Long-tail churn is invisible until it has already happened.
accounts is all one human CSM can truly cover. The rest end up with no owner.
a year for CS platforms — and they need ~12 months of calibration before they give a useful signal.
the quarterly report is when you find out those accounts left. Too late to act.
Your long tail — a few covered, most going quiet.
It’s not a tooling problem. It’s a coverage problem.
Agents that work every day. Humans up front.
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We connect
We plug into your CRM, support and usage data. No migrations. Week 1.
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The agents work
Per-account health, onboarding, check-ins, renewal alerts and expansion detection — every day.
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Humans up front
Senior CSMs supervise every action, take the conversations that matter and escalate what your team should see.
✓ Approve & send↑ Escalate to your team
We don’t ask you to trust us. We measure it for you.
Half your segment with PickleCS, half untouched. We measure the delta together. No lock-in.
We get paid when we deliver NRR.
Pilot
90 days · up to 100 unmanaged accounts
- Setup & integrations (week 1)
- Control/treatment design
- Agents + CSM operating on the treatment group
- Day-90 delta report
No variable during the pilot. No lock-in — at day 90 you decide with data.
Less than a month of a junior CSM, measurement included.
Start the pilot →Growth
+ 4% of renewals · 12% of new expansion in the covered segment
- Minimum 150 accounts
- Assigned senior CSM
- Daily agents on every account
- Escalations to your team
- Monthly segment NRR report
200 accounts at $2K ACV → $3,600/mo base. If the segment goes from 98% to 110% NRR, the variable pays for itself with the revenue you’re losing today.
Talk to us →Scale
500+ accounts or multi-product / multi-region
- Decreasing base fee by volume
- Your own playbooks
- Quarterly QBR with your VP of CS
- Escalation SLA
An in-house CSM: ~$6K+/mo and covers 40 accounts. A CS platform: $36K–$84K/yr and you run it. PickleCS: the full operation, paying for outcome.
The base fee is under 12% of a typical long-tail account’s ACV — the rest you pay only if they renew or expand.
“If your accounts don’t renew, you barely pay us. That’s how aligned we are.”
What every VP of CS asks first.
Do you replace my CS team?
No. We cover exactly what your team can’t get to — the long tail with no owner. Your strategic accounts stay with your team; we extend it.
Will my customers know it’s a third party?
We operate under your brand and your playbooks. There’s always an identifiable human CSM fronting the relationship; the agents work behind the scenes.
What about my data?
Least-privilege access, a standard NDA, and your data is never used to train third-party models. SOC 2 is on the roadmap.
How long is setup?
Week 1 we connect CRM, support and usage — no migrations. The measured pilot starts as soon as there’s a baseline.
What happens after the pilot?
At day 90 we review the treatment-vs-control delta together. If it moved the needle, we scale to the whole segment. If not, there’s no lock-in.
Does it work if my accounts pay $2K/year?
That’s exactly what it’s built for: small accounts that don’t justify a dedicated CSM. The base fee is accessible and the variable pays for itself.
Let’s find out how much money is buried in your long tail.
30 minutes. We look at your unmanaged segment and tell you what we’d recover — and how we’d measure it.
Book a long-tail audit →