Skene

About Skene

Skene is a fundamental reimagining of product-led growth (PLG) as a core component of your software infrastructure. It is a fully automated PLG iteration engine designed to help digital products grow organically without requiring dedicated growth teams or constant manual intervention. At its core, Skene operates on a foundational principle: growth should be code. It connects directly to your codebase to understand your product's structure and user flows, then automatically optimizes the key pillars of user adoption: onboarding, activation, and retention. By observing real user actions to detect friction and drop-off points, Skene creates, tests, and deploys improved versions of user journeys, effectively allowing your product's growth mechanisms to improve themselves over time. Built for indie developers, early-stage startups, and established PLG companies, Skene serves as a "growth team in a box." It offloads the complex, data-intensive work of growth optimization, enabling builders to focus on their core product while ensuring that the user experience continuously tightens and expands customer lifetime value, all without adding operational headcount or relying on external, siloed black-box solutions.

Features of Skene

Codebase-Derived Growth Signals

Skene uniquely analyzes your actual source code to identify growth opportunities. Instead of relying on superficial UI tagging or manual event tracking, it scans your repository structure to automatically detect user flows, potential friction points, and activation milestones. This provides a deeply accurate and maintainable foundation for all growth automation, ensuring that your PLG logic evolves seamlessly with your product's code.

Automated Flow Optimization & Testing

The platform autonomously handles the entire optimization cycle. It observes where users struggle or disengage, generates hypotheses for improved flows, and runs controlled experiments (A/B tests) between different versions. Skene then measures the impact on key metrics and automatically deploys the winning configuration, creating a self-learning system that perpetually refines onboarding and activation paths.

Prompt-Driven Growth Infrastructure

Skene integrates growth work directly into the developer workflow. Through IDE extensions and CLI tools, you can prompt Skene to analyze your code, generate growth manifests, and implement optimizations. This turns growth from a manual, dashboard-driven task into a programmable layer of your infrastructure that you can version, control, and iterate on with the same tools used for building features.

Owned Analytics & Performance

Unlike traditional third-party scripts that can hurt site performance and lock data away, Skene's analysis is lightweight and secure. It requires only read-only repository access and runs in an isolated environment. You retain full ownership of your data and analytics, which are presented in a dashboard showing real-time user progress, completion rates, and bottleneck identification without compromising your application's speed or integrity.

Use Cases of Skene

Autonomous Onboarding for Indie Developers

Solo founders and small teams can implement a sophisticated, self-optimizing onboarding system without spending countless hours on analytics and manual tour creation. Skene automatically sets up, monitors, and improves the new user journey, allowing developers to offload growth work they don't have time for and ensure users consistently reach the "aha" moment.

PLG Activation Tightening for Startups

Early-stage startups can use Skene as a foundational growth engine from day one. It systematically identifies and removes friction in the activation funnel, helping convert more free users into engaged, paying customers. This provides the data-driven rigor of a growth team without the associated cost and hiring complexity, accelerating product-market fit.

Retention Loop Maintenance for Scale-ups

For growing PLG companies, maintaining and optimizing retention loops becomes complex. Skene continuously analyzes user behavior post-activation to identify churn risks and opportunities for deeper engagement. It automatically tests and implements improvements to feature adoption paths and re-engagement flows, helping expand LTV reliably at scale.

Integrated Customer Journey Management

Teams can replace a fragmented stack of analytics, onboarding, and customer success tools with a single, code-aware system. Skene provides a unified platform to design, run, and analyze the entire customer lifecycle—from first click to power user—ensuring a cohesive and continuously improving experience that is managed within the development ecosystem.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is PLG software?

Product-Led Growth (PLG) software is designed to help users discover value in your product through their own experience, without requiring manual intervention from sales or customer success teams. It automates the user journey, guiding users to activation, driving feature adoption, and strengthening retention through the product itself. The core idea is that the product is the primary driver of acquisition, conversion, and expansion.

How is Skene different from traditional customer experience software?

Traditional tools often rely on manual, brittle configurations like UI overlays and tour builders that break with every code deployment and require constant maintenance. Skene is fundamentally different because it reads your codebase directly. It automatically generates and updates onboarding, analytics, and automation based on your actual application structure. When you push new code, Skene's understanding and the flows it manages update themselves, eliminating manual upkeep.

How long does it take to set up?

Setup is designed to be immediate, taking less than 60 seconds. You simply connect your GitHub or GitLab repository with read-only access. Skene then automatically analyzes your codebase to generate initial PLG flows and identify opportunities. No initial code changes, API modifications, or snippet pasting is required to get started.

Is my source code secure with Skene?

Absolutely. Security is a foundational principle. Skene only ever requires read-only access to your repository. Our analysis occurs in a secure, isolated environment. We do not execute your code, and we never ask for write access. Your intellectual property remains entirely within your control, and the analysis process is designed to be transparent and non-intrusive.