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Guest Spotlight: Fabian Hans

Fabian Hans, Founder at Cogniteer
Fabian Hans
Cogniteer | Exec

About Fabian Hans

Fabian Hans is the founder of Cogniteer, a consultancy that helps enterprises build in-house experimentation programs and raise both test velocity and win rate. A behavioral psychologist with fifteen years in conversion rate optimization, he champions deep dives over mass-produced tests, using real user behavior and psychology to find the levers that actually move conversion.

Notable Quotes

"A/B testing is mostly about avoiding breaking things."

"One out of eight A/B tests is successful. That means seven out of eight are not successful, so the possibility that it's negative is higher than positive."

"You usually have a high drop-off in the basket, but that is not because of the company or of the product. It's just shopping."

"They're still trying to make strategy for AI. Why don't you just start?"

"Humankind has always been learning through experimenting and failing. The failing is the learning part."

How Cogniteer Built an Experimentation Engine From Scratch with Fabian Hans
Fabian Hans
Cogniteer | Founder

How Cogniteer Built an Experimentation Engine From Scratch

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Takeaways

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Match the interface to how people buy: new buyers need information, returning buyers want speed, and B2B buyers want an offer, not a catalog.

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The real bottleneck is alignment, not developer resources. Agree on the problem and its hierarchy before anyone builds a variation.

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Product to channel fit decides what sells online. Books and fashion judge well on a screen; perfume and washing machines need cues a screen cannot give.

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Many ecommerce drop offs are structural. The basket and product page leak in roughly 80% of shops because it is ecommerce, not because of your product.

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Deep dives beat mass produced tests. Understanding one business's users uncovers bigger levers than reusing the same test across many clients.

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