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The Hidden Signals That Predict Customer Churn (90% Accuracy)
How a major insurance company identified 89% of at-risk customers before they left - and what this means for your retention strategy
Most businesses wait until customers leave to realize there was a problem. That's backwards thinking that costs millions.
We worked with a major device insurance provider where machine learning identified 89% of churning customers before they left. The company went from bleeding revenue to proactively saving at-risk accounts.
The game-changer wasn't just knowing who would leave – it was knowing when. Survival analysis showed us Customer A might churn in 30 days while Customer B (same risk score) wouldn't leave for 90 days. That timeline changed everything.
Here's what separates winners from losers in retention:
Stop treating churn as inevitable. It's predictable.
Your behavioral data contains early warning signals you're ignoring.
Classification models tell you "who." Survival analysis tells you "when."
Proactive intervention beats reactive damage control every time.
The insurance provider now identifies high-risk customers monthly and intervenes before they reach the door. Just saving 10-15% of flagged customers translates to millions in protected revenue.
Your churn problem isn't a customer problem – it's a data problem. And data problems have solutions.
Read the full case study → [CASE STUDY]
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