Inglesbatch · Autumn studio · App Analytics
We teach product people to name events with care, to sit with a retention curve until it stops flattering them, and to leave vanity dashboards in the corridor.
Enter the programmesMost companies collect more than they can interpret. The Instance Kernelhub studio exists for the narrower work: agreeing what an event means, deciding which users belong in a cohort, and knowing when a number should be left unpublished.
We do not sell a platform. We teach the judgement that sits above one. Practitioners arrive with Mixpanel, Amplitude, or a warehouse of their own; they leave with a taxonomy they can defend in a product review and a habit of asking what a metric conceals.
The house is small on purpose. Seminars are held for groups that can still argue around a table. If you want a thousand-person webinar, this is the wrong address.
Flagship programme
Six weeks. One product. A retention model you can take into a steering meeting without apology.
The studio’s principal course walks a live (or recently shipped) product from event inventory through cohort definition, return curves, and the uncomfortable conversation about what “active” has been allowed to mean.
Practitioners taught across eleven United Kingdom product teams since the studio opened its ledger.
Length of the autumn Retention Architecture studio — long enough to argue, short enough to ship a working model.
Live product dashboards taken apart, line by line, in the last completed cohort.
Voices from the table
“The Event Taxonomy Studio forced us to retire seventeen events that nobody could define. Painful in week two. Quietly useful ever since.”
“I still think the homework load in Retention Architecture is heavy for anyone who also runs a squad. That said, the cohort worksheet is the only artefact my finance partner has ever asked to keep.”
Rated the Signal Chamber clinic after a messy migration. “Finally a room that would let us admit the funnel was a collage.”
From the journal
Taxonomy
A short anatomy of the moment a tracking plan becomes folklore.
Retention
Where smoothing, truncation, and hope tend to hide.
An invitation, not a funnel
We answer within two working days. The programmes page lists what is open; the Signal Chamber is for teams who already know the wound and want a structured diagnosis.