About traction-review
traction-review is a marketing skill for evaluating completed traction tests and choosing a next step. It weighs results against thresholds and customer quality, including strong signals that headline metrics may miss.
Key features
- 01Review goals and growth stage
- 02Compare results with thresholds
- 03Assess customer quality
- 04Identify engagement bright spots
- 05Recommend a channel or market decision
Use cases
- 01Deciding whether to expand a tested channel
- 02Finding promising customer segments in test results
- 03Reconsidering positioning after weak traction
Install
Copy the command and run it in a terminal.
$
npx skills add https:/ / github.com/ lvtd-llc/ skills --skill traction-reviewAfter installing, type/traction-reviewin Claude Code to confirm it loaded.
Details
From the project READMETraction Review
Use this skill after traction tests have run. The goal is to turn results into a decision: focus, iterate, repeat Bullseye, or reconsider the product or market.
Source Traceability
Primary source: Traction, chapters 2-5. Authoring notes: converted lines 394-902.
Review Workflow
- Restate the traction goal and current growth stage.
- Compare results against the prewritten success and kill thresholds.
- Evaluate customer quality, not only volume.
- Decide whether the result moved the needle for the current stage.
- Identify bright spots: small customer groups with unusually strong engagement, conversion, retention, or willingness to pay.
- Recommend one decision:
- double down on the core channel,
- run inner-ring optimization,
- run another middle-ring test,
- repeat Bullseye with new information,
- revisit product, market, or positioning.
Output Format
# Traction Review
## Goal And Context
- Goal:
- Stage:
- Test period:
## Results
| Channel/Strategy | Cost | Reach | Conversion | Customer Fit | Notes |
|------------------|------|-------|------------|--------------|-------|
## Decision
[Double down, iterate, repeat Bullseye, or revisit product/market.]
## Reasoning
- What moved the needle:
- What failed:
- Bright spots:
- Risks:
## Next Actions
1. [Action]
2. [Action]
3. [Action]
Quality Bar
- Do not declare success from vanity metrics.
- Do not pivot before checking bright spots and engagement evidence.
- Do not keep secondary channels alive just because they somewhat worked.
- Reassess the Critical Path after meaningful evidence.
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