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Hold The Churn
Insights and thought leadership on building high-growth revenue engines — and stories from leaders who've scaled teams in B2B SaaS.
Post-Sales PlaybookRevenue Leaks Are Shredding 1 to 5% of EBITDA While Your Finance Team Watches a Rear-View Mirror
You have a sharp finance team, a modern CRM, and a billing system that handles millions in recurring revenue.
Arushi Jain
Post-Sales PlaybookWhy You Can't Predict Churn Until It's Already Too Late: The Real-Time Retention Gap
You watch a six-figure account go dark. The renewal date passes, and the logo disappears from your dashboard.
Arushi Jain
Post-Sales PlaybookThe 80% Silent Signal: Why ‘Healthy’ Usage Metrics Are Hiding Your Real Churn Risk
Your dashboard is a liar. It shows a field of green dots and steady login graphs, yet the renewal forecast keeps missing by a painful margin.
Arushi Jain
Post-Sales PlaybookThe Silent Renewal Crisis: Why Your CS Teams Miss Churn Risks Until It’s Too Late
Your dashboard is green. Login frequency is steady, feature adoption is climbing, and the health score glows a confident emerald.
Arushi Jain
Post-Sales PlaybookWhat Is a Forward-Deployed Engineer
Your largest enterprise customer signed the contract eight weeks ago. The ink is dry. Your product sits in a staging environment while the customer's data
Arushi Jain
Post-Sales PlaybookThe Shift Is Inevitable
Your dashboard says the account is healthy, but their usage tells a different story. They shipped a product integration, logged into the dashboard daily
Arushi Jain
Post-Sales PlaybookThe Best Tool to Track Customer News Is a Signal Engine, Not a Social Feed
Your largest customer just announced a $50 million Series B and a new VP of Sales. You learn about it from a LinkedIn post that has been sitting there for three
Arushi Jain
Post-Sales PlaybookHow to Choose Affordable Customer Intelligence for Post-Sales Teams
Your support team just flagged a seventh ticket from the same account this quarter. Your CRM shows the contract is up for renewal in 60 days
Arushi Jain
Post-Sales PlaybookA Step-by-Step Guide to Preventing Revenue Leaks from Poor Account Management
Your sales team closed a six-figure deal last quarter. Today, the account is silent. Usage is flatlining, the champion went dark on Slack
Arushi Jain
Post-Sales PlaybookWhy Your Customer Health Score Is So Complex No One Trusts It, And How to Fix It
The Slack message lands like a small bomb. Your customer health score for a major account just dropped 22 points in an hour, triggering a red-alert escalation.
Arushi Jain
Post-Sales PlaybookWorkforce Budget vs. Software Budget: Which One Should Fund Post-Sales Growth in 2026?
Your VP of Customer Success is pitching three new CSM hires, while your Head of Revenue Operations is pushing for a new health-scoring platform.
Arushi Jain
Post-Sales PlaybookThe Onboarding Window Is Where the Revenue Bleeds: Understanding Implementation Churn
Sixty days into a six-figure enterprise software deployment, the customer’s champion stops returning calls.
Arushi Jain
Post-Sales PlaybookWhen to Hire CSMs vs. Outsource Account Growth
Your quarterly board deck shows net revenue retention stalling at 106% while your best competitor just printed 122%.
Arushi Jain
Post-Sales PlaybookAI Customer Success Stack 2026: A Capability-Based Guide
Your dashboard tells you an account is red, but it cannot tell you why the champion went silent.
Arushi Jain
Post-Sales PlaybookThe AI-Powered CS Ops Platform Is Inevitable (and Here)
Your CS team is scaling a static problem. The old math of hiring linearly to cover a growing book of business collapses the moment you see the data
Arushi Jain
Post-Sales PlaybookWhat Is an AI-Powered Workspace for CSMs?
Your customer success team is drowning in data but starved for insight. A CSM's morning starts by manually stitching together a CRM record that hasn't been
Arushi Jain
Post-Sales PlaybookThe Silent Churn Intelligence Platform
Your most valuable accounts churn without filing a ticket. By the time your CRM shows red, the decision is already made.
Arushi Jain
Post-Sales PlaybookHow to Predict Which B2B Accounts Will Churn Before Renewal
Your most reliable churn model told you an account was doomed two weeks after they stopped logging in. The data was unbalanced
Arushi Jain
Post-Sales PlaybookThe Unified Post-Sales Record Is Not a Dashboard.
Your customer success team is prepping for a QBR, and they are in three different systems just to find the last support ticket.
Arushi Jain
Post-Sales PlaybookRevenue Operations Software
Your VP of Sales lives in the CRM. Your marketing team swears by a marketing automation platform they refuse to let sales touch.
Arushi Jain
Post-Sales PlaybookYour Best Customer Just Churned Silently.
