Agent 03 · Monthly · Conversion

The CRO Experiment Planner

I have been doing conversion optimization since before it had a conference track — heatmaps at PubCon, 300% lead-gen lifts through iterative testing at Conversion Conference. The discipline never changed: no redesigns on opinion, no tests without evidence. This agent compresses the planning weeks into a morning.

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Paul Ryazanov presenting on stage for Google

Paul Ryazanov presenting on stage for Google

What it takes off your team’s plate

Where CRO programs stall — and what this agent absorbs:

The debate weeksTeams arguing about what to test while the constraint sits unexamined in the data.
Evidence assemblyCross-referencing heuristics against rage clicks, quick-backs, and recordings for every candidate idea.
Under-powered testsLaunching experiments the traffic can never validate — the silent killer of CRO programs.
Brief-writingTurning a winning idea into something a developer can build without three clarifying meetings.

How a run works

From constraint to build-ready briefs:

  1. Locate the constraint. From the revenue aggregator’s decomposition: which template, which device, which funnel step. ‘Mobile product page → cart add-rate’ is a constraint; ‘improve conversions’ is rejected as too vague to test.
  2. Gather evidence per candidate. The constrained template gets walked against the heuristics that decide most e-commerce cases — price and delivery visibility, trust at the money moment, form friction, express wallets — and every candidate needs the Clarity behavioral signature confirming users actually hit it.
  3. Write real hypotheses. ‘Because we observed [evidence], we believe [change] will [effect]. We will know if [metric] moves by [minimum detectable effect].’ Every time.
  4. Score with honest ICE. Impact sized against revenue at stake, confidence graded by evidence strength, ease in real dev-hours respecting the platform — a Shopify section change is not a Magento checkout modification.
  5. Run the power math. Baseline CVR, minimum detectable effect, weekly eligible sessions → weeks to significance, shown on every candidate. Under-powered ideas get said out loud, not queued.
  6. Ship 3–5 build-ready briefs. Control versus variant element by element, targeting, primary metric plus guardrails, platform implementation notes, QA steps. If a developer needs a meeting, the brief is not done.

✋ The approval gate

Experimentation with adult supervision:

  • No test proposed without behavioral evidence — heuristic-only ideas are labeled OPINION
  • Sample-size math is mandatory and shown; no ‘we’ll see how it goes’
  • One primary metric per test, declared before launch; guardrails watched, not harvested
  • The optimizer approves the backlog order and owns the client conversation

What you get

CRO-BACKLOG-[client]-[month].md — every candidate scored, including the rejected ones
3–5 build-ready test briefs a developer can start from cold
A ‘do not test, just fix’ list of broken things routed straight to dev
Weeks-to-significance stated on every experiment
Talking ecommerce with Sarah Wilde, CEO of TheTightSpot.com
Talking ecommerce with Sarah Wilde, CEO of TheTightSpot.com

The Comerix conversion framework I use came out of two decades of this work — usability workshops for teams like ANS in Manchester, A/B methodology on stages from Las Vegas to Kiev. The agent does not replace that judgment; it makes sure judgment is what my team spends its time on.

I have written about this from the trenches:

Run it yourself, or bring my team in

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