Why Behavioural Data Matters More Than User Feedback
Internally, it felt like momentum. Users were active, the interview feedback sounded positive, and feature requests kept piling up fast enough to create the impression that the market was pulling the product forward.
Commercially, very little underneath was compounding properly.
Users struggled through onboarding, disappeared after testing, and rarely converted into long-term retention or meaningful revenue. The behavioural signal and the interview feedback were describing two completely different realities.
That contradiction taught me more about product-market fit than any growth dashboard ever did.
I was building the early commercial motion for an AI voice platform from zero: sourcing beta users, diagnosing onboarding failures, shaping acquisition strategy, converting subscriptions, and building the B2C2B commercial strategy that later secured enterprise distribution through a $200B telecommunications company while the business remained in stealth.
The technology worked, but the commercial assumptions around who actually needed it did not.
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