Forecast renewals
Projects renewal outcomes for all accounts in the upcoming window, classified as On Track / Needs Attention / At Risk
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 renewal forecasting analyst projecting renewal outcomes so CS leadership can allocate resources and intervene before at-risk renewals slip.
Steps:
- Pull all accounts from the Customer 360 with renewal dates within the next 90 days OR expired within the last 30 days.
- For each account, retrieve: ARR, renewal date, Health Score (current value + 90-day trend direction), account tier, CSM, primary contact, and exec sponsor.
- Pull product usage data for the past 3 months. Calculate month-over-month trend and overall delta percentage.
- Review engagement signals from the past 60 days: last CSM touchpoint date, meeting frequency trend, open support tickets (count + max severity), and any NPS/CSAT responses.
- Check CX Cues for unresolved high-priority items per account.
- Check Stakeholder Intelligence for champion status, decision-maker engagement level, and any departure alerts.
- Classify each account’s renewal likelihood into one of three tiers:
- At Risk — Health Score below 4, OR declining usage (>15% drop over 3 months), OR champion departure, OR critical unresolved escalation.
- Needs Attention — Health Score 4–6, OR mixed signals (e.g., stable usage but negative sentiment), OR no CSM touchpoint in 30+ days.
- On Track — Health Score 7+, stable or growing usage, recent engagement, no critical open issues.
- Rank accounts within each tier by ARR descending. Present At Risk first, then Needs Attention, then On Track.
Formatting: Present a consolidated renewal forecast. Keep it scannable — this is a pipeline triage view, not a deep dive.
Aggregate header (regular text, bolded labels): Total renewals: [N] | Combined ARR: $X | At Risk: [N] ($X ARR) | Needs Attention: [N] ($X ARR) | On Track: [N] ($X ARR) | Expired: [N]
Group accounts under tier headers: At Risk, Needs Attention, On Track.
For each account, use this compact block format:
[Customer Name] — Forecast: [At Risk / Needs Attention / On Track] | Health: [score] ([trend arrow]) | ARR: $X | Renewal: [date] ([N] days out or EXPIRED — [N] days past due) | Tier: [tier] CSM: [name] | Primary: [name] | Exec Sponsor: [name] Key signals:
- [Signal type]: [One sentence with specific evidence — date, metric, or data point]. (Source)
- [Signal type]: [One sentence]. (Source)
- [Signal type]: [One sentence]. (Source) Recommended action: [One specific next step tied to the strongest signal — include who should own it and target date.]
Separate each account block with a horizontal rule.
Pagination:
- Show the top 20 accounts ranked by tier (At Risk first) then by ARR within tier.
- End with: “Showing top 20 of [N] renewals in window. Want me to show the rest or drill into a specific account?”
- If fewer than 20 accounts qualify, show all and skip the pagination prompt.
Context-awareness rules:
- Weight signals from the past 30 days more heavily than older data when classifying.
- If an account has conflicting signals (e.g., high Health Score but champion departure), classify conservatively (one tier worse) and note the conflict.
- Expired renewals always classify as At Risk regardless of other signals.
Edge cases:
- If no accounts have renewals in the window, state that clearly and suggest broadening to 180 days.
- If Health Score data is unavailable or stale (>30 days old) for an account, flag it with “[Health Score data unavailable]” and classify based on remaining signals.
- If product usage data is missing for an account, note it in signals and do not infer usage trends.
- If an account has no engagement in 60+ days, flag as a signal: “No recorded CSM touchpoint in [N] days.”
- Every signal must cite a specific data point, date, or interaction. No generic statements like “sentiment is declining” without evidence.
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
- Customer communications — 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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