Find expansion before the customer asks
A health climb arrives with the whitespace sized and the plays shortlisted. Turning a repeating signal into an owned motion.
The job
“I want to find the expansion conversations that are ready, rather than waiting to be asked.”
- Customer success managers
- Account managers
- CS leaders
Expansion is the cheapest pipeline in the business and the least systematically worked. It arrives as an inbound request, which feels like success and is actually a reporting problem: the expansions you can see are the ones the customer initiated, and the ones you missed are invisible by construction.
The signals that precede a real expansion conversation are also easy to confuse with the signals that somebody likes you. Enthusiasm is not readiness. Usage crossing a threshold, a new team appearing, a role being hired that your product serves — those are readiness.
What it moves
- Expansion signal conversion
- Net revenue retention
- Pipeline created
The division of labour
What RevTech does, and where you decide
In the product
How to do it
- Step 1 of 4
Take the health-improved card as a prompt
When health climbs and the account becomes expansion-ready, the card arrives with the whitespace sized and a shortlist of plays it qualifies for. Its primary action is enrolling in an expansion play rather than opening the account, which is the right default: the conversation benefits from a motion behind it.
The Expansion view: net revenue retention and expansion broken down by segment, showing where growth inside the existing customer base is coming from. Screenshot of the RevTech application; sample data. Expansion across the book, by segment. The read that tells you where the motion is working. - Step 2 of 4
Use the account map to find the gap
Coverage is the precondition for expansion rather than an afterthought. A relationship that runs through one team cannot expand into another, and the map is where you see that before you build a business case that depends on a door you cannot open.
- Step 3 of 4
Separate readiness from goodwill
The distinction worth being disciplined about: a happy customer is not an expanding customer. Look for a change in their situation — a new team, a threshold crossed, a person hired — rather than a change in their tone.
- Step 4 of 4
Turn the repeating signal into a play with an owner
When the same expansion signal has produced three conversations, it should stop being individual initiative and become a motion. A play whose eligibility is that signal runs it every time, with a named owner and timed steps, rather than depending on whoever happened to notice.
What arrives
What this puts in your Action Center
| Item | What is prepared | How it resolves |
|---|---|---|
| HealthImproved | Sized whitespace and a shortlist of qualifying plays | Enrol in an expansion play |
| EnrollmentRecommendation | The eligibility explanation and a recommended owner | Enrol, or reject — which records a sixty-day cooldown |
| NewContactDiscovered | A person in the buying group who is not on the account yet | The account, on its Mapping tab |
What to take away
- The expansions you can see are the ones the customer asked for. The missed ones are invisible by construction.
- Readiness is a change in their situation. Goodwill is a change in their tone.
- Coverage is the precondition. A relationship in one team cannot expand into another.
- A signal that has produced three conversations should be a play, not individual initiative.
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