Customer Success · Retention · Onboarding

Turn customer success into a system, so customers stay and grow.

For teams that want to bulletproof their retention, sharpen their processes and put productive playbooks in place. I install the playbooks, the health visibility and the processes you're missing, then hand a working function to your full-time team.

10+ yearsCustomer Success & account leadership across SaaS & fintech
Repeatable systemsOnboarding, health and retention, made repeatable
Outcome-ledRetention, time-to-value and expansion, by design

Two core engagements

A focused fix, or the full build. Click any playbook to see how the work unfolds.

Audit + 90-Day Retention Plan

Audit to Action

The starting point: a company where customer success is mostly reactive, with ad-hoc onboarding, informal playbooks and a limited view of account health. New customers are largely left to find their own way after signing, and the team often hears from accounts only once something has already gone wrong. Here's how to turn that around.

What the audit finds
OnboardingOften ad-hoc and improvised, not yet a system.
PlaybooksKnow-how lives in people's heads, not yet repeatable.
Mostly reactiveThe team learns about risk late, often at renewal.
Health visibilityHard to see which accounts are thriving or slipping.
The 90-day plan & playbooks
01Structured onboarding journey+

Quick wins mapped: A kickoff-to-first-value path with defined milestones and an early "quick win" tied to each customer's own goal, so value shows up in week one, not month three.

02"Executive Champion" framework+

The signature move: Identify and equip a senior sponsor inside each account, tying product usage to the outcomes they're measured on. This is what compresses time-to-value the most.

03Value-based adoption path+

Usage tied to ROI: Complex technical tasks reframed as a sequence of value milestones, so adoption is driven by outcomes the customer cares about, not feature checklists.

04Lightweight health scoring+

Risk made visible: A simple early-warning view across usage, engagement and sentiment, so risk surfaces weeks before renewal, while there's still time to act.

05Voice-of-Customer loop+

Feedback to action: A repeatable way to turn raw customer feedback into prioritised actions and product input, closing the loop instead of losing it.

What you're left with
Faster time to first valueCustomers reach the "aha" sooner
Repeatable onboardingAn engine, replacing ad-hoc effort
Proactive risk viewNo more renewal-day surprises
Is this you?

If customers sign and then go quiet, a short audit and a 90-day plan can turn guesswork into a clear path to value. Happy to talk it through and share how it works and what it costs.

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Build the Full CS Function

Onboarding → Retention → Expansion → Your first hire

The deeper engagement: onboarding, reporting, retention and expansion all reviewed or rebuilt from where they stand today, then handed to a team that can run it.

The starting point
CS functionExisting processes reviewed, not assumed.
Onboarding & reportingStructured for new accounts.
Reactive retentionAt-risk accounts often spotted late, not early.
Growth motionRenewal, upsell and cross-sell not yet defined.
What gets built
01End-to-end onboarding program+

Made consistent: A full onboarding and reporting structure with consistent kickoff, milestones and reviews across every new account.

02Health-score system in the CRM+

Early warning: A proactive scoring model flagging at-risk accounts on usage and engagement signals, so intervention starts on data, not on a hunch at renewal.

03"Rescue" outreach playbook+

Churn intercepted: A structured, personalised intervention for accounts showing risk signals: a repeatable sequence rather than ad-hoc fire-fighting.

04QBR & business-review cadence+

Aligned to outcomes: A regular review rhythm aligning each customer's goals with product adoption, keeping value visible to the people who renew the contract.

05Renewal & expansion motion+

Growth by design: Client-specific growth plans linking adoption to upsell and cross-sell, turning healthy accounts into expanding ones on a predictable cadence.

06Team build & handoff+

Made to run without me: Hire, train and lead the first CSMs, with playbooks and training materials so the function scales and runs once the engagement ends.

What you're left with
Retention turned net-positiveExpansion outpacing churn
Churn materially reducedRisk caught early, not at renewal
Higher customer satisfactionCustomers see value, consistently
A self-running teamFunction handed off, trained and scaling
Is this you?

If you've raised, churn is starting to bite, and a full-time Head of CS feels premature, this builds the function out properly. Happy to walk through the approach, scope and pricing together.

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Happy to talk it through

If customer success is on your mind, send a note and I'll share an honest view of where you stand, with no obligation either way.

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