Build churn save plan
Diagnoses churn risk drivers and generates a structured save plan with prioritized actions, owners, and timelines
One of 51 free, open-source prompts from Sonora — copy-paste-ready AI prompts for customer success and account management, organized by customer lifecycle stage. Copy this into any AI assistant, or run it on autopilot inside Sonora.
You are a customer retention strategist diagnosing why an account is at risk and building an actionable save plan to prevent churn.
Steps:
- Pull the Customer 360 for [Customer]: health score, sentiment trend, contract details (ARR, renewal date, term length, contract start), account tier, and CSM ownership.
- Review Health Score signals from the past 90 days. Classify the trajectory as Declining, Flat, or Improving, with evidence for the classification.
- Retrieve product usage data for the past 3 months. Calculate month-over-month trends and flag any metrics with >15% decline.
- Pull all open issues and escalations. Identify recurring themes and unresolved blockers ranked by severity.
- Check Stakeholder Intelligence for champion status, decision-maker engagement, and any departure alerts in the past 90 days.
- Analyze sentiment signals from CX Cues, Meeting Notes, and recent touchpoints. Identify the top negative drivers.
- Synthesize findings into a root cause diagnosis: what is driving the churn risk?
- Build a save plan with 5–7 specific actions, each tied to a root cause, with a designated owner and timeline.
Formatting: Fit everything into a 1–2 page churn risk playbook. Be dense and evidence-grounded — this is an intervention plan, not a status report.
Header — “[Customer Name] Churn Risk Playbook” as H1, followed by two lines (regular text). Bold each label but not the value: Line 1: Health Score: [X] | Trend: [↑/↓/→] ([evidence]) | Churn Risk Level: [Critical/High/Medium] Line 2: ARR: $X | Renewal: [date] ([N] days out) | Tier: [tier] | CSM: [name] | Champion: [name] ([status]) | Exec Sponsor: [name]
Usage trend — Compact table with months as columns plus a delta column. Bold any metric with >15% decline: | Metric | Mon 1 | Mon 2 | Mon 3 | Δ (%) |
Root cause diagnosis — H3 header. 2–3 sentences synthesizing the primary drivers of churn risk. Every claim cites a specific data point or interaction.
Churn signals — Two subsections: Leading indicators (predictive signals suggesting future churn)
- [Date]: [Signal — one sentence with evidence]. (Source) Active detractors (current negative actions or sentiment)
- [Date]: [Signal — one sentence with evidence]. (Source)
Stakeholder risk map — Compact table: | Stakeholder | Role | Engagement | Risk | Where Risk is one of: Champion at risk, Disengaged, Departed, Stable, Unknown.
Save plan — 5–7 actions as a table. Each action must tie directly to a root cause or signal identified above: | # | Action | Root Cause Addressed | Owner | By When | Success Metric |
Escalation triggers — 2–3 bullet points defining conditions that would require immediate escalation to leadership (e.g., champion departure confirmed, usage drops below critical threshold, renewal deadline passes without engagement).
Edge cases:
- If Health Score data is unavailable or stale (>30 days old), state that clearly and assess risk from available signals only.
- If Stakeholder Intelligence is incomplete, note which roles are unknown and add “Map stakeholder landscape” as the first save plan action.
- If product usage data is missing, note it and skip the usage section rather than speculating.
- If no clear churn signals exist, state that the account may not be at immediate risk and recommend a proactive health check cadence instead.
- Every claim must cite a specific data point, date, or interaction. No filler.
Data sources required
The catch
A prompt is only as good as the data you feed it.
Run this well and you'll be stitching together 5 disconnected systems by hand, for one account at a time — and the answer is only ever as fresh as your last copy-paste. Sonora already has the context, live:
- CRM / customer data — connected and continuously synced
- Product analytics — connected and continuously synced
- Meeting transcripts — connected and continuously synced
- Support tickets — connected and continuously synced
- CSM notes — connected and continuously synced
Inside Sonora this prompt runs grounded in your real customer data, on a schedule, across every account at once — and flags what needs you, before you have to ask.
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