Teaching Funnels To Understand Non-Linear Customer Journeys

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Linear funnels miss branching journeys, competing goals and abandoned paths. A graph-based framework can model customer behaviour more accurately.
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Traditional funnel analytics forces irregular customer journeys into fixed sequences. GoalFlow instead represents milestones as a graph and generates reusable pipelines from structured definitions, although its anchoring rules and route metrics need clearer and internally consistent explanations.