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SaaS Customer Success Automation

Proactive churn detection, onboarding sequences, and health scoring for B2B SaaS companies using HubSpot and Intercom.

3 agents2 integrations18h saved/week$80/mo17h setupModerate

AI Readiness Score

78/100
RUN
data maturity70

CRM + billing data provides solid foundation

team capacity75

Technical team can maintain agents

budget alignment65

Budget supports 4-5 agent deployment

automation readiness88

High automation potential with clear trigger points

timeline feasibility70

1-3 month timeline is realistic

integration complexity75

Good API coverage across tools

How This System Works

Architecture

CloudMetrics is a customer intelligence platform built around three core AI agents that work together to provide comprehensive customer lifecycle management. The system follows a data-driven architecture where the Health Score Engine acts as the foundational layer, calculating daily customer health metrics from product usage and billing data. The Churn Predictor then consumes these health scores alongside usage patterns to identify at-risk accounts weekly, while the Onboarding Orchestrator operates reactively to guide new users through personalized engagement sequences. The platform integrates deeply with HubSpot as the central CRM, pulling customer data and pushing insights back for sales and success team action. Stripe provides billing context and revenue metrics, while Intercom serves as both a data source for customer communication patterns and an output channel for automated messaging. Each agent is containerized and deployed independently, allowing for granular scaling and maintenance while sharing common data models and API interfaces.

Data Flow

Data flows through CloudMetrics in a hub-and-spoke model with HubSpot as the central repository. Each morning at 6am, the Health Score Engine pulls fresh customer data from HubSpot (usage metrics, contact properties) and Stripe (billing status, MRR changes) to calculate updated health scores. These scores are immediately pushed back to HubSpot as custom properties and cached in the local database for rapid access by other agents. Weekly on Monday mornings, the Churn Predictor accesses the latest health scores and performs deeper analysis by pulling additional usage pattern data from HubSpot and communication history from Intercom. Its predictions and risk flags are written back to HubSpot and trigger automated Intercom messages to customer success teams. Meanwhile, the Onboarding Orchestrator listens continuously for new user signup webhooks from HubSpot, immediately analyzing the user's profile and behavioral data to determine the appropriate onboarding sequence, then executing personalized outreach through Intercom campaigns.

Implementation Phases

1
Foundation & Health Scoring2-3 weeks

Establish core data pipelines and implement the Health Score Engine with basic HubSpot and Stripe integrations

Health Score Engine
2
Churn Prediction Intelligence3-4 weeks

Build and deploy the Churn Predictor with full data access and automated alerting capabilities

Churn Predictor
3
Onboarding Automation2-3 weeks

Implement reactive onboarding workflows with Intercom integration and user behavior tracking

Onboarding Orchestrator

Prerequisites

  • -HubSpot Professional+ account with API access and custom properties enabled
  • -Stripe account with read access to customer and subscription data
  • -Intercom account with conversation API access and automation capabilities
  • -Docker-compatible hosting environment with cron scheduling
  • -Database instance for caching health scores and intermediate calculations
  • -OAuth application setup for HubSpot and Intercom integrations

Assumptions

  • -Customer usage data is available in HubSpot custom properties or can be imported
  • -Churn definition is based on subscription cancellation within 30-90 days
  • -Health scores should be calculated daily but can tolerate occasional failures
  • -Customer success team wants proactive notifications for at-risk accounts
  • -New user signups trigger immediate HubSpot webhooks or can be polled frequently

Recommended Agents (3)

How It Works

  1. 1
    Data Collection

    Fetch customer records from HubSpot using the CRM API, filtering for active customers and retrieving health scores, usage metrics, and account properties from the past 90 days

    HubSpot CRM API
  2. 2
    Engagement Analysis

    Pull conversation and ticket data from Intercom API to analyze support interaction patterns, response times, and sentiment indicators for each customer

    Intercom Conversations API
  3. 3
    Billing Context

    Retrieve subscription status, payment history, and MRR trends from Stripe API to identify billing-related churn risks and expansion opportunities

    Stripe Subscriptions API
  4. 4
    Risk Scoring

    Apply machine learning model to combined dataset, generating churn probability scores and identifying top risk factors for each account

    scikit-learn RandomForestClassifier
  5. 5
    Alert Distribution

    Update HubSpot contact records with churn risk scores and send targeted Intercom messages to customer success team members for high-risk accounts

    HubSpot Contacts API + Intercom Messages API

Implementation

# Churn Predictor Implementation

## File Structure
```
churn_predictor/
├── app.py
├── models/
│   ├── churn_model.py
│   └── feature_engineering.py
├── integrations/
│   ├── hubspot_client.py
│   ├── intercom_client.py
│   └── stripe_client.py
├── config/
│   └── settings.py
├── requirements.txt
└── Dockerfile
```

