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Session brief: Reading assistant outcomes without invented ROI
How to talk about participation, carts, and assisted conversion without publishing fake lift.
This session brief is for founders and growth leads who need language for boards and agencies. It restates WardrobeIt’s public measurement posture: observational events, defined assistance rules, no invented percentages. It will not give you a slide that says AI increased conversion by a made-up factor.
The temptation after launch is to treat any order that happened near a conversation as proof. That is convenient and untrue as a causal claim. This session exists to keep internal storytelling aligned with product truth.
Words that stay honest
- Participation: a shopper used the assistant in a journey.
- Assisted order: an order associated with an assistant interaction under the platform’s reporting rules.
- Not proven: that the assistant caused an incremental sale.
- Journey quality: relevant products, unanswered questions, catalog gaps.
Assisted revenue can describe orders associated with an assistant interaction under the platform’s reporting rules. It is observational participation, not proof of incrementality. Repeat that sentence until it is boring. Boring is the point.
What to review instead of a fake lift
- Did shoppers reach in-catalog products that merchandising would defend?
- Where did conversations stall, and was the stall a missing attribute?
- Did recommendations include out-of-stock variants?
- Were try-on or discount claims overstated in knowledge?
- Is the widget actually on the templates in the journey you are reporting on?
How to brief an agency
Ask for journey quality reviews. Ask for observational reporting if you use WardrobeIt analytics. Do not ask them to invent a causal ROI number because a dashboard showed assisted revenue. Send them Track Assistant Outcomes, AI Revenue Intelligence, and Usage and Outcome Analytics as the language sources.
Paid media teams should additionally read the post-click brief: ads that promise facts the PDP cannot support will produce ugly conversations that are not a measurement problem. See Paid Traffic ROI for framing without a guaranteed ROAS.
A board-safe paragraph
“We review whether the assistant participated in journeys and whether those journeys stayed inside the connected catalog. We do not treat assisted revenue as incremental lift. Catalog gaps and unanswered questions are the operational backlog.” If your board wants a causal study, that is an analytics-team design, not a sentence this product page will invent.
Failure modes
- Screenshots of assisted revenue labeled “caused by AI.”
- Comparing this week to last week as if seasonality were absent.
- Hiding catalog defects because the conversation volume looks healthy.
- Copying a competitor case-study percentage into a WardrobeIt update.
What to put on a dashboard instead
Unanswered questions, catalog gaps, out-of-stock recommendations, missing widget templates, and knowledge conflicts with live policy pages. Those are operable. A single conversion percentage is not operable and is not supplied here. If your analytics team later designs a causal study, that study is yours—not a WardrobeIt marketing claim.
Paid media should not relabel observational assisted revenue as ROAS lift. See Paid Traffic ROI for framing. Revenue-intelligence language: AI Revenue Intelligence. Usage: Usage and Outcome Analytics.
Failure modes
- Screenshots labeled “caused by AI.”
- Week-over-week comparisons that ignore seasonality and drops.
- Hiding catalog defects because conversation volume looks healthy.
- Copying a competitor case-study percentage into a board update.
After the session
Agree on the words in this brief as the only public measurement vocabulary until your own team publishes a stronger design. Keep product capability evaluation on AI Shopping Assistant and implementation on Getting Started. Related: Reduce Cart Abandonment uses the same observational caution—no recovery-rate invention.
No attendance certificate is issued. The completion test is whether the next agency email still contains a fabricated lift. If it does, send this URL again.
A one-page internal glossary
Write four lines and refuse to add a fifth that contains a percentage this brief does not supply: participation; assisted order (platform reporting rules); not proven incremental; journey quality. Send that page with every agency kickoff. Product language: Usage and Outcome Analytics, Track Assistant Outcomes, AI Revenue Intelligence.
If a board member wants causality, the answer is that your analytics team would need a design. WardrobeIt will not invent one in a session brief. Paid traffic framing without guaranteed ROAS: Paid Traffic ROI.
Workshop on five journeys
- Export or note five recent assistant conversations you are allowed to review.
- Score relevance, grounding, availability, and whether the widget was even on that template.
- List catalog gaps separately from “model quality.”
- Assign owners. Do not assign a conversion target this page does not contain.
Completion is a clean agency email. Related: Reduce Cart Abandonment with the same observational caution.
What a useful weekly review contains
A list of unanswered questions. A list of out-of-stock recommendations. A list of templates missing the widget. A list of knowledge conflicts. Those lists change work. A single conversion tile does not, and this brief will not supply one. Usage and Outcome Analytics.
If someone pastes a competitor percentage into the review doc, delete it. Product truth for the assistant remains AI Shopping Assistant.
Keep the four-line glossary in the agency contract appendix: participation, assisted order under reporting rules, not proven incremental, journey quality. Delete any fifth line that introduces a percentage this brief does not contain. Track Assistant Outcomes.
Assisted revenue remains observational participation, not proof that the assistant caused an incremental sale.
