Expansion Identification
A usage spike and a genuine expansion opening look identical from a dashboard. This skill exists to tell them apart. Product fit, realised value, the customer's goals, stakeholder context and commercial timing are weighed against your Expansion memory, and what comes back is either a thesis carrying evidence, confidence and gaps, or a reasoned decision to wait. CSMs and reps stop pitching on instinct, managers review openings they can defend, and every expansion won or lost tightens what qualifies. The approach to the customer, and when to make it, stays a human decision.
Which triggers deserve a thesis
Expansion prompts arrive three ways: on a schedule, from inside the product and from the customer's own news. The bar they must clear never moves.
01 | The Current Way
02 | AI Added On
03 | AI-Native
The account review asks where growth could come from
Whatever the CSM happens to remember
Growth ideas come from intuition and whoever knows the account best. Accounts without a vocal CSM sit quiet however ready they are.
An upsell prompt for every spike
Threshold alerts fire on volume. The case for expansion rests on value the customer has already seen, and volume alone cannot show it.
No account waits on a vocal CSM
The review starts from evidenced openings: fit, realised value, goals and timing weighed with the Expansion memory across every account.
A second team starts using the product unprompted
A nice anecdote for the next QBR
It gets a passing mention. Whether a new team means a new use case, a new budget line or nothing is settled by instinct, if anyone asks.
An alert that stops where the case starts
Usage spread is all the alert carries. Which product fits the new team, what it would pay for and who owns that budget go unasked.
A new team becomes a testable case
The CSM sees an opening with its evidence and gaps named, the new use case weighed against Products, Pricing and the personas involved.
The customer announces a move into a new market
News that reaches the account plan late
The announcement circulates on LinkedIn before anything changes internally. By the next account review, a competitor may already have asked.
Alerted to the news and no further
The announcement arrives with no account context. Whether the change creates demand your products answer takes history nobody consulted.
Judged for expansion the week it breaks
Sales and the CSM choose the approach that week, with realised value, product fit and timing already read and the evidence in view.
Capabilities that run this skill
Customer Success
Expansion Identification
Customer Success
Expansion Planning
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Against a written standard. Each candidate is weighed on product fit, value already delivered, customer goals, stakeholder context and commercial timing, judged with your Expansion memory. A strong candidate becomes a thesis worth planning around; a weak one is held back, with the reason recorded.
Fewer than dashboards suggest. Rising usage or a new team is a prompt to look, never a case in itself. Enough means evidence the customer got the results they paid for, a product that fits the new need, a budget owner and workable timing. Short of that, the trigger is set aside, shortfall named.
It moves on, with what would need to change recorded. The thesis, evidence and gaps pass to Expansion Planning, which turns them into named stakeholders, a value case, timing and owners. The Expansion Identification capability takes ad hoc questions too, so no opening gets argued twice.
From assessments that never stopped running. Value Realisation Assessment maintains the proof that promised outcomes happened, and this skill consumes it as its strongest input, alongside your Products and Pricing memories. It adds the judgement of whether that value opens a further purchase.
A person, every time. The skill recommends. The CSM and rep own approach and timing; nothing reaches the customer on its say-so. Products belongs to product marketing, Pricing to its owner, value definitions to the CS lead, Persona to RevOps. Expansion outcomes retune the criteria, owner-approved.