VIP support delay where retention beats a purchase push
A support-heavy journey shows why the best action can be service recovery before sales pressure.
A VIP customer views repair parts, opens support tickets, and sees a fulfilment delay. The commercial question is whether to push purchase, ask for registration, route to page C, or invite another email.
Runtime Query
The scenario is run as a query against comparable relationship sets.
A VIP customer views the luggage repair page, opens support tickets, and sees a fulfilment delay. Should we push purchase, account registration, page C, or another email?
Run 2026-06-17-base-run / ecommerce-d2c/query-results/cart-support-delay.json
retained_after_support
Primary outcome
Highest-ranked outcome from the runtime query result.
0.521
Best score
Runtime score for the primary action option.
4
Options
Primary plus alternative action options returned by the runtime.
Data Examples
- Repair-page view and luggage-part intent
- Support ticket about fulfilment delay
- Email-again signal with cancellation risk
- Comparable retained-after-support and converted-purchase paths
Event Path
- 01page_view: repair-parts
- 02support_ticket_opened
- 03email_received: cancel-risk
- 04support_resolution_sent
- 05purchase_completed in retained comparable path
Scout Output
- Runtime generated Scout-shaped data items for the domain.
- Runtime generated Scout relationships and ordered attribution paths.
- Domain manifest cross-checks the journey, event, and relationship-set counts.
Fortress Output
- Runtime generated comparable relationship sets.
- Runtime returned ranked action options with scores, confidence labels, outcomes, and supporting relationship-set IDs.
- Runtime preserved synthetic-only and customer-data false caveats.
Ranked Outcomes
Fortress returns a primary recommendation and the credible alternatives.
Primary Recommendation
Reply with support resolution first, then send the product link; pushing checkout first reduced conversion in comparable paths.
Outcomeretained_after_support
ConfidenceHigh
Score0.521
KynticAI can say 'do not sell yet' when the relationship evidence points to recovery first.
Other Ranked Options
Option 2 - Medium - score 0.4352
Send a specific product email with stock reassurance and direct checkout link.
Expected outcome: converted_purchase
Option 3 - Medium - score 0.3691
Send a comparison link to page C because similar visitors bought after reading compatibility guidance.
Expected outcome: returned_to_page_c
Option 4 - Low - score 0.2918
Ask them to create an account so saved preferences and restock alerts can be used before discounting.
Expected outcome: account_registered
Elite LLM Handoff
Explain the retain_customer recommendation using the governed Fortress output and caveats.
governed_handoff:
- Goal: retain_customer
- Primary path: retained_after_support, score 0.521, high confidence
- Supporting signals: delivery_delay, email_again, retention_risk, support_ticket
- Runtime relationship sets returned: 8
- Domain journeys: 120; events: 600; relationship sets: 120Outcome Prompt JSON
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"schema": "kynticai.elite.outcome-prompts.v1",
"caseStudyId": "ecommerce-support-delay-retention",
"domain": "Ecommerce / D2C",
"stakeholder": "Customer experience lead",
"runtimeQuery": "A VIP customer views the luggage repair page, opens support tickets, and sees a fulfilment delay. Should we push purchase, account registration, page C, or another email?",
"promptContract": "You are Elite, the KynticAI recommendation-writing layer.\n\nYou receive governed Fortress output, not raw customer data. Use only the supplied relationship-set facts, scores, confidence labels, alternatives, caveats, and outcome goal.\n\nWrite a decisive operational recommendation for the accountable team. Your output must include:\n1. Recommended action.\n2. Why this action is supported by the comparable relationship sets.\n3. What to do now.\n4. When to choose one of the alternative actions.\n5. What outcome to capture so the system improves.\n\nRules:\n- Do not invent facts outside the governed handoff.\n- Do not promise revenue, retention, clinical, legal, financial, safety, or compliance outcomes.\n- Do not apologise for using synthetic demo data.\n- Be commercially useful, specific, and direct.\n- Keep human review and claim boundaries visible where the domain requires them.",
