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Hire a Retention FTE

Lifecycle & Retention Marketer

Customers who come back. A digital employee that owns email and SMS lifecycle end-to-end — welcome, browse and cart recovery, post-purchase, replenishment, win-back and VIP — inside Klaviyo, Mailchimp or the platform you already use. It segments from your own order data, writes every message in your voice, proposes every flow change and every send for your approval, and reports repeat-purchase rate and revenue per recipient against the attribution window you chose, never one it picked to look good.

Accountable for

Repeat revenue that compounds, every send approved

Judged on · Repeat-purchase rate at ninety days

What it does not do · It does not set the offer strategy, the brand voice or the decision to discount, and it cannot exceed the frequency cap or message anyone on the suppression list.

  • Lifecycle Flows
  • Segmentation from Order Data
  • Cart & Browse Recovery
  • Post-Purchase & Replenishment
  • Win-Back & VIP
  • Send-Frequency Governance

It proposes · you approve · every claim carries its evidence

Workspace · Retention FTE

Retention FTE

Lifecycle & Retention Marketer

Repeat rate (90d)
27%+2 pts
Revenue / recipient
$0.41
Waiting on you
3
Flows live
9

Waiting on you · Flow change · needs your approval

Proposed · from reorder data

Replenishment · coffee 1 kg · send at day 24 instead of day 30

  • Median reorder gap for this SKU is 26 days; the current send lands after most repeat orders.
  • Frequency cap and suppression list applied; 1 segment excluded (subscribers).

Email preview as the customer sees it · segment size · attribution window shown

Brief

Yesterday: 2 flows adjusted on approval, 1 campaign held back (frequency cap), 0 unapproved sends.

Illustrative workspace · the Retention FTE's Today tab
Overview

What Retention owns.

A whole job function, not a task queue. Retention holds the role, the targets and the budget you set, and reports to you on the numbers below.

Owns

  • Lifecycle Flows
  • Segmentation from Order Data
  • Cart & Browse Recovery
  • Post-Purchase & Replenishment
  • Win-Back & VIP
  • Send-Frequency Governance

Reports on

  • Repeat rate (90d)
  • Revenue / recipient
  • Waiting on you
  • Flows live

Needs from you

  • Access to your email and SMS platform (Klaviyo, Mailchimp or the one you run) and read access to orders
  • Your brand voice, the frequency cap and the segments that must never be messaged
  • The attribution window you want results reported against
How it works

A week with Retention.

It reports in first, does the work, hands it over for approval, and measures what happened. You review it the way you review a direct report.

  1. Monday 08:0001

    Lifecycle brief

    Repeat rate, revenue per recipient, which flows earned what, and the flow changes it proposes this week.

  2. Daily02

    Sends and flow changes in Approvals

    Every message previewed exactly as the customer sees it, the segment size shown, the frequency cap and suppression list already applied.

  3. Continuously03

    Timing from your data

    Replenishment, win-back and post-purchase timing derived from how your customers actually reorder, revised as the data moves.

  4. Friday04

    The honest review

    Results against the attribution window you chose, flows that underperformed named plainly, and what it proposes to change.

The workspace

Managed like a direct report.

Retention reports into a workspace built for a manager, not an operator. Four of its tabs, drawn as they work.

Today

Your morning brief, first thing.

What is waiting on you comes first, then yesterday, what it noticed, and spend against budget. Read it in a minute.

Workspace · Retention FTE · Today

Morning brief · Monday 08:00

Yesterday: 2 flows adjusted on approval, 1 campaign held back (frequency cap), 0 unapproved sends.

Waiting on you

3 to review
Repeat rate (90d)
27%
Revenue / recipient
$0.41
Waiting on you
3
Flows live
9

Approvals

Nothing ships without your call.

Every publish, send or spend waits here with its verdict, its reasons and its evidence. Approve, or send it back with a note.

Workspace · Retention FTE · Approvals

Approvals

1 waiting on you

  • Retention FTE · Flow change · needs your approval

    Proposed · from reorder data

    Replenishment · coffee 1 kg · send at day 24 instead of day 30

    • Median reorder gap for this SKU is 26 days; the current send lands after most repeat orders.
    • Frequency cap and suppression list applied; 1 segment excluded (subscribers).

    Email preview as the customer sees it · segment size · attribution window shown

Performance

Numbers it can prove.

KPIs are measured, never estimated. Anything not connected yet is shown as unmeasured, not filled in.

Workspace · Retention FTE · Performance

Repeat rate (90d)
27%+2 pts
Revenue / recipient
$0.41
Waiting on you
3
Not connected yet
Unmeasured

Repeat rate (90d) · 12 weeks

Measured, not estimated

Targets

The contract you hold it to.

Each target carries a status and its evidence. It can propose new targets; they wait for your approval.

Workspace · Retention FTE · Targets

  • Repeat-purchase rate above 25% at 90 days

    27% this month · measured on orders

    On track
  • Every send approved and inside the frequency cap

    0 unapproved sends · 1 campaign held back

    Done
  • Replenishment timing within 3 days of the median reorder gap

    2 SKUs drift · timing change proposed

    At risk
  • Add a win-back flow for the 120-day lapsed segment

    FTE-suggested · awaiting your approval

    Proposed · your call

Illustrative workspace frames · the tabs, verdicts and statuses are real product surfaces; the figures are samples.

