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eCommerce · Revenue recovery

The revenue you’re leaving on the table. Subscription Churn & Win-Back Agent.

Identify churn risk and reason, select a margin-safe save path, and run compliant win-back journeys with human oversight for sensitive cases.

◆ human-gateda person approves every consequential action
$13,500
fixed-scope pilot
Validate next
launch posture
Strong durable demand
market signal
subscription-churn-and-win-back-agent
// score risk
input: Tenure
step: identify likely driver
citations: [ source ✓ ]   confidence: 0.93
HUMAN GATEawaiting review →

Nothing is finalized until a human approves it.

Built for
The buyer
Chief Growth Officer, CMO, VP Retention
The champion
Lifecycle/Retention Director, Subscription Product manager, Customer Success lead
Day-to-day users
Subscribers, retention marketers, support and finance teams

Designed, built, and evaluated by Alpesh Nakrani, VP of Growth at ViitorCloud, 14 years shipping software, writing on AI-Native engineering and evaluation.

Evals-first
built in from day one
Human-gated
judgment stays with you
The problem

Where the time and money actually go.

Generic cancellation flows ignore service issues, product usage, tenure, margin, and predicted intent; teams over-discount or contact the wrong customers.

Who feels it

Subscribers, retention marketers, support and finance teams

Trigger to act: Subscriber churn or failed-payment loss is rising, acquisition payback is worsening, or retention teams need more tailored save experiments.

Outcome & ROI

The result you can model before you sign.

Illustrative, replace with your data
$1,800
per month, illustrative

Illustrative only: 10,000 at-risk subscribers × 0.4 percentage-point incremental retention × $45 six-month contribution = $1,800 cohort value. Measure against holdout and include incentive cost.

The outcome, plainly: Identify churn risk and reason, select a margin-safe save path, and run compliant win-back journeys with human oversight for sensitive cases.

Incremental retained contribution
churn
save rate vs holdout
How it works

Inputs in. A cited, review-ready result out. Your expert decides.

A Tool-using workflow agent. Every material fact is grounded in an allowed source and returned with its identifier, no invented data.

01
Score risk
02
identify likely driver
03
choose approved intervention
04
personalize message
05
fix payment issue
06
offer pause/plan/benefit
07
route complaint
08
measure incremental retention
Reference architecturegrounded · human-in-the-loop · fully auditable
Source systems · scoped access
Subscription platform
commerce/billing
CRM/CDP
support
product usage where applicable
Grounded reasoning core
Retrieve & extract
grounded on your sources, returns citations
Reason & draft
Claude Sonnet 4.6 or GPT-5.6 Terra
Human gateRetention owners approve offers, audience rules, sensitive outreach, and strategic accounts; cancellation remains easy and transparent.
Action · only after approval
measure incremental retention
Audit trace
sources, rules, confidence, reviewer
Tenant isolation
minimum data, never cross-tenant
Evaluation suite
baselined pre-launch, watched after
Observability
cost, latency & drift telemetry
Model strategy

Claude Sonnet 4.6 or GPT-5.6 Terra for complex grounded work; select by task-level evaluation; Gemini 2.5 Flash, GPT-5.4 mini or Claude Haiku 4.5 for high-volume routing and drafting. PostgreSQL + pgvector or managed vector store; Policy rules and evaluator service.

Inputs
  • Tenure
  • orders/usage
  • failed payments
  • support history
  • cancellation reason
  • margin
The human gate

AI-Native, not autonomous. Judgment stays with your people.

The machine does the work; the human’s role narrows to the one thing that matters, judgment. That constraint is what makes it safe to deploy.

Non-negotiable human gate

Retention owners approve offers, audience rules, sensitive outreach, and strategic accounts; cancellation remains easy and transparent.

What it will never do
No dark patterns
no obstructed cancellation
no messaging without consent
no unapproved incentive
no claimed causal lift without experiment.
The scorecard

A scorecard, not a demo. We baseline what breaks in production.

Every deployment ships with an evaluation suite. These are the numbers we baseline before launch and monitor after.

Primary
Incremental retained contribution
churn
save rate vs holdout
discount cost
complaint/opt-out
failed-payment recovery
reactivation
model calibration
Why this, not that

The category is crowded. Most of it isn’t built for your workflow.