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"Goal: retain_customer",
"Primary path: retained_after_support, score 0.521, high confidence",
"Supporting signals: delivery_delay, email_again, retention_risk, support_ticket",
"Runtime relationship sets returned: 8",
"Domain journeys: 120; events: 600; relationship sets: 120"
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"outcomePrompts": [
{
"rank": 1,
"outcome": "retained_after_support",
"action": "Reply with support resolution first, then send the product link; pushing checkout first reduced conversion in comparable paths.",
"confidence": "High",
"score": "0.521",
"prompt": "You are Elite, the KynticAI recommendation-writing layer.\n\nUse only the governed Fortress handoff below. Do not invent facts.\n\nCase study: VIP support delay where retention beats a purchase push\nDomain: Ecommerce / D2C\nStakeholder: Customer experience lead\nRuntime query: A VIP customer views the luggage repair page, opens support tickets, and sees a fulfilment delay. Should we push purchase, account registration, page C, or another email?\n\nGoverned facts:\n- Goal: retain_customer\n- Primary path: retained_after_support, score 0.521, high confidence\n- Supporting signals: delivery_delay, email_again, retention_risk, support_ticket\n- Runtime relationship sets returned: 8\n- Domain journeys: 120; events: 600; relationship sets: 120\n\nCandidate outcome to explain:\n- Rank: 1\n- Outcome: retained_after_support\n- Action: Reply with support resolution first, then send the product link; pushing checkout first reduced conversion in comparable paths.\n- Confidence: High\n- Score: 0.521\n- Evidence summary: Comparable relationship sets ended in retained_after_support and share signals such as delivery_delay, email_again, retention_risk, support_ticket.\n- Supporting relationship sets: set-2e608f8185f1, set-1af783bf1578, set-fc81b134fd12, set-5839fd3a0aef, set-d59d64a3b8ef\n\nWrite the operational recommendation for this outcome.\nInclude why the comparable relationship sets support it, what the team should do now, when this outcome should be chosen over the other ranked options, and what reviewed outcome must be captured next.",
"expectedTextOutput": "Recommended action: Reply with support resolution first, then send the product link; pushing checkout first reduced conversion in comparable paths.\n\nWhy this is supported: Fortress ranked retained_after_support first with score 0.521 and high confidence. Comparable relationship sets ended in retained_after_support and share signals such as delivery_delay, email_again, retention_risk, support_ticket. The supporting relationship sets are set-2e608f8185f1, set-1af783bf1578, set-fc81b134fd12, set-5839fd3a0aef, set-d59d64a3b8ef.\n\nWhat to do now: brief the customer experience lead with the runtime query, the shared signals (delivery_delay, email_again, retention_risk, support_ticket), and the exact action. Keep the action specific to this scenario rather than turning it into a generic campaign or workflow rule.\n\nWhen to choose an alternative: switch if the live evidence is closer to converted_purchase (Send a specific product email with stock reassurance and direct checkout link.); returned_to_page_c (Send a comparison link to page C because similar visitors bought after reading compatibility guidance.); account_registered (Ask them to create an account so saved preferences and restock alerts can be used before discounting.).\n\nOutcome to capture: record the action taken, the reviewed outcome, and any contradictory signal so the next Scout/Fortress comparison has stronger evidence."
