Onboarding, adoption, renewal, and expansion, stage by stage.

Define the stages your customers move through, gate them on real product state, and let the long tail run without a CSM assigned.

Lifecycle363 accounts
Onboard34
12 awaiting setup
Adopt211
8 stalled
Renew53
6 inside notice period
Expand47
9 signals open
Re-engage18
closed-lost revival
Stage gates verify real product state before an account advances — steps your team defines.

Built for how CS teams work

Your team defines the steps and the gates. The automation runs them — it doesn't invent them.

Stage gates on real product state

An account can't advance until setup is done, so nobody books a kickoff call they aren't ready for.

Playbooks non-engineers can author

CSMs and managers build and edit their own automations without filing an engineering ticket or learning a node graph.

Implementation plans that stay current

Plans update from live product and CRM data, so the status you're looking at is the status that's true.

Customer-facing portals

Share milestones, onboarding checklists, past decks, and agreed targets in one link your customer can open any time.

A plan per customer, not a funnel.

Every customer gets their own lifecycle. Define the stages that matter for that account, gate them on real product state, and see which stage they are sitting in right now, how long they have been stuck, and what was promised on the call that got them there.

Northwind — lifecycle plan
Custom planStalled at stage 4
Kickoff & handoffCompleted Mar 4
Goals carried over from the sales handoff
Workspace configuredCompleted Mar 19
SSO live · 3 integrations connected
First team onboardedCompleted Apr 2
Content team, 14 seats active
Second team rollout21 days overdue
Committed on the Jun 3 call. No activity yet.
Value reviewDue before renewal
ROI report from their own usage
RenewalOct 14
Notice period 30 days · non-auto
MRStage 4 is overdue against a commitment made on a call.Draft the nudge

And the view your manager actually wants.

Where the whole book sits across every stage, what progressed this month, what is stalled, and which accounts need a human this week. Filter by owner, segment, or period.

Lifecycle — all accounts
All ownersAll segmentsThis quarter
Accounts in motion363
Progressed this month128
Stalled37
Protected ARR$4.1M
Progression by stage
Onboard
3412 stalled
Adopt
2118 stalled
Renew
536 stalled
Expand
472 stalled
Re-engage
189 stalled
Needs a human this week
Meridian GroupHealthy usage, critical sentiment46d to renewal
NorthwindStalled at second team rollout21d overdue
Cobalt SystemsOnboarding gate never cleared9d stalled

What teams use this for

The customer success jobs this feature does. Entries marked partially shipped have known gaps.

Nobody books a kickoff unprepared.

Onboarding calls get booked before the account has done the setup that makes the call worth having, so the first session is spent on prerequisites.

Readiness gates check real product state before a stage can advance. Stalled accounts trigger guidance automatically — with steps your team defines, not steps a model invented.

A stage stays locked until setup is verified, and a stalled account triggers its own nudge.

Give the customer their own view.

Onboarding checklists, past QBR decks, recordings, and agreed targets live in email threads nobody can find six months later.

A shared portal holds the plan, the milestones, and the history — visible to your team and the customer at the same time.

One link shows synchronized milestones alongside the account’s document history.

The accounts no one has time for.

Most books have a long tail of lower-revenue accounts that get no coverage at all, because there aren’t enough CSMs to go around.

The full lifecycle runs on adoption signals — surfacing upsells, presenting usage-based value ahead of renewal, and handling routine renewals without a CSM assigned.

High adoption triggers a personalized renewal or expansion motion with no human in the loop.

Every renewal, in one place.

Renewal data is split across billing systems, CRM records, and a spreadsheet somebody maintains by hand.

Contracts, renewal dates, payment state, and recurring revenue reconcile into one hub — across multiple billing environments and every connected CRM.

One dashboard shows live subscription data merged from separate billing systems.

Retention numbers you can defend.

Partially shipped

Leadership asks for gross and net retention by CSM, region, and tier, and the answer takes three days and a spreadsheet.

Renewals filter by stage, owner, region, and tier so retention reporting comes out of the same system the team works in every day.

The notice period stops being a scavenger hunt.

Partially shipped

Renewals need action at 90, 60, 30, and 15 days out, and the contractual notice period is buried somewhere in the CRM.

Upcoming renewals surface on a schedule with their notice period attached, and auto-renewals are tracked separately from the ones that need paperwork signed.

Know where the next deal is hiding.

Building expansion pipeline means guessing which accounts are ready, based on whoever you spoke to most recently.

Conversation signals — a mentioned pain point, a new team, a new use case — turn into prioritized, concrete next actions.

A conversation trigger surfaces a recommended pipeline action against a named account.

Success · Contracts

Every contract, every renewal, in one place.

Contracts is the unified view of every customer subscription across Salesbricks and Stripe. Renewal dates, payment status, MRR/ARR, and contract values — without bouncing between billing tools.

  • Salesbricks + Stripe unifiedSubscriptions, orders, billing intervals, and payment state — both sources normalized into one set of columns and filters.
  • Status filters built for revenue opsActive, trialing, past due, expiring in 30 days, canceled, expired, pending, draft — pivot the table in a click.
  • MRR / ARR rollup per rowPer-customer recurring revenue at the row level. No spreadsheet calc, no separate dashboard.

Success · Pipeline

Deal pipeline with customer context baked in.

Pipeline shows your opportunity board enriched with health and conversion context from elsewhere in BuildBetter. A deal in Negotiation with a Critical health badge is a deal you need to call about today — your CRM alone wouldn't have told you that

  • Kanban or tableDrag-and-drop board for stage moves, or a sortable table when the volume is too high for a visual scan. Same data, your choice.
  • Health badge per dealEvery opportunity carries the linked account's current risk tier. Spot critical accounts mid-deal without leaving Pipeline.
  • Conversion likelihood inlineIf the account is also a trial in Convert, the likelihood tier (high / medium / low) shows on the card. Triage opportunities by readiness, not just stage.

What's next

Health

Score every account on the qualitative signals usage data cannot see

See Health

Tasks

The work each stage generates, in one queue across BuildBetter, Attio, and HubSpot

See Tasks
Stop running Success across six tools

See it against your own book.