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PostHog tells you what users do in your product. KPI Tree tells you what that means for your business.

PostHog gives you event analytics, funnels, feature flag experiments, and session replays. Powerful for product teams - but product metrics in isolation miss the full picture. KPI Tree takes your PostHog data and maps it into causal metric trees: feature adoption feeds into engagement, engagement feeds into retention, retention feeds into expansion revenue. Each metric has an owner. Statistical correlations connect product behaviour to business outcomes. You stop shipping features and hoping - you start measuring what they actually drive. Connect via MCP to pull PostHog data directly, point KPI Tree at your existing data warehouse where PostHog data already lands, or let our Professional Services team build the AI foundations for you.

From connection to product analytics accountability in under an hour

KPI Tree offers three ways to connect your PostHog data: pull it directly via MCP with no warehouse needed, connect your existing data warehouse where PostHog data already lands, or let our Professional Services team build you turn-key AI foundations in a matter of weeks (data warehouse on Snowflake/BigQuery, ELT with Fivetran, all modelled in dbt with a semantic layer).

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Connect your PostHog data

Three ways to get started, depending on your stack.

MCP
MCP

Pull metrics from PostHog directly through the Model Context Protocol.

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Warehouse

Connect your existing warehouse where PostHog data already lands.

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Professional Services

Our professional services team can build you turn-key AI foundations in a matter of weeks. Data warehouse on Snowflake/BigQuery, ELT with Fivetran, all modelled in dbt with a semantic layer.

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Map metrics from your PostHog data

Define metrics from your PostHog tables - daily active users, feature adoption rates, funnel conversion rates, time to activation, session frequency, retention cohorts, and custom event counts. Use SQL, your dbt semantic layer, or natural language with Cortex Analyst.

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Build metric trees and assign ownership

Arrange product analytics metrics into causal trees. Link feature adoption to engagement. Connect engagement to retention. Map retention to expansion and revenue. Assign RACI owners - your product manager owns feature adoption metrics, your growth engineer owns activation funnel metrics, your VP Product owns retention and revenue contribution.

Product analytics metrics that connect to revenue, not just usage

PostHog excels at event-level product analytics. KPI Tree adds the layer that connects user behaviour to business outcomes with causal structure, ownership, and statistical rigour.

Causal trees from feature usage to revenue impact

Map how feature adoption drives engagement, how engagement drives retention, and how retention drives expansion revenue. When retention drops, trace it through the tree - is it a feature adoption issue, an activation funnel break, or an engagement decline in a specific cohort? The tree isolates the cause instead of leaving your team guessing.

Feature flag impact beyond A/B test results

PostHog's experimentation tools tell you which variant won on a target metric. KPI Tree shows you the downstream impact across your full metric tree. A feature flag experiment might lift activation by 5% - but KPI Tree correlates that with 30-day retention, support ticket volume, and expansion revenue to show the complete business impact.

Product metric ownership across engineering, product, and growth

Assign RACI ownership at the metric level. Your product manager owns feature adoption and engagement. Your growth engineer owns activation funnel conversion. Your VP Product owns retention and revenue contribution. When a metric moves, the right person is notified with statistical context - not lost in a Slack thread about a PostHog chart.

Connect product behaviour to business outcomes in a single tree.

PostHog dashboards show product metrics - DAU, feature adoption, funnel conversion. Your revenue platform shows MRR and churn. KPI Tree bridges the gap by mapping both into a single causal tree. Feature adoption feeds into engagement. Engagement feeds into retention cohorts. Retention feeds into expansion revenue and churn rate. When feature adoption for a key workflow drops, you do not just see the product metric decline - you see the projected impact on retention and revenue, and the metric owner is already investigating.

  • Causal trees linking feature adoption, engagement, retention, and revenue
  • Combine PostHog product data with Stripe/Chargebee revenue data in a unified tree
  • Projected impact analysis when upstream product metrics change
  • Period-over-period comparisons with statistical significance
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Correlations that reveal which features actually drive retention.

You ship features continuously. Some drive retention. Some are used once and forgotten. Some actively increase churn through complexity. KPI Tree runs statistical analysis across your full product metric tree - Pearson correlations, Granger causality, partial correlations - to surface which features have a real, measurable relationship with retention and revenue. Discover that users who adopt your collaboration features within the first week have 3x higher 90-day retention - while your most-requested reporting feature has no statistical relationship with retention at all.

