Revive Media Convoy and Compass

Convoy: Helping ad campaign creators move forward with confidence

The Problem Users were abandoning the campaign creation flow mid-process. When our team followed up, the pattern was consistent: people didn't know if what they were building would actually work, and they didn't know what steps were left before they could launch. Rather than push forward uncertain, they'd stop and go ask a coworker how they'd handled a similar campaign — pulling them out of the product entirely, sometimes for good. That told us we had two distinct problems, not one: No confidence signal. Users had no way to gauge campaign performance before committing, so they second-guessed themselves. No sense of progress. Users didn't know what was required to get to "live," so the path forward felt open-ended.

Client

Revive Media

Services

Market Research User Research Visual Design Experience Design

Industries

Ad Agency

Date

June 2026

The Research I ran user interviews with customers who churned or stalled during campaign creation and asked directly why they left. The answer wasn't a bug or a confusing UI element — it was a confidence gap. Users were making a judgment call they didn't feel equipped to make, and their instinct was to find a human who'd made that call before rather than trust the tool. We talked to 5 customers and this is what one of them said. "I didn't know exactly what to include to make the presentation and proposal land, so I asked a coworker how they'd handled it, then came back and reworked mine." The Solution Two connected interventions, addressing each problem directly: • Compass: an AI tool that predicts how well a campaign will perform before launch, giving users the confidence signal they were leaving the product to get from a coworker. • Progress navigation: a panel on the left side of the flow, showing users what they'd completed and what was still required to go live — replacing ambiguity with a clear checklist. I worked in Balsamiq for some of the rapid prototypes and quick conversations with the customer. Moved into Claude to quickly create a clickable prototype for testing And finished it up in Figma for the pixel perfect dev hand-off.

The Impact • Reduced average time-to-live for campaigns by 2 days • Strong positive reception from customers • 84% increase of campaigns going live • 66% decrease in customer help calls