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Spend the incentive where it earns a margin, and nowhere else

A retention campaign has a budget and a list. Everyone on the list would get the same discount, including the customers who were staying anyway.

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Seen by the customer · SMS, Kiswahili

From the record, not a run: what would reach them, on SMS, App, USSD, in Kiswahili, English.

The case

Annotated from the record

What happened

A retention campaign has a budget, a list of customers and a discount everyone on the list would receive.

A retention campaign has a budget and a list. Everyone on the list would get the same discount, including the customers who were staying anyway.

What it reads

  • Customer, product and campaign profitability
  • Incentive cost and the margin floor
  • Budget position for the period
  • Consent and the contact cap

Checks before anything is sent

Margin floor, incentive budget, price and catalogue, contact cap and consent checks pass.

Every option considered, including doing nothing

  1. The incentive, where the customer's margin clears the floor after itConsidered
  2. A smaller incentive or a non-monetary alternativeConsidered
  3. Hold the spend and route the budget question to financeConsidered
  4. No incentive, where the customer would have stayedConsidered

No action is a valid outcome, and it is recorded with its reason. Nothing is computed on this page: the options are the record's own, and no run has decided anything.

Evidence record

Preview
Reference
Issued when a run is saved. An evaluation that was never saved has none.
Decision
One of the options, including no action, with the reason.
Checks
Margin floor, incentive budget, price and catalogue, contact cap and consent checks pass.
Evidence kept
  • Customer profitability
  • incentive cost
  • budget position
  • ranking reasons
  • control assignment
  • spend record
  • outcome ledger
The measures
Incremental margin against a held-out group, net of the incentives paid.
Connection
Stated on every record. In the demonstration no operator system is connected, and each record carries that state.

The shape of the record, with no values. A reference appears only after a run is saved.

The improvement, and how it is measured

Hypothesis

An incentive paid where it changed a decision earns its margin; one paid where nothing would have changed is the budget's leak.

Desired result: Incremental revenue or retention; lower contact waste; improved conversion with margin guardrails

Modelled not observed

No figure is modelled for this journey. The mechanism that could produce the result is stated instead.

Ingest → qualify → score → apply limits/consent → assign control → execute approved action → capture delivery and business outcome → monitor/retrain

Observed

Nothing yet. Measurement begins in a pilot’s validate stage, on your systems, against a comparison agreed first.

Randomised holdout where feasible; intent-to-treat primary view; pre-declared denominator; guardrails for complaints, margin and opt-out

Measured on: Eligible population; treatment rate; conversion; incremental revenue; ARPU; churn; contact rate; margin; opt-out; decision latency

Assumptions, costs and the record’s five answers
  1. 01
    Desired result

    The result wanted.

    Incremental revenue or retention; lower contact waste; improved conversion with margin guardrails

  2. 02
    Mechanism

    The mechanism that could produce it.

    Ingest → qualify → score → apply limits/consent → assign control → execute approved action → capture delivery and business outcome → monitor/retrain

  3. 03
    Evidence required

    The records kept to show it.

    Decision log; eligibility snapshot; price/order response; delivery receipt; control assignment; revenue/outcome ledger

  4. 04
    Costs and risks

    The cost, and the ways it can go wrong.

    Costs: Setup fee + annual product subscription; optional managed execution fee; optional verified-outcome fee with agreed baseline

    If it fails: Fail closed on eligibility/consent/price; queue retryable events; do not duplicate orders; route exception to campaign operations

  5. 05
    Measurement approach

    The measure that shows it helped.

    Randomised holdout where feasible; intent-to-treat primary view; pre-declared denominator; guardrails for complaints, margin and opt-out

    Measured on: Eligible population; treatment rate; conversion; incremental revenue; ARPU; churn; contact rate; margin; opt-out; decision latency

Nothing has been observed for this product. Every line above is the record's own design intent; measurement begins in a pilot's validate stage, on your systems, with the comparison agreed first.

The business side

The change
Incremental margin against a held-out group, net of the incentives paid.
Running cost
Setup fee + annual product subscription; optional managed execution fee; optional verified-outcome fee with agreed baseline
What evidence supports it
Customer profitability, incentive cost, budget position, ranking reasons, control assignment, spend record and outcome ledger.

The journey in detail

Step by step, from both sides
StepWhat the customer experiencesWhat the operator does
The momentThe moment that started it.A retention campaign has a budget, a list of customers and a discount everyone on the list would receive.Reads customer, product and campaign profitability, incentive cost and the margin floor, budget position for the period, consent and the contact cap.
The decisionThe decision to be made.Nothing reaches the customer yet.Ranks an incentive, a smaller one, a non-monetary alternative or nothing for each customer against their profitability and the margin floor.
The safeguardsThe conditions that stop it.Still nothing. No action is sent until every check has passed.Margin floor, incentive budget, price and catalogue, contact cap and consent checks pass.
The actionThe action that reaches the customer.Spend the incentive only where the margin clears, hold the rest, and route the budget question to finance with the evidence. Reaches them on SMS, App, USSD, in Kiswahili, English.Recommends. The system that holds the right confirms, charges or provisions.
When it goes wrongRefusal, failure and recovery.The margin floor is set on the wrong pack and every incentive on the list clears it, so the campaign spends its budget on customers it did not need to keep.The control group shows no lift, the spend is stopped at the next review, and the margin floor is re-set with the evidence before another period is paid.
The resultThe change it made.What changed for them is what is counted; nothing else is claimed.Incremental margin against a held-out group, net of the incentives paid.
The proofThe proof anyone can check.Can be answered for, later, from the record.Customer profitability, incentive cost, budget position, ranking reasons, control assignment, spend record and outcome ledger.

Operator systems remain authoritative. HeuriTel reads these to propose an action; it does not decide on their behalf.

Refusal, failure and recovery

What goes wrong

The margin floor is set on the wrong pack and every incentive on the list clears it, so the campaign spends its budget on customers it did not need to keep.

What happens then

The control group shows no lift, the spend is stopped at the next review, and the margin floor is re-set with the evidence before another period is paid.

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