  • Pearson correlations between feature adoption and retention cohorts
  • Granger causality testing to identify features that lead retention changes
  • Partial correlations controlling for user segment and acquisition channel
  • Statistical significance thresholds to separate signal from shipping velocity
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Every product metric has an owner. Every regression gets a response.

Product analytics involves product managers, growth engineers, designers, and leadership. KPI Tree assigns RACI ownership at the metric level so each person is accountable for the metrics they can influence. When activation funnel conversion drops after a deploy, your growth engineer is notified. When feature adoption stalls in an enterprise segment, your PM gets the alert. Actions are tracked against the specific metric they target and verified for impact after the fact.

  • RACI ownership from event-level metrics to company-level retention
  • Push notifications via Slack, email, WhatsApp, or SMS with statistical context
  • Action tracking tied to specific product metric movements
  • Impact verification closes the loop between ship and outcome
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Product event data, analysed without querying your warehouse every time.

PostHog generates high-volume event data. Traditional BI tools query those event tables on every dashboard load - slow and expensive. KPI Tree syncs metrics from your warehouse on a configurable schedule and runs all downstream analytics off-warehouse. Your product team gets instant access to correlations, comparisons, and anomaly detection. Your data team stops explaining why the product dashboard takes 30 seconds to load.

  • One scheduled query per metric, regardless of team size
  • All analytics computation runs off-warehouse
  • Handles high-volume PostHog event tables without expensive full-table scans
  • Works alongside your existing dbt semantic layer if you have one
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How KPI Tree uses PostHog data differently

PostHog has excellent product analytics - events, funnels, experiments, replays. KPI Tree connects those product metrics to business outcomes with causation, ownership, and accountability.

From product dashboards to business impact trees

PostHog shows you how users behave in your product. KPI Tree connects those behaviours to the business outcomes they drive - retention, expansion, revenue, churn. That is not a different visualisation of the same data. It is the layer that turns product analytics into business intelligence.

Feature flag impact across the full metric tree

PostHog experiments measure a target metric. KPI Tree shows you the ripple effect across your entire metric tree - how a 5% activation lift from a feature flag affects 30-day retention, support volume, and expansion revenue. Full-tree impact analysis, not single-metric A/B results.

Cross-team accountability for product-led growth

Product-led growth involves product, engineering, growth, marketing, and customer success. KPI Tree gives each team ownership of the metrics they influence and correlates them across team boundaries - so product decisions are accountable to business outcomes.

Metrics you can track

27 PostHog metrics ready to add to your metric trees.

A/B Test Performance

Product Analytics

Metric Definition

A/B test performance evaluates the outcomes of PostHog experiments by comparing engagement, conversion, and retention metrics across control and treatment variants. It determines whether feature changes produce statistically significant improvements and quantifies their impact on downstream business metrics.

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Bounce Rate

Product Analytics

Metric Definition

Bounce Rate = (Single-Page Sessions / Total Sessions) x 100

Bounce rate in PostHog measures the percentage of sessions where a user visits a single page or screen and leaves without triggering any additional events. It indicates how effectively your entry points engage users enough to explore further.

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Churn Rate

Product Analytics

Metric Definition

Churn Rate = (Users Lost During Period / Users at Start of Period) x 100

Churn rate measures the percentage of users who stop using your product within a defined period, based on PostHog event data. It quantifies user attrition by identifying users whose activity drops below a defined threshold, providing a behavioural measure of retention failure.

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Cohort Retention Analysis

Product Analytics

Metric Definition

Cohort retention analysis groups PostHog users by their signup or first-use date and tracks what percentage remain active over subsequent days, weeks, and months. It reveals retention curves per cohort, showing whether product changes improve or degrade long-term user retention.

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Conversion Rate

Product Analytics

Metric Definition

Conversion Rate = (Users Completing Action / Total Users in Cohort) x 100

Conversion rate in PostHog measures the percentage of users who complete a defined conversion action - such as signing up, activating a feature, upgrading to a paid plan, or completing a key workflow. It quantifies how effectively your product converts users at each stage of the journey.

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Daily Active Users

Product Analytics

Metric Definition

Daily active users counts the unique users who trigger at least one qualifying event in PostHog within a calendar day. It serves as the foundational measure of product engagement, indicating how many users find enough value in your product to return and use it daily.

