Onboarding Assessment
90 days in, every task on the onboarding plan can be ticked and the customer still short of first value. This skill judges onboarding against what the success plan promised: progress toward the outcomes the success model names, assessed with your Onboarding, Success Plan, Customer Outcomes and Customer Escalation memories, checkpoint by checkpoint. CSMs see whether first value is getting closer and read blockers one way; managers see which onboardings need help before the customer has to ask; and time-to-value outcomes, good and bad, reshape the milestone logic. Commitments to the customer stay the CSM's to make, and exceptions stay theirs to handle.
Customer Success
Onboarding
Value Realisation
Onboarding
Success Plan
Customer Outcomes
Customer Escalation
The distance to first value
An onboarding can run to schedule while first value stands still, and the difference shows up here first.
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The kickoff integration slips a second week
Each CSM reads the slip differently
One CSM chases, another waits, a third escalates. The project plan records the delay; what it means for first value is a personal call.
A status update cannot rank blockers
AI can restate where the project stands. Whether the slip threatens first value is set by criteria and escalation logic nobody handed it.
Blockers judged on arrival
The CSM gets the blocker weighed: what it delays, whether escalation applies, the next step. Every CSM reads the same slip the same way.
The 45-day review finds go-live suddenly in doubt
Milestones counted as tasks done
The review walks the plan: done, done, delayed. Nobody in the room can say whether the customer is closer to the outcome they bought.
Progress measured in activity
A generated status rolls the tasks up. Milestones mean something only against this customer's success criteria, which the status never sees.
Milestones assessed against success criteria
The manager opens the review on progress toward first value: milestones met or missed, blockers named, next actions attached.
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Against the success model, milestone by milestone. The skill reads the customer's current state and judges progress, blockers and next actions with your Onboarding, Success Plan, Customer Outcomes and Customer Escalation memories, so the verdict tracks first value and reads the same for every CSM.
By comparing what has been reached with what should have been reached by now. A slipped milestone, a stakeholder who never showed up or a blocker still open at the second review appears as an assessed gap with a next action, weeks before it could register as a churn signal.
Inside the Onboarding capability, which delivers it to the CSM and manager as onboarding runs; the criteria come from the Success Plan memory the CS lead maintains. When onboarding closes, Value Realisation takes up the value question from a record that was assessed as it happened.
Adoption Analysis follows whether the right people are reaching what they bought, across the account's life. Onboarding is a narrower, more urgent question: will this customer reach first value on time, and what is in the way. That is this skill's job, and the adoption read is one of its inputs.
Exception handling stays human. The assessment sets out the blocker, what it threatens and the options; the CSM decides the response and makes every customer commitment themselves. Onboarding and escalation logic are the CS lead's; changes need their approval, and time-to-value outcomes judge them.