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PostHog is planning a major overhaul of its onboarding email program, replacing a complex Customer.io setup of roughly 100 emails, numerous delays, decision events, and an unreliable data pipeline with PostHog Workflows, which uses native product data and can connect emails to feature flags and surveys. After consulting lifecycle marketing specialists, the author concluded that the new approach should favor a simple, front-loaded core sequence with limited branching, measure activation, usage, and revenue rather than email engagement alone, use holdout groups and larger experiments, and separate long-term brand nurture into a recurring loop. The redesigned emails will focus on user problems and PostHog AI and MCP capabilities rather than prescribed product adoption paths, personalize experiences partly by account type, simplify cross-selling around behavioral needs, and include accessible, agent-readable formats such as plain text, alt text, and UTMs. Rather than restricting email ownership to marketing, PostHog intends to make workflows visible, understandable, and editable across the company so that knowledge and feedback are not concentrated with one person, while tracking the results of the changes publicly.

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