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Date Published
Author
Kevin Garcia
Word count
810
Language
English
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None

Summary

Segment, a company that helps businesses understand and leverage customer data, has developed a product line called Personas that enables developers and marketers to build user cohorts based on data from websites, apps, or SaaS platforms. However, as customers create increasingly complex audiences, Segment's support team faced difficulties in accessing and consolidating data needed to diagnose issues. To address this, product manager Alex Millet, alongside his team, implemented Retool to create a dashboard that integrates various data sources into a single timeline. This tool allows the support team to efficiently locate and resolve customer issues by providing a detailed view of user interactions, such as product views and email openings, as well as audience segmentations. As a result, the support team can respond more quickly and accurately to customer requests, enhancing their ability to support complex audience creation and improving the overall user experience with the Personas product.