--- name: customer-usage-signal-analyzer description: "Interprets product usage data and behavioral signals for a single account to produce a health verdict, ranked churn risks, expansion opportunities, adoption gaps, and a prioritized next-action plan for the CSM. Use when reviewing an account before a QBR, triaging a book of business, investigating a usage drop, spotting expansion signals, or preparing a renewal risk assessment." argument-hint: "[account-name] [usage-data]" allowed-tools: ["Read"] --- # Customer Usage Signal Analyzer ## Purpose Turn raw product usage data and behavioral signals into a clear account verdict — health score, the specific risks worth acting on, the expansion opportunities hiding in the data, and the adoption gaps blocking value — so a CSM or Implementation Manager walks into every account conversation knowing exactly what to say and do next. ## When to Use Invoke this skill when the user asks to: - Assess the health of a specific customer account before a QBR or renewal - Explain why an account's usage dropped or a specific metric declined - Find expansion or upsell opportunities inside an existing account's usage - Diagnose why a customer isn't adopting a feature or hitting activation milestones - Triage which accounts in a book of business need attention first - Prepare a renewal risk assessment or save play for an at-risk account ## Inputs Required Before starting, collect: - **Account name and profile**: Company name, segment (SMB/Mid-Market/Enterprise), contract value (ARR), and tenure as a customer - **Usage metrics**: Login frequency, active users vs. licensed seats, feature adoption breakdown, key action volumes — with a trend window (e.g., last 30/60/90 days vs. prior period) - **Onboarding/activation status**: Where the account is against its expected activation milestones or success plan - **Support & engagement signals**: Ticket volume and sentiment, NPS/CSAT, exec sponsor engagement, meeting attendance - **Contract context**: Renewal date, expansion terms available, any known commercial pressure - **Original success criteria**: What the customer said "success" looks like (the use case they bought for) If trend windows or success criteria are missing, analyze on absolute values and flag the assumption — but note that health verdicts are far weaker without a comparison period. ## Instructions ### Step 1: Establish the Health Baseline Compute a directional health verdict from the signals provided. Weight by predictive strength: - **Seat utilization** (active users ÷ licensed seats): Below 40% is a strong churn predictor; 40–70% is a watch zone; above 70% is healthy - **Login frequency trend**: Declining WoW for 3+ weeks is a leading indicator that precedes ticket silence and non-renewal - **Depth of adoption**: Count how many "core value" features are in regular use vs. purchased. Single-feature dependence = fragile account - **Sponsor engagement**: An unengaged or departed exec sponsor is the single most common cause of surprise churn Assign a verdict: **Healthy / Watch / At-Risk / Critical** — with one sentence stating the dominant driver. ### Step 2: Diagnose Churn Risk Signals (Ranked) Identify and rank the specific risk signals present. For each, state the signal, the evidence in the data, and the severity. Prioritize by predictive weight: - **Declining usage** — active users or key actions trending down over the window - **Shallow adoption** — customer bought for a use case they aren't executing (map usage back to the original success criteria) - **Single point of failure** — usage concentrated in one user or one team; if they leave, the account leaves - **Support friction** — rising ticket volume with negative sentiment, or repeated unresolved issues - **Silence** — dropping engagement AND no support activity (disengagement, not satisfaction) - **Sponsor risk** — champion departed, went quiet, or never attended a review Rank risks by likelihood-to-cause-churn, not by how obvious they are. ### Step 3: Surface Expansion Opportunities Read the same data for upside. Look for: - **Seat expansion** — utilization above 80% or active users approaching the license cap = organic seat demand - **Feature/tier upsell** — heavy use of a capped feature, or usage patterns that map to a higher tier - **Cross-team adoption** — one team using the product successfully while adjacent teams in the same account have zero activity - **Power-user signal** — a cohort using advanced features intensively indicates readiness for premium modules Only flag opportunities with an observable usage trigger — no speculative upsells. ### Step 4: Identify Adoption Gaps Pinpoint where value is being left on the table: - List purchased-but-unused features tied to the customer's stated use case - Flag activation milestones not yet reached and how long they've been stalled - Distinguish **capability gaps** (they don't know the feature exists / how to use it → enablement fix) from **fit gaps** (the feature doesn't match their workflow → product/expectation issue) ### Step 5: Build the Prioritized Next-Action Plan Produce 5–7 actions ranked by impact-to-effort. Each action must include: 1. **The action** — a specific, doable step (not "engage the customer") 2. **Why now** — the signal that triggers it 3. **Owner** — CSM / Implementation / Sales / Support 4. **Timeframe** — This week / This month / This quarter Lead with the single highest-leverage move. If the account is At-Risk or Critical, the top action must be a concrete save play with a named next touchpoint. ## Output Format - **Structure**: Health verdict banner first, then five diagnostic sections, closing with the ranked action plan - **Length**: 700–1,000 words - **Format**: Structured document — verdict as a labeled callout, risks/opportunities/gaps as ranked bullet lists, action plan as a numbered priority list or table - **Sections**: Health Verdict → Churn Risk Signals (ranked) → Expansion Opportunities → Adoption Gaps → Prioritized Next-Action Plan - **Tone**: Customer success director — decisive, evidence-anchored, action-first. Every claim ties to a signal in the data; no hedging on the verdict. ## Quality Checklist Before delivering output, verify: - [ ] A single health verdict (Healthy/Watch/At-Risk/Critical) is stated with one dominant driver - [ ] Every churn risk cites the specific metric or signal that supports it — no generic "usage seems low" - [ ] Risks are ranked by likelihood-to-cause-churn, not listed arbitrarily - [ ] Every expansion opportunity has an observable usage trigger in the data - [ ] Adoption gaps are labeled as capability gaps vs. fit gaps - [ ] Each of the 5–7 next actions has an owner and a timeframe, and the top action is the highest-leverage move ## Notes - Silence is the most misread signal — no tickets and no logins is a churn warning, not a satisfied customer. Treat declining engagement with zero support activity as high severity. - Map usage back to the original purchase reason wherever possible. An account can look "active" while failing at the exact use case it bought for — that is the account that surprises you at renewal. - For book-of-business triage, run this per account and sort the verdicts: Critical and At-Risk accounts with near-term renewals get attention first, regardless of ARR. - Seat utilization and sponsor engagement together predict more renewal outcomes than any single usage metric — check both before finalizing the verdict. --- ## How to use this skill This file is a Claude Code skill in [Anthropic's standard format](https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/skills) — markdown with YAML frontmatter at the top. **Installing in Claude Code:** - `~/.claude/skills//SKILL.md` — auto-loads in every session anywhere on your machine (recommended for skills you'll use across multiple projects) - `/.claude/skills//SKILL.md` — auto-loads only when working in that project (recommended for project-specific skills) Restart Claude Code or open a new session to register. **Using in Claude.ai, ChatGPT, Gemini, or other AI tools:** 1. 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