From Funnel to Gravity The Problem With Funnels Diagrams FAQ Glossary View the Framework

The Gravity Funnel, drawn.

The same framework in pictures. Every diagram on this site, collected in one place: the funnel as it was drawn, the behavior it could not hold, and the gravity that replaced its mechanics.

INTAKE stage stage stage exit exit re-entry closed

Neat stages, one direction. The cyan paths are what customers actually did: entering sideways, leaving early, re-entering later. The drawing was clean. The behavior was not.

the drawn path intended exit sideways entries early exits re-entry, months later

Real customers never behaved linearly. They entered from the sides, left before the bottom, and came back later from a new direction. The funnel can draw none of this.

ASSUMED OBSERVED enters, leaves, returns

Same start, same goal. The funnel assumed the top path. Customers walked the bottom one, pausing and re-entering as trust and timing shifted.

decision orbit tightens as trust compounds

Movement, not stages. The customer orbits. Each trusted, relevant signal narrows the orbit until a decision becomes the natural outcome.

pulled, not pushed

Mass creates pull. Visibility, repeated exposure, authority, and reputation accumulate until a brand has gravity. Attention falls toward it on its own.

PUSH PULL forced down pulled in

The whole shift, in one frame. The linear funnel forces movement downward. The Gravity Funnel builds mass so movement comes inward, on its own.

ad review referral AI visibility search email customer motion complexity overlap

Six funnels, one customer. Mapped together, separate funnels overlap and collapse into the motion the funnel was trying to avoid admitting.

traditional funnel multi-funnel systems customer motion trust compounds the gravity funnel

One continuous line. Each shape was a response to behavior the previous one could not explain, ending at the funnel reframed around gravity.

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