ARTIFACT · ATTENTION & HABIT
Customer Retention Levers
Customers stay when the product becomes valuable, embedded, habitual, and costly to replace.
HUMAN VIEW
Genes:
- Value First: Retention starts when the customer gets more value than the price feels like. Value must be obvious before cost becomes the comparison.
- Onboarding Value: The first-use experience should deliver the core product promise, because early setup is part of retention, not just activation.
- Habit Triggers: Retention strengthens when the product is tied to recurring moments that users naturally repeat.
- Switching Cost: Customers remain when leaving would mean losing something they cannot easily replace or replicate elsewhere.
Relationships:
- Value First proves value Onboarding Value
- Onboarding Value creates use loop Habit Triggers
- Habit Triggers deepens lock-in Switching Cost
- Value First justifies staying Switching Cost
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RELATIONS
- SHARES MECHANISM The Focus LoopBoth rely on making replacement costly through embedded routines and reduced interruption, so value is protected by friction against switching away.
- SHARES MECHANISM Compounding HabitsBoth depend on repeated exposure turning a small action into something durable, because repetition plus supportive context increases stickiness over time.
- SHARES MECHANISM Feedback Loops in TeamsBoth improve by shortening the loop between action and visible outcome, since quick reinforcement makes the next behavior more likely to persist.
- SHARES CONSTRAINT Symbiosis LadderIn both artifacts, dependency becomes stable only when the other side supplies a capability or value that is hard to replace, so the relationship persists through switching costs and missing capacity.
- SHARES MECHANISM Trust as InfrastructureBoth reduce the friction of repeated exchange by making relationships dependable enough that people keep using them.
- EXTENDS Network Effects SequenceBoth explain durable adoption through increasing value over time, but the retention artifact broadens network compounding into product value, habit, and switching cost.
- EXTENDS Protected Habit LoopThe habit loop’s protected repetition and rapid recovery are the same mechanism that makes a product become habitual and costly to abandon.