Growth systems for SaaS

Turn the demand you already have into revenue.

Groundhog Lab builds the customer-data and lifecycle systems that convert more of your leads, trials, and users into paying customers — and hands your team a growth engine they can run without engineering.

A 2-week diagnostic + 90-day build plan · no engineering lift
What we build for you YOUR STACK
Unified customer data
One profile of every lead, user & account you can trust.
Behavioral targeting
Reach the right user with the right message at the right moment.
Lifecycle & activation
Sequences that turn signups and leads into paying customers.
Measurement you trust
Know what's working — and what to do next.
Your team runs it. No engineering queue.
Built for growth-stage SaaS — founders, growth, lifecycle & product leaders. Operating experience · Doximity · The Athletic · Sortly · Hotwire
Why revenue stalls

You don't have a demand problem. You have a conversion problem.

Most growth-stage SaaS teams already have the leads, trials, and users they need. Revenue stalls before it converts — because the data to target well lives out of reach, and every fix waits in the engineering queue.

Leads & past customers going cold
Never enriched, segmented, re-engaged, or expanded — so demand you already paid for quietly decays.
Free users that never activate
Signups experience no value moment, so they never become paid — and you never learn why.
Growth blocked on data
Every campaign waits on analysts or engineering — so good ideas die in the backlog.
What we offer

One system, three stages.

A progression, not a menu. Most teams start with the audit. Each stage makes the next cheaper and faster.

Mapping a data platform strategy on a whiteboard
Sources → ingestion → storage → transform → presentation — the spine under every build.
01Diagnose 02Build 03Compound
01
DIAGNOSE

Growth Systems Audit

We pinpoint exactly where revenue stalls in your funnel — and what's stopping your team from fixing it.

You get

A clear map of your biggest conversion gaps, the data behind them, and a prioritized 90-day plan.

02
BUILD

Growth System

We build the data and decision systems that convert more users — and the sequences your team runs without waiting on engineering.

Enrichment Identity resolution Behavioral segments Lifecycle journeys Email activation Sales signals
How it works
Connect Enrich Sequence Measure Iterate ↺
03
COMPOUND

AI-Native Data Function

We make it durable, so growth is never blocked on data again.

Reusable, trustworthy data models
Self-serve data access for the team
AI-assisted workflows your team owns
You get

A data function that keeps your growth systems reliable, usable, and improving.

FoundationAI-native data operations runs under every stage Instrumentation · Identity · Modeling · Governance · Measurement
Proof

The same pattern, proven across products.

Across a decade of operating roles, one repeatable pattern: trustworthy behavioral data, reusable decision rules, targeted action, measurable conversion.

Results from roles held at each company. Full context shared on a call.

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Chloe Liu, founder of Groundhog Lab
Founder & Principal
Who's behind this

Hi, I'm Chloe Liu.

For over a decade I've built the data and growth systems behind SaaS conversion — from the first data hire at The Athletic through its acquisition by The New York Times, to transforming Sortly's data function and growth engine. Earlier, data science at Doximity, Lumosity, and Hotwire.

The pattern was always the same: the demand was there, but the data to act on it lived out of reach. Groundhog Lab is that fix, productized — so your team never waits on engineering to grow.

I lead every engagement personally, and bring in a trusted bench of specialists — data engineering, lifecycle, analytics — when a build calls for it. You get senior judgment, not a handoff.

Built The Athletic's data team 1→16 VP Data & Growth · Sortly Co-founder · Aetherial.ai MBA · M.A. Statistics
Book a Growth Systems Audit → Connect on LinkedIn ↗
Chloe Liu speaking at a conference
Speaks & writes

On growth systems, behavioral data, and lifecycle — from conference stages to field notes growth and data leaders actually use.

Connect on LinkedIn ↗
Resources

Go deeper before you commit.

Whitepapers, teardowns, and field guides on building growth systems. Ungated — read it, use it, share it.

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Whitepaper
The AI-Native Growth Stack
Case study
From signups to revenue
Field guide
Inside the 90-day build plan
A working session with a growth team
How we work

Embedded with your team — not handed to a queue.

We build alongside your growth, product, and data people — then hand them a system they own and run without waiting on engineering.

See exactly what we'd build for you.

A Growth Systems Audit gives you a clear plan to convert more of your existing users — a map of your biggest gaps and a 90-day build plan, before you commit to a build.

Book a Growth Systems Audit → or connect on LinkedIn