Win-back: relevance or silence, never a blast. After day 60 of silence nobody owns the dormant customer and almost nothing reaches them; this journey builds the missing win-back: entry by hand-off at day 60, the churn band setting who and how hard, every message anchored to a trip the customer actually takes, two touches then a genuine end, and a launch gate that has shrunk from a whole model to one sync payload extension.
Every segment, outcome and channel state, with the change and the evidence at each moment.
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| The moment | What the customer gets instead | Who builds it |
|---|---|---|
| The two-touch episode | After day 60 of silence nobody owns the dormant customer and almost nothing reaches them. The first knock is banded, route-anchored and deep-linked: their usual route, a real from-price this week, only pay if you win. Recognition for power users (what they have saved), the mechanic re-explained for one-time customers. | Analytics ships the band into the sync and sizes the waves; Design writes the registers; the Braze developer builds the canvas. |
| The welcome-back landing | A returner stops landing on the same generic cold start as everyone else: the card recognises the absence, restates the account is as they left it, and lands them on their route at a real price. The failing magic-link door is flagged as a product fix beside it. | Sheran rules the owner; the Braze developer ships the card; Product fixes the expiring magic-link door. |
| The long tail: a real end, one annual beat | One last try that says so: the best welcome-back deal, one time only, and after this we stop asking. Then the end is real: hard suppression, and the anniversary as the one remaining beat. | Sheran and Finance rule the offer; Analytics sizes per band; the Braze developer wires the end-state suppression. |
| The live incentive card's disposition | The card’s job (an incentive at re-entry) overlaps the welcome-back landing and the final attempt; the record needs one owner and one offer story before the new build ships beside it. | Sheran rules; the Braze developer executes in the go-live change. |
Phase is derived from each row, never authored: engineering work that is a new event, feed or surface is Phase 2; new wording, a deletion, an Analytics trait or Braze wiring is Phase 1. The deck walks Phase 1 in situ.
| The treatment | Who gets it | What stops it: caps and suppression | When nothing is sent |
|---|---|---|---|
| The route-anchored win-back | Day-60 hand-offs from the first-slip journey, and the one-time metered backfill, band-gated | Two touches per episode, hard. Quiet hours apply. Any session in the last 30 days (a returner needs recognition, not a win-back); an active trip; the first-slip journey’s open episode (one lapse owner). A win-back never carries a data-capture ask. | The low band gets nothing: the suppression is the treatment, and blanket contact of likely returners measured minus 11.8% in a holdout. |
| The comparison anchor | Episode holders whose first knock went unseen for five to seven days | Two touches per episode, hard. As row 1. An app re-open pauses outbound and hands the session to the welcome-back card. | Seen and not acted means silence: the episode closes dormant after this knock either way. |
| The welcome-back landing | Anyone opening the app after 61 or more days away | Once per return. Never beside a win-back send in the same session: the card supersedes it. | Nothing else fires at re-entry: outbound pauses the moment they open the app. |
| The final attempt, then a genuine end | Episodes closed dormant, 90-plus days with no engagement, band-gated | Once, ever, per customer. The full post-end suppression list ships with the send, as a deliverable of equal rank. | After it: hard suppression. Opt-out semantics without asking the customer to do the work. |
| The anniversary message | The whole consented pool, once a year, on the anniversary of their purchase | Once a year, exactly. Suppressed inside any open episode, active trip, or the post-final-attempt end state. | Nothing else: the beat is the promise. |
| The live incentive card | Inactive push-only customers from 365 days: the card’s current audience | Today: the card’s own. None today. | Ruled at Gate 1 or folded by the build: never left running unowned beside the new episode. |
| Decision | Owner | Where it stands |
|---|---|---|
| The tier pools the 2 Sep Analytics pull sizes sit on a different definition to the held figures | Sheran, with Ivi | Open |
| How the journey is measured: the holdout, the baseline and the read | Michael, with CACI | On the Test and Learn record |