Tim Conder
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Tim Conder
Post-Sale Systems Builder
20+ years in B2B SaaS & Healthtech
Global CS teams · $100M+ revenue bases
6 consecutive years · 100% logo retention
Creator of CXology · AI-enabled CS systems
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About Tim

I build systems that make retention predictable and growth repeatable.

Over the last 20 years, I have worked at the intersection of Customer Success, Product, and Operations, beginning as a software engineer and growing into leadership roles responsible for revenue-critical customer relationships, global teams, and post-sale transformation. Across that journey, one idea kept becoming clearer: the best companies do not treat retention as something to monitor after the fact. They design for it from the start.

That belief was shaped most deeply during my time at Aprimo, where I led a global services organization supporting roughly 65% of a $100M revenue base. Over six consecutive years, we achieved 100% logo retention while maintaining strong growth and margins. What stayed with me was not just the outcome, but the larger question beneath it: why do so few organizations have a reliable way to reproduce that kind of performance?

Since then, I have focused on understanding what makes post-sale execution repeatable across different companies, industries, and growth stages. The conclusion I kept coming back to was that most organizations expect retention and expansion without giving post-sale the same structural rigor they give sales. They have talented people and useful tools, but not a true operating system. Execution varies by individual, progress is hard to see, and too much depends on heroics instead of design.

Core Model

CXology was my effort to codify a better way: a structured model for post-sale execution that connects strategy to daily work, defines the moments that matter most, and creates a more consistent path from purchase to realized value, renewal, and growth. At the center of that model is the post-sale pipeline: Identify, Align, Advocate, Intent, and Net Revenue Close.

That pipeline is not meant to mimic pre-sales. It exists to bring the same visibility, discipline, accountability, and continuous improvement to post-sale performance. Combined with integrated plays across the customer lifecycle, it creates a more intentional system for building value, surfacing risk earlier, and making expansion, renewal, and advocacy more predictable.

More recently, I made the decision to move from building CXology independently toward bringing this work into a full-time leadership role. I am most interested in opportunities where these ideas can be embedded inside a company to shape how teams work, how customers experience value, and how revenue is retained and expanded over time.

Explore the Site

What you are reading here is the current form of that work—built using AI to translate years of CXology training content, recorded sessions, Excel-based tools, and written frameworks into something more accessible and easier to explore. It is not a static book, but a living system that reflects how these ideas come together in practice and continue to evolve. If you want to understand how it all fits, I would start with Part I, then explore the pipeline, plays, and systems that follow, or simply navigate to what matters most to you. The goal is not just to describe what Customer Success could be, but to make it clear how it works when it is intentionally designed.

I bring a proven record of leading customer-facing and operational teams, translating strategy into repeatable execution, and building systems that help companies move beyond reactive account management toward a more disciplined, scalable post-sale model. I am particularly interested in VP or Head of Customer Success and Customer Operations roles in growth-stage B2B SaaS and healthtech companies.

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Currently Seeking
VP or Head of Customer Success and Customer Operations roles in growth-stage B2B SaaS and healthtech companies
Strategic Customer Success

The Post-Sale
is the Growth Pipeline

A complete operating system for making retention predictable, expansion repeatable, and Customer Success a true revenue engine.

22
Chapters
8
Lifecycle Plays
20+
Frameworks & Tools
4
Parts
Part I
The 2026 CS Evolution
From churn insurance to revenue engine — the mindset shift that changes everything.
Part II
The Post-Sale Pipeline
Five stages — Identify, Align, Advocate, Intent, NRR Close — for predictable retention and expansion.
Part III
AI-Enabled Lifecycle Plays
Eight structured plays covering every customer inflection point at scale.