Retention research · B2B software

The Science of Customer Bonding.

I’ve measured why customers actually stay — in the recorded behavior of 1.3 million B2B software customers. Founder & CEO of ChurnRX.

New findings every Friday · First full report, August 7
The Friday letter

One finding from the research, every Friday.

A short essay on why customers actually stay — drawn from the evidence, readable in three minutes.

One email / Friday / 3-min read

Every Friday. Leave anytime.

“Customers don’t leave because they have a reason to leave. They leave when they no longer have a compelling reason to stay.”
Greg Daines · from the research

Where the research goes to work

Three ways in
For your data

ChurnRX

My company. It runs this research on your own customer base — your actual start, renewal, and cancellation records — and shows which customers are bonded, which are leaving, and why.

churnrx.com →
For your team

Speaking

Keynotes and executive sessions on what the evidence says about retention.

Book me →
For your strategy

Advisory

Ongoing counsel for CEOs and revenue leaders putting the evidence to work in their own retention strategy.

Work with me →
Volume One The Science of Customer Bonding The program’s first full report · Out August 7 Pre-register →
About

I’ve spent my career on a single, stubborn question: why do customers actually stay?

The question got its teeth from our worst customer — unhappy, demanding, always complaining — who kept renewing anyway. When I finally asked why, the answer was: “Why would we cancel when you get us such good results?”

Everything since has been an attempt to test that answer against the evidence — not opinions or surveys, but the recorded behavior of customers themselves: when they start, how they use what they bought, and exactly when they leave. I’ve now measured it across the histories of 1.3 million B2B software customers.

The answer held. Customers don’t stay because they’re happy — they stay when they’re getting results they can’t get anywhere else. That’s what I bring to the leadership teams I advise and the audiences I speak to, and it’s why I built ChurnRX: to measure it for everyone else. The first full report comes out this August.

20+ years proving what actually keeps customers.