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Tactic 3: Experiment Design & Setup Guidance

What it is:

Have the AI assist in planning your experiment setup – from

identifying the right success metrics to estimating sample

size or duration. Think of it as an on-demand experiment

advisor that helps ensure your test is well-designed and

statistically sound before you launch.

How to use it:

Describe your experiment idea and ask the AI what metrics or

KPIs to track, or how to set up the test. For example, you might

prompt the AI with your hypothesis and ask: “What metrics

should I measure, and what audience segment and test

Example Prompt:

length would you recommend for reliable results?” While a

“We plan to test a new checkout flow vs. the

public AI won’t perform precise power calculations, it can

current flow. Draft an experiment design: list

suggest considerations (e.g. “use conversion rate as primary

the hypothesis, primary metric, guardrail

metric, ensure a few thousand visitors per variant, run at least

metrics (like time on page or customer

2 weeks to account for weekly cycles”). If you have internal

support contacts), and an estimate of how

data, you could input simplified stats (traffic, current

long to run the test with ~10,000 users/week.”

conversion rate, desired lift) and ask the AI to estimate

needed sample size or highlight if the test might run too long.

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