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What does Optimizely do?

Tool: Optimizely

The Tech: A/B Testing Platform

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Their Pitch

AI-powered digital experiences that turn heads

Our Take

It's A/B testing and feature rollouts for companies that can't afford to break their website. Think of it as training wheels for product launches — you show changes to 10% of users first instead of going all-in and praying.

Deep Dive & Reality Check

Used For

  • +**Your feature rollouts crash production at 2am** → Test with 10% of users first, catch bugs before they hit everyone, sleep through the night
  • +**You're changing button colors and headlines hoping something works** → Split-test everything, get actual data on what increases conversions
  • +**New app features confuse half your users** → Roll out gradually with feature flags, turn off instantly if things go wrong
  • +Stats Engine tells you when results are trustworthy - no more "is this sample size big enough?" guesswork
  • +Stacks multiple experiments per feature flag - test mobile vs desktop variants without separate deployments

Best For

  • >Your last three feature launches broke something and your CEO is asking uncomfortable questions
  • >You're making website changes based on gut feelings and losing money you can't measure
  • >Hit 100k+ monthly visitors and ready to spend $30k+ to stop guessing what works

Not For

  • -Teams under 50 people or sites with less than 10k monthly visitors — you need serious traffic volume for the statistics to mean anything
  • -Anyone hoping for simple drag-and-drop testing — you'll need developers to implement feature flags properly
  • -Companies wanting transparent pricing — everything is custom quotes and the add-ons will surprise your budget

Pairs With

  • *Google Analytics (where you'll verify that your conversion lift actually shows up in the real numbers)
  • *Segment (to feed customer data for personalization rules, though expect 5-10 second delays on high traffic)
  • *Slack (where your team celebrates test wins and complains about complex experiment setups)
  • *LaunchDarkly (what teams switch to when they only need feature flags without the experimentation overhead)
  • *Salesforce (to sync user segments for VIP customer personalization campaigns)
  • *Shopify (for e-commerce A/B tests on product pages and checkout flows)

The Catch

  • !That custom pricing starts around $20k/year and can hit $100k+ once you add personalization features and go over traffic limits
  • !Your developers will spend 4-8 hours on initial setup, and marketers need 1-2 weeks to master the rule stacking without breaking things
  • !The visual editor works great until you want advanced targeting — then you're back to writing code and SDK integrations

Bottom Line

Enterprise-grade experimentation that costs enterprise prices even if you're not enterprise-sized.