Account Health Summary
Compress a noisy account into a health call with the evidence behind it, so the score means something.
Health scores rot when they average vibes into a number nobody trusts. A useful health call reasons from the evidence and weighs it against what success actually means for that specific account.
The template
Copy it, swap the {{marked}} variables for your account, and run it.
Summarize this account's health. Give a single health call (Healthy /
Watch / At Risk), then the three signals that most support it and the one
counter-signal that argues against it. Do not average vibes into a number;
reason from the evidence.
Account: {{account_name}}
Usage signals: {{usage_signals}}
Relationship signals: {{relationship_signals}}
Commercial signals: {{commercial_signals}}
Support signals: {{support_signals}}
What "healthy" means for THIS account: {{health_definition}}
Rules:
- Weigh signals against what healthy means for this specific account, not a generic rubric.
- Always surface one counter-signal, even for a Healthy call. No account is all green.
- If two signals conflict, say so; do not smooth it over.
- Under 150 words.
Variables
- {{account_name}}
- Account namee.g. Cedar & Vine (hospitality group)
- {{usage_signals}}
- Usage signalse.g. logins steady; but only 2 of 9 locations have onboarded staff
- {{relationship_signals}}
- Relationship signalse.g. champion is engaged and responsive; no exec relationship above her
- {{commercial_signals}}
- Commercial signalse.g. paid annual up front; expansion conversation started by them
- {{support_signals}}
- Support signalse.g. low ticket volume; one unanswered feature request from Q1
- {{health_definition}}
- What healthy means heree.g. multi-location rollout is the whole point; single-location usage is a warning, not a win
Worked example
A CSM managing 40 accounts needs to triage her book for the week. Cedar & Vine looks green on the dashboard (steady logins, paid up front, expansion interest), but she knows the deal was sold on a nine-location rollout and only two are live. She wants a health call that reflects the actual bet.
Account: Cedar & Vine (hospitality group) Usage signals: logins steady; but only 2 of 9 locations have onboarded staff Relationship signals: champion is engaged and responsive; no exec relationship above her Commercial signals: paid annual up front; expansion conversation started by them Support signals: low ticket volume; one unanswered feature request from Q1 What "healthy" means for THIS account: multi-location rollout is the whole point; single-location usage is a warning, not a win
Good output vs bad output
HEALTH: WATCH. On paper this looks healthy, paid up front, engaged champion, they started an expansion talk. But for this account the deal thesis is the nine-location rollout, and only two are live. Steady logins from two sites is not success here, it is a stall dressed up as stability. Three supporting signals: (1) 2 of 9 locations onboarded against a multi-location thesis, (2) no relationship above the champion, so rollout has no executive push, (3) a Q1 feature request still unanswered. Counter-signal: they opened the expansion conversation, which is a real buying signal, but expanding before the base rollout lands could paper over the gap. Conflict worth naming: commercial signals say green, deployment says yellow. Trust the deployment.
HEALTH SCORE: 82/100 (Healthy) Cedar & Vine is a healthy account. Logins are steady, they paid annually up front, support tickets are low, and the champion is highly engaged. They've even started an expansion conversation, which is a great sign. Overall this is a strong, low-risk account trending in a positive direction. Recommended action: continue current cadence and explore expansion opportunities.
- Buried ledeThe one fact that matters, 2 of 9 locations live against a multi-location deal, is completely absent, so a real stall is scored as healthy.
- Generic fillerA precise-looking "82/100" is fabricated confidence; nothing in the input maps to that number, and it invites the CSM to stop thinking.
- Missing contextIgnores the account-specific definition of healthy that was handed to it, applying a generic "logins + payment + low tickets = good" rubric.
- No next step"Continue current cadence" is exactly the wrong action for a rollout that has stalled at 2 of 9 sites.
Guardrails
When NOT to use this
- Do not treat the output as your health score of record. It is a reasoning aid; your CS platform owns the number.
- Not reliable if you feed it only quantitative signals with no account context. The account-specific definition of healthy is what makes it useful.
Responsible use
- The model cannot see your product telemetry directly. Garbage or stale signals in means a confident wrong call out.
- Do not let a green summary substitute for actually talking to the customer, especially when relationship signals are thin.
A human must review the output before it reaches the customer.
Model + settings
- Model
- Claude Sonnet for routine portfolio triage; Opus when the account is large and the signals conflict.
- Temperature
- 0.3 (low, you want disciplined reasoning, not a creative narrative)
- Settings
- The "what healthy means for THIS account" field is the highest-leverage input. Never leave it blank.
- Ask it to always surface a counter-signal; it stops the model from writing you a comforting summary.