| name | cro-urgency-scarcity |
| description | CRO lens — is there an honest reason to act now rather than later? Surveyed by the Analyst. |
| license | Apache-2.0 |
| metadata | {"version":"1.1.0"} |
Urgency & Scarcity
Lens question: Is there a truthful reason to act now — a real deadline, limited
availability, or a cost of waiting — and is it made visible at the decision point?
Signal of the gap (DOM/RUM):
- DOM: no time/quantity framing near the action where one legitimately exists in the
authored content; or, the opposite — manipulative fake countdowns that should be
removed.
- RUM: high consideration (return visits, time-on-block) but deferred action;
visitors engage but postpone.
Variant kind it implies: CSS-only to surface an existing, real signal next to
the CTA (reposition/emphasize a deadline the author already wrote, class-gated on
body.variant-<name>). Hard constraint: urgency must be honest — never
fabricate scarcity or deadlines. A dishonest variant is an automatic Validator fail
and damages trust, which is the opposite of the objective.
Related Skills
- content-modeling: where a real deadline/quantity lives in the authored rows/cells — the only legitimate source a variant may surface.