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189 - Behavior Patterns That Predict Conversion - with Keith Zubchevich

Product Led Growth Leaders · 2026-06-25 · 26 min

Substance score

48 / 100

Five dimensions, 20 points each

Insight Density10 / 20
Originality9 / 20
Guest Caliber12 / 20
Specificity & Evidence10 / 20
Conversational Craft7 / 20

What our scoring noted

Our reviewer’s read on each dimension, with quotes from the episode.

Insight Density

10 / 20

There are a handful of genuinely useful ideas—behavior patterns vs. click-level funnels, the 'research shopper' archetype surfaced from looping back to a review page, and the 'AI wash' critique of agents running on bad underlying data—but they're heavily diluted by repetitive pitch language and restatements of the same core argument across the episode.

the average behavior pattern of a larger e-commerce company is over 50 steps...People are building six and seven-step funnels
if you understand that they went all the way to shopping cart and then went back to the review page...We call that a research shopper

Originality

9 / 20

The 'AI wash' framing—agents can't rescue bad underlying data—is a pointed, contrarian take worth hearing, and the argument that funnels and agentic UX are structurally incompatible is moderately fresh; but the foundational critique of funnel analytics over behavioral patterns is a well-worn argument in analytics circles.

they call it AI wash because all of these sort of modest technology companies...say, oh, agents are the answer
Funnels and agents will never cross

Guest Caliber

12 / 20

Keith is a genuine enterprise software CEO with 15 years operating at Conviva and prior executive stints at Cisco and Riverbed; the Databricks co-founder connection adds technical credibility. However, the entire conversation is in pitch mode rather than practitioner reflection, so his operational depth is mostly asserted rather than demonstrated.

My co-founder, Jan Stoika, actually was the founder of Databricks. So that gives you a perspective on Conviva.
I've never been a part of a failure. So every company that I was fortunate enough to join had a great ending, great success, great exit.

Specificity & Evidence

10 / 20

A handful of concrete figures appear—8 billion devices, 50+ average steps per e-commerce behavior pattern, 150-step outliers, three minutes of wasted agent re-contextualization—but there are no named customers, no conversion lift percentages, no A/B test results, and no dollar figures tying behavior changes to revenue outcomes.

we sit today in about 8 billion devices
the average behavior pattern of a larger e-commerce company is over 50 steps...We see some consumer behavior patterns in our large e-com companies of 150 steps

Conversational Craft

7 / 20

The host occasionally asks a substantive question (on AI accuracy and data integrity) but never follows up with a challenge, never asks for a named customer result, and repeatedly closes with affirmations like 'super, super interesting stuff.' The interview functions mostly as a product demo setup rather than a rigorous dialogue.

How do you grapple with the problem of correctness, Keith?
Wow, super, super interesting stuff and exciting things. And you guys are illuminating the nuances and details of that world.

Conversation analysis

Computed from the transcript - who did the talking, and the verbal tics along the way.

Filler words

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Episode notes

Funnels are comforting because they look orderly, but buying rarely is. Keith Zubchevich, President and CEO of Conviva, joins us to unpack what most digital analytics misses: the difference between tracking clicks and understanding intent. We dig into why two people can purchase the same product through completely different paths and why forcing everyone into a single “best journey” quietly hurts conversion. We get concrete with examples like the “research shopper” who bounces between reviews and the shopping cart. A review-page visit is just a fact; the looped behavior pattern is the meaning. Keith explains how Conviva collects every session event, computes thousands of consumer behavior patterns in real time, and groups them into archetypes and segments you can actually act on. That shift from top-down questioning to bottom-up pattern surfacing helps teams focus on the changes most likely to move high-intent customers forward, instead of over-investing time and data science effort for marginal gains. We also challenge the hype around agentic AI. Agents do not fix vague data or “AI-washed” dashboards.

Full transcript

26 min

Transcribed and scored by The B2B Podcast Index.

