An e-commerce site considers adding a "Home Office" product line. Before any A/B test, size the opportunity and recommend whether to proceed.
Assumptions (last quarter): 8M monthly active buyers; 30% browse adjacent categories monthly; their baseline purchase rate is 6%; AOV 60;grossmargin2520/item; fixed setup cost 2M;variablecost1 per browsing user reached; expected conversion uplift from better relevance and supply is +15% relative among the 30% segment.
Tasks:
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Estimate the monthly impacted population, incremental orders, revenue, and gross profit; include attach effect.
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Compute break-even months and sensitivity to ±20% errors in AOV and uplift.
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Identify the 3 most critical assumptions and how you would validate each with pre-experiment analyses (logs, surveys, cohort analysis) before committing engineering resources.
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Propose the initial experiment design (targeting, success and guardrail metrics, exposure ramp) if the pre-test business case clears the hurdle.