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Drop-Off Analysis

Product Analytics

Metric Definition

Drop-off analysis identifies the specific steps within PostHog funnels where users disengage or fail to proceed. It quantifies attrition at each stage to pinpoint the features, screens, or interactions that cause users to abandon their journey before reaching the desired outcome.

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Event Frequency Analysis

Product Analytics

Metric Definition

Event frequency analysis examines how often users trigger specific PostHog events within defined time periods. It reveals usage intensity patterns - distinguishing between casual users who perform an action once and power users who perform it dozens of times - and identifies the frequency thresholds that predict retention.

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Feature Adoption Rate

Product Analytics

Metric Definition

Feature Adoption Rate = (Users Who Used Feature / Total Eligible Users) x 100

Feature adoption rate measures the percentage of eligible users who have used a specific feature within a defined period after its release or their first login. It quantifies how effectively your product introduces users to new and existing capabilities.

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Feature Flag Impact Analysis

Product Analytics

Metric Definition

Feature flag impact analysis evaluates how PostHog feature flags and gradual rollouts affect engagement, conversion, retention, and revenue metrics. It measures the business impact of enabling or disabling features for specific user segments, providing evidence for rollout decisions.

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Feature Stickiness

Product Analytics

Metric Definition

Feature Stickiness = (Feature DAU / Feature MAU) x 100

Feature stickiness measures the ratio of daily active users to monthly active users for a specific feature, expressed as a percentage. A higher ratio indicates that users who discover a feature return to use it regularly, suggesting it provides ongoing value rather than one-time utility.

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Funnel Conversion Analysis

Product Analytics

Metric Definition

Funnel conversion analysis tracks user progression through defined multi-step journeys in PostHog - from initial action through intermediate steps to final conversion. It measures the conversion rate at each step and identifies where the largest opportunities for improvement exist.

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Goal Completion Rate

Product Analytics

Metric Definition

Goal Completion Rate = (Users Completing Goal / Total Users in Cohort) x 100

Goal completion rate measures the percentage of PostHog users who achieve a predefined product objective - such as completing onboarding, creating their first project, inviting a team member, or reaching a usage milestone. It quantifies how effectively your product guides users toward its intended value.

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Monthly Active Users

Product Analytics

Metric Definition

Monthly active users counts the unique users who trigger at least one qualifying event in PostHog within a 30-day period. It provides a broad measure of your product's reach and the size of your engaged user base, serving as a primary growth indicator.

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Page/Screen Views

Product Analytics

Metric Definition

Page and screen views measure the total number of times specific pages or screens are viewed within your product, as tracked by PostHog. This metric reveals which areas of your product receive the most attention and how users navigate through your interface.

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Session Duration

Product Analytics

Metric Definition

Average Session Duration = Total Session Time / Total Sessions

Session duration measures the average time users spend in your product during a single PostHog session, calculated as the time between the first and last event. It indicates engagement depth and whether users spend enough time to derive value from your product.

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Session Frequency

Product Analytics

Metric Definition

Average Session Frequency = Total Sessions / Unique Users (per period)

Session frequency measures how often individual users return to your product within a defined period, based on PostHog session data. It distinguishes between users who visit daily, weekly, or sporadically, revealing the cadence of habitual product usage.

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Survey Response Analysis

Product Analytics

Metric Definition

Survey response analysis evaluates PostHog in-product survey results - including NPS, satisfaction scores, and open-ended feedback - alongside quantitative product usage data. It connects qualitative user sentiment to behavioural patterns to reveal why users behave the way they do.

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Time Between Events

Product Analytics

Metric Definition

Time between events measures the duration between two specific PostHog events in a user's session or journey - such as the time between signup and first project creation, or between feature discovery and first use. It reveals workflow efficiency and user momentum through your product.

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Time to First Value

Product Analytics

Metric Definition

Time to first value measures the duration between a user's first interaction with your product and the moment they complete a defined value-delivering action - their "aha moment" - as tracked in PostHog. It quantifies how quickly your product demonstrates its worth to new users.

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Trend Analysis

Product Analytics

Metric Definition

Trend analysis examines how PostHog metrics change over time - daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly. It identifies growth trajectories, seasonal patterns, and anomalies in product usage, engagement, and conversion metrics to inform strategic decisions and surface issues early.

