How persuasive are you, really?Take the Influence Assessment
For Product Teams

Build products people love — and actually use.

People sign up, look around once, and never come back.

Signup was never the hard part; the second session is. Product teams need two yeses, from users to adopt and from stakeholders to approve, and the 7 Principles give you an ethical, evidence-based playbook for both.

Dr. Robert Cialdini, founder of the Cialdini Institute

Why Product Teams Choose Cialdini

After signup, before churn

Every screen is a request. The research explains which requests users say yes to, and why — from onboarding flows to roadmap reviews.

01

Users who come back on day two

Signup is not adoption, and most onboarding optimises the wrong one. Social Proof and Commitment shape whether a first session turns into a habit.

02

Prompts that persuade without dark patterns

There is a real line between a well-designed prompt and a trick, and it is not a matter of taste. Scarcity, Authority and Liking work only when the thing they point at is true.

03

Roadmaps that survive the review

A roadmap is rejected in the framing, not the content. Pre-Suasion is how the room is thinking about tradeoffs before your first slide.

04

Persuasion your users would forgive if they noticed

The test is simple: would this still work if the user could see exactly what you were doing? Everything here passes it, and dark patterns do not.

In the Room

Learned with peers, not from a lecture.

The POP Workshop is two days of hands-on work at round tables. Participants work through each principle together and practise it on situations from their own work.

A full room of participants at round tables during a Principles of Persuasion workshop
A Principles of Persuasion workshop, 2019
Two participants discussing a case at a POP workshop table
Participants working a case together
Dr. Robert Cialdini with a full workshop cohort holding signs about the principles
A POP cohort with Dr. Cialdini
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Self-Paced

Certified Practitioner Program

Self-paced training for busy product teams. Learn the 7 Principles on your schedule and apply them directly to your current projects.

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Your Next Step

Design for the second session, not the signup.

The assessment will show which principles your product already uses, intentionally or not. That is usually a useful surprise.