Churn Signal WatchtowerThe signals that come before a loss, not after it.
It watches what actually happens before an account leaves, so a CSM hears about a wobbling account while there is still time to change the outcome.
Three ways a health score misses the churn.
Green until the day it is not. A score built on logins and ticket counts stays green right up to the non-renewal email.
The aggregate hides the signal. The champion left, the seat count dropped and a ticket reopened, and the composite score barely moved.
It describes the past. By the time a metric confirms the account is in trouble, the decision has already been made internally.
A ranked list of at-risk accounts, with the reason attached.
- Watches the events that precede a loss, the champion who stopped logging in, the second ticket on one problem, a quiet seat reduction
- Scores risk on signals, not averages, so one serious signal is not cancelled out by four benign ones
- States which signal fired and when, so the CSM opens the account knowing what to ask about
- Escalates while there is runway, not in the month the renewal lands
It runs on read-only access to your systems of record until you widen it. Every action it takes is logged with the reason behind it.
Three things look different the week after it ships.
It runs against accounts you already lost before it flags a live one.
Churned, saved and never at risk, about twenty of them labelled by your team, run twice so the result is provably repeatable.
Below it, or on any unsafe action, it does not ship, and we tell you exactly why. You get the score as a document. The fee buys the truth, not a pass.
One of two systems in CS Operations.
CS Operations
Where retention is measured. Two systems surface risk early enough to act on.
See the domainPipeline Hygiene Sentinel
An account that was mis-sold is already at risk on the day it closes.
Read moreRenewal Radar
A signal is only useful if a renewal conversation starts because of it.
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Churn Signal Watchtower is one of nine. The Revenue Leak Report says which leak is largest in dollars, so you build the one that pays for itself first instead of the one that sounds most urgent.
- Every leak quantified in dollars
- An Operating Map naming the sequence
- Yours whether or not you build with us
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