## Core Implementation

### app.py
```python
from models.churn_model import ChurnPredictor
from integrations.hubspot_client import HubSpotClient
from integrations.intercom_client import IntercomClient
from integrations.stripe_client import StripeClient

def main():
    # Initialize clients
    hubspot = HubSpotClient(os.getenv('HUBSPOT_API_KEY'))
    intercom = IntercomClient(os.getenv('INTERCOM_ACCESS_TOKEN'))
    stripe_client = StripeClient(os.getenv('STRIPE_API_KEY'))
    
    # Fetch customer data
    customers = hubspot.get_active_customers()
    
    # Enrich with engagement and billing data
    for customer in customers:
        customer['conversations'] = intercom.get_customer_conversations(customer['email'])
        customer['billing'] = stripe_client.get_customer_billing(customer['stripe_id'])
    
    # Generate predictions
    predictor = ChurnPredictor()
    predictions = predictor.predict_churn_batch(customers)
    
    # Update systems
    hubspot.update_churn_scores(predictions)
    intercom.send_risk_alerts(high_risk_customers)
```

## Environment Variables
```
HUBSPOT_API_KEY=your_hubspot_key
INTERCOM_ACCESS_TOKEN=your_intercom_token
STRIPE_API_KEY=your_stripe_key
DATABASE_URL=postgresql://user:pass@localhost/cloudmetrics
CHURN_RISK_THRESHOLD=0.7
```

## Cron Setup
```
0 8 * * 1 cd /app && python app.py
```

Data Flow

Inputs
  • HubSpotCustomer records with health scores, usage metrics, contact properties(JSON via CRM API)
  • IntercomConversation history, ticket data, response times(JSON via REST API)
  • StripeSubscription status, payment history, MRR data(JSON via REST API)
Outputs
  • HubSpotChurn risk scores and risk factors as custom contact properties(JSON via CRM API)
  • IntercomAutomated messages to customer success team for high-risk accounts(JSON via Messages API)

Prerequisites

  • -Health Score Engine must be running and populating daily scores
  • -HubSpot custom properties created for churn_risk_score and risk_factors
  • -Intercom workspace configured with customer success team member access
  • -Historical churn data available for model training (minimum 6 months)
  • -Stripe customer IDs properly mapped to HubSpot contact records

Error Handling

warning
API rate limiting from HubSpot or Stripe during data collection

Implement exponential backoff retry logic and batch size reduction

critical
Missing health scores for customers due to Health Score Engine failure

Skip prediction for affected customers and alert ops team

warning
Machine learning model prediction errors or data quality issues

Log errors, use previous week's scores, and trigger model retraining

critical
Intercom message delivery failure for high-risk customer alerts

Fall back to email notifications and retry message delivery

Integrations

SourceTargetData FlowMethodComplexity
IntercomHubSpotConversation + ticket dataapimoderate
StripeHubSpotBilling status + MRRapitrivial

Schedule

0 8 * * 1
Churn PredictorEvery Monday 8am
0 6 * * *
Health Score EngineDaily at 6am

Recommended Models

TaskRecommendedAlternativesEst. CostWhy
Agent logic / orchestrationClaude Sonnet 4
GPT-4oGemini 2.5 Pro
$0.003-0.015/callComplex reasoning required for churn prediction analysis, health score calculations, and orchestrating personalized onboarding sequences across multiple integrations.
Data extraction / parsingClaude Haiku
Gemini 2.0 FlashGPT-4o-mini
$0.0002-0.001/callFast extraction needed for parsing usage patterns from HubSpot, Intercom, and Stripe APIs in real-time health scoring.
Content generationGPT-4o
Claude Sonnet 4Gemini 2.5 Pro
$0.005-0.015/callGenerating personalized onboarding messages and churn prevention communications requires natural, engaging content creation.
Classification / routingGemini 2.0 Flash
Claude HaikuGPT-4o-mini
$0.0001-0.001/callHigh-volume classification of user behavior patterns and routing onboarding sequences requires fast, cost-effective processing.
Embeddings / searchGemini 2.0 Flash
GPT-4o-miniClaude Haiku
$0.0001-0.001/callFinding similar customer patterns for churn prediction and matching relevant onboarding content requires efficient embedding generation.

ROI Projection

$80
Monthly Cost
$4500
Monthly Savings
18h
Hours Saved/Week
6650%
1-Year ROI
Churn Prevention
$3000$45-$2955
Onboarding
$1200$20-$1180
Account Management
$800$435-$365

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