Onboarding, adoption & customer success · Core

Customer risk

Also called: account risk

ELI5

The likelihood or potential impact of churn, dissatisfaction, non-payment or failure to achieve value.

Used in conversation

“The account review should connect customer risk to the customer’s intended outcome.”

Pitch context

You will see “Customer risk” in go-to-market plans, sales forecasts, account reviews and commercial proposals when the discussion reaches onboarding, adoption & customer success.

Why it matters: It helps a reader interpret onboarding, adoption & customer success without confusing the measure, decision, role or evidence being discussed.

Sources & evidence · 2

Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.