Customer Retention

Global – October 12, 2026 -- Customers who log in daily, attend every training session and open every email can still be unhealthy accounts, according to Marley Wagner, head of customer success programs and strategy at EverHealth. She argues that health scores should measure whether customers achieve what they bought the product to do, not how active they are.

Wagner replaces single-category scoring with five dimensions

The framework combines product adoption, business outcomes, relationships, customer sentiment, and support and operational health. The right mix varies by industry, company size, maturity and customer tenure. A score does not need to include every criterion.

Global – October 12, 2026 -- Net revenue retention (NRR) and gross revenue retention (GRR) will rarely move within a new customer success leader's first 90 days, because both metrics are tied to a full renewal cycle, according to EverHealth's Marley Wagner.

Wagner, Head of Customer Success Programs and Strategy at EverHealth, outlined a 30-60-90 day framework during a ChurnZero webinar. Her advice: track four leading indicators that show whether changes are working before revenue figures reflect them.

Time to first value can improve within a single quarter

Changes to onboarding can shorten the time customers need to use the product the way they intend. Wagner says completing onboarding steps proves little on its own. What counts is whether customers get there faster than before.

Global – October 12, 2026 -- ChurnZero reports the highest overall Satisfaction score among its leading competitors in G2's Fall 2026 Grid Report, including a Net Promoter Score of 89 against 73 for the next-best vendor.

The customer success vendor also cites a 94% Likelihood to Recommend, 96% for Ease of Doing Business and 96% for Quality of Support. The figures are company-reported.

Salesforce data puts customer-facing time at 46% for service staff

Salesforce found that service professionals spend less than half their time (46%) with customers and the rest on administrative tasks. ChurnZero positions its platform against that gap, arguing that training, late-caught escalations and upsell preparation consume hours that could go to customer success.

Global – October 12, 2026 -- ChurnZero has released a Retrospective agent that analyzes activity timelines, engagement signals and health metrics of lost accounts to show why customers churned, as part of its latest platform update.

Retrospective agent targets churn loss analysis

The agent gives customer success teams a data-based review of accounts that have already left. ChurnZero says the findings can help teams spot warning signs sooner in accounts that are currently at risk.

AI agents can now run on demand for single accounts or batches

CSMs can trigger an AI agent from a single account before a call. They can also run one across a batch of accounts wherever account segments support bulk actions. Bulk runs confirm how many accounts will be processed, and each user can only run agents against accounts within their own purview.