Your highest-value account stopped using a core feature on Tuesday. They opened two support tickets on Wednesday
Arushi Jain
Post-Sales PlaybookYour $10M ARR Business Is Bleeding $300K a Year
The champagne pops when the deal closes. Then everybody moves on to the next quarter's pipeline while the value of that hard-won signature quietly erodes.
Arushi Jain
Post-Sales PlaybookYour CRM Is Lying to You.
Your finance team asks about the Q4 forecast, and three enterprise accounts you assumed were safe are suddenly negotiating discounts, reducing seats
Arushi Jain
Post-Sales PlaybookAccount Growth Coverage in 5 Days Without a Single New Hire
Your quarterly board deck shows net revenue retention stalling at 106% while your best competitor just printed 122%. The diagnosis is familiar
Arushi Jain
Post-Sales PlaybookThe Headcount Trap: Why Adding People Fails to Keep Up
Your board just approved a capital spending plan for aggressive account growth. The logic is linear: more accounts, more revenue, more people to service them.
Arushi Jain
Post-Sales PlaybookCustom-built agents can run expansion and retention plays.
Your CS team carries 40 accounts per rep. The board wants 120% net revenue retention this fiscal year. Headcount is flat.
Arushi Jain
Post-Sales PlaybookAI-Native Customer Intelligence: The New Core of B2B Growth
AI-native customer intelligence unifies CRM, support, product, and billing data into real-time health scores that trigger playbooks before accounts churn.
Arushi Jain
Monthly RecapMonthly Recap: July '26
July product updates — Agent Builder, Actions, Skills, and new Slack, HubSpot, and Granola integrations — plus Cook with Quivly.
Arushi Jain
Post-Sales PlaybookThe Silent Churn Crisis
Your best month often plants the churn you'll pay for in Q3.
Arushi Jain
Post-Sales PlaybookHow to Use Agent Skills for Post-Sales
Quivly open-sourced 21 free Agent Skills for post-sales on GitHub — meeting prep, QBR, churn saves, and more. Load them into Claude, or ChatGPT with one prompt.
Arushi Jain
Post-Sales PlaybookHow to Automate Post-Sales Workflows to Retain Revenue at Scale
Automated workflow management replaces manual post-sales work with cross-system orchestration. Learn how to build health scores, playbooks, and rescue plays.
Arushi Jain
Post-Sales PlaybookHow to Automate Post-Sales Workflows in 6 Steps
A six-step system for post-sales workflow automation that protects revenue, from mapping lifecycle stages to measuring renewal and expansion.
Arushi Jain
Post-Sales PlaybookHow to Build Automated Post-Sales Workflows That Cut Churn
Most customer success teams are drowning in data but starved for action. You can spot the churn risk account, but the hours between detection and human opening
Arushi Jain
Post-Sales PlaybookThe AI Workforce for Customer Success: A 7-Step Framework to Stop Churn and Orchestrate Growth
Your customer success team is trapped fighting yesterday's fires while your competitor's AI is booking next quarter's expansion. The math is brutal. A 5% monthl
Arushi Jain
Post-Sales PlaybookHow to Get Actionable Customer Insights Without Spreadsheets
Stop stitching spreadsheets together. Automate customer intelligence by unifying CRM, usage, support, and billing data into live, churn-aware profiles.
Arushi Jain
Post-Sales PlaybookHow to Measure ROI from AI Agents in Post-Sales (2026)
How to measure ROI from AI agents in post-sales: track efficiency gains, revenue impact, and signal quality with concrete instrumentation steps.
Arushi Jain
Post-Sales PlaybookHow Many Accounts Can One CSM Realistically Manage?
Post-sales automation shifts CSM coverage from 10–30 to 40–60+ accounts per rep without added headcount—here's how AI changes the ratio.
Arushi Jain
Post-Sales PlaybookHow to Scale Account Growth Without Hiring More CSMs
Automation gives 1:many account coverage at a fraction of CSM hiring cost. See the unit economics, predictive playbooks, and scoring behind it.
Arushi Jain
Thought LeadershipWhat the Agentic Era Actually Changes in Customer Success
AI agents in post-sales fail without clean data and defined processes. Learn the 3 things that must be true before you automate renewals.
Andrew Carothers
Post-Sales PlaybookHow Agents Build One Live Profile
How AI agents build one live profile per account—streaming CRM, support, and usage data with entity resolution and citation-backed outputs, no warehouse needed.
Arushi Jain
Post-Sales Playbook6 Signals a Post-Sales Agent Should Monitor
The six signal categories post-sales agents monitor: product usage, engagement, support behavior, expansion readiness, churn risk, and workflow triggers.
Arushi Jain
Hold The ChurnHold The Churn with Mike Kim, Co-founder & CEO at Mycroft
Mycroft CEO Mike Kim on scaling agentic security to 100+ customers — sell before you build, virtual CISO retention, and why silence signals churn.