1 00:00:32,729 --> 00:00:34,649 SPEAKER_01: Welcome to Product Led Growth Leaders. 2 00:00:34,809 --> 00:00:37,929 We've got a great guest for the show today, Keith Zubcevic. 3 00:00:38,169 --> 00:00:41,129 He has spent decades building and transforming technology 4 00:00:41,129 --> 00:00:44,809 companies with executive roles at Cisco, Riverbed Technology. 5 00:00:44,969 --> 00:00:50,409 He's had about six companies of his own and has been at Conviva 6 00:00:50,729 --> 00:00:54,569 for 15 years, rising from strategy to the top seat. 7 00:00:54,729 --> 00:00:59,769 He is today president and CEO of Conviva, globally leading 8 00:00:59,769 --> 00:01:05,049 operational analytics that are experience-centric, helping the 9 00:01:05,049 --> 00:01:08,889 world's largest digital businesses understand what their 10 00:01:08,889 --> 00:01:11,129 users are actually experiencing in real time. 11 00:01:11,289 --> 00:01:12,810 Keith, welcome to the show. 12 00:01:13,129 --> 00:01:13,449 SPEAKER_00: Thank you. 13 00:01:13,530 --> 00:01:14,569 I appreciate your having me. 14 00:01:14,650 --> 00:01:16,090 This is uh this is gonna be a lot of fun. 15 00:01:16,250 --> 00:01:19,449 By the way, I've been part of very uh uh startups, many 16 00:01:19,449 --> 00:01:19,769 startups. 17 00:01:19,849 --> 00:01:21,449 SPEAKER_01: This is uh many startups, okay. 18 00:01:22,169 --> 00:01:25,289 SPEAKER_00: So not my own, but but joined my my dad used to 19 00:01:25,289 --> 00:01:27,849 tell me either be valedictorian or be best friends with one. 20 00:01:27,930 --> 00:01:29,049 So I chose the latter. 21 00:01:29,289 --> 00:01:32,250 So I I've I've been fortunate to find a lot of really smart 22 00:01:32,250 --> 00:01:35,129 people and be part of companies that were starting out and 23 00:01:35,129 --> 00:01:36,489 turned into massive successes. 24 00:01:36,649 --> 00:01:37,769 So it's been a great experience. 25 00:01:38,409 --> 00:01:40,810 SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I think you're like me a lot of the times, uh 26 00:01:41,049 --> 00:01:44,729 in the past 10-15 years, joined a lot of startups, and you get 27 00:01:44,729 --> 00:01:47,369 to be a part of a great team, small team. 28 00:01:47,530 --> 00:01:49,609 Everyone's wearing a lot of different hats. 29 00:01:49,929 --> 00:01:52,569 SPEAKER_00: Yes, yes, yeah, uh free revenue, right? 30 00:01:52,649 --> 00:01:54,890 They're trying to figure out how to build a business and watching 31 00:01:54,969 --> 00:01:55,369 it scale. 32 00:01:55,450 --> 00:01:58,969 So the good and fortunate I've I've never uh been a part of uh 33 00:01:58,969 --> 00:01:59,849 of a failure. 34 00:01:59,929 --> 00:02:02,729 So every company that I was fortunate enough to join had a 35 00:02:02,729 --> 00:02:04,569 great ending, great success, great exit. 36 00:02:04,649 --> 00:02:08,409 Um, and so my my hope is to continue that streak. 37 00:02:09,050 --> 00:02:09,449 SPEAKER_01: Right. 38 00:02:09,689 --> 00:02:12,490 Well, let's talk about the problem that you're solving 39 00:02:12,490 --> 00:02:12,810 today. 40 00:02:12,969 --> 00:02:16,889 Let's let's steep ourselves and the audience into thinking about 41 00:02:16,889 --> 00:02:20,649 the problem that people run into, that the world uh runs 42 00:02:20,649 --> 00:02:23,209 into, that we'll be talking about the solution for today. 43 00:02:24,649 --> 00:02:27,050 SPEAKER_00: The main thing is, and in digital business, I think 44 00:02:27,050 --> 00:02:29,849 it's something that we bring to the forefront that is really not 45 00:02:29,849 --> 00:02:32,170 very visible to digital businesses today, and that's 46 00:02:32,170 --> 00:02:33,449 consumer behaviors, right? 47 00:02:33,610 --> 00:02:36,409 Everybody looks at how people buy in digital products today, 48 00:02:36,490 --> 00:02:40,250 and it's really sequential funny funnels or predictable journeys 49 00:02:40,250 --> 00:02:42,810 that you try and set and then see how many people followed 50 00:02:42,810 --> 00:02:43,449 that journey. 51 00:02:43,689 --> 00:02:47,049 If you think about how personal people's decisions are to buy 52 00:02:47,049 --> 00:02:49,370 anything, you know, whether that's a single transaction or 53 00:02:49,370 --> 00:02:53,609 very complex high high-end purchases, all of us have a very 54 00:02:53,609 --> 00:02:56,250 specific pattern that we go through to buy. 55 00:02:56,409 --> 00:02:58,090 And it's very, it's very personal. 56 00:02:58,169 --> 00:02:59,129 It's it's unique to us. 57 00:02:59,289 --> 00:03:01,849 You and I might buy the exact same product in two very 58 00:03:01,849 --> 00:03:02,569 different ways. 59 00:03:02,729 --> 00:03:06,009 So a digital business building a single product or a single way 60 00:03:06,009 --> 00:03:09,689 to see the world is missing either one of us or even both of 61 00:03:09,689 --> 00:03:09,930 us. 62 00:03:10,090 --> 00:03:13,609 And so Conviva's mission and our job is to really understand what 63 00:03:13,609 --> 00:03:16,650 is the consumer experience and behaviors, not funnels, 64 00:03:16,810 --> 00:03:17,210 predictive. 65 00:03:17,530 --> 00:03:20,810 It is really about collecting every session and organizing 66 00:03:20,810 --> 00:03:23,530 that into a behavior pattern and assigning things like segment or 67 00:03:23,530 --> 00:03:26,169 archetypes so you can group people into some very similar 68 00:03:26,169 --> 00:03:27,210 behavior patterns. 69 00:03:27,370 --> 00:03:30,090 But that really surfaces an entirely new way to see your 70 00:03:30,090 --> 00:03:33,849 consumers, not funnels because you lose actually a lot, but 71 00:03:33,849 --> 00:03:35,370 really understanding how people want to buy. 72 00:03:35,449 --> 00:03:38,729 And if you can meet them where they are and you you you treat 73 00:03:38,729 --> 00:03:42,009 them and you you cater to how they want to buy, they'll buy. 74 00:03:42,090 --> 00:03:45,129 That is a very similar concept in brick and mortar business 75 00:03:45,129 --> 00:03:47,689 today that doesn't get replicated in digital businesses 76 00:03:47,689 --> 00:03:47,930 enough. 77 00:03:48,090 --> 00:03:50,969 So we want to lead that charge of understanding patterns and 78 00:03:50,969 --> 00:03:54,329 how to personalize the digital business to meet every consumer 79 00:03:54,329 --> 00:03:57,689 where they are and how they prefer to purchase to improve 80 00:03:57,689 --> 00:03:58,409 conversion. 81 00:03:58,650 --> 00:03:58,969 SPEAKER_01: Right. 82 00:03:59,129 --> 00:04:02,169 No, so Keith, I'm very excited to have this conversation 83 00:04:02,409 --> 00:04:08,090 because as a UX person who does research and design, and we're 84 00:04:08,090 --> 00:04:11,449 constantly trying to help clients figure out just the best 85 00:04:11,449 --> 00:04:13,049 way to put things together, right? 86 00:04:13,449 --> 00:04:16,970 And there's the sort of human side where you're, you know, 87 00:04:17,129 --> 00:04:19,610 kind of doing the research and you're understanding people. 