Use case

Catch a churning renewal early

We see the renewal dying before it's obvious.

Zu watching a customer call for renewal risk signals

usage drop + silent thread

Catch a churning renewal early

We see the renewal dying before it's obvious.

Yuzu reads

Renewal going quiet

Move

Surface the account before it becomes churn.

01

The situation

A renewal is on the calendar a quarter out and on paper everything is fine, the contract is active, the account is green, nobody has complained. Underneath, the things that actually predict a renewal are sliding: usage is down from where it was, the champion who fought for you internally has gone quiet, the logins have thinned out, and none of it is loud enough to trip an alarm because no single number has crossed a line.

02

The cost of doing nothing

By the time a churning renewal is obvious it is usually too late to do anything but discount, because the relationship has already cooled and you are negotiating from weakness. The deals you lose this way were savable months earlier, when the champion still took your call and the usage decline was still reversible, and the reason they were not saved is that nobody saw the decline while it was still early enough to matter.

03

The Yuzu move

Yuzu learns what a healthy renewal trajectory looks like for accounts like this one and watches every renewal against it, so the quiet decline that no single threshold would catch shows up as a deviation from the pattern while there is still runway. When it sees the churn signature forming it tells the owning rep early and hands them the specific re-engagement move for this account, the reason to reach out that is real rather than a check-in, timed to the point where it can still change the outcome. It is watching trajectory, not a static health score, which is why it sees the problem before the health score turns red.

04

The outcome

You reach the champion while they are still reachable, with a reason that is worth their time, and the renewal that was quietly dying gets a second life on terms that are not a fire sale. The save happened because the problem was visible in month one instead of month three.

In the product

Where this lands in Yuzu.

Northwind Robotics · $48K · Legal · 51 days open
NEXT ACTIONS·Northwind Robotics·legalGet more
DUE NOW1/2

Arm your champion before legal stalls

Procurement has been quiet 9 days. Send the one-pager that frames the value for legal and finance so your champion can sell it internally.

Draft the one-pagerMark done
READY2/2

Send the recap to finance

Finance joined the last call but never got the numbers. A short recap keeps them moving in parallel.

Review emailMark done
SIGNAL·HIGH
Why?

Champion went quiet for 6 days right after pricing, and the new stakeholder from legal has not replied. The shape matches deals that slipped a quarter.

Path to close

62% complete
  1. Discovery

    Mapped pain and budget

  2. Champion

    VP Eng bought in

  3. 3

    Legal review· now

    Redlines with procurement

  4. Signature

    Mutual close plan agreed

Video explainer

Catch a churning renewal early, in 90 seconds