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Why Customer Success Teams Struggle and What Every CRO can do to Solve it

Monika Holland
Monika Holland
June 2, 2025
Why Customer Success Teams Struggle and What Every CRO can do to Solve it

In this article, we explore the biggest challenges Customer Success teams face and how they can overcome them by leveraging actionable data. Learn how aggregated and enriched CRM insights, real-time account Health Scores, and Playbooks can help teams move from reactive to proactive, drive retention, and unlock expansion opportunities.

The Challenge

Customer Success (CS) teams are expected to own retention, reduce churn, and drive expansion revenue. All while juggling countless accounts and reacting to issues after they arise.

But here’s the reality:

❌ Working in silos – Sales, CS, and Product teams lack shared insights, leading to misalignment and lost opportunities.
❌ No real-time access to user behavior data – Teams are (half) blind to how customers actually engage with the product, making it difficult to tailor interventions.
❌ Reactive engagement – Reps only intervene after issues arise, rather than proactively preventing churn or capitalizing on expansion opportunities.
❌ Generic outreach that falls flat – One-size-fits-all messaging leads to low engagement and missed conversions.

Imagine if you could identify risks and opportunities before they happen. What if you knew exactly which accounts were most likely to churn, expand, or need support—before they ever reached out?

The good news? You can.

A Smarter, Proactive Approach with Health Scores and Playbooks

It’s time to flip the script and move from reactive firefighting to proactive, strategic engagement. The secret? Health Scores and Playbooks, powered by real-time CRM and product usage data.

Journy is at the forefront of enabling commercial teams to take this proactive approach by leveraging behavioral intelligence and AI-driven insights. By integrating seamlessly with your CRM, product usage data, and key tools like Intercom, Gong, Stripe, and Zendesk, Journy provides teams with real-time health scores and automated playbooks that take the guesswork out of engagement.

How Journy Enables Customer Success Teams to Drive Retention & Expansion

1. Spot High-Potential Accounts

  • Why? Not all accounts are created equal—focus on the right ones.
  • How? Journy’s behavior-based health scores (like ICP Fit or Churn Score) automatically rank accounts by likelihood to convert, expand, or churn. CS teams get real-time alerts to engage at the optimal moment.

2. Personalize Outreach to Drive Engagement

  • Why? One-size-fits-all messaging doesn’t work.
  • How? With Journy, teams can trigger personalized messaging based on user actions. If a user engages with a key feature, they get tailored content and support follow-ups, increasing retention and adoption.

3. Stop Churn Before It Happens

  • Why? Waiting until a customer cancels is way too late.
  • How? Journy’s AI-driven churn prediction identifies at-risk accounts before they drop off. Teams can trigger automated retention campaigns or assign cases to CS managers for intervention.

4. Automate Repetitive Tasks & Free Up Time for High-Value Work

  • Why? CS teams should focus on expanding relationships, not manual work.
  • How? Journy’s smart playbooks automate engagement sequences based on real customer beahvior, from onboarding journeys to expansion plays, ensuring no account falls through the cracks.

5. Leverage User Behavior Data to Drive Smarter Decisions

  • Why? Knowing how users interact with your product allows you to tailor outreach and interventions.
  • How? Journy analyzes behavioral trends and usage data to suggest the next best actions. This ensures CS teams engage with customers at the perfect moment.
  1. Receive real-time user behavior trigger alerts
  • Why? Taking relevant action right there and then is what drives engagement, conversion and customer satisfaction
  • How? Journy sends alerts on user behavior triggers and changes in Health Scores directly to your email, slack or CRM.

The Results: What Happens When You Take a Proactive Approach with Journy?

Improved Retention – Teams can proactively engage and support accounts based on real-time insights, leading to higher customer retention and satisfaction.

Reduced Churn – AI-driven health scores help CS teams detect at-risk accounts early, allowing them to take targeted action before customers churn.

Improved CSAT Score – By delivering personalized and timely engagement, CS teams improve customer satisfaction (CSAT) by ensuring a seamless, value-driven experience.

Improved NPS – Higher engagement and proactive support result in more customers becoming promoters, leading to an increase in Net Promoter Score (NPS).

Improved Health Score – Real-time monitoring of product usage, behavior, and engagement ensures that teams always have a pulse on account health and can take timely action.

Improved CLV – With better retention, upsell, and cross-sell opportunities, CS teams can drive higher Customer Lifetime Value (CLV), resulting in greater long-term revenue.

Imagine Your Team Hitting Every Retention & Expansion Goal—Without Scrambling

What if your CS team didn’t have to fight churn, waste time on the wrong accounts, or scramble to hit retention g

Real-World Success Story Emlen GmbH: Reducing Churn with Proactive Alerts

Challenge: Delayed recognition of churn risks.

Solution: AI-driven churn detection and re-engagement strategies improved retention.

The Results:

  • 50% reduction in churn.
  • 35% increase in retention rates.

The Future of Customer Success is powered by Real Time Data

Break down silos, unify data, and make smarter decisions.
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