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All insightsB2B SaaS
Tier 1 support, onboarding, CRM hygiene, and customer success ops for vertical SaaS and platform companies.
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What we've published.
Usage-based AI pricing broke SaaS unit economics. The CS Pod that protects the gross margin.
Cursor, Linear, Notion, and every AI-feature SaaS shipped usage-based pricing in 2025-26. The honest read on what the new model does to gross margin, where the cost overrun hits, and the customer-success Pod role that turns usage variance into expansion.
June 19, 2026
7 min readAI-onboarded customers churn 2x faster. Why the human handoff still wins.
In-product AI onboarding shipped everywhere in 2025. The honest read on what AI onboarding does well (time-to-first-value), what it does badly (90-day retention), and the human-checkpoint Pod model that recovers the gap.
June 9, 2026
7 min readWhy every AI SDR pilot is failing in 2026 (and what wins instead)
11x, Artisan, Regie raised at unicorn valuations. Two years later, the reply rates on AI-only outbound are below 0.5%. The honest read on what AI SDRs actually do well, what they fail at, and the hybrid Pod shape that produces real meetings.
May 28, 2026
5 min readTier 1 SaaS support: the real metric for when to hire vs outsource
Most SaaS founders frame the hire-vs-outsource decision wrong. The deciding metric is not volume or cost, it is ticket complexity heterogeneity. Here is the diagnostic.
May 11, 2026
6 min readCRM hygiene at Series B: the operational debt nobody talks about
By Series B, most SaaS CRMs are 30 to 50% dirty data. Pipeline forecasts are wrong, AE attribution is broken, and the CS team cannot find the right contact. Here is the operational debt that compounded to get there, and the structured cleanup that actually works.
May 7, 2026
5 min readSaaS customer onboarding: why the AE-to-CSM handoff is leaking your revenue
The most expensive failure mode in SaaS customer onboarding is the AE-to-CSM handoff. Customers churn in their first 90 days not because the product failed, but because the relationship dropped between teams. Here is the structure that prevents it.
May 6, 2026
6 min readWhy most SaaS support teams stop scaling at 5,000 tickets per month
Almost every SaaS support team hits a wall at roughly 5,000 tickets per month. Adding more agents stops helping. The cause is structural and predictable, and the fix is not 'hire faster.'
May 5, 2026
5 min readThe customer success ops audit that finds 10% MRR you didn't know you'd lost
Most SaaS companies lose 8-12% of their MRR to operational leakage that's invisible in standard dashboards. A structured customer success ops audit surfaces it. Here is the framework, the metrics, and what gets recovered.
April 4, 2026
6 min readOnboarding sequence vs onboarding cohort: when each one breaks at scale
Most SaaS companies start with sequence-based onboarding and switch to cohorts when they hit scale. The switch is usually wrong. Here is which model fits which business shape, and why the default 'graduate to cohorts' move backfires.
April 3, 2026
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