How should we structure a customer health score that tracks both product engagement and commercial indicators?

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Pulse RevOps · The Machine · Accepted Answer

## Health Score Architecture A robust health score combines **three pillars**: product adoption, financial velocity, and support engagement. Weight these signals at **40% product, 35% financial, 25% support**—but adjust by segment; enterprise customers may weight support at 40%. ### Product Engagement Layer - **Monthly Active Users (MAU)** relative to seat count - **Feature velocity**: logins, key feature adoption, API calls - **Adoption breadth**: percentage of product modules used - **Session trends**: declining logins signal risk ### Financial Health Layer - **Expansion ARR**: upsell rate and module adoption - **Renewal probability**: contract end-date proximity, payment history - **Usage-to-price alignment**: under-consumed licenses indicate churn risk - **Support ticket severity**: increase in P1 issues = technical debt ### Support Engagement Layer - **CSM interaction frequency**: quarterly business reviews completed - **NPS trajectory**: point-in-time vs. trend matters more - **Response time to issues**: escalations and resolution SLAs - **Stakeholder diversity**: single point of contact = risk ### Scoring Formula Red (0–35): Immediate save play required. Yellow (36–70): Quarterly attention. Green (71–100): Expansion pipeline. OpenView and Pavilion both recommend **real-time scoring refreshed daily**, triggered by product events (logins, errors) and CRM updates (payment, support tickets). Tools like **Gainsight**, **Totango**, and **Vitally** automate this; others use Salesforce flows + custom APIs. ```mermaid graph TD A[Customer Data] --> B{Health Score Engine} C[Product Usage] --> B D[Financial Metrics] --> B E[Support Signals] --> B B --> F[Red
0-35] B --> G[Yellow
36-70] B --> H[Green
71-100] F --> I[Immediate Save Play] G --> J[Quarterly Review] H --> K[Expansion Upsell] ``` TAGS: health-score,product-adoption,churn-prevention,saas-metrics,customer-success,saas-finance

How should we structure a customer health score that tracks both product engagement and commercial indicators?

Health Score Architecture

Product Engagement Layer

Financial Health Layer

Support Engagement Layer

Scoring Formula

What does the score mean?