Gainsight

The AI-powered retention engine for customer-led growth.

by Gainsight · Customer Success

Executive Summary

Gainsight is a leading customer success management platform designed for B2B companies to track customer health, manage renewals, and drive expansion. It provides a unified view of customer data, leverages AI for insights and automation, and orchestrates the entire post-sales journey from onboarding to advocacy. The platform helps reduce churn, improve product adoption, and significantly increase Net Revenue Retention (NRR) for mid-market to enterprise organizations.

Use Cases

  • Reduce customer churn and mitigate risks by identifying at-risk accounts early.
  • Drive Net Revenue Retention (NRR) and expansion opportunities through proactive engagement and upsell identification.
  • Orchestrate and automate customer journeys from onboarding to renewal and advocacy.
  • Improve product adoption and user engagement with in-app guidance and analytics.
  • Centralize customer data from disparate sources for a unified 360-degree view.
  • Scale customer success operations efficiently with automation and AI-powered insights.

Features

Visibility

  • Customer 360 Profiles: Consolidate account details, product usage, support history, contracts, and relationship context into a single, configurable view for each customer.
  • Configurable Health Scorecards: Model customer health across multiple dimensions (usage, sentiment, support, financials) with numeric or color-graded scores that drive proactive interventions.
  • Adoption Explorer: Ingest and analyze granular product usage data by account and user to understand feature adoption, engagement trends, and risk patterns.
  • Horizon Analytics Dashboards: Advanced reporting on customer health trends, product engagement, churn, and expansion with configurable dashboards for executives and frontline teams.

Intelligence

  • Staircase AI (Conversation Intelligence): Analyzes customer communications (emails, calls) to spot risks, uncover expansion opportunities, and identify negative sentiment, flagging issues earlier.
  • Atlas AI Agents: AI assistants that surface summaries, health signals, and recommended actions from various data sources, and can draft outreach at scale.
  • Journey Orchestrator: Marketing-grade journey engine for automated, multi-step email and in-app programs personalized by health score, segment, lifecycle stage, and behavior.
  • Rules Engine: No-code data pipeline and transformation tools to join, aggregate, and calculate metrics from CRM, support, billing, and data warehouse data.

Support

  • Gainsight University: Offers trainings and certifications for customer success managers and teams to enhance product knowledge and best practices.
  • Customer Communities: Provides a platform for customers to engage in self-service, peer-to-peer support, and collaboration.
  • API & Developer Documentation: Comprehensive documentation available for developers to integrate applications and services with the Gainsight platform.

Technical Specifications

Architecture
Cloud-native SaaS, Microservices architecture
Deployment
Cloud/SaaS
Authentication
SSO, SAML 2.0, MFA, Google Apps Authentication
API Available
Yes
MCP Server
No

Infrastructure

  • Microsoft Azure

AI/ML Stack

  • NLP
  • Machine Learning
  • LLM

Integrations

  • Salesforce
  • Slack
  • Zendesk
  • Intercom
  • HubSpot

Security & Compliance

Certifications: SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA

Encryption: AES-256 at rest, TLS 1.2+ in transit, PGP, email API encryption

Pricing

Model
Tiered subscription, Quote-based
Starting Price
Starting around $2,500/month (indicative only, contact sales for exact pricing)
Target Customer
Mid-market to Enterprise
Contract Type
Annual
Free Trial
Yes, Custom demo available, free Starter tier for Gainsight PX (up to 100 MAU) (credit card required)

About Gainsight

Gainsight is a leading SaaS company that provides a comprehensive customer success platform. It empowers businesses to drive retention and expansion through a suite of solutions for customer success, product experience, and post-sales engagement, leveraging AI to deliver actionable insights and automate workflows.

Founded: 2009 · Headquarters: San Francisco, United States · Employees: 1000+ · Private