Capabilities

Built for the job.

Customers who come back. A digital employee that owns email and SMS lifecycle end-to-end — welcome, browse and cart recovery, post-purchase, replenishment, win-back and VIP — inside Klaviyo, Mailchimp or the platform you already use. It segments from your own order data, writes every message in your voice, proposes every flow change and every send for your approval, and reports repeat-purchase rate and revenue per recipient against the attribution window you chose, never one it picked to look good.

01

Flows built from your order history, not templates: replenishment timed to how your customers actually reorder

02

Every send previewed exactly as the customer sees it and gated by the frequency and suppression rules you set

03

Honest reporting: repeat rate, revenue per recipient and the attribution window you chose, side by side

Skills

  • Lifecycle Flows
  • Segmentation from Order Data
  • Cart & Browse Recovery
  • Post-Purchase & Replenishment
  • Win-Back & VIP
  • Send-Frequency Governance
Missions

What you can ask it to do.

Beyond the weekly routine, you give it missions: a goal, a scope, a deadline, and progress you can see. Three modes, all of them bounded.

Production

Rebuild the post-purchase flow

A bounded push: the sequence from order to second purchase, each message drafted, previewed and approved.

Diagnostic

Repeat rate fell this quarter. Why?

Ranked hypotheses with evidence: a product change, a cohort shift, a flow that stopped, deliverability, over-messaging.

Strategy

Which segment deserves a VIP program?

A view of second-order and third-order behaviour by segment, with a recommendation you can approve or reject.

Diagnoses arrive as ranked hypotheses with evidence, never as certainties.

Inside your stack

It works in the tools you already run.

Retention connects to the systems below with the permissions you grant, per organization and per property, and nothing more. Connections can be revoked at any time.

  • Email and SMS

    • Klaviyo
    • Mailchimp
    • Omnisend
    • Attentive
    • Postscript
  • Order data

    • Shopify
    • WooCommerce
    • BigCommerce
    • Recharge
  • Where you review its work

    • Your ftes.ai workspace
    • Claude and ChatGPT via MCP connector
    • Email brief
Control

You manage. Retention executes.

It starts at Level 0 and earns autonomy one step at a time. You grant each level when the evidence says so, and you can take it back at any time.

  1. Level 0

    Proposes only

    Every draft, launch, send or spend waits in Approvals. This is where every FTE starts.

  2. Level 1

    Low-risk on its own

    You allow routine actions you have approved many times: refreshes, reply drafts, reconciliations that match exactly.

  3. Level 2

    Acts inside caps

    It may pause losers, scale winners or publish scheduled work, always inside the budget and rules you set.

  4. Level 3

    Runs the week

    Scheduled production runs; you review the brief, the exceptions and the numbers. Any level can be taken back at any time.

Approvals

1 waiting on you

  • Retention FTE · Flow change · needs your approval

    Proposed · from reorder data

    Replenishment · coffee 1 kg · send at day 24 instead of day 30

    • Median reorder gap for this SKU is 26 days; the current send lands after most repeat orders.
    • Frequency cap and suppression list applied; 1 segment excluded (subscribers).

    Email preview as the customer sees it · segment size · attribution window shown

Illustrative approvals queue · budget and spend are always visible beside it.

Approval gates
On every publish, send and spend
Budget
A hard cap it cannot exceed
Audit trail
Who, what, when, and why
Getting started

Hired in minutes.

Instant onboarding: it is on your team the same day you sign up.

  1. Step 01

    Sign up

    Create your organization. Retention is added to your workforce from the link below.

  2. Step 02

    Connect and confirm

    Grant the tools it needs and confirm the targets it proposes. It never asks for what the platform already knows.

  3. Step 03

    Review the first proposals

    Its first brief and first proposals land in Approvals the same day.

FAQ

Before you hire.

Short answers. The docs have the long ones.

Will it over-message my list to hit a number?

No. The frequency cap and suppression rules you set are hard limits it cannot exceed, and results are reported against the attribution window you chose, so more sends never look like more revenue by default.

What can the Retention FTE do without my approval?

Nothing that leaves your company. Retention proposes first: every publish, send or spend waits in Approvals with its reasons and evidence. You can grant more autonomy step by step and take it back at any time. Every action is logged.

How is it priced?

Plans are token-metered blocks of work, not seats. Every FTE in your organization draws from one wallet whose balance is always visible in the workspace. At zero the FTEs pause; they never overdraw.

How long does onboarding take?

Sign up, connect the tools the role needs, and confirm the targets it proposes. Roles marked instant onboarding are working the same day; roles marked custom onboarding are scoped with our team first.

Where does my data go?

Your data stays scoped to your organization and, where it applies, to the specific property the FTE works on. Integration credentials are encrypted at rest and can be revoked at any time.

More roles

More in this department.

Every role holds its own targets and budget; hire one or several, they share one wallet and one workspace.

Your next hire is Retention.

Sign up, connect the tools it needs, and review its first proposals this week.