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# Customer Lifecycle Stage Tracker

> See where every client sits, how long, whether budgets overran, and which accounts are at churn risk.

The measurement layer for a staged client lifecycle. While a lifecycle method defines the stages, this tracks where each client actually sits, how long they have been there, whether the time or hour budget for a stage has been exceeded, and which accounts show early churn-risk signals. It runs as a state machine over a single master contact table and produces a portfolio dashboard so an operator can read the health of every account in seconds.

## Use cases
- Seeing the current stage and days-in-stage for every client on one screen
- Flagging accounts that have overrun their stage time or hour budget
- Catching churn risk early from missed touchpoints and silent accounts
- Choosing the right report type based on the stage an account is in
- Timing an upsell to a stage where the client is receptive, not too early
- Producing a portfolio health snapshot for a weekly review

## Benefits
- A 30-second read on the health of an entire client portfolio
- Early churn warnings instead of discovering a silent client too late
- Stage and budget overruns surface in color before they become problems
- Decisions driven by tracked state, not by memory

## What’s included
- A state machine over a master contact table that rejects illegal stage jumps
- Per-account current stage, days-in-stage and SLA or budget status
- A portfolio dashboard with red, yellow and green health coloring
- A computed next action for each account, not a guess
- Churn-risk signals built from missed touchpoints and engagement gaps
- An audit trail logging who moved an account and when

## Who it’s for
Operators and account leads who run many clients at once and need to see stage, time-in-stage, budget and churn risk at a glance.

## How it runs
Knowing your method is not the same as knowing where every client stands today. This tracker turns the lifecycle into a measured, color-coded portfolio view:
1. Reads each client's current stage from a single master contact table and computes how many days they have sat there
2. Compares time and hours spent against the stage's budget, raising a yellow or red flag when it overruns
3. Builds a per-account next action from the data, such as a due touchpoint or an overdue report, rather than relying on memory
4. Scans for stacking churn-risk signals, missed touchpoints and silent accounts, and flags high-risk clients early
5. Records every stage transition in an audit trail and rejects illegal stage jumps, so the portfolio view stays trustworthy

## FAQ
### How is this different from the lifecycle method itself?
The method defines the stages; this measures them. One says what the stages are, the other tracks where each client actually sits, how long, and whether budgets and SLAs are being met.

### How does it spot churn risk?
It watches for accumulating signals such as missed touchpoints, unopened updates and unanswered outreach. When several stack up on one account, it raises an early-warning flag so you can act before the client goes quiet for good.

### Can an account skip a stage?
No. The state machine enforces legal transitions and rejects illegal jumps, so the tracked history stays honest and the audit trail is reliable.

## Price
$15, one-time, no subscription. VAT included.

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