Skene

Skene is an AI-powered Product-Led Growth (PLG) infrastructure that redefines how software companies achieve sustainable growth. It is a fully automated iteration engine designed to understand your product's unique "customer code" and continuously optimize the user journey for onboarding, activation, and retention. Built specifically for indie developers and early-stage startups, Skene eliminates the need for dedicated growth teams, manual dashboard monitoring, and brittle third-party scripts. By connecting directly to your codebase and IDE, it analyzes your repository to automatically identify friction points, generate improved user flows, and run growth experiments. This approach ensures your product self-optimizes with every code push, turning growth into a core, owned component of your infrastructure rather than an external afterthought. Skene empowers builders to offload tedious growth tasks, acting as a comprehensive "growth team in a box" that enhances customer lifetime value (LTV) without increasing headcount or sacrificing performance and data ownership.

Codebase Signal Analysis

Skene deeply analyzes your GitHub or GitLab repository with read-only access, scanning your code to automatically detect growth signals, onboarding friction points, and activation opportunities. It understands your application's structure and user flow logic directly from the source, generating a detailed growth manifest without requiring any manual tagging or initial code changes. This provides a foundational context layer that informs all automated optimization.

Prompt-Driven Growth Implementation

Growth workflows are managed through natural language prompts within your existing development environment, like Cursor or your terminal. Instead of configuring complex UIs, you instruct Skene to analyze, audit, or implement improvements directly. This integrates growth tasks seamlessly into your standard development workflow, allowing you or your AI agent to design and run growth loops where you already build.

Self-Optimizing User Flows

The platform automatically generates, tests, and deploys improved versions of key user journeys based on its analysis of real user behavior and codebase signals. It identifies drop-offs and friction, then iterates on onboarding processes, activation steps, and retention strategies to ensure they become more effective over time, all without manual intervention from your team.

Owned & Version-Controlled Growth

Skene operates as code that you own and version alongside your product, rejecting the traditional "black box" third-party snippet model. This ensures your growth logic never breaks your application's performance, keeps your data within your stack, and allows your AI agents to interact with and modify growth flows directly, providing full transparency and control.

Automated Onboarding Optimization

For products struggling with user drop-off during initial setup, Skene continuously analyzes the onboarding funnel. It identifies where users get stuck based on their interactions and automatically redesigns and A/B tests flow variations to guide users to activation more seamlessly, dramatically improving time-to-value.

Activation & Feature Adoption

Skene helps drive users to discover and adopt core product features. By understanding the "customer code" and user paths, it can trigger contextual prompts and guidance within the application to highlight valuable features at the right moment, increasing product engagement and perceived value.

Retention & Lifecycle Automation

To combat churn, Skene monitors user engagement patterns post-activation. It automatically identifies at-risk behaviors and can implement re-engagement flows or deliver targeted, helpful content to bring users back into the product, turning casual users into retained, loyal customers.

Data-Driven Growth for Small Teams

Ideal for indie developers and startups without dedicated growth resources, Skene acts as an automated growth engineer. It provides the analytics, experimentation, and implementation capabilities of a full team, enabling small teams to compete with larger players by making data-informed, automated optimization a core competency.

How is Skene different from traditional customer experience software?

Traditional tools rely on manual tour creation, constant maintenance, and brittle UI overlays that break with every deployment. Skene is fundamentally different; it reads your live codebase and automatically generates and updates onboarding, analytics, and lifecycle automation. When you push new code, your growth flows update themselves, eliminating maintenance overhead.

How long does it take to set up?

Setup is designed to take less than 60 seconds. You simply connect your GitHub or GitLab repository with read-only access. Skene automatically analyzes your codebase to generate PLG flows and signals without requiring any initial code changes, API modifications, or complex configuration.

Is my source code secure with Skene?

Absolutely. Security is a core principle. Skene only ever requires read-only access to your repository. All analysis is performed in a secure, isolated environment. Your code is never stored permanently or used for any purpose other than analyzing your product's structure to generate growth insights.

What kind of analytics does Skene provide?

Skene's dashboard provides real-time, actionable analytics focused on growth outcomes. This includes user progress tracking, onboarding completion rates, engagement metrics, and bottleneck identification. You can track critical metrics like time-to-value and directly measure the impact of automated flow improvements on your key goals.