88 00:04:19,769 --> 00:04:23,610 Then then there's a more sort of automated analytics side where 89 00:04:23,610 --> 00:04:25,610 you are gathering the exact data. 90 00:04:25,769 --> 00:04:28,090 This is how long this person spent on this page. 91 00:04:28,250 --> 00:04:32,730 This is how uh uh percentage of people click on this thing 92 00:04:32,730 --> 00:04:33,370 versus that thing. 93 00:04:33,449 --> 00:04:36,889 And then here's how the funnel goes down over time and the 94 00:04:36,889 --> 00:04:37,769 percentages. 95 00:04:38,009 --> 00:04:40,490 And it's so hard to bridge that gap. 96 00:04:40,569 --> 00:04:42,409 There are it's so jam-ped. 97 00:04:42,649 --> 00:04:45,769 It's easy to take make a uh, you know, sort of this, you know, 98 00:04:45,930 --> 00:04:48,649 big conclusion of like, oh, well, you know, you know, this 99 00:04:48,649 --> 00:04:51,529 button, and if more people click the button, you know, that then 100 00:04:51,529 --> 00:04:53,769 make the button three times the size that we'll get more 101 00:04:53,769 --> 00:04:54,409 clients, right? 102 00:04:54,490 --> 00:04:57,689 It's so easy to make those sort of generalizations. 103 00:04:57,850 --> 00:05:01,850 So so let's walk, let's take our time walking through the the 104 00:05:01,850 --> 00:05:03,129 types of things that we see. 105 00:05:03,450 --> 00:05:03,689 SPEAKER_00: Yeah. 106 00:05:03,769 --> 00:05:06,090 So I think the biggest difference between what you just 107 00:05:06,090 --> 00:05:08,169 described, which is what people are doing, right? 108 00:05:08,250 --> 00:05:10,409 Because that's very easy to collect is you know how many 109 00:05:10,409 --> 00:05:12,490 people did this, how many people clicked that button. 110 00:05:12,649 --> 00:05:16,889 But the real intelligence comes from not only what they did, but 111 00:05:16,889 --> 00:05:17,129 why. 112 00:05:17,210 --> 00:05:19,370 And I'll give you an I'll give you a differentiation between 113 00:05:19,370 --> 00:05:19,769 the two. 114 00:05:20,009 --> 00:05:23,610 To understand somebody went to the review review page is is a 115 00:05:23,610 --> 00:05:24,250 what they did. 116 00:05:24,330 --> 00:05:26,330 Oh, they clicked on this and they read this review. 117 00:05:26,490 --> 00:05:29,210 But if you understand and you back out and you understand that 118 00:05:29,210 --> 00:05:31,769 they went all the way to shopping cart and then went back 119 00:05:31,769 --> 00:05:34,330 to the review page and then got to shopping cart and went back 120 00:05:34,330 --> 00:05:36,889 to review page, now you're seeing what they're doing for 121 00:05:36,889 --> 00:05:39,370 sure, but it exposes a different picture. 122 00:05:39,529 --> 00:05:41,529 We call that a research shopper, right? 123 00:05:41,610 --> 00:05:44,250 It's not just that they went to the review page, it's that you 124 00:05:44,250 --> 00:05:47,049 have to understand the totality of the behavior to understand, 125 00:05:47,129 --> 00:05:49,049 okay, this is how this person wants to buy. 126 00:05:49,210 --> 00:05:51,689 And we will label that automatically by servicing that 127 00:05:51,689 --> 00:05:54,330 pattern and saying this is the pattern of a research shopper. 128 00:05:54,409 --> 00:05:56,409 You don't get that by just saying, well, they clicked the 129 00:05:56,409 --> 00:05:57,129 review page. 130 00:05:57,289 --> 00:05:58,570 Everybody can click a review page. 131 00:05:58,649 --> 00:06:00,250 It doesn't mean we're all research shoppers. 132 00:06:00,330 --> 00:06:03,129 It's the overarching behavior pattern of a loop, how many 133 00:06:03,129 --> 00:06:05,370 times they clicked it, where they went to the review page. 134 00:06:05,450 --> 00:06:07,689 So, for example, they get all the way to shopping cart and 135 00:06:07,689 --> 00:06:10,649 they go back to review, that signals hesitancy, right? 136 00:06:10,809 --> 00:06:14,730 Now all of a sudden, review page has multiple meanings of what of 137 00:06:14,730 --> 00:06:18,250 what they did that is unlocked through understanding why 138 00:06:18,250 --> 00:06:18,889 they're doing that. 139 00:06:19,049 --> 00:06:21,610 And when you understand why someone's doing it, again, you 140 00:06:21,610 --> 00:06:24,090 can cater to them by meeting them where they are and helping 141 00:06:24,090 --> 00:06:27,129 them feel comfortable in very various ways, whether that's a 142 00:06:27,129 --> 00:06:30,009 marketing campaign or if it's an agent or you're building a 143 00:06:30,009 --> 00:06:33,210 product that has the ability to give them easy access to what 144 00:06:33,210 --> 00:06:35,370 they want to find so that they build their confidence up, 145 00:06:35,450 --> 00:06:35,689 right? 146 00:06:35,850 --> 00:06:38,570 Those are the decisions you make off of behaviors, not just 147 00:06:38,570 --> 00:06:39,450 people clicking buttons. 148 00:06:39,769 --> 00:06:41,450 People clicking buttons tells you nothing. 149 00:06:41,689 --> 00:06:42,009 SPEAKER_01: Yeah. 150 00:06:42,250 --> 00:06:42,490 Yeah. 151 00:06:42,649 --> 00:06:42,970 Okay. 152 00:06:43,129 --> 00:06:46,889 So now we're getting to a really, really core uh 153 00:06:46,889 --> 00:06:47,610 challenge. 154 00:06:47,769 --> 00:06:51,289 When you're in the position of you're trying to optimize, make 155 00:06:51,289 --> 00:06:55,129 an experience better, um, so you can help the business, and 156 00:06:55,129 --> 00:06:56,570 you're looking at the data. 157 00:06:56,730 --> 00:07:00,809 So, first of all, there's this sort of problem of detail and 158 00:07:00,809 --> 00:07:02,009 volume with the data. 159 00:07:02,169 --> 00:07:05,610 You get a ton of data, it's a massive amount, especially the 160 00:07:05,610 --> 00:07:06,330 more you're collecting. 161 00:07:06,409 --> 00:07:07,370 People say big data. 162 00:07:07,450 --> 00:07:10,330 Well, the more you're collecting, the more problematic 163 00:07:10,330 --> 00:07:11,769 it is to try to interpret this. 164 00:07:11,929 --> 00:07:17,689 So it sounds like you're saying you're boiling it up to another 165 00:07:17,689 --> 00:07:19,850 more meaningful layer of abstraction. 166 00:07:20,169 --> 00:07:21,610 SPEAKER_00: Yes, that's a great point. 167 00:07:21,769 --> 00:07:22,409 Absolutely. 168 00:07:22,649 --> 00:07:25,850 We we collect every event within the session and we don't just 169 00:07:25,850 --> 00:07:28,169 dump it into a database that requires you to ask. 170 00:07:28,250 --> 00:07:31,049 So the inefficiency of today versus what Canviva is trying to 171 00:07:31,049 --> 00:07:33,850 drive in the market is we have a saying that today you're 172 00:07:33,850 --> 00:07:36,809 overinvested for marginal gain, which means you have a ton of 173 00:07:36,809 --> 00:07:38,570 data, you have a ton of tools, you have a ton of people, you 174 00:07:38,570 --> 00:07:41,370 have a data science, and you're asking a lot of questions, but 175 00:07:41,370 --> 00:07:44,889 you're asking questions that are coming from your own head, and 176 00:07:44,889 --> 00:07:46,570 you have to understand what you need to ask. 177 00:07:46,730 --> 00:07:48,970 Canviva's position is you start from the bottom up. 178 00:07:49,049 --> 00:07:51,929 We collect all of these behavior patterns, we compute them, we 179 00:07:51,929 --> 00:07:54,570 create them, and we put them into an analytics engine that in 180 00:07:54,570 --> 00:07:57,450 real time surfaces trends in behavior patterns. 