We've lost curiosity about users

By
Mukund Kabra

"We've lost curiosity about users" is usually a symptom, not the root cause. Clarify who you win with, the promised outcome, and the proof. Then align product, sales, and performance around one narrative.

Category:
Positioning
Reading time:
2
min read
Published on:
January 24, 2026

We've lost curiosity about users

Problem

You used to talk about users all the time. Now conversations are mostly about channels, targets, and delivery. The team is busy shipping and scaling, but the understanding of why users behave the way they do is fading. Feedback becomes a support queue, not a source of insight. Marketing runs campaigns without fresh learning, product builds without clear behavior signals, and churn gets explained away instead of studied. Over time, you lose the ability to spot what users will do next, and growth becomes harder to sustain.

Insight

Most companies do not lose users, they lose curiosity. As teams grow, they replace discovery with assumptions and velocity with certainty. They rely on old personas and past wins, even as the market shifts. The result is a blind spot: you stop noticing friction, hesitations, and unmet needs that show up quietly in behavior. Without an active discovery loop, you only react when metrics break. Curiosity is not a nice to have, it is the input that keeps positioning, onboarding, lifecycle, and product decisions aligned with reality.

How Velocity Approaches It

Velocity rebuilds curiosity into a system. We instrument the journey so behavior is visible, then run structured discovery to understand what that behavior means. We identify the moments where intent drops, where trust weakens, and where expectations mismatch delivery. Then we translate those insights into testable changes across messaging, funnel, and product experience. We set a cadence that keeps learning continuous, not episodic. If your team feels far from the user, we will help you get close again, and keep it that way.

Tags:  
Brand Consistency System; Brand Guidelines; Design System; Messaging Consistency; Visual Identity; Brand Governance

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