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The Momentum Engine

The System for Sustainable Product-Led Growth

The Momentum Engine - Abstract visualization of speed, data, and effortless forward motion

If you have a self-serve or product-led SaaS, take a look at your user onboarding flow. Is it a clean, straight highway leading your users directly to value?

Or is it a swamp?

For most companies, it's a swamp. It's a cluttered, confusing mess of popups, tooltips, and form fields, built by a committee of anxious stakeholders. The result is a journey that serves the company's anxieties, not the user's goals. This kills momentum before it can even start.

The fastest-growing companies operate on a different principle. They don't just reduce friction; they obsessively build momentum.

The Momentum Engine is built on three sequential pillars that will transform your user journey from a swamp into a repeatable growth machine.

Pillar 1: FOCUS

Clear the Path by using strategic subtraction to serve your primary customer perfectly.

Pillar 2: GUIDE

Build the Momentum by creating a guided path that increases velocity toward their goal.

Pillar 3: ACCELERATE

Convert the Momentum by turning energy and trust into tangible business results.

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Pillar 1: FOCUS

Clear the Path

This first pillar is about strategic subtraction. Before we can build a high-performance engine, we must strip away every component that isn't essential for speed. The goal is to go from a flow that serves everyone poorly to one that serves your primary customer perfectly.

The Swamp vs. The Highway
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Pillar 2: GUIDE

Build the Momentum

Now that we've cleared the path, we can rebuild the journey. This isn't about eliminating all friction. It's about building a guided path that uses each interaction to increase the user's velocity toward their goal.

Helpful Friction diagram
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Pillar 3: ACCELERATE

Convert the Momentum

This is the final pillar, where we convert the energy and trust we've built into tangible business results. If a user arrives here with high momentum, converting them isn't a battle. It's a natural conclusion.

Visualization of business results and growth acceleration

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