181 00:07:57,610 --> 00:07:59,610 Because the data should speak for itself. 182 00:07:59,689 --> 00:08:01,049 You shouldn't have to ask questions. 183 00:08:01,129 --> 00:08:03,289 And that's the biggest methodology shift that we have 184 00:08:03,289 --> 00:08:06,409 today versus traditional product methodologies, is we don't 185 00:08:06,409 --> 00:08:08,970 expect you to see a metric change and then you got to go 186 00:08:08,970 --> 00:08:10,330 figure out what happened. 187 00:08:10,570 --> 00:08:14,649 We surface data that actually says this is a behavior pattern, 188 00:08:14,889 --> 00:08:17,689 this happened to interrupt that behavior pattern, by the way. 189 00:08:17,769 --> 00:08:21,210 And if you fix this or you do this, you will move these people 190 00:08:21,210 --> 00:08:21,769 to conversion. 191 00:08:21,850 --> 00:08:23,769 Then we will have a dollar amount, we'll have everything 192 00:08:23,769 --> 00:08:23,929 there. 193 00:08:24,090 --> 00:08:26,970 But that's a bottoms-up method methodology versus your point, 194 00:08:27,049 --> 00:08:29,850 which is all this data, and I just try and come from the top 195 00:08:29,850 --> 00:08:32,330 and ask a bunch of questions and hire a bunch of data scientists 196 00:08:32,330 --> 00:08:34,009 to try and figure out what I don't know. 197 00:08:34,090 --> 00:08:37,529 And it's the oxymoron of I have to ask the question of what I 198 00:08:37,529 --> 00:08:38,090 don't know. 199 00:08:38,250 --> 00:08:40,970 Now, if I already know why I'm asking the question. 200 00:08:41,129 --> 00:08:44,090 So it really is about letting the data speak for itself and 201 00:08:44,090 --> 00:08:45,450 understanding the behavior patterns. 202 00:08:45,529 --> 00:08:48,330 And then once you understand what is happening in the 203 00:08:48,330 --> 00:08:51,610 behavior pattern, I can act on that because it's showing me 204 00:08:51,610 --> 00:08:52,889 what consumers want to do. 205 00:08:53,049 --> 00:08:55,769 Not just showing me what they do, but it's showing me what 206 00:08:55,769 --> 00:08:58,330 they want to do and what potentially got in the way. 207 00:08:58,970 --> 00:09:02,490 SPEAKER_01: So uh is your solution a software solution, a 208 00:09:02,490 --> 00:09:04,330 consulting solution, or something in between? 209 00:09:04,569 --> 00:09:05,129 SPEAKER_00: It's a both. 210 00:09:05,209 --> 00:09:07,610 So we provide the analytics platform, the data collection. 211 00:09:07,689 --> 00:09:10,009 So we collect it, we we sit today in about 8 billion 212 00:09:10,009 --> 00:09:10,409 devices. 213 00:09:10,490 --> 00:09:12,409 So you're right, this is a big data problem. 214 00:09:12,490 --> 00:09:16,089 So my my my founding team, my group of validatorians in this 215 00:09:16,089 --> 00:09:19,370 company uh is uh all academics on big data. 216 00:09:19,449 --> 00:09:21,689 My co-founder, Jan Stoika, actually was the founder of 217 00:09:21,689 --> 00:09:22,250 Databricks. 218 00:09:22,329 --> 00:09:24,009 So that gives you a perspective on Conviva. 219 00:09:24,169 --> 00:09:26,569 We're not a product analytics event simple tech tool. 220 00:09:26,730 --> 00:09:29,129 We're actually a big data company because to your point, 221 00:09:29,289 --> 00:09:32,409 when you collect everybody's session and you compute 222 00:09:32,409 --> 00:09:36,009 everybody's behavior pattern with rich metadata, that's a 223 00:09:36,009 --> 00:09:37,049 massive big data problem. 224 00:09:37,129 --> 00:09:38,490 And we do do that all in real time. 225 00:09:38,569 --> 00:09:41,449 So that's why I said we sit in about 8 billion devices today. 226 00:09:41,610 --> 00:09:44,969 Most of your streaming media apps, we measure all of your 227 00:09:44,969 --> 00:09:47,449 video experience and we're telling those publishers exactly 228 00:09:47,449 --> 00:09:49,449 what you're experiencing and what's in the way of you 229 00:09:49,449 --> 00:09:50,089 watching more. 230 00:09:50,250 --> 00:09:52,569 Whether that's a bad recommendation or if it's a bad 231 00:09:52,569 --> 00:09:55,289 quality issue, or if it's something about the content you 232 00:09:55,289 --> 00:09:58,809 just may not like, all of that data is in the sessions that we 233 00:09:58,809 --> 00:10:01,289 distill up to the publishers to say, if you make this change, 234 00:10:01,370 --> 00:10:02,409 people will watch longer. 235 00:10:02,569 --> 00:10:04,569 It's the same with consumer behavior patterns. 236 00:10:04,730 --> 00:10:07,689 We can definitively tell you that if you do these things, it 237 00:10:07,689 --> 00:10:10,649 will unlock that consumer moving forward because we know their 238 00:10:10,649 --> 00:10:12,649 intent, we know what they wanted to do. 239 00:10:12,730 --> 00:10:15,209 And all we're saying is if you can understand what they wanted 240 00:10:15,209 --> 00:10:18,569 to do and see what got in the way, remove that and I will get 241 00:10:18,569 --> 00:10:21,850 them to conversion versus general metrics and just 242 00:10:21,850 --> 00:10:24,809 understanding, okay, people did if I fix that, I'll get more. 243 00:10:24,969 --> 00:10:28,009 That's a very loose connection to conversion versus us. 244 00:10:28,089 --> 00:10:32,009 We have a highly, you know, a lot stronger connection to 245 00:10:32,009 --> 00:10:34,329 conversion rate because we we actually measure what people 246 00:10:34,329 --> 00:10:36,169 want and what they want to do, and then we give that 247 00:10:36,169 --> 00:10:38,969 intelligence back to the cons uh to the e-commerce company. 248 00:10:39,289 --> 00:10:41,049 SPEAKER_01: Let's give the audience an idea of what it's 249 00:10:41,049 --> 00:10:42,169 like to work with Conviva. 250 00:10:42,329 --> 00:10:45,209 Are they are they primarily operating within a software that 251 00:10:45,209 --> 00:10:48,169 you've diagnosed them and set up and they're primarily in a 252 00:10:48,169 --> 00:10:51,049 dashboard, or are they mostly consulting with you with 253 00:10:51,049 --> 00:10:53,289 software tools coming along with it? 254 00:10:53,529 --> 00:10:53,689 SPEAKER_00: Yeah. 255 00:10:53,769 --> 00:10:56,409 So we do the integration on with the with the business. 256 00:10:56,490 --> 00:10:59,209 So we'll integrate into the product website or apps, and 257 00:10:59,209 --> 00:11:00,889 then we immediately start auto-collecting. 258 00:11:00,969 --> 00:11:02,809 So there is no pre-configuration, there's no 259 00:11:02,809 --> 00:11:04,490 labeling, there's no tagging. 260 00:11:04,649 --> 00:11:07,449 We have an auto-collect capability because we do all the 261 00:11:08,089 --> 00:11:09,289 compute on the platform. 262 00:11:09,370 --> 00:11:11,049 That's where we become a big data company. 263 00:11:11,129 --> 00:11:14,409 So we don't have to protect by limiting the number of events. 264 00:11:14,490 --> 00:11:17,370 Our mission is to collect everything because we have the 265 00:11:17,529 --> 00:11:20,169 DNA and we have the horsepower to compute everything. 