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30-Day At-Risk Rhythm: Turn Reds to Renewals

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The Customer Success Café
Oct 09, 2025
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Problem

Accounts slip into red silently.

Actions are ad hoc, late, and inconsistent. You need a clockwork 30-day rhythm that drives saves, not status updates.

Minimum Inputs

  • Health score (or interim risk signals), ARR band, exec contact, renewal date

  • Top risks (3 max), current milestone, success plan status → keep this current with the Customer Success Plan Template and the deeper guide on plans: Master Customer Success Plans

  • Owner: CSM; Escalation: CS Lead; Partner: AE/AM + Product as needed

Play (Weeks 1–2 public)

Week 1 — Triage & plan

Confirm the root risk (adoption gap, value not measured, wrong champion, ROI unseen).

Define exit criteria (what makes this account Yellow/Green again). Book the executive reset for Week 2; align the internal team.

If you don’t have clean signals feeding this, wire it to your health score: Health Score That Predicts Renewals.

Week 2 — Executive reset

Objective: one business outcome and one near-term milestone everyone signs.

Get a visible “value receipt” commitment (metric, owner, date—e.g., “20 users completing Workflow X weekly by Day 21”).

Use these structures to keep it strategic, not tactical: QBR Frameworks: Turn Updates into Strategic Growth.

Confirm the weekly cadence and a decision checkpoint at Day 28–30.

Related: Feed this rhythm from New Red alerts so Week-1 triage triggers automatically—see the operating rules inside the Health Score playbook.


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