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User Activation Rate

Product Analytics

Metric Definition

Activation Rate = (Users Completing Activation Actions / Total New Signups) x 100

User activation rate measures the percentage of new signups who complete a defined set of activation actions in PostHog within a specified timeframe. Activation actions typically represent the behaviours that correlate with long-term retention, such as completing onboarding, creating a first project, or inviting a colleague.

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User Flow Analysis

Product Analytics

Metric Definition

User flow analysis maps the paths users take through your product in PostHog, from entry point through feature interactions to exit or conversion. It identifies the most common navigation patterns, unexpected detours, and the paths that most frequently lead to activation, retention, or churn.

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User Journey Analysis

Product Analytics

Metric Definition

User journey analysis maps the complete multi-session experience of PostHog users over their lifecycle - from first visit through onboarding, feature discovery, habitual usage, and expansion or churn. It reveals the long-term patterns that distinguish users who succeed from those who leave.

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User Retention Rate

Product Analytics

Metric Definition

Retention Rate = (Users Active in Period / Users Active in Previous Period) x 100

User retention rate measures the percentage of users who return to your product within a defined period after their first use, based on PostHog event data. It is the inverse of churn and the primary indicator of whether your product delivers sustained value over time.

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User Segmentation Analysis

Product Analytics

Metric Definition

User segmentation analysis divides PostHog users into distinct groups based on behaviour, attributes, or lifecycle stage and compares their engagement, conversion, and retention patterns. It reveals which user segments deliver the most value and which require different product strategies.

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Weekly Active Users

Product Analytics

Metric Definition

Weekly active users counts the unique users who trigger at least one qualifying event in PostHog within a 7-day period. It provides a mid-range engagement measure between daily and monthly activity, capturing users who engage regularly but not necessarily every day.

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Common questions

Yes to all three, and the connection method you pick depends on how you already run PostHog. PostHog Cloud customers get the fastest time-to-value via MCP: KPI Tree queries events, persons, groups, and cohorts through the PostHog API, and the first metric tree is usually live the same day. Self-hosted PostHog teams running the native ClickHouse backend point KPI Tree at that ClickHouse cluster so no additional ETL step is needed. Teams that have enabled the PostHog BigQuery, Snowflake, or Redshift export run warehouse-first, and KPI Tree reads the replicated event tables directly. If none of those setups exist yet, our professional services team will build the warehouse, configure the PostHog export, and ship a dbt semantic layer for product analytics metrics.
Any metric you can derive from your PostHog warehouse tables - daily/weekly/monthly active users, feature adoption rates, funnel conversion rates, time to activation, session frequency, retention cohorts, event counts, and any custom event or property. If it is in your warehouse, you can build a metric from it.
Yes - that is the core value. Build a metric tree where PostHog product behaviour feeds into the same tree as Stripe revenue, Google Analytics acquisition, and Customer.io lifecycle engagement. KPI Tree runs correlations across all of them to show how product metrics drive business outcomes.
No. PostHog is essential for event-level product analytics, funnel analysis, feature flag experiments, and session replay. KPI Tree adds the layer above: connecting product metrics to business outcomes with causal trees, RACI ownership, and cross-tool statistical analysis that PostHog was not designed to provide.
If you use MCP or already have PostHog data in a warehouse KPI Tree supports, setup takes under an hour. Connect via MCP or point KPI Tree at your warehouse, define metrics from your PostHog data, and start building trees. If you need a warehouse built from scratch, our Professional Services team handles that for you.
KPI Tree queries your warehouse and processes aggregated metric values in its own engine for analytics. Raw PostHog event data - individual user actions, session recordings, feature flag assignments - stays in your warehouse. All warehouse security remains fully enforced.
You can define metrics that correspond to PostHog experiment variants and track their impact across your full metric tree. This goes beyond PostHog's built-in experiment results by showing how a winning variant affects downstream metrics - retention, revenue, support tickets - not just the experiment's target metric.
You have two options. Use MCP to pull PostHog data directly into KPI Tree - no warehouse needed, ideal for getting started quickly. Or engage our Professional Services team, who will build a production-grade data foundation (Snowflake/BigQuery, Fivetran, and dbt) tailored to your stack, giving you richer historical data and the ability to join PostHog product metrics with revenue and marketing data.

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