Product
Retain

Proactive Support Outreach

Detect users showing signs of struggle and proactively reach out with contextual help before they file a ticket or churn.

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$npx gtm-skills add product/retain/proactive-support-outreach

Outcome

≥40% of outreached users engage with the help

Leading Indicators

  • Outreach engagement rate
  • Struggle detection count
  • Resolution rate

Instructions

  1. Instrument struggle signals in PostHog: error_displayed, $rageclick, action_abandoned, help_docs_visited.

  2. Run struggle scoring query from struggle-signal-detection drill to identify 10-20 users with scores above 25.

  3. Review PostHog session recordings for each user to understand their stuck workflow and failure mode.

  4. Check Intercom for open tickets — skip users already in support.

  5. Send contextual help manually: reference what they were trying to do, provide the specific fix, link to the help article.

  6. Track responses: did they engage, did their struggle resolve, did they respond positively.

  7. After 7 days, evaluate: ≥40% of outreached users engaged with the help.

  8. If PASS, proceed to Baseline. If FAIL, review session recordings of non-responders to improve detection or help content.

Recommendations

Time

5 hours over 1 week

Play-specific cost

Free

Tools

PostHogProduct Analytics