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Diagnostic

CX Systems Diagnostic

Find the source of customer friction across teams, systems, ownership, and handoffs.

Diagnostic

Lifecycle Risk Review

Learn which customer signals matter, who should respond, and what to improve before renewal risk becomes urgent.

Diagnostic

CRM Workflow Audit

Find where CRM workflows, data, automation, and ownership get in the way of customer work.

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Free CX and AI Tools

Use six free tools to evaluate AI use cases, map handoffs, sort feedback, review CRM data, and plan service recovery.

Free tool

AI Use Case Stress Test

Identify readiness gaps, ownership questions, failure points, and the smallest useful AI test.

Free tool

CX Handoff Mapper

Map a customer journey across people, teams, and systems to find weak handoffs and missing owners.

Free tool

AI Evaluation Builder

Turn an AI task and its failure modes into a rubric, test cases, reviewer rules, and stop conditions.

Free tool

CRM Data Health Sampler

Review a CSV sample for missing values, duplicates, inconsistent formats, and fields that may not support the workflow.

Free tool

Service Recovery Planner

Turn a customer failure into a recovery plan with clear ownership, timing, communication, and follow-up.

Experience design

AI Customer Experience Design

Design AI experiences with clear roles, trustworthy context, human judgment, safe recovery, and measurable outcomes.

Customer problem

User Adoption Fatigue

Find why people verify, correct, or bypass a workflow, then fix the work before asking for more adoption.

Customer problem

Executive Misalignment

Turn competing priorities into a clear decision, accountable ownership, and a practical operating sequence.

Workflow guide

Salesforce Tracing

Follow customer work through Salesforce records, automation, ownership, handoffs, and outcomes.

Workflow guide

Cross-Functional Handoffs

Find where customer context, ownership, or urgency gets lost between teams and systems.

Workflow guide

Service Escalation Maps

Map the conditions, ownership, authority, context, and response needed before a service issue becomes a failure.

Workflow guide

AI-to-Human Routing

Design routing around clear boundaries, safe pauses, useful context, human authority, and accountable outcomes.

AI tooling

AI Copilot Design

Bring trusted context into real workflows, support better decisions, and keep people accountable for the outcome.

AI tooling

PII Scrubbing for AI Workflows

Reduce unnecessary personal data in AI workflows with clear boundaries, tested transformations, and accountable review.

AI tooling

Prompt Injection Controls

Reduce prompt injection risk with clear trust boundaries, limited permissions, enforceable policy, and adversarial testing.

Start here

Fit Check

Find out whether your customer experience, CRM, or AI initiative is ready for a useful next step.

Contact

Contact Matt Rabah

Share a customer experience, lifecycle risk, CRM workflow, or AI readiness problem and get a direct response.

Diagnostic 02

See customer risk before it’s too late to act.

The Lifecycle Risk Review finds early warning signs across onboarding, adoption, account health, customer feedback, and renewal. You’ll see which signals matter, who should respond, and what needs to change before the risk becomes urgent.

Questions answered

Turn late surprises into earlier action.

We start with the decisions your team needs to make. Then we test whether your signals and workflows support timely, accountable action.

Questions this diagnostic answersView questions
  1. Where does risk show up first?

    Find the early signs across onboarding, adoption, service activity, account behavior, and customer feedback before a renewal is in danger.

  2. Which signals matter enough to act on?

    Separate meaningful changes in customer behavior from normal variation, incomplete data, and activity that does not reveal real risk.

  3. Who should respond, and when?

    Set clear ownership, response rules, escalation paths, and the context each team needs before the best response window closes.

  4. How will you know the response worked?

    Connect earlier action to customer, adoption, workflow, and business measures so your team can see whether the response helped.

Scope and evidence

See how risk is tracked and handled today.

The evidence depends on your customer model and what your team can share. I compare the intended lifecycle process with the signals, decisions, and responses that happen in practice.

Evidence we reviewView evidence
  • Lifecycle stages and expectations

    How your team defines onboarding, adoption, customer value, renewal readiness, and other important stages in the relationship.

  • Customer and account signals

    Product or service use, changes in engagement, support patterns, feedback, stakeholder changes, and other signs that conditions are shifting.

  • Handoffs and intervention paths

    How customer context moves across sales, onboarding, success, service, operations, and leadership when teams need to act together.

  • Health measures and data quality

    The inputs, assumptions, missing data, age, and real use of current health scores, dashboards, alerts, and account reviews.

  • Ownership and escalation rules

    Who watches for risk, makes sense of unclear signals, contacts the customer, removes blockers, and makes cross-team decisions.

  • Outcomes and review cadence

    How your team reviews its response, learns from preventable losses, and updates signals or rules as customer behavior changes.

Deliverables and decisions

Know what to watch, who acts, and what happens next.

You’ll get a practical system for turning lifecycle evidence into action. Each deliverable makes the signals, ownership, response, and next improvement clear.

  1. Lifecycle risk model

    A shared definition of customer stages, risk conditions, and the points where earlier action can still change the outcome.

    Supports the decisionWhere to watch for risk and which lifecycle stages need clearer attention.

  2. Signal inventory and assessment

    A review of available signals, the strength of their evidence, known gaps, age, ownership, and value for a specific decision.

    Supports the decisionWhich signals can guide action now, which need work, and which are not reliable enough to use.

  3. Intervention and ownership map

    A practical view of triggers, owners, escalation paths, needed context, and the response expected when risk appears.

    Supports the decisionWho acts, when they act, what they need to know, and where teams must work together.

  4. Prioritized improvement plan

    An ordered set of changes to lifecycle definitions, data, workflows, reviews, and measurement based on impact and dependencies.

    Supports the decisionWhat to improve first and what needs to be ready before adding automation or predictive tools.

Engagement fit

Use this review when risk shows up too late.

A useful review needs access to the teams, customer context, lifecycle data, and decisions behind the response. Your organization must also be open to changing how risk is defined, owned, and reviewed.

Strong fit

This is likely a good fit when

  • Onboarding slips, adoption falls, accounts go quiet, or renewal risk appears too late for an effective response.
  • Customer context and risk signals are spread across teams, systems, or account reviews.
  • A sponsor can bring customer-facing, operations, data, and commercial owners together.
  • Your organization is willing to change lifecycle definitions, workflows, and ownership.

Limited fit

Another path may work better when

  • The goal is only to buy a predictive tool without changing how teams understand and respond to risk.
  • You need an urgent recovery plan for one known account.
  • The needed customer, account, workflow, or outcome evidence is not available.
  • No accountable owner can change response rules, escalation paths, or cross-team work.

Next step

Tell me where risk appears too late.

Share when risk becomes visible, which lifecycle stages are affected, the teams and systems involved, and the signals you already have. I’ll tell you plainly whether this review is the right place to start or if another path makes more sense.

Useful context
Lifecycle concern, available signals, teams involved, and accountable sponsor
Expected outcome
A direct answer about fit and the best next step