CMChandrika Maheshwari
Monthly RecapMonthly Recap: June '26
Four Spring Shipping drops in June — MCP, Ask Quivly, Agent Builder, and Data Models — plus Hold The Churn with Mycroft CEO Mike Kim.
CMChandrika Maheshwari
Post-Sales PlaybookHow AI Agents Change a Rep’s Week After the Sale
AI agents handle signal detection and draft generation in post-sales, expanding viable account coverage from 50-100 to 100-150 per rep without adding headcount.
Arushi Jain
Post-Sales PlaybookWhat AI Agents Can Do That a CS Dashboard Can’t
AI agents execute playbooks autonomously—drafting emails, triggering workflows in real time—while CS dashboards only surface data for manual CSM review.
Arushi Jain
Post-Sales PlaybookWhat Is Customer Engineering?
Customer engineering turns post-sales into a technical, build-focused role. Learn what customer engineers do, the skills they need, and why the title is rising.
Arushi Jain
Post-Sales PlaybookWhy Revenue from Existing Customers Is Falling
Revenue from existing customers falls when post-sales teams lack the real-time signals to catch churn before renewal. Here's how to close the gap.
Arushi Jain
Post-Sales PlaybookHow to Identify At-Risk Customers Before Renewal
Spot at-risk customers months before renewal. Learn the five churn signals post-sales teams should track daily, from usage decline to stakeholder turnover.
Arushi Jain
Thought LeadershipWhat the Future of Post-Sales Actually Looks Like
Post-sales is being rewritten. See how the team of the future runs every account in real time, catches risk early, and grows the whole book at once.
CMChandrika Maheshwari
Post-Sales PlaybookWhy Revenue Is Falling From Existing Customers
Strong acquisition can't offset churn you can't see. How signal blindness, manual delays, and reactive workflows drain existing-customer revenue.
Arushi Jain
Post-Sales PlaybookHow to Reduce Time to Value After the Sale
Reduce time to value after the sale by automating adoption-stall detection, triggering rescue playbooks, and escalating only when signals warrant it.
Arushi Jain
Post-Sales PlaybookWhat Are AI Agents for Post-Sales Teams?
AI agents for post-sales teams run account management and growth on autopilot, so the same team covers 3x the accounts without adding headcount.
Arushi Jain
Thought LeadershipHats, Haircuts, and Tattoos: How We Ship Fast at Quivly
How we ship fast: sort every product decision into hats (reversible), haircuts (medium-term), or tattoos (permanent), and only debate the tattoos.
Tanay Agrawal
Post-Sales PlaybookCustomer Churn Prediction From Day 1: The Complete AI B2B SaaS Guide to Revenue Protection
B2B SaaS churn prediction starts at onboarding, not renewal. Learn the 5 leading indicators, build an explainable health score, and automate rescue playbooks.
Arushi Jain
Post-Sales PlaybookHow to Stop Revenue Leaks From Customers You Didn't Know Were at Risk
Billing gaps, expired discounts, and disengaged accounts cost SaaS companies up to 5% of ARR. Here's how to catch and stop revenue leaks before renewal.
Arushi Jain
Hold The ChurnHold The Churn with Karan Singh, SVP GTM Strategy & Operations at LaunchDarkly
CMChandrika Maheshwari
Consumption-Ready Revenue MachineHow Customer Success and post-sales changes with consumption based revenue - Part 2
CMChandrika Maheshwari
Hold The ChurnHold The Churn with Marc Boroditsky, CRO at Nebius, ex-CRO at Cloudflare and Twilio
CMChandrika Maheshwari
Consumption-Ready Revenue MachineHow Customer Success and Post Sales changes with consumption based revenue - Part 1
CMChandrika Maheshwari
Hold The ChurnHold The Churn with Mike Weir, CRO at Finalis, ex-CRO at G2
CMChandrika Maheshwari
Consumption-Ready Revenue MachineHow Finance and Data Infra changes with consumption based revenue
CMChandrika Maheshwari
Consumption-Ready Revenue MachineHow Product & Eng changes with consumption based revenue
CMChandrika Maheshwari
Hold The ChurnIntroducing Hold The Churn
CMChandrika Maheshwari
Consumption-Ready Revenue MachineSales Compensation for a Consumption Ready Revenue Machine
CMChandrika Maheshwari
Consumption-Ready Revenue MachineWTF is a Forward Deployed Engineer?
Forward Deployed Engineers - who they are and why they are gaining popularity in modern SaaS and AI companies.
CMChandrika Maheshwari
Consumption-Ready Revenue MachineBuilding a Consumption-Ready Revenue Machine: Redefining GTM Roles
CMChandrika Maheshwari
Consumption-Ready Revenue MachineBuilding a Consumption-Ready Revenue Machine: Thoughts from A16Z
CMChandrika Maheshwari