Our method
How a Desktopnest engagement moves from intake to a brief your product and growth leads can defend.
Creator economy apps drown in charts. Our method keeps the work human-sized: fewer artefacts, clearer ownership, and a refusal to invent certainty the exports cannot support.
- Intake, not discovery theatre. We ask for the decisions already stuck, the event glossary as it exists (even if messy), and sample exports. If the glossary cannot separate creators from audiences, we say so before you pay for a deep reading.
- Deep reading with primary sources. Consultants annotate activation, return, and revenue events against your naming. We keep a running list of assumptions. No black-box scores.
- Decision brief. Every audit or review ends with three prioritised decisions — not a fifty-slide appendix. Assumptions and open questions sit in the same document.
- Walkthrough in one room. Product, growth, and (when relevant) partnerships hear the same reading. We leave time for disagreement; unresolved points become follow-up engagements, not buried footnotes.
What we need from you
- A named product owner who can answer event questions within two working days
- Exports that cover the period under discussion
- Honesty about known instrumentation bugs — we would rather hear them in intake
What happens after
Engagements close when you accept the brief. Many clients later book a Retention Reading or Cohort Briefing once the first vocabulary is shared. Nothing renews automatically.