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The Evolution of Customer Health: From Scores to Systems to AI

[fa icon="calendar"] 27-Oct-2025 11:16:50 / by Iliyana Stareva

Customer Health series for customer success in the AI era

Customer health has always been a cornerstone of Customer Success — yet the way most organisations measure and act on it hasn’t evolved fast enough.

Over the past few months, I’ve explored this transformation — from static health scores to dynamic, AI-driven systems that connect data to outcomes. This post brings all the pieces together in one place and looks ahead to what comes next.

1️⃣ Why Customer Health Is Broken

Most health scores are static and misleading. A “green” account can still churn because the score doesn’t capture context or timing.
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2️⃣ From Health Score to Health System

Customer health isn’t a number — it’s a process. Turning scores into signal-driven systems enables real-time action and accountability.
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3️⃣ AI Customer Health Scoring: How to Build It (and How to Avoid Bias)

AI helps us scale insight and see risk before it becomes visible. But its power depends on fairness, diverse data, and human oversight.
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4️⃣ How to Design Alerts That Drive Action

Even the smartest system fails if it doesn’t lead to action. Purposeful alerts linked to playbooks ensure the right person acts at the right time.
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The Big Shift

Across this series, one theme stands out: Customer Success is evolving from tracking risk to engineering prevention.

We’ve moved from:
📊 Static health scores →
🔁 Dynamic health systems →
🤖 Predictive AI models →
⚡ Actionable alerts and playbooks

This isn’t just an operational change — it’s a cultural one. It’s how CS becomes strategic: by connecting data, teams, and outcomes in a continuous loop.

What’s Next

The next chapter is a new series that will look at how AI and automation are reshaping the role of the CSM and CS leadership — not to replace human connection, but to enhance it.

Stay tuned for a new series exploring:

  • The AI-enabled CSM: how to use automation without losing empathy.
  • Designing AI-ready CS operations.
  • Building trust and transparency in AI-driven customer experiences.

Because the future of Customer Success isn’t just data-driven — it’s intelligently human.

 

Topics: Customer Experience, Customer Success, Artificial Intelligence, AI

Iliyana Stareva

Written by Iliyana Stareva

Iliyana Stareva is a thought leader in Customer Success and AI. She’s the author of Inbound PR, a keynote speaker, and currently leads Customer Health for EMEA at ServiceNow. Iliyana has held global and regional roles at ServiceNow, Cisco, and HubSpot, spanning customer experience, operations, and digital transformation.

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