Customer success onboards the big accounts by hand. Everyone else gets a welcome email.
which parts of what your CS team does could reach every new account, and which parts should stay with a person.
We plan and build onboarding in your email or messaging tool so it reacts to what people do in the product. If someone finishes setup early, the reminders stop. If they get stuck, the next message can focus on the step they are actually stuck on instead of whatever was scheduled for day three.
Set up
Set up starts by turning the pieces you already have into a path with explicit decisions, exits, and measurement.
which parts of what your CS team does could reach every new account, and which parts should stay with a person.
the first thing new customers do that tells you they are likely to stick around, and whether your tools can see it.
which product signals the messaging needs and where those signals need to go.
the smallest useful path from signup to the next customer action the onboarding should support.
Already have onboarding running but it’s messy, overlapping or hard to trust? See Fix.
What’s included depends on what we agree to take on. A Set up project can include:
Decision rule
IF account created
AND first shared task incomplete
THEN continue onboarding
UNTIL first shared task is complete
For onboarding, that might be finishing setup, publishing something, inviting a teammate, connecting an integration or using the feature that makes the product valuable.
We agree on the behavior and how we will judge it first, so the automation has a job beyond “send the next email.”We identify the customer actions, account fields, client-approved consent rules and exclusions the journey depends on.
If an important signal is missing, we spell out what needs to reach the email or messaging tool before building around a guess.
We build the agreed entry rules, branches, timing, messages, exits and suppressions in the platform.
If lifecycle-message writing is part of the project, we write those messages. Newsletters and broader brand copy aren’t part of it unless separately agreed.We check what happens when someone progresses early, gets stuck, should be left out, reaches the goal or comes back through the journey later.
Automation can only react to what it can see. If your product knows someone finished setup but your email tool never hears about it, nothing downstream can respond. We’ll spell out exactly what needs to get there and work with your developer on it.
No developer time right now? Tell us early. We can start by looking at what your tools can already see and whether a useful first version is possible without new engineering work.
If the onboarding exists to help more new accounts finish setup, reach first value or use an important feature, that is what we should measure. Opens and clicks can help explain what happened, but they are not the customer outcome.
See how a behavior-based onboarding path can stop reminders when the customer reaches the goal on their own.
Tell us what customers get today and where they tend to get stuck. We’ll write back with what we’d look at first.