Case file № 004 · Web Applications · 2025
Cedar Onboarding
A rebuilt first-run experience for Cedar Analytics that walked trial users to their first insight before their coffee cooled.
- Client
- Cedar Analytics
- Timeline
- Jan 2025 — Mar 2025
- Stack
- React · TypeScript · PostgreSQL
Chapter I
The Brief
A rebuilt first-run experience for Cedar Analytics that walked trial users to their first insight before their coffee cooled.
Chapter V
The Results
- +0 pts
- Trial conversion lift
- 0 min
- Time to first insight
- −0%
- Drop-off reduction
The onboarding rebuild paid for itself inside a quarter. What impressed me most was the write-ups — every decision came with its reasoning attached.
Chapter VI
Colophon
Appendix A — The stack
frontend
- React ↗
The guided flow is a state machine rendered as conversation.
language
- TypeScript ↗
Heuristics are typed rules — adding one is a ten-line PR.
backend
- PostgreSQL ↗
Schema introspection powers the chart suggestions.
Case file № 004 · filed November 2025 · typeset in Fraunces & Source Serif