The Hidden Friction That's Destroying Conversions
How do you actually put a dollar figure on friction? Chuck Moxley and Nick Paladino brought three guests from Blue Triangle to tackle the question they have been chasing for three years on the podcast.
Every digital team knows friction is costing them money. The hard part has always been knowing how much and where to start fixing it. Amir Rozenberg, Blue Triangle's CPO walks us through a completely reimagined platform that automates what used to take weeks. The kicker: it tells you your business could gain millions based on specific friction points, then generates engineer-ready user stories you can drop straight into Jira.
Andy Singh from customer success shares a counterintuitive insight: digital teams almost always think their biggest friction is on top-of-funnel pages that get the most traffic. Then the data comes back and it's "your login page is costing you millions" or "your search results are destroying conversion." The unknowns are where the real money sits.
Dan Revellese, who's been building this for 14 years and worked with hundreds of brands, drops a sports analogy that lands: you can have the best offense in the world, but if your defense gives up points, you lose. Digital teams are the same—technology and business have to chase the same goals or you're optimizing the wrong things.
The breakthrough here isn't just identifying friction. It's shifting culture from "we think this is the problem" to "we know this is costing us X dollars, and here's how to fix it." That shared language means fewer political battles and faster iteration.
Key Actionable Takeaways:
- Stop chasing metrics in a bubble—tie every metric to a business outcome or you're just creating noise
- AI's real superpower is speed–turn data into actionable recommendations faster than humans ever could
- Every brand is different—what worked at your last company probably won't work here, so start with humility about what you don't know
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Amir Rozenberg: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amirrozenberg/
Andy Singh: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andy-singh-082955148/
Dan Revellese: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-revellese-159953/
Nick Paladino's LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/npaladino
Chuck Moxley's LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/chuck-moxley