Vice President of Product & Customer Success at conversational LMS, Continu, shares how Planhat has empowered commercial teams to focus on customer collaboration, not busywork.

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Dec 12, 2025

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Terri James — We didn't have playbooks on day one. We had opportunities, we had good conversations with customers, but we didn't know how to translate that into anything tangible.

Generally the goal is for customer success to always be proactive—but support is usually that reactive piece, where they just come in when you need them and they're gone again. But even our support team has actually become more proactive because we have them in the system. They can see our accounts, they can see where maybe we flagged an account at risk and they're like, “Okay, we're gonna give this account extra attention. We're actually gonna do a little bit more for that account.“

“Even our support team—that is generally a reactive role—is now very proactive as well.”

Terri James — We didn't have playbooks on day one. We had opportunities, we had good conversations with customers, but we didn't know how to translate that into anything tangible.

Generally the goal is for customer success to always be proactive—but support is usually that reactive piece, where they just come in when you need them and they're gone again. But even our support team has actually become more proactive because we have them in the system. They can see our accounts, they can see where maybe we flagged an account at risk and they're like, “Okay, we're gonna give this account extra attention. We're actually gonna do a little bit more for that account.“

“Even our support team—that is generally a reactive role—is now very proactive as well.”

Terri James — We didn't have playbooks on day one. We had opportunities, we had good conversations with customers, but we didn't know how to translate that into anything tangible.

Generally the goal is for customer success to always be proactive—but support is usually that reactive piece, where they just come in when you need them and they're gone again. But even our support team has actually become more proactive because we have them in the system. They can see our accounts, they can see where maybe we flagged an account at risk and they're like, “Okay, we're gonna give this account extra attention. We're actually gonna do a little bit more for that account.“

“Even our support team—that is generally a reactive role—is now very proactive as well.”

So even our support team—that is generally a reactive role—is now very proactive as well. And so it's interesting because not only have we had that proactivity in Customer Success, but we've actually seen what that's done to other departments. So sales and marketing—that whole go to market function—constantly comes back to us to say, “Hey, what have you got for us?“ ”What insights can you give us?” ”I'm talking to X industry or X customer, what could you give us?”

And so being able to always have that information at hand and always being able to be that proactive counterpart has been big.

So even our support team—that is generally a reactive role—is now very proactive as well. And so it's interesting because not only have we had that proactivity in Customer Success, but we've actually seen what that's done to other departments. So sales and marketing—that whole go to market function—constantly comes back to us to say, “Hey, what have you got for us?“ ”What insights can you give us?” ”I'm talking to X industry or X customer, what could you give us?”

And so being able to always have that information at hand and always being able to be that proactive counterpart has been big.

So even our support team—that is generally a reactive role—is now very proactive as well. And so it's interesting because not only have we had that proactivity in Customer Success, but we've actually seen what that's done to other departments. So sales and marketing—that whole go to market function—constantly comes back to us to say, “Hey, what have you got for us?“ ”What insights can you give us?” ”I'm talking to X industry or X customer, what could you give us?”

And so being able to always have that information at hand and always being able to be that proactive counterpart has been big.

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