation of how the PostHog dashboard was built, so your team can extend it, rebuild it after a migration, or replicate the structure for a future feature launch.
On launch day, you have direct access to flag anomalies, interpret early data, and make real-time decisions. The first 24 hours of data often require interpretation that a dashboard alone can't provide.
A structured call seven days post-launch to review early signals and adjust if needed, plus a documented framework for your 30-day performance review so the analysis runs the same way every time.
Everything above for $2,997. No hourly billing. No scope creep. Everything stays with your team.
FIT CHECK
Not sure if this fits your situation? Book a call. If the sprint isn’t the right move right now, we’ll say so — and point to what actually is.
Jake McMahon — ProductQuant
I run this sprint myself. The value moment definition, the event taxonomy, the dashboard build, the pricing test design — all of it. The most persistent gap I find in AI feature launches is that teams conflate the interaction metric with the adoption metric. They are not the same thing. A user who clicks the AI button three times in their first week and disappears has a completely different story than a user who reaches the value moment on Day 1 and comes back weekly. The instrumentation has to be designed to see both — and to tell them apart.
The pricing test design is where most teams underinvest. Knowing that users engage with the feature tells you nothing about whether they value it enough to pay for it. That answer requires a test designed before launch, with a clear hypothesis and a Day 30 decision threshold. Without the test, the pricing call gets made based on competitors and gut feel — then revisited six months later with no better data.
Teams Jake has worked with




PRICING
Guarantee: If, at the Day 30 review, your team does not have a clear answer on whether users are reaching the agreed value moment and returning, we keep working at no additional cost until you do.
Your feature launches with a measurement system already in place. Day 30 gives you a clear answer: users reaching the value moment and returning, or a data-backed reason they’re not.