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Retention

Focus on the Customers Who Come Back

Cohorts anchored on each Customer's true First Order — including Orders from before you installed Kompound. CAC Payback drawn on the matrix. Prediction where the history runs out, marked as prediction.

LTV CurveLast 12 Cohorts CAC PaybackPredictive
$400$200$0 CAC $93 CAC paid back — month 3 M0M3M6M9M12 $247$278$323 Dashed: predicted, with confidence band
3-Month LTV$247
6-Month$278
12-Month$323
LTV : CAC3.5
3.2 MonthsMedian CAC Payback across the last 12 Cohorts
True First Ordereven from before you installed
CAC Paybackdrawn on the matrix
Predicted LTVmarked, never disguised
8 Dimensionsto split any Cohort by
The Long Game

What a Customer Is Worth, and What Makes Them Worth More

Cohorts anchored on each Customer's true First Order, followed month by month — so you know what a Customer is worth and what makes them worth more.

Cohort LTVSales per Customer CAC Payback
First OrderM0M1M2M3M4M5M6
Mar 2026$188$188$189$221$249$262$271
Feb 2026$202$214$214$226$226$238$255
Jan 2026$180$180$188$205$205$232$244
Dec 2025$217$217$217$223$225$261$276
Nov 2025$204$210$219$229$258$270$298
3-Month LTV$247
6-Month$278
12-Month$323
CAC Payback3.2 mo
True First OrderCAC PaybackPredicted LTV
LTV DriversRanked by statistical lift 12-Month LTV
DriverCustomersLTV LiftConfidence
First Product: Studio Wiredvs store average96+$9199%
Bundle: ANC + Travel Case144+$6498%
First touch: Google Ads148+$3895%
Discount code WELCOME20312−$2996%
First Product: Foam Tip Pack204−$5299%
Anything below statistical significance never ranks.
Acquire More of TheseFix the Discount
Product JourneyStarting from Pulse Over-Ear ANC
Second PurchaseShareMedian Gap12-Mo LTV
Travel Case34%21 days$388
Foam Tip Pack26%38 days$276
Pulse Buds Pro18%94 days$412
Studio Wired Reference12%112 days$449
Never returned10%$149
Build the BundleTime the Flow

Six Ways to Read Repeat Behaviour

Retention is not one number. These Reports answer who comes back, when, why, and whether it was worth acquiring them.

Cohort LTV

What a group of Customers is worth at three, six and twelve months — with a confidence band on predicted months and CAC Payback marked on the month it happens.

Cohort Breakdown

The same Cohorts split by first Product, product type, country, Channel, tag or discount code, so you can see which first purchase makes a great Customer.

Repurchase Rate

The share of Customers who buy again within 30, 60, 90, 180 or 365 days, Cohort by Cohort.

Time Between Orders

How many days pass between a Customer’s first and second Order, second and third, and on — the number your email flows should be timed to.

LTV Drivers

Which first Products, Channels and tags genuinely lift lifetime value, ranked by statistical confidence. Anything that doesn’t clear the bar never ranks.

Product Journey

Start from any Product and see what Customers buy next, how long it takes, and what each path is worth after a year.

Ask Kompass

Ask “which Products create my best Customers?” and get LTV Drivers, already filtered.

Ask Kompass

Ask It Instead of Building It

Cohort questions are the ones founders most often give up on. Ask in plain language and Kompass runs the Cohort, applies the split, and hands you the Report.

How Ask Kompass Works →
Ask KompassPulse Audio
Which first Product creates our best Customers?
Studio Wired Reference. Its 12-month LTV is $449 against a store average of $323 — a +$91 lift at 99% confidence. It is also your lowest-volume Product at 96 units.
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Retention Questions

What is a "true First Order"?

The Customer's earliest Order in your Store's history, not the earliest one Kompound happened to see. We backfill your full Order history so a Customer who first bought in 2023 is anchored in 2023.

How is predicted LTV calculated, and how do I know it's predicted?

It extends your own Cohort curve past where history ends, with a confidence band. Predicted cells are visibly marked on the matrix and in every export.

Do Global Filters apply to Cohorts?

No. Cohort Reports are always built on the complete Order history, because excluding Orders would break the anchor. The Report says so on the page.

Can I see CAC Payback per Cohort?

Yes. Payback is drawn on the matrix at the month cumulative Revenue per Customer passes that Cohort's CAC.

Know What a Customer Is Really Worth.

Cohorts on every Customer's true First Order, with CAC Payback marked on the month it happens.