Holdout Design for Product Retention
Six modules on building holdouts that survive seasonality, Thai holiday calendars, and a sceptical VP. Informational fee: THB 18,400.
Bangkok studio · since the 2019 table
Logicfeaturegrid teaches Retention Experiment Analytics as a craft: how to build holdouts, read survival curves without overclaiming, and write a memo a product lead will actually sign.
Open the flagship benchWho sits at the table
We do not teach SQL from zero. We teach the experimental layer that sits on top of a working warehouse: cohort construction, holdout hygiene, and the politics of shipping a kill decision.
Open benches
Six modules on building holdouts that survive seasonality, Thai holiday calendars, and a sceptical VP. Informational fee: THB 18,400.
Name the events that actually define return. Built for teams whose tracking plan still treats “open app” as a north star.
Push, in-app, and email tests that respect a holdout instead of drowning it. Includes a module on quiet hours in Thailand.
“The holdout module stopped our team from celebrating a Day-7 spike that vanished once Songkran traffic left the sample. I still wish the SQL appendix went deeper — we had to pair a warehouse engineer for week three.”
“Short, slightly dry, and the only course that made me rewrite our experiment brief template. Rated 4/5 on our internal wiki, mainly because the live table runs late.”
How the room works
Each live seat arrives with a real question from their product. We do not invent toy apps. You leave with a signed decision rule: what would make you ship, wait, or stop.
Homework is reviewed within seventy-two hours by the same instructor who sat with you, not a rotating assistant pool. That is why the table stays at eleven.
Read how the studio teachesWhat you take home
Who is in, who is out, what leakage looks like on your surface, and how Thai public holidays distort a four-week window.
How to describe a curve without claiming causality you did not earn. Includes language we have seen survive legal and brand review.
One page: hypothesis, unit of randomisation, primary metric, guardrails, and the pre-registered stop rule. No slide theatre.
From the journal
Why Kaplan–Meier on product return is useful, and where it quietly lies when users churn by uninstall rather than silence.
A week is not a natural unit when payday, tourism, and monsoon delivery delays all move the same metric.