Greg Daines

The Science of Customer Bonding

Your happiest customers leave first.

Satisfaction, NPS, on-time renewals — the numbers that feel safe miss the one thing that predicts who actually stays. It's called bonding, and it's measurable in the data you already have.


Get your Bonding Score.

The single number — read from your own customer data — that predicts who stays and who is already gone. Not a survey. Not a benchmark. Your book of business, measured.

Connect your data and I'll read your bonded fraction back to you, live. — Greg Daines

Free · From your own data

A quick, secure export of your customer history — no integration project. You'll get your number and what's driving it in a 30-minute readout.

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Check your inbox — you'll get the secure data step and a link to book your readout. I read every one of these myself.

Three steps to your number.

01

Connect your data

A simple, secure export of your customer history. No survey to send, no integration to build.

02

I read it

I calculate your bonded fraction — the share of customers who truly can't leave — and what's moving it.

03

You see your number

Live, in a 30-minute readout, with exactly where your retention holds and where it breaks.

Satisfaction tells you how they feel. Bonding tells you whether they can leave.

What you measure now
Satisfaction, NPS, renewals

Backward-looking and easy to fake. Customers report high satisfaction right up to the month they churn.

What actually predicts staying
The bonded fraction

A behavior, not an opinion — visible in the data before anyone fills out a survey. It's what separates a renewal from a relationship.

Churn is a product problem. Customer success is the smaller lever. You can't customer-success your way out of a product that doesn't produce compelling results. The Bonding Score shows you which one you're actually fighting — drawn from the recorded behavior of 1.3 million B2B software customers.

1.3M+
B2B software customers studied

Greg Daines has spent two decades on one question: why customers actually stay. The research now spans more than a million customer relationships — and it points somewhere most retention playbooks never look.