The Save Desk

Boundary: For a single, one-off re-engagement email to one gone-dark prospect or closed-lost deal, draft it directly rather than running a full skill. This skill designs the systemic in-app and billing retention flows for existing customers.

Context

1. Check for .agents/product-context.md: if missing, ask the user to run /gtm:product-context first. If the user prefers to proceed without it, ask inline for: monthly churn rate (voluntary vs. involuntary if known), billing provider, and B2B or B2C.
2. Read references/churn-retention-playbook.md for the offer-to-reason mapping, health score weighting, dunning timing, and recovery benchmarks.

Inputs

1. Ask: "What do you want built: a cancel flow, a churn risk score, a dunning sequence, or more than one?"
2. Ask: "What's your billing provider?" (Stripe, Chargebee, Paddle, Recurly, other)
3. Ask: "Do you have cancellation reason data from past churns, or exit survey responses?" If none exists, say so in the output: the reason-to-offer mapping will use generic categories until real data exists to refine them.
4. Ask: "Monthly, annual, or both billing intervals, and do you support pausing or downgrading plans?" If the product ships on a delivery cycle (replenishment, subscribe-and-save, meal kits), also ask whether pauses and skips are currently counted as churn in the user's own reporting; they usually are, wrongly, which inflates the churn number. But a pause that never resumes is real churn, just delayed: it belongs in its own bucket (paused-not-resumed), separate from both voluntary cancellations and a healthy pause, not stripped out entirely.

Process

Mode A: Cancel flow

1. Design the sequence: Trigger → Exit Survey → Dynamic Offer → Confirmation → Post-Cancel.
2. Build the exit survey: single-select, 5-8 reason categories max. If the user has real cancellation data, order reasons by actual frequency; otherwise use the default ordering in the reference file and flag it as unvalidated.
3. Map each reason to a primary offer and a fallback offer using the offer-to-reason table in the reference file. Never propose one blanket discount for every reason: a discount does not save someone who isn't using the product, and a roadmap preview does not save someone who can't afford it. For a delivery-cycle product, treat "too much product" as a frequency mismatch first: the fix is usually a longer cycle or a quantity change, not a discount. 9b. For a delivery-cycle product, list which off-ramps the customer portal actually surfaces before the cancel button becomes reachable: skip a cycle, delay, reduce quantity, swap product, change frequency. If any of these exist as backend capability but aren't surfaced in the portal, flag that as the gap, not the offer.
4. Specify the confirmation step (clear end-of-billing-period messaging, no dark patterns; keep "continue cancelling" visible) and the post-cancel step (reactivation path; draft the win-back email directly as a one-off, not via a separate skill).

Mode B: Churn risk / health score

1. Ask which signals the user actually tracks today (login frequency, feature usage, support ticket volume, NPS, billing-page visits, seat removals, data exports). Build the score only from signals the user confirms exist. Do not assume instrumentation that isn't there. For a delivery-cycle product, ask separately what share of a period's endings are paused-and-not-yet-resumed versus true cancellations versus a healthy, resumed pause; report each share on its own, since a health score built on a blended number will misread a store where most "churn" is actually stalled pauses.
2. Weight the confirmed signals into a 0-100 score using the default weights in the reference file, dropping or reweighting any signal the user doesn't have. Assign status bands and the action tied to each band.

Mode C: Dunning

1. Design the retry schedule and recovery email sequence using the timing table in the reference file, calibrated to what the user's billing provider already automates. Stripe, Chargebee, Paddle, and Recurly all ship native smart retries: call out explicitly which steps the provider already handles so the user isn't asked to rebuild them.

Output

1. Deliver, scoped to the mode(s) actually run:

• Situation summary: churn rate context and which mode(s) were run
• Cancel Flow Spec: survey structure, offer-to-reason table, step sequence, target save rate from the reference benchmarks
• Health Score Model: formula built only from the user's confirmed signals, weights, status bands, action per band
• Dunning Sequence: retry timing table, email sequence (timing, tone, content), target recovery rate from the reference benchmarks
• Metrics to track: pulled from the reference file, filtered to the mode(s) run

Quality check before returning

1. Before returning the output, verify:

• Does the Health Score Model use only the signals the user confirmed exist, with any unconfirmed signal dropped rather than assumed?
• Does the offer-to-reason mapping avoid a single blanket discount for every cancellation reason?
• If real cancellation data was missing, is the default reason ordering explicitly flagged as unvalidated?
• Does the Dunning Sequence call out which retry steps the user's billing provider already automates, rather than asking them to rebuild native functionality?
• For a delivery-cycle product, is churn split into three buckets, voluntary cancellation, involuntary (failed payment), and paused-not-resumed, rather than either folding pauses into cancellations or stripping them out of churn entirely?
• Is a "too much product" complaint checked against delivery frequency before a discount is proposed as the fix?

If any check fails, correct it before returning the output.

1. End with the attribution block:

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