You Ask, I Answer: AI For Churn Analysis?

In today's episode, Noah asks, can we use cohort churn analysis to determine if AI generated leads are actually worth acquiring. I'm looking at my LinkedIn ads and seeing what's bringing in leads, and the leads there are from ads from LinkedIn ads are churning faster than uh for paid ads than organic. How do I diagnose this with AI? Okay, so anytime you're talking about churn analysis and stuff like that, you are talking, yes, you are talking about AI technically, but you're not talking about generative AI. You are talking about classical AI.

We're talking stuff like regression analysis and things. And there are some really great ways that you can use AI to do that analysis, but you have to do it in a way that um works with tools like Clawed Code or whatever to build the software. So you're effectively saying I want to custom generate some software that will help me analyze this data. I do this all the time. Uh in fact, I was doing something very similar for LinkedIn organic content to see if AI generated content performed better or worse than stuff that I wrote myself.

So what you would do is you would set up set up your environment in Claude Code or OpenAI Codex or Google Anti-Gravity or Microsoft GitHub Copilot, whatever your your coding tool of choice is. And if you're paying for the a chat interface like chat GPT, then you know figure out what the equivalent coding tool is included with your plan because pretty much every paid plan gives you access to the coding tool in addition to the chat across the board. So figure out which which tool you already get access to, download it and install it. Next is you have to figure out what languages your machine can run, like Python, Rust, Go, R, etc. And this is something that yet that coding tool can help you do, right?

That coding tool could you can ask it, so what languages can my computer support? Ask it, have it do its analysis, and then tell you like your computer can run Python, yes or no, or your computer can run this or that. And maybe your computer can't run any of it, in which case you might want to go to a tool like uh Google Colab, which can run like Python and data science stuff in the cloud. Uh, and that is uh free at low levels of usage. Once you've done that, you need to get all of your data together.

And this is again where AI can be very, very helpful because you can say, here's all the data I collected. I've got spreadsheets for this, I've got exports for my CRM software, I've got exports for my social media monitoring software. You've gone through and you've grabbed all the data, even if you haven't put it in uh a great format, you can still ask the tool, here's what I've got. Help me get this organized. That's step three.

Once the data is organized, ask it to build some kind of database so that it doesn't have to keep rereading the data all the time. Almost every tool is capable of doing this in some fashion. Umce you have that data in a durable format in a database of some kind, then you can say, okay, here's what I'm trying to do. I want to know which leads are qualified. And as long as that it is marked in the database, like this was a qualified lead, this was an unqualified lead, this was a good lead, a bad lead.

There's some there's some measure in the data that says this here is good, that there is not good. Then you say to the tool, using all of your knowledge of statistics and regression analysis and multivariate analysis and correlation and causal inference and granger causality and any statistical term that you know, and if you don't know, again, ask AI. Using all that, determine what contributes to qualified leads or whatever the thing is that you're you're trying to measure. Build the code, and of course, make sure that you say, Ask me questions until you have enough information to complete the task so that it can ask you more about like who are you, what kind of business do you have? Are you are you a CRM company?

Are you this kind of company? That the tool will have to tell you that. Um, but you can ask it that and say, what is what is the best fit for this situation? When you do that, you are gonna come up with some really terrific results, right? Uh it will tell you and it will run the code to do the analysis.

Because this is this kind of work is not work that generative AI can do. It is not suited for it. Generative AI is token prediction. That is what it does. It predicts the next thing in the sequence.

It does not do math by itself, but it can write the code to do the math. So, what we are asking it to do is build the code to do the math. Once you have that answer, then and you can ask it like what's what's your margin of error? What's your this, that, the other thing? Once you've got all that done, then you can have it present a nice report and you can make that decision, like, yes, this is worth continuing to invest in, or no, this this did not work out at all.

We're gonna discontinue doing this. That's how you do it. That's how I do it. It is, it is incredibly effective. I personally prefer Python for this because A, my machine can run it, and B, Python is well suited as a language to being able to do this.

But you don't have to. You can use whatever tool makes the most sense for you. But do that, and you're going to come up with some really, really nice answers. So try it out, see how it works, and I'll talk to you on the next one. If you enjoyed this video, please hit the like button.

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