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Is My Account at Risk? Churn Signal Quiz

Answer 12 quick questions about usage, sentiment, and stakeholder engagement to get an instant churn-risk read on any account — plus what to do next based on your score.

What's inside

  • 12 diagnostic questions across usage, sentiment, and stakeholder engagement
  • A simple 0/1/2 scoring key you can run in under 5 minutes per account
  • Four risk bands — Healthy, Watch, At-Risk, Critical — each with a specific next action
  • Pattern-reading guidance for when one section scores high and others don't
  • Section-specific fixes: adoption problem vs. trust problem vs. relationship risk
  • A built-in escalation trigger for when to loop in a manager or exec sponsor

How this works

Answer all 12 questions about one specific account (not your whole book). Score each honestly — this is a diagnostic, not a performance review. Add up your points and read your risk band at the end.

Scoring key

  • Yes / Clearly true = 2 points
  • Somewhat / Unsure = 1 point
  • No / Clearly false = 0 points

Section A — Usage (the account's actual behavior)

  1. Has core product usage (logins, active seats, key workflows) declined over the last 90 days?
  2. Are fewer than half of the licensed/provisioned seats active in a typical week?
  3. Has usage of the single feature that drove the original purchase decision dropped or flatlined?
  4. Have support tickets shifted in tone from "how do I do X" to "this isn't working for our team" or "we're not getting value"?

Section B — Sentiment (how they talk about you)

  1. Has your last NPS, CSAT, or relationship-health score dropped versus the prior period, or gone unanswered?
  2. Was your last scheduled QBR or check-in rescheduled, shortened to under 15 minutes, or skipped outright?
  3. Has the tone in emails/calls shifted from partnership language ("we," "our roadmap") to transactional/vendor language ("your product," "the invoice")?
  4. Have you heard "let me check with the team" or "we'll circle back" more than once recently without an actual follow-up?

Section C — Stakeholder engagement (who's actually in the room)

  1. Has your economic buyer or main champion changed roles, been promoted out, or left the company in the last 6 months?
  2. Is there currently only one engaged stakeholder in the account (single-threaded relationship)?
  3. Has a new stakeholder joined the account with no prior relationship to your team or context on the original purchase?
  4. Has the account gone quiet — no replies, no meeting acceptances — for 3 or more consecutive weeks?

Your score: ______ / 24

ScoreBandWhat it meansWhat to do this week
0–4HealthyStrong usage, sentiment, and engagement.Keep the cadence. Look for expansion signals instead.
5–10WatchEarly signals in one dimension.Pick the section that scored highest and address it directly within 2 weeks.
11–16At-RiskMultiple dimensions flashing.Trigger a formal save plan: exec sponsor call, usage diagnostic, and a written recovery plan within 5 business days.
17–24CriticalCompounding risk across usage, sentiment, and stakeholders.Escalate to your manager/CS leader today. This account needs an executive-to-executive conversation, not a routine check-in.

Reading the pattern, not just the number

  • High Section A, low B/C → Adoption problem. Fix with training/rollout, not a relationship save.
  • High Section B, low A/C → Trust/experience problem. A support or delivery issue is bleeding into sentiment — investigate recent tickets/incidents.
  • High Section C, low A/B → Relationship risk despite healthy product fit. Multi-thread immediately before the single contact leaves or goes quiet permanently.
  • High across all three → This is a genuine churn risk. Treat it with the same urgency as a stalled must-win deal.

How to use it

Run this on any account where something feels "off" — it takes under 5 minutes — and use the risk band to decide whether you handle it solo, loop in your manager, or escalate to an executive sponsor call.

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