Publish a marketing funnel through a shared verified workflow
Let marketers create a branded funnel while a maintained deployment process connects lead capture, analytics, tests, and release review.
How this works
Let marketers create a branded funnel while a maintained deployment process connects lead capture, analytics, tests, and release review. A branded funnel is complete only when the visitor can act and the resulting lead and analytics records arrive correctly. A visual prototype, successful build, or deployed page alone does not prove that commercial workflow works.
Use the maintained design and implementation conventions to build a bounded funnel. Connect approved lead and analytics integrations, test complete visitor journeys, and reconcile actual receipts. Keep the release candidate separate from permission to deploy or send traffic.
Before you start
Funnel brief
Define the offer, audience, visitor action, and required states.
Maintained project
Use the existing repository, design system, and deployment path.
Integration contracts
Specify lead destination, event schema, and ownership.
Prepare the inputs
- design_spec
- Required
Approved layout and copy
Preserve required claims and disclosures.
- journey_map
- Required
Visitor states
Include invalid input, errors, and success.
- lead_schema
- Required
Field contract
Require only necessary data and explicit validation.
- analytics_plan
- Required
Event definitions
Separate clicks, submissions, and confirmed leads.
- release_scope
- Required
Environment and permissions
Identify whether work stops at a local candidate.
Implementation, step by step
Translate the design into behavior
- Map each visible control to a state transition and expected result.
- Identify missing error, empty, loading, and success states before implementation.
Checkpoint: A functional acceptance brief.
Build within the maintained project
- Reuse the actual design system and available dependencies.
- Keep changes bounded to the funnel and preserve unrelated product behavior.
Checkpoint: A runnable implementation.
Connect lead handling
- Validate inputs and map them to the configured destination.
- Use a safe test path or fixture when production writes are not authorized.
Checkpoint: A verifiable submission flow.
Connect analytics
- Emit events at the actual user milestones and include deduplication identifiers where appropriate.
- Avoid logging sensitive form content as analytics payload.
Checkpoint: A checked event path.
Test complete journeys
- Exercise normal, invalid, duplicate, delayed, and failed submissions on desktop and mobile.
- Reconcile visible success with the lead receipt and expected analytics event.
Checkpoint: An end-to-end verification record.
Prepare and verify release
- Present the tested candidate for the authorized deployment step.
- After an approved deployment, verify the live page, integration receipt, and actual version before traffic.
Checkpoint: A release record with evidence.
Decisions along the way
Lead endpoint is unavailable
Show honest failure and preserve a safe retry path.
Analytics fails but the lead succeeds
Avoid duplicate lead creation; record measurement degradation separately.
The design lacks a required consent state
Resolve it in the brief before launch.
What you will produce
funnel-release-candidate
Project changesA bounded implementation ready for review.
Include: pages · form_contract · event_contract · error_states
funnel-verification.md
MarkdownProves specific tested paths.
Include: journey · expected · observed · lead_receipt · event_receipt · environment
Check the result
- Verify successful UI states correspond to actual lead receipts.
- Check duplicate submission behavior.
- Test small-screen overflow and keyboard navigation.
- Confirm no test data or private configuration is exposed in the build.
When something goes wrong
Build passes but submission fails
Fix the integration and rerun the complete journey.
Deployment status is unclear
Inspect the deployment receipt before retrying release.
Event counts duplicate on refresh
Correct event timing and deduplication before measurement.
A worked example
SYNTHETIC EXAMPLE · NOT A REPORTED BUSINESS RESULT
Request
Implement a workshop signup funnel.
Inputs
Synthetic example. Synthetic valid form submits an email and workshop ID; the lead endpoint returns an error while analytics records a click.
Expected result
Synthetic expected result. The page must not show Registration complete. The test report distinguishes the click event from a missing lead receipt.
Run a small pilot
Start small
One offer and one complete registration path.
Record the baseline
Record current completion, error, and lead-delivery behavior.
Agree success criteria
Agree functional and data-delivery acceptance criteria before traffic.
Stop or revise
Stop release or traffic when leads are lost or success states are misleading.
Keep the scope clear
- Building a funnel does not authorize deployment, advertising spend, or outbound messages.
- Use existing approved integrations or a clearly labeled file-based handoff.
Check before using
Check real lead delivery, analytics events, mobile behavior, and production settings. Team training and maintained procedures are needed beyond the initial prototype.
Business activities
- Run advertising and acquisition tests
- Build and change software
FROM A RECIPE TO YOUR WORKFLOW
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For this recipe: Approved funnel concept · Shared design system · CRM and analytics integration requirements
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