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Grow meaningful products

By leveraging PLG and enhancing UX quality, together.

I’m Kate Syuma – a Founder at Growthmates, Growth Advisor, ex-Miro Head of Growth Design, where I started as a founding member in a Growth Team, and passed through hypergrowth from Startup (50 people) to Series C Unicorn (≈2000 people, $17.5B valuation).

Being in Product Growth for 6+ years, I continuously sought to connect with industry leaders to gain fresh perspectives and insights.

This personal aspiration became the foundation for Growthmates – a platform for learning from industry leaders and an advising practice that guides companies in growing meaningful products by leveraging PLG and enhancing UX quality, together.

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For Businesses: helping you grow meaningful products by leveraging PLG and enhancing UX quality, together.

Activation & User Onboarding Audit in 3 weeks

Uncover growth opportunities and improvements to drive Activation metrics with uplifting UX quality of the entire Onboarding experience.

  • Audit of self-serve onboarding flow with 5-step Growth Framework developed by Kate Syuma 
  • 3 Consulting sessions on Zoom with your team
  • 2 Competitors / Best practices analysis
  • Analysis of your team inputs (problems, existing data, past experiments)
  • Hypotheses and UX Improvementts for uncovered Growth opportunities 
  • Access to best practices database and Onboarding Toolkit 

€7,500 one-time payment (€6,500 for early-stage startups)

*max 2 projects/mo (1 spot left)                                                                                  

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Growth Advising (PLG, Research, UX) from 3 months

Personalised frameworks and best practices for your team to drive your Product Growth holistically (Activation, Retention, ARR) with levelling up product quality and team expertise.

  • Weekly 60-min sessions and async collaboration with Kate Syuma
  • Uncover growth strategies and solutions across Activation, Retention, Monetisation
  • Hiring support, defining the optimal teams structure for Growth & Product Org
  • Holistic UX analysis to raise the quality bar
  • Workshops to up-skill the teams on PLG, UX and User Research
  • Improving team processes (OKRs Traction, Design Sprints, Learn & Iterate sessions)

€10.000/mo (€7,500 for early-stage startups)

*max 2 clients at a time (1 spot left)
            
                                                                        

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Growth Team Workshop / AMA-sessions

Empower your team with new tools like 5-step Growth Framework and Growth Design Sprint. Get a fresh perspective with facilitated Q&A sessions.

Starts at €2,500

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Growthmates Podcast & Newsletter Sponsorship

Feature your product to the engaged audience on Growthmates podcast, newsletters, and industry reports. Previous sponsors Appcues, Command.ai

Sponsored package (4 issues) at €1,999/mo

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Need ad-hoc support?

Book 1 advising session for your burning questions to get some insights ASAP.

Starts at €590 / 1-hour session

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For Individuals: get guidance to progress in your career to leadership position and advance your expertise in PLG.

1:1 Coaching / Mentorship

For individuals and leaders in teams who’re seeking guidance to foster career growth, IC→ Leadership transition, and want to receive regular feedback to improve their work.

*package from 8 sessions
for 2+ months period

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Self-Service Onboarding Course

Get frameworks to improve your user onboarding that becomes the base for your product growth.

Next cohort: Q1 2025.

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Experience

10 years of experience in creating and scaling digital products, including over 6 years dedicated to Product-led Growth.

I’ve been a Head of Growth Product Design at Miro and spent over 6 years. I’ve been part of a founding Miro Growth Team from Startup at Seed round (50+ people) to Series C Unicorn (2000+ people), built a team of 10+ members for the Growth stream, was a part of Growth Leadership, created experiences for the whole funnel from Activation to Monetisation, and built new verticals like Miroverse.

Key outcomes from my 6 years at Miro:

1. Covered the entire funnel in Growth

Covering Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Monetisation, and Community Platforms that led to sustainable ARR growth.

2. Scaled the Growth and Design functions

From one team to a business unit of 5 sub-streams in Growth (170+ individuals), scaled design team from 1 to 11 people, hired ICs and Group leaders for Growth.

3. Created and validated 200+ experiments

Drove key business metrics for the whole funnel from Activation to Monetisation.

4. Introduced User Research processes in a Startup

Conducted over 10 research projects to drive new strategic launches: Mind Map, Visual Notes, Smart search, and Notifications.

5. Built 0 → 1 experiences like Miroverse

Led and strategized design efforts for “0 to 1” strategic initiatives, such as Miroverse, Self-serve Monetization, and Onboarding experience.

6. Activation and virality metrics x2 growth

Improved Sharing experience to support a multi-player collaboration use case that led to x2 virality metrics growth.

7. From Free Trial to Freemium Redesign

Redesigned business model from Free Trial to Freemium that supported future product scale from 1 to 50+ mln users.

8. Established Growth team processes

Hiring processes, Experiments reflections, Design and Product Reviews, Sprints, User Research and Discovery.

Case Studies & Collaborations

The Evolution of Miro Onboarding

How the approach evolved with examples and key learnings across 3 phases:

Phase 1: Startup learnings [50 people, 1 million users]
Phase 2: Hyper-Growth and Big Bets [150 → 1000 people, 3 → 10 million users]
Phase 3: Growth at scale and the power of smart iterations [≈1,800 people, ≈50 million users]
Bonus: The approach to the activation metric and how to define it.

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Antler VC: Supported 10+ early-stage startups

Supported 10+ startups worldwide as a part of the Antler advisory community for almost a year. Provided advice on introducing PLG strategy, uncovering opportunities for business growth with focus on establishing high-quality UX. Focused on early-stage startups in European markets.

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Grammarly. A series of AMA-sessions with Growth stream.

Hosted a series of AMA-sessions with Grammarly Growth Team to provide actionable advice and best practices with the focus on Activation, User Onboarding, and building Growth team processes at scale.

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Manychat (Series A) — Growth Advising

Hosted a series of AMA-sessions with Grammarly Growth Team to provide actionable advice and best practices with the focus on Activation, User Onboarding, and building Growth team processes at scale.

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Tutorful (Series A): Onboarding Audit

Conducted a holistic audit of Onboarding journeys, identified key CR to registration opportunities with tackling UX issues. Helped the team understand key user behaviour patterns and shape a robust growth-centric roadmap for Activation flows to increase CR to registration and Activation metrics.

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