Churn Prevention Playbook
A SaaS retention playbook that designs cancel flows, reason-based save offers, dunning sequences for failed payments, and win-back campaigns.
Marketing & SEOIntermediate★ 489⑂ 111AI score 8/10Last updated: Aug 12, 2026
What it does
- Designs a 5-stage cancel flow (cancel trigger → one-question exit survey → dynamic save offer → confirmation → post-cancel emails) with ready-to-use copy.
- Maps 8 exit reasons to exactly one save offer each, with offer economics for discounts, pauses, downgrades, and onboarding sessions.
- Tackles involuntary churn with a smart retry schedule (day 0/3/7/12/18), a 5-email dunning sequence, and card-updater setup notes for Stripe, Braintree, Paddle, and Recurly.
- Provides day 7/30/60 win-back sequences, a churn risk scoring model, metric benchmarks (save rate, recovery rate, win-back rate) and a red-flag diagnosis table.
- Ships Python helpers for churn revenue impact modeling, dunning analysis, and exit survey analysis.
Who it's for
- Growth, retention, and lifecycle marketers at subscription SaaS companies.
- Founders whose churn is rising but who haven't split voluntary vs. payment-failure churn.
- PMs and product marketers building a cancel flow or dunning program from scratch.
Example uses
- "MRR is $500k with 4% monthly churn — what's the annual value of cutting it to 3%?" → run the impact calculator and compare scenarios.
- "Cancellation is instant today; build me a save-offer flow" → get the survey options, reason-to-offer mapping, and screen copy drafts.
- "200 failed payments a month and only 15% recovery" → redesign retry timing and rewrite the 5-email dunning sequence.
· · · Install guide · · ·
Try it now, no install
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Read the instructions in this file and follow them to help me: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/borghei/Claude-Skills/HEAD/business-growth/churn-prevention/SKILL.md What I want: (describe your task here)
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Install in the Claude app (no terminal)
- Download the ZIP with the button below.
- In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
- Go to Customize → Skills → + → 'Upload a skill' and upload the ZIP.
Install in Claude Code
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Install the skill I found on Claude Skill Mart. Copy the business-growth/churn-prevention folder from the GitHub repo borghei/Claude-Skills into my ~/.claude/skills/churn-prevention/. When it's done, tell me in one line what this skill can do.
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git clone https://github.com/borghei/Claude-Skills.git && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r Claude-Skills/business-growth/churn-prevention ~/.claude/skills/⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.
- Open a terminal (Terminal on macOS, Git Bash or WSL on Windows).
- Clone the repo:
git clone https://github.com/borghei/Claude-Skills.git - Create the skills directory:
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills - Copy just this skill:
cp -r Claude-Skills/business-growth/churn-prevention ~/.claude/skills/ - Restart Claude Code and ask something like "use the churn-prevention skill to design my cancel flow".
- To run the bundled scripts you need Python 3 (check with
python3 --version). - Note the license is MIT + Commons Clause, so commercial resale of the skill itself is restricted.
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