Audiences AI

Work & Field Notes

Judgment, shown with its provenance.

Everything here is labelled by what it is: the operating record before the firm, and reconstructed field notes from live decision problems.

The record before the firm

Selected engagements from twelve years leading data science and analytics inside large retail and banking organizations, before Audiences AI existed.

  • Lifetime value
    $55M+ · 3% churn

    The LTV model that stopped advising and started deciding

    A customer lifetime value model existed for years as a score in a report. Rewiring it to own segmentation and treatment decisions, with humans on the exceptions, moved churn by three percent and $55M+ in incremental revenue within two quarters.

  • Signal architecture
    $40M+ · +1.6% conversion

    The personalization gap that had nothing to do with the model

    Conversion was flat while the models kept improving. The rebuild went into the signal layer underneath: what the systems could actually see about a customer at decision time. Conversion moved 1.6 points, worth $40M+ incremental.

  • Experimentation
    $120M

    Testing aligned to the decision calendar

    An experimentation program was re-anchored on the decisions leadership actually had to make each season, across ten-plus cross-functional teams. The winning strategies it surfaced were worth $120M, and the roadmap it produced ran three years.

  • AI governance
    18 decisions automated

    An AI council that shipped instead of convening

    A governance body was rebuilt around a decision portfolio: which calls the models owned, which stayed human, and what evidence moved one to the other. Eighteen AI decisions were automated under five frameworks on a three-year roadmap.

Field notes

Reconstructed and composite notes showing how a business decision gets diagnosed and structured. Identifying details are altered; the method is the point.

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