The alternatives
RecurlyRechargeOrdergrooveChurn BusterKlaviyoBrazeRetention.comsubscription analytics tools
This implementation

Fixed-scope, tuned to your systems and rules, grounded in your data, with the human gate and audit trail built in from day one. A price you own, not a subscription you rent.

✓ Fixed price, not a seat subscription ✓ Grounded in your data & rules ✓ Human approval on consequential actions ✓ Auditable decision trace
Systems & integrations

It plugs into the stack you already run.

No rip-and-replace. Access is scoped to the minimum data necessary, isolated per tenant, and fully logged.

Subscription platformcommerce/billingCRM/CDPsupportproduct usage where applicableemail/SMSpayments/dunningexperimentation
Pricing

Transparent by design. The build price buys the workflow and the proof.

A fixed implementation fee plus a monthly bill that scales with volume and governance. No hidden seats.

Pilot
$13,500
one-time · bounded proof of value
  • One process / scope
  • Live workflow on your data
  • Baseline evaluation suite
  • Measured vs. current process
Most chosen
Production
$31,000
one-time · full deployment
  • Full scope & integration
  • Human-review UI & audit trail
  • Write-back to your systems
  • Production evals & monitoring
Enterprise
$50,000
one-time · multi-entity / regulated
  • Multi-facility rollout
  • Advanced security & compliance
  • Custom control & escalation
  • Dedicated evaluation program
Monthly operating cost

10,000–35,000 workflow runs/month with modest document and model usage.

$400–3,100
usage (models, OCR, vector, storage)
$2,000/mo
managed evaluation & monitoring

Planning assumptions, not vendor quotations. Your Subscription platform and other platform licenses are separate and owned by you. Figures confirmed during scoping.

On working with Alpesh
“His vast knowledge of technologies and a natural problem-solving mindset consistently lead us through complex challenges with clarity and confidence.”
AM
Adil Multani
Senior Backend Developer
Why this is safe to try
01Baseline first. We measure your current numbers before we build anything.
02Fixed scope, fixed price. One process in the pilot. No open-ended engagement.
03Expand only if the scorecard earns it. You see the measured result before committing to production.
04Your people stay in control. The human gate means nothing consequential happens without a person’s approval.
FAQ

Questions serious buyers ask.

Does the AI act on its own?

No. Retention owners approve offers, audience rules, sensitive outreach, and strategic accounts; cancellation remains easy and transparent. The system drafts and recommends; a human approves every consequential action. Explicitly excluded: No dark patterns; no obstructed cancellation; no messaging without consent; no unapproved incentive; no claimed causal lift without experiment..

How do you stop it inventing facts?

Every material claim is grounded in an allowed source record and returned with its source identifier. The system separates observed facts, model inference, and missing information, and routes to a human whenever confidence is low, evidence conflicts, or an adverse outcome is possible.

What does it cost to run each month?

A usage bill of roughly $400–3,100/month (10,000–35,000 workflow runs/month with modest document and model usage), plus a $2,000/month managed retainer for evaluation, monitoring and maintenance. Your existing platform licenses are separate and already yours. Exact figures are confirmed during scoping.

Do we need a ChatGPT or Claude subscription?

No consumer ChatGPT or Claude subscription is required for the production workflow. The client needs an approved API/cloud billing account. Workspace seats are optional for internal prototyping and administrator access.

How is this different from Recurly?

Tools like Recurly, Recharge, Ordergroove are broad platforms you adapt to. This is a fixed-scope implementation tuned to your systems and rules, grounded in your data, with the human gate and audit trail built in, and a transparent price instead of a seat subscription.

How long until it’s live, and how do we prove it works?

This is a validate next. We baseline “Incremental retained contribution” first, then measure against that baseline. You see the scorecard before expanding scope, the evaluation suite ships with the system, not as an afterthought.

Book a scoping call

Bring your real numbers. Leave with a fixed-scope plan.

A 30-minute engineering-led working session, no slideware. You leave with a sized opportunity estimate, a fixed-scope pilot plan, and the integration & human-review path mapped.

VP of Growth at ViitorCloud · senior delivery owner confirmed before paid work

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