},
{
"rank": 2,
"outcome": "converted_purchase",
"action": "Send a specific product email with stock reassurance and direct checkout link.",
"confidence": "Medium",
"score": "0.4352",
"prompt": "You are Elite, the KynticAI recommendation-writing layer.\n\nUse only the governed Fortress handoff below. Do not invent facts.\n\nCase study: VIP support delay where retention beats a purchase push\nDomain: Ecommerce / D2C\nStakeholder: Customer experience lead\nRuntime query: A VIP customer views the luggage repair page, opens support tickets, and sees a fulfilment delay. Should we push purchase, account registration, page C, or another email?\n\nGoverned facts:\n- Goal: retain_customer\n- Primary path: retained_after_support, score 0.521, high confidence\n- Supporting signals: delivery_delay, email_again, retention_risk, support_ticket\n- Runtime relationship sets returned: 8\n- Domain journeys: 120; events: 600; relationship sets: 120\n\nCandidate outcome to explain:\n- Rank: 2\n- Outcome: converted_purchase\n- Action: Send a specific product email with stock reassurance and direct checkout link.\n- Confidence: Medium\n- Score: 0.4352\n- Evidence summary: Comparable relationship sets ended in converted_purchase and share signals such as email_enquiry, page_a, commercial_intent_page, purchase, website_search.\n- Supporting relationship sets: set-87feb2cff218\n\nWrite the operational recommendation for this outcome.\nInclude why the comparable relationship sets support it, what the team should do now, when this outcome should be chosen over the other ranked options, and what reviewed outcome must be captured next.",
"expectedTextOutput": "Alternative action: Send a specific product email with stock reassurance and direct checkout link.\n\nWhy this route exists: Fortress returned converted_purchase at rank 2 with score 0.4352 and medium confidence. Comparable relationship sets ended in converted_purchase and share signals such as email_enquiry, page_a, commercial_intent_page, purchase, website_search. The supporting relationship sets are set-87feb2cff218.\n\nWhen to use it: choose this instead of the primary route when the live evidence matches email_enquiry, page_a, commercial_intent_page, purchase, website_search more closely than the current top-ranked outcome.\n\nWhat to do now: make the action explicit for the customer experience lead, preserve the caveat for this domain, and avoid inventing extra facts beyond the governed handoff.\n\nOutcome to capture: record whether converted_purchase happened and feed that reviewed result back into the relationship-set evidence."
},
{
"rank": 3,
"outcome": "returned_to_page_c",
"action": "Send a comparison link to page C because similar visitors bought after reading compatibility guidance.",
"confidence": "Medium",
"score": "0.3691",
"prompt": "You are Elite, the KynticAI recommendation-writing layer.\n\nUse only the governed Fortress handoff below. Do not invent facts.\n\nCase study: VIP support delay where retention beats a purchase push\nDomain: Ecommerce / D2C\nStakeholder: Customer experience lead\nRuntime query: A VIP customer views the luggage repair page, opens support tickets, and sees a fulfilment delay. Should we push purchase, account registration, page C, or another email?\n\nGoverned facts:\n- Goal: retain_customer\n- Primary path: retained_after_support, score 0.521, high confidence\n- Supporting signals: delivery_delay, email_again, retention_risk, support_ticket\n- Runtime relationship sets returned: 8\n- Domain journeys: 120; events: 600; relationship sets: 120\n\nCandidate outcome to explain:\n- Rank: 3\n- Outcome: returned_to_page_c\n- Action: Send a comparison link to page C because similar visitors bought after reading compatibility guidance.\n- Confidence: Medium\n- Score: 0.3691\n- Evidence summary: Comparable relationship sets ended in returned_to_page_c and share signals such as comparison, page_c, purchase_later, search.\n- Supporting relationship sets: set-db1337adcf62\n\nWrite the operational recommendation for this outcome.\nInclude why the comparable relationship sets support it, what the team should do now, when this outcome should be chosen over the other ranked options, and what reviewed outcome must be captured next.",
"expectedTextOutput": "Alternative action: Send a comparison link to page C because similar visitors bought after reading compatibility guidance.\n\nWhy this route exists: Fortress returned returned_to_page_c at rank 3 with score 0.3691 and medium confidence. Comparable relationship sets ended in returned_to_page_c and share signals such as comparison, page_c, purchase_later, search. The supporting relationship sets are set-db1337adcf62.\n\nWhen to use it: choose this instead of the primary route when the live evidence matches comparison, page_c, purchase_later, search more closely than the current top-ranked outcome.\n\nWhat to do now: make the action explicit for the customer experience lead, preserve the caveat for this domain, and avoid inventing extra facts beyond the governed handoff.\n\nOutcome to capture: record whether returned_to_page_c happened and feed that reviewed result back into the relationship-set evidence."
