Autonomous renewal risk agent with human audit (L5)
An agent watches product usage, support volume, sentiment, and stakeholder change, then opens a risk case and drafts the save plan on its own. The CSM audits and decides. Gainsight, Salesforce, or HubSpot plus your product telemetry.
The steps
- 01
Define risk in writing before you automate it
Tool: Manual
Name the four or five signals that historically preceded churn in your data. If you cannot show the pattern in past renewals, do not let an agent act on it. Owner: CS ops plus data. Pitfall: importing a vendor's generic health score. It fits their customers, not yours. DoD: a written risk definition backed by at least one year of renewal outcomes.
- 02
Let the agent open cases, not send messages
Tool: Gainsight
Autonomy applies to detection and drafting. Outbound to the customer stays human until the false positive rate is known and low. Owner: CS leadership. Pitfall: automated save emails to healthy accounts. It manufactures the doubt you were trying to prevent. DoD: no customer-facing message sends without a named human.
- 03
Audit false positives and false negatives weekly
Tool: Manual
Review flagged accounts that renewed clean and churned accounts that were never flagged. The second list is the one that improves the model. Owner: CS ops. DoD: both lists are reviewed weekly and the definition is updated with a date.
- 04
Tie the agent to a save motion with an owner
Tool: Salesforce
Every case the agent opens gets an owner and a due date, or it becomes noise inside a month. Owner: CS manager. DoD: zero unassigned risk cases older than three days.
Tools in this playbook
- Manual
- Gainsight
- Salesforce
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