266 00:11:20,329 --> 00:11:23,129 So we open it up, we collect everything from the client side, 267 00:11:23,209 --> 00:11:25,370 and we start to build and compute these patterns. 268 00:11:25,449 --> 00:11:28,250 And we start to then provide the analytics that gives the 269 00:11:28,250 --> 00:11:30,649 customer the ability to, it surfaces automatically. 270 00:11:30,730 --> 00:11:33,449 Like I said, it's not a question of you have to ask and you have 271 00:11:33,449 --> 00:11:34,730 to go figure out what happened. 272 00:11:34,889 --> 00:11:37,289 Our dashboards, once we do the integration and we help the 273 00:11:37,289 --> 00:11:41,449 customer set up, literally starts identifying high value 274 00:11:41,449 --> 00:11:43,850 patterns that if you make changes, will improve 275 00:11:43,850 --> 00:11:44,329 conversion. 276 00:11:44,409 --> 00:11:47,289 And we also show, by the way, I have a simple, you know, I grew 277 00:11:47,289 --> 00:11:49,610 up in Arkansas, so I have a simple business philosophy of do 278 00:11:49,610 --> 00:11:51,129 more of what works, less of what doesn't. 279 00:11:51,289 --> 00:11:52,730 We tend to lose that in business. 280 00:11:52,889 --> 00:11:55,049 You know, we have we overcomplicate it to keep it 281 00:11:55,049 --> 00:11:55,289 simple. 282 00:11:55,370 --> 00:11:57,129 Just do more of what works, less of what doesn't. 283 00:11:57,289 --> 00:12:00,649 So we show high value segments, we show high value patterns and 284 00:12:00,649 --> 00:12:03,209 what got in the way of those high value, high conversion rate 285 00:12:03,209 --> 00:12:03,449 patterns. 286 00:12:03,529 --> 00:12:05,929 So again, it's very highly probabilistic that if you make 287 00:12:05,929 --> 00:12:07,209 that change, they'll convert. 288 00:12:07,449 --> 00:12:10,809 But we also show here's bouncers, here's things that you 289 00:12:10,809 --> 00:12:11,370 should ignore. 290 00:12:11,529 --> 00:12:14,569 Now, in our world, in the product world, in some cases, 291 00:12:14,730 --> 00:12:17,449 bouncers will trigger a product decision because, oh wow, they 292 00:12:17,449 --> 00:12:17,929 left, right? 293 00:12:18,569 --> 00:12:19,449 We need to fix that. 294 00:12:19,610 --> 00:12:22,169 But it but if it was a low value customer that was never going to 295 00:12:22,169 --> 00:12:24,969 buy, you're investing in solving a problem that is never gonna 296 00:12:24,969 --> 00:12:28,809 convert versus solving problems that highly probable will 297 00:12:28,809 --> 00:12:29,289 convert. 298 00:12:29,449 --> 00:12:30,889 That's the difference in our methodology. 299 00:12:30,969 --> 00:12:32,169 So we surface both. 300 00:12:32,329 --> 00:12:34,969 We show the bouncers, we show the things you shouldn't spend 301 00:12:34,969 --> 00:12:37,689 time on, we show the things that you could spend time on, and if 302 00:12:37,689 --> 00:12:39,289 you did, it would probably improve conversion. 303 00:12:39,370 --> 00:12:42,089 And then we have a section of behavior patterns that if you do 304 00:12:42,089 --> 00:12:43,610 this, you will absolutely convert. 305 00:12:43,689 --> 00:12:46,169 These are your core customers, these are the high intent, 306 00:12:46,409 --> 00:12:48,889 highly converting, and something got in the way. 307 00:12:49,049 --> 00:12:51,610 That that that is the that that's the methodology that 308 00:12:51,610 --> 00:12:55,129 gives you know the e-commerce teams the ability to react and 309 00:12:55,129 --> 00:12:56,089 prioritize. 310 00:12:56,409 --> 00:12:58,329 SPEAKER_01: Ladies and gentlemen, we are speaking with 311 00:12:58,569 --> 00:13:03,370 uh Keith Zubchevich of Conviva, uh Conviva, I'm sorry, 312 00:13:03,529 --> 00:13:09,449 conviva.ai, um C-O-N-V-I-V-A.ai. 313 00:13:10,250 --> 00:13:14,809 Um and so uh how do you grapple with the problem of correctness, 314 00:13:14,889 --> 00:13:15,209 Keith? 315 00:13:15,289 --> 00:13:18,009 This is something that I'm personally very curious about 316 00:13:18,250 --> 00:13:22,009 because AI tooling, you know, we build our software just like we 317 00:13:22,009 --> 00:13:26,089 did 20 years ago, but now we have this awesome opportunity to 318 00:13:26,250 --> 00:13:29,129 streamline certain aspects of what the software does, you 319 00:13:29,129 --> 00:13:32,250 know, categorization and some other things behind the scenes, 320 00:13:32,409 --> 00:13:32,649 right? 321 00:13:32,969 --> 00:13:35,850 And, you know, we want it to be as correct as possible. 322 00:13:36,009 --> 00:13:41,610 Now I see some software tools nowadays that jump too fast and 323 00:13:41,610 --> 00:13:46,730 too far with the AI, where it's just so assumption ridden and 324 00:13:46,730 --> 00:13:51,049 it's this overly confident but good looking sort of stuff 325 00:13:51,289 --> 00:13:53,449 versus um some that are more modest with it. 326 00:13:53,689 --> 00:13:57,769 I'm just curious about your approach to you know how you 327 00:13:57,769 --> 00:14:01,610 think about the data integrity, where taking all of these little 328 00:14:01,610 --> 00:14:04,809 bits of information at the bottom about usage data, and 329 00:14:04,809 --> 00:14:08,250 then we're boiling it up um to things that are much more 330 00:14:08,250 --> 00:14:09,449 meaningful and usable. 331 00:14:09,689 --> 00:14:11,529 So, how do you think about that and approach it? 332 00:14:11,769 --> 00:14:13,769 SPEAKER_00: Yeah, no, that's a great point because we're really 333 00:14:13,929 --> 00:14:14,730 leaning into agente. 334 00:14:15,209 --> 00:14:18,009 So our belief is when you look at the number of behavior 335 00:14:18,009 --> 00:14:20,329 patterns we can generate for any digital business, and we're 336 00:14:20,329 --> 00:14:21,929 talking thousands, because you think about it, we're all 337 00:14:21,929 --> 00:14:23,209 personal in our decision making. 338 00:14:23,289 --> 00:14:25,769 So there's a there's literally probably millions of decision 339 00:14:25,769 --> 00:14:27,209 patterns that people will go through. 340 00:14:27,370 --> 00:14:29,610 But we we distill those into archetypes or segments 341 00:14:29,769 --> 00:14:32,329 automatically, by the way, not predicted segments that you try 342 00:14:32,329 --> 00:14:34,009 and jam square pegs into round holes. 343 00:14:34,169 --> 00:14:36,169 We literally take all the patterns and we surface them 344 00:14:36,169 --> 00:14:38,649 based on the pattern and the and the segment and the dimension 345 00:14:38,809 --> 00:14:39,769 into groups. 346 00:14:39,850 --> 00:14:41,529 So now I can act on larger numbers. 347 00:14:41,610 --> 00:14:45,049 So I really can look at hey, if I do this, this is the number of 348 00:14:45,049 --> 00:14:45,929 people that had this issue. 349 00:14:46,009 --> 00:14:47,370 If I do that, I will convert this number. 350 00:14:47,449 --> 00:14:50,329 So there's a direct correlation between data and decision. 351 00:14:50,569 --> 00:14:53,610 But the reality for us is that we're a technology platform 352 00:14:53,610 --> 00:14:53,850 first. 