},
{
"rank": 4,
"outcome": "account_registered",
"action": "Ask them to create an account so saved preferences and restock alerts can be used before discounting.",
"confidence": "Low",
"score": "0.2918",
"prompt": "You are Elite, the KynticAI recommendation-writing layer.\n\nUse only the governed Fortress handoff below. Do not invent facts.\n\nCase study: VIP support delay where retention beats a purchase push\nDomain: Ecommerce / D2C\nStakeholder: Customer experience lead\nRuntime query: A VIP customer views the luggage repair page, opens support tickets, and sees a fulfilment delay. Should we push purchase, account registration, page C, or another email?\n\nGoverned facts:\n- Goal: retain_customer\n- Primary path: retained_after_support, score 0.521, high confidence\n- Supporting signals: delivery_delay, email_again, retention_risk, support_ticket\n- Runtime relationship sets returned: 8\n- Domain journeys: 120; events: 600; relationship sets: 120\n\nCandidate outcome to explain:\n- Rank: 4\n- Outcome: account_registered\n- Action: Ask them to create an account so saved preferences and restock alerts can be used before discounting.\n- Confidence: Low\n- Score: 0.2918\n- Evidence summary: Comparable relationship sets ended in account_registered and share signals such as account_benefit, email_enquiry, registration, size_question.\n- Supporting relationship sets: set-a3d51f043f68\n\nWrite the operational recommendation for this outcome.\nInclude why the comparable relationship sets support it, what the team should do now, when this outcome should be chosen over the other ranked options, and what reviewed outcome must be captured next.",
"expectedTextOutput": "Alternative action: Ask them to create an account so saved preferences and restock alerts can be used before discounting.\n\nWhy this route exists: Fortress returned account_registered at rank 4 with score 0.2918 and low confidence. Comparable relationship sets ended in account_registered and share signals such as account_benefit, email_enquiry, registration, size_question. The supporting relationship sets are set-a3d51f043f68.\n\nWhen to use it: choose this instead of the primary route when the live evidence matches account_benefit, email_enquiry, registration, size_question more closely than the current top-ranked outcome.\n\nWhat to do now: make the action explicit for the customer experience lead, preserve the caveat for this domain, and avoid inventing extra facts beyond the governed handoff.\n\nOutcome to capture: record whether account_registered happened and feed that reviewed result back into the relationship-set evidence."
}
]
}Elite Textual Recommendation
Recommended action: Reply with support resolution first, then send the product link; pushing checkout first reduced conversion in comparable paths.
Why this is supported: Fortress ranked retained_after_support first with score 0.521 and high confidence. Comparable relationship sets ended in retained_after_support and share signals such as delivery_delay, email_again, retention_risk, support_ticket. The supporting relationship sets are set-2e608f8185f1, set-1af783bf1578, set-fc81b134fd12, set-5839fd3a0aef, set-d59d64a3b8ef.
What to do now: brief the customer experience lead with the runtime query, the shared signals (delivery_delay, email_again, retention_risk, support_ticket), and the exact action. Keep the action specific to this scenario rather than turning it into a generic campaign or workflow rule.
When to choose an alternative: switch if the live evidence is closer to converted_purchase (Send a specific product email with stock reassurance and direct checkout link.); returned_to_page_c (Send a comparison link to page C because similar visitors bought after reading compatibility guidance.); account_registered (Ask them to create an account so saved preferences and restock alerts can be used before discounting.).
Outcome to capture: record the action taken, the reviewed outcome, and any contradictory signal so the next Scout/Fortress comparison has stronger evidence.
Generated Elite Action Brief
- 01Recommended action: Reply with support resolution first, then send the product link; pushing checkout first reduced conversion in comparable paths.
- 02Evidence: Comparable relationship sets ended in retained_after_support and share signals such as delivery_delay, email_again, retention_risk, support_ticket.
- 03Primary action: Reply with support resolution first, then send the product link; pushing checkout first reduced conversion in comparable paths.
- 04Primary expected outcome: retained_after_support
- 05Alternatives: converted_purchase: Send a specific product email with stock reassurance and direct checkout link. | returned_to_page_c: Send a comparison link to page C because similar visitors bought after reading compatibility guidance. | account_registered: Ask them to create an account so saved preferences and restock alerts can be used before discounting.
- 06Capture the reviewed outcome and feed it back into the relationship-set evidence.
Reviewed outcome loop
- Capture which ranked action was taken.
- Record whether the expected outcome happened.
- Feed the reviewed outcome back into the next relationship-set comparison.
Boundary
Synthetic ecommerce support demo using privacy-safe events. Customer walkthroughs replace it with authorised support data and agreed retention measures.