Klaviyo isn't broken. The default playbook is.
The default Klaviyo playbook is built for any brand. Templated welcome series. Standard abandoned cart timing. Generic product recommendation logic. Discount-led campaigns engineered for conversion volume.
None of it is built for premium buyer psychology. Templated emails undermine the brand position you’ve spent years building. Generic abandoned cart playbooks default to “here’s a discount to come back” – which trains buyers to abandon cart deliberately and wait for the discount, eroding margin every time. Recency-frequency-monetary segmentation works for volume retail but misses the buyer-type signals that matter for premium brands.
The audit surfaces where these defaults are quietly costing you – and what to do instead.