353 00:14:54,009 --> 00:14:56,809 And so this is a great question with agentic because our view is 354 00:14:56,889 --> 00:15:00,089 agentic should operate on good data to begin with. 355 00:15:00,329 --> 00:15:02,969 And so when we talk about thousands of patterns, see the 356 00:15:02,969 --> 00:15:06,009 view for us in agentic is that the agent should be pulling from 357 00:15:06,009 --> 00:15:09,850 all of these patterns, not creating them, not trying to 358 00:15:09,850 --> 00:15:12,730 organize them, because that's where the data accuracy becomes 359 00:15:12,730 --> 00:15:16,889 a problem, is AI is not a necessarily an accurate compute 360 00:15:16,889 --> 00:15:17,129 system. 361 00:15:17,209 --> 00:15:18,889 It's a it's an aggregation system. 362 00:15:19,049 --> 00:15:21,769 So the sorry for French, but shit in, shit out. 363 00:15:21,850 --> 00:15:23,929 If you have bad data, your agent's not gonna make it any 364 00:15:23,929 --> 00:15:24,250 better. 365 00:15:24,409 --> 00:15:27,610 It's gonna actually take the data that that it that it has 366 00:15:27,610 --> 00:15:28,969 access to and make a decision. 367 00:15:29,049 --> 00:15:30,409 And it could be totally wrong. 368 00:15:30,569 --> 00:15:34,009 So we start with compute the data, we put the data into our 369 00:15:34,009 --> 00:15:37,449 platform, and then agents or agentic actually access those 370 00:15:37,449 --> 00:15:38,009 patterns. 371 00:15:38,250 --> 00:15:41,049 Most companies, and this is what people need to understand, is 372 00:15:41,049 --> 00:15:44,009 you see all of these tech companies move to agentic. 373 00:15:44,329 --> 00:15:46,889 If if the data wasn't accurate and it wasn't, it wasn't 374 00:15:46,889 --> 00:15:49,689 specific, it wasn't directly correlated to something before, 375 00:15:49,929 --> 00:15:51,370 agents not going to solve that. 376 00:15:51,529 --> 00:15:54,329 And so everybody sort of hides, you know, I speak to a lot of 377 00:15:54,329 --> 00:15:58,009 investors, and they call it AI wash because all of these sort 378 00:15:58,009 --> 00:16:01,129 of modest technology companies, and I call them modest because 379 00:16:01,129 --> 00:16:03,449 they have very low tech, they have very low number of events, 380 00:16:03,529 --> 00:16:06,329 they're sort of general in what they're reporting, that then 381 00:16:06,329 --> 00:16:08,089 say, oh, agents are the answer. 382 00:16:08,250 --> 00:16:11,049 Now you'll be able to find that all the things you want to know 383 00:16:11,049 --> 00:16:13,209 through deploying an agent front end on this. 384 00:16:13,370 --> 00:16:16,409 But it's just front-ending the old decisions that you could 385 00:16:16,409 --> 00:16:17,129 have made before. 386 00:16:17,209 --> 00:16:20,089 It's not creating new things, it's not like it can organize, 387 00:16:20,250 --> 00:16:23,209 structure, and clean the data that then surfaces it to you in 388 00:16:23,209 --> 00:16:24,009 a better way. 389 00:16:24,250 --> 00:16:27,209 Whatever was collected, computed, and stored before is 390 00:16:27,209 --> 00:16:28,649 the limiting factor of an agent. 391 00:16:28,730 --> 00:16:31,289 And so the question that every consumer, every digital business 392 00:16:31,289 --> 00:16:33,289 needs to ask is what's your core IP? 393 00:16:33,370 --> 00:16:34,329 What does the data look like? 394 00:16:34,490 --> 00:16:37,129 Without an agent, could I have gotten that answer without an 395 00:16:37,129 --> 00:16:37,929 agent giving it to me? 396 00:16:38,089 --> 00:16:40,889 If the answer is no, and I look at your old dashboards and I 397 00:16:40,889 --> 00:16:44,169 look at your old capabilities and it wasn't there before, the 398 00:16:44,169 --> 00:16:45,449 agent's not going to invent it. 399 00:16:45,610 --> 00:16:48,889 It's not the end-all be-all for fixing bad technology and bad 400 00:16:48,889 --> 00:16:49,129 data. 401 00:16:49,289 --> 00:16:51,610 So that's why we consider ourselves a big data company 402 00:16:51,610 --> 00:16:54,409 that enables agents to be smarter on consumer behavior 403 00:16:54,409 --> 00:16:58,329 patterns, not be the end-all be-all of consumer behavior 404 00:16:58,329 --> 00:17:00,329 patterns, and it's it does everything for you. 405 00:17:00,490 --> 00:17:02,169 That's a that's a flawed premise. 406 00:17:02,250 --> 00:17:05,210 And it's unfortunately being propagated by tech companies who 407 00:17:05,370 --> 00:17:07,690 were trying to hide bad technology. 408 00:17:08,009 --> 00:17:08,809 SPEAKER_01: Oh, absolutely. 409 00:17:08,970 --> 00:17:12,490 And so, as a big data company that's clearly doing something 410 00:17:12,490 --> 00:17:16,250 new and important based on this premise of, you know, humans 411 00:17:16,250 --> 00:17:20,009 have our nuanced behaviors, and you just can't over-summarize 412 00:17:20,089 --> 00:17:22,250 just based on overly simplistic things. 413 00:17:22,410 --> 00:17:23,450 It's not going to work. 414 00:17:23,690 --> 00:17:27,690 In creating this kind of a product, I think it's you know, 415 00:17:27,769 --> 00:17:29,289 probably just very timely. 416 00:17:29,529 --> 00:17:35,210 Um, how big do you see the role of UX for you guys as the 417 00:17:35,210 --> 00:17:37,850 creators of the product and user experience? 418 00:17:38,570 --> 00:17:39,130 SPEAKER_00: Critical. 419 00:17:39,210 --> 00:17:40,250 I I think there's two things. 420 00:17:40,330 --> 00:17:42,009 One is personalization of the UX. 421 00:17:42,090 --> 00:17:43,850 I think, you know, again, we just talked about if everything 422 00:17:43,850 --> 00:17:46,330 is in a monolithic level and everybody else's and every of 423 00:17:46,330 --> 00:17:48,570 your behavior patterns are personal, then you have a you 424 00:17:48,570 --> 00:17:49,529 have a conflict. 425 00:17:49,690 --> 00:17:52,170 But I think you know, people are looking to agentic webs, to 426 00:17:52,170 --> 00:17:54,490 agentic applications that are personalizing the website, 427 00:17:54,650 --> 00:17:56,570 personalizing the UI to a person. 428 00:17:56,810 --> 00:17:59,529 Provide those behavior patterns to that agent and personalize 429 00:17:59,529 --> 00:18:00,009 the UI. 430 00:18:00,090 --> 00:18:01,290 That's a great outcome, by the way. 431 00:18:01,370 --> 00:18:02,170 That's a great outcome. 432 00:18:02,410 --> 00:18:05,370 The second wave is deploying agents in UI, right? 433 00:18:05,450 --> 00:18:08,650 So you have some level of of click-through data, you have 434 00:18:08,650 --> 00:18:11,529 some level of of collection, and then it flips to an agent to 435 00:18:11,529 --> 00:18:12,810 say, hey, I collected all this. 436 00:18:12,970 --> 00:18:14,250 I see that you did all these things. 437 00:18:14,330 --> 00:18:17,290 Now let me help you take this to purchase or let me help you add 438 00:18:17,290 --> 00:18:17,690 on to this. 439 00:18:17,769 --> 00:18:19,610 Let me answer some questions if you have questions. 440 00:18:19,850 --> 00:18:21,930 So in some cases, it would be a hybrid. 441 00:18:22,009 --> 00:18:25,290 And then long term, the UI becomes an agentic interface, 442 00:18:25,370 --> 00:18:25,529 right? 443 00:18:25,610 --> 00:18:29,370 And so this it's sort of a migratory approach to getting to 444 00:18:29,370 --> 00:18:32,810 personalization and high levels of consumer experience. 445 00:18:33,130 --> 00:18:35,130 SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and part of the reason I ask that is a lot 446 00:18:35,130 --> 00:18:39,210 of folks don't realize how much of just the experience the UX is 447 00:18:39,210 --> 00:18:42,570 embedded in everything, even the LLMs that we use every day, the 448 00:18:42,570 --> 00:18:45,450 fact that you can talk to it like a human and you don't have 449 00:18:45,450 --> 00:18:46,970 to learn any kind of syntax. 450 00:18:47,130 --> 00:18:50,410 And you know, let's say you're working on a document or a deck 451 00:18:50,490 --> 00:18:53,690 and it pops up on the side, and now you can read it and talk to 452 00:18:53,690 --> 00:18:56,970 your LLM at the same time, that's all a user experience. 453 00:18:57,050 --> 00:18:59,050 And that gap is closing rapidly. 454 00:18:59,370 --> 00:19:01,690 SPEAKER_00: And context is key there because we we we talk 455 00:19:01,690 --> 00:19:03,130 about context in two forms. 456 00:19:03,290 --> 00:19:05,930 In the example of you have click-through data that then 457 00:19:05,930 --> 00:19:09,529 flips to an agent, for example, we see in our customers, if you 458 00:19:09,529 --> 00:19:12,330 don't have the collection of the web and application behavior 459 00:19:12,330 --> 00:19:15,370 data that you then give to the agent as the person flips to the 460 00:19:15,370 --> 00:19:17,850 agent, the agent starts off with, Hi, how are you? 461 00:19:17,930 --> 00:19:18,570 What do you want? 462 00:19:18,730 --> 00:19:21,290 That that's a waste of time because the consumer just went 463 00:19:21,290 --> 00:19:24,090 through a ton of things that you should, they think you should 464 00:19:24,090 --> 00:19:26,970 already know, but the agent is a separate thing that then starts 465 00:19:26,970 --> 00:19:27,769 them cold. 466 00:19:28,009 --> 00:19:31,050 We take the context data from the previous before the 467 00:19:31,050 --> 00:19:31,930 conversation starts. 468 00:19:32,090 --> 00:19:33,050 We provide that to the agent. 469 00:19:33,130 --> 00:19:36,890 So when you hit the agent, the agent says, Ah, hi Thomas, I saw 470 00:19:36,890 --> 00:19:38,650 that you were looking for this, I saw that you went to the 471 00:19:38,650 --> 00:19:41,610 review page, I saw that you got to the purchase point, I saw you 472 00:19:41,610 --> 00:19:42,650 saw shipping and then stop. 473 00:19:42,810 --> 00:19:44,090 Is it a shipping cost issue? 474 00:19:44,330 --> 00:19:47,050 Now it's an agent that's providing benefit to the 475 00:19:47,050 --> 00:19:47,610 consumer. 476 00:19:47,769 --> 00:19:50,730 We see in our customers that if you don't provide that context, 477 00:19:50,810 --> 00:19:54,890 it's three minutes of wasted resetting of context, which 478 00:19:54,890 --> 00:19:56,810 means you're wasting consumers three. 479 00:19:56,890 --> 00:19:57,450 I mean, three minutes. 480 00:19:57,529 --> 00:20:00,810 If you and I sat quiet for three minutes, that's a long time. 481 00:20:01,450 --> 00:20:05,850 And every business that starts an agent with high and doesn't 482 00:20:05,850 --> 00:20:08,730 know what happened before the conversation started is already 483 00:20:08,730 --> 00:20:10,009 in the experience hole. 484 00:20:10,250 --> 00:20:12,650 Because now I'm frustrated because you don't know what I 485 00:20:12,650 --> 00:20:12,970 just did. 486 00:20:13,050 --> 00:20:15,930 I just spent this time, and I'm gonna spend three minutes 487 00:20:16,330 --> 00:20:17,610 re-explaining myself. 488 00:20:18,090 --> 00:20:18,890 Guess what happens? 489 00:20:19,050 --> 00:20:21,610 I'm either leaving then and we see a high abandonment rate 490 00:20:21,690 --> 00:20:24,410 right then, or I'm gonna do this because I need to get it done, 491 00:20:24,490 --> 00:20:26,650 but I'm never coming back because you don't have a good 492 00:20:26,650 --> 00:20:27,210 experience. 493 00:20:27,370 --> 00:20:30,570 So it wasn't that the agent wasn't accurate, wasn't that it 494 00:20:30,570 --> 00:20:33,529 didn't ask a question, it's that it didn't have the context to 495 00:20:33,529 --> 00:20:35,370 make my experience optimized. 496 00:20:35,450 --> 00:20:38,890 It didn't know enough for me to understand that you hear me, you 497 00:20:38,890 --> 00:20:40,570 see me, and you're here to help me. 498 00:20:40,730 --> 00:20:43,130 You're not just automating a process. 499 00:20:43,769 --> 00:20:44,490 SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah. 500 00:20:44,650 --> 00:20:48,410 And so, and returning to something you said earlier about 501 00:20:48,410 --> 00:20:51,450 being a big data company, I want to make sure that I kind of have 502 00:20:51,450 --> 00:20:54,490 the um the segmentation right on y'all. 503 00:20:54,650 --> 00:20:58,890 It you're not trying to be in the same space as sort of like a 504 00:20:58,890 --> 00:21:02,890 full story or pendo or the product data, or or or might 505 00:21:02,890 --> 00:21:05,769 that be kind of roadmap, but today you're solving a more 506 00:21:05,769 --> 00:21:07,210 surgically precise problem. 507 00:21:07,529 --> 00:21:09,450 SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we're picking up where they leave off, right? 508 00:21:09,769 --> 00:21:11,850 All of you know, you look at you look at all the traditional 509 00:21:11,850 --> 00:21:14,970 product analytics companies, they they all do sort of funnel 510 00:21:14,970 --> 00:21:17,690 creation, you know, predefined uh journeys, and then and then 511 00:21:17,690 --> 00:21:20,250 they try and collect, oh, you had some friction here, we think 512 00:21:20,250 --> 00:21:21,210 it probably affected this. 513 00:21:21,290 --> 00:21:24,810 So there's some high level of of impact within the product and 514 00:21:24,890 --> 00:21:26,810 heat maps and session replay. 515 00:21:26,890 --> 00:21:29,130 There's a ton of things that you can do with those tools. 516 00:21:29,290 --> 00:21:31,930 We sort of pick up where they left off in understanding how 517 00:21:31,930 --> 00:21:35,130 people want to buy, which is a larger, more richer data set. 518 00:21:35,370 --> 00:21:37,050 Now you could run them in tandem. 519 00:21:37,130 --> 00:21:39,690 So some some of our customers replace those product analytics 520 00:21:39,690 --> 00:21:42,090 tools because they sort of realize, well, shit, that's a 521 00:21:42,090 --> 00:21:45,370 very low, you know, sort of low, like I said in the start, it's 522 00:21:45,450 --> 00:21:48,570 it's high investment, low marginal gains, um, you know, 523 00:21:48,730 --> 00:21:51,210 versus man, let's invest in consumer behavior patterns 524 00:21:51,290 --> 00:21:53,930 because it exposes what we call precise decisions, right? 525 00:21:54,009 --> 00:21:56,330 I'm making decisions that I can actually move people through 526 00:21:56,330 --> 00:21:59,610 their behavior pattern, but it also sets the stage for agentic. 527 00:21:59,850 --> 00:22:03,529 So the difference between us and all product analytics is we have 528 00:22:03,529 --> 00:22:06,250 a we have a significant improvement in conversion 529 00:22:06,250 --> 00:22:08,170 because we have a direct connection to how people want to 530 00:22:08,170 --> 00:22:10,570 buy and you could solve how they want to buy and personalize 531 00:22:10,570 --> 00:22:13,210 their experience, but it is the foundation for agentic into the 532 00:22:13,210 --> 00:22:13,450 future. 533 00:22:13,610 --> 00:22:16,170 Funnels and agents will never cross, right? 534 00:22:16,250 --> 00:22:18,970 Because again, an agent is a conversation, it's not a 535 00:22:18,970 --> 00:22:20,890 prescriptive sequence of things. 536 00:22:21,050 --> 00:22:21,210 Right. 537 00:22:21,610 --> 00:22:23,850 I could ask a question, you could ask a question, we go two 538 00:22:23,850 --> 00:22:24,730 totally different ways. 539 00:22:24,970 --> 00:22:29,210 The agent has to be agile enough to respond to what we want and 540 00:22:29,210 --> 00:22:31,690 be able to move us through how we want to buy versus you know, 541 00:22:31,769 --> 00:22:32,170 sequence. 542 00:22:32,730 --> 00:22:35,050 The agent's like, well, I'm gonna do this and then this and 543 00:22:35,050 --> 00:22:36,009 then this and then this. 544 00:22:36,170 --> 00:22:36,490 Right. 545 00:22:36,650 --> 00:22:38,090 That doesn't work in agentics. 546 00:22:38,170 --> 00:22:40,810 So the patterns are are beneficial today and set the 547 00:22:40,810 --> 00:22:41,690 foundation for the future. 548 00:22:42,009 --> 00:22:44,570 SPEAKER_01: So you guys are going in to try to really do a 549 00:22:44,570 --> 00:22:48,009 good job at that piece first, and then whoever knows, you 550 00:22:48,009 --> 00:22:50,009 know, where you evolve from there, you know. 551 00:22:50,090 --> 00:22:52,970 And I really love products that really try to, you know, think 552 00:22:52,970 --> 00:22:56,490 of themselves as part of an ecosystem where you are one 553 00:22:56,490 --> 00:22:59,769 specific, you know, plant or animal in that ecosystem that 554 00:22:59,769 --> 00:23:00,810 does a really good job at that. 555 00:23:00,890 --> 00:23:04,090 And then you can just sort of link with the larger structure. 556 00:23:04,250 --> 00:23:06,810 SPEAKER_00: Um that's our hedgehog concept is simple. 557 00:23:06,890 --> 00:23:10,410 It's it's understanding consumer behavior patterns to personalize 558 00:23:10,410 --> 00:23:13,450 a consumer's experience to improve conversion, right? 559 00:23:13,610 --> 00:23:13,930 Yes. 560 00:23:14,170 --> 00:23:16,570 That's that is a that's a very specific methodology. 561 00:23:16,650 --> 00:23:19,450 We're very good at building consumer scale behavior patterns 562 00:23:19,450 --> 00:23:21,850 and reporting on those and trending on those in real time. 563 00:23:21,930 --> 00:23:24,410 And then again, providing that to an agent so that you can 564 00:23:24,410 --> 00:23:26,170 improve personalization to a what we call 565 00:23:26,170 --> 00:23:28,009 hyper-personalization, almost a personal. 566 00:23:28,890 --> 00:23:30,009 SPEAKER_01: How do people get started? 567 00:23:30,090 --> 00:23:33,529 This uh conviva.ai, C O N V I V A. 568 00:23:33,930 --> 00:23:36,330 Do they start by talking to you guys or downloading something? 569 00:23:36,570 --> 00:23:38,570 SPEAKER_00: No, they they they come to the website, they go to 570 00:23:38,570 --> 00:23:38,890 the website. 571 00:23:39,050 --> 00:23:40,330 You know, we we do free POCs. 572 00:23:40,410 --> 00:23:43,050 So if people want to because that's where data comes to life. 573 00:23:43,290 --> 00:23:45,529 So I'll say the difference between us and all product 574 00:23:45,529 --> 00:23:49,050 analytics companies, the the traditional product analytics is 575 00:23:49,130 --> 00:23:52,330 you know, once you see a funnel and product analytics, and then 576 00:23:52,330 --> 00:23:55,610 you see consume the behavior patterns, you and you literally 577 00:23:55,610 --> 00:23:59,450 see all of how your consumers want to buy, it's an it's an 578 00:23:59,450 --> 00:24:00,330 unbelievable experience. 579 00:24:00,490 --> 00:24:04,330 So we do a free POC to actually show digital businesses here's 580 00:24:04,330 --> 00:24:05,529 your consumer behavior patterns. 581 00:24:05,610 --> 00:24:10,090 And by the way, the average behavior pattern of a larger 582 00:24:10,090 --> 00:24:12,490 e-commerce company is over 50 steps. 583 00:24:13,050 --> 00:24:14,170 Put that in perspective. 584 00:24:14,410 --> 00:24:17,370 People are building six and seven-step funnels, but the 585 00:24:17,370 --> 00:24:20,410 average consumer behavior pattern is over 50. 586 00:24:20,570 --> 00:24:22,970 We see some consumer behavior patterns in our large e-com 587 00:24:23,130 --> 00:24:25,529 companies of 150 steps, right? 588 00:24:25,769 --> 00:24:29,690 This behavior patterns are not simple sequential steps. 589 00:24:29,850 --> 00:24:30,730 We want it to be, right? 590 00:24:30,810 --> 00:24:32,650 Because that's how we organize our thoughts, and that's how 591 00:24:32,810 --> 00:24:34,650 product organizes their thoughts. 592 00:24:34,890 --> 00:24:38,170 But if you really think how we buy, we'll have you know 593 00:24:38,410 --> 00:24:41,370 multiple steps we go through to buy anything, and that all gets 594 00:24:41,370 --> 00:24:42,090 lost in a funnel. 595 00:24:42,170 --> 00:24:44,890 So when we talk about bringing the data to life, really 596 00:24:44,890 --> 00:24:48,570 exposing how people want to buy your product is an incredibly 597 00:24:48,570 --> 00:24:49,529 enlightening step. 598 00:24:49,610 --> 00:24:52,170 And we love it because the light bulb comes on, and then all of a 599 00:24:52,170 --> 00:24:54,009 sudden they're like, wow, if I did this, I'd move that. 600 00:24:54,090 --> 00:24:56,970 If I made a marketing decision here, I'd I'd convert much, much 601 00:24:56,970 --> 00:24:57,529 faster. 602 00:24:57,690 --> 00:25:00,810 So there's a ton of things that unlock and become immediately 603 00:25:00,810 --> 00:25:03,450 visible when you really see how people want to buy your product. 604 00:25:03,610 --> 00:25:06,810 Not what they buy, but how they buy. 605 00:25:07,769 --> 00:25:10,410 SPEAKER_01: Wow, super, super interesting stuff and exciting 606 00:25:10,410 --> 00:25:10,650 things. 607 00:25:10,730 --> 00:25:14,890 And you guys are illuminating the nuances and details of that 608 00:25:14,890 --> 00:25:15,290 world. 609 00:25:15,450 --> 00:25:16,490 Um, very exciting. 610 00:25:16,650 --> 00:25:17,930 Everyone, please check it out. 611 00:25:18,009 --> 00:25:19,610 Uh conviva.ai. 612 00:25:20,330 --> 00:25:21,769 Um, anything else, Keith? 613 00:25:22,009 --> 00:25:23,210 SPEAKER_00: No, I appreciate your time. 614 00:25:23,290 --> 00:25:24,170 I I love this topic. 615 00:25:24,650 --> 00:25:27,370 We're on the forefront of an amazing revolution with AgenTic, 616 00:25:27,450 --> 00:25:28,570 and we're just getting started. 617 00:25:28,650 --> 00:25:30,250 So it's a fun time to be in product. 618 00:25:30,330 --> 00:25:31,690 It's a fun time to be in tech. 619 00:25:31,850 --> 00:25:32,650 SPEAKER_01: Oh, heck yeah. 620 00:25:32,730 --> 00:25:33,529 Everybody check it out. 621 00:25:33,690 --> 00:25:34,970 Keith, thanks for being with us today. 622 00:25:35,610 --> 00:25:36,250 Thanks for having me.

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