Methodology

Every recommendation
earns its slot.

beacon evaluates every play against three independent gates. Most don't make it through. That's the point.

Three gates, all independent

GATE 01
Audience floor
Is it big enough to matter?

The targeted audience must clear a materiality floor, set per vertical and store size.

Fails → Considered: “audience below floor”
GATE 02
Signal strength
Is it real, or noise?

The effect must hold in your data: p < 0.05, with consistent direction across 28-, 56- and 90-day windows.

Fails → Watching: “signal still forming”
GATE 03
Prior validation
Can the dollar claim be defended?

Revenue ranges blend your observed data with validated industry priors. Unvalidated benchmarks are refused.

Fails → recommendation shows no revenue estimate

A play surfaces only when all three clear. Failing any one produces a typed reason — never silence.

What you receive each month

Recommended Nowmax 3 / month

Evidence observed on your store. Send it.

Recommended Experimentmax 2 / month

Validated industry pattern fits your data. Try it, measure it.

Consideredwith reasons

We looked. Here's exactly why we didn't recommend it.

Watchingmax 4

Signal forming, below threshold. Tracked for next month.

Sometimes the answer is: nothing this month.

When no play clears the gates, beacon says so — with the reason for every play it held back. A system that can't say "no recommendation" can't be trusted when it says "yes."

The math under the hood

Fisher's exact test

Small cohorts can't fake statistical significance.

Multi-window agreement

One lucky month never becomes a strategy.

Welch's t-test

AOV changes tested without assuming clean data.

Bayesian blending

Your data + validated priors, weighted by how much evidence exists.

BG/NBD lifetime value

Ranks which customers are actually worth contacting.

Survival analysis

Predicts when a customer is going quiet — before they're gone.

Every number on a recommendation traces back to your data, a named method, and a validated prior — auditable by your most skeptical analyst.

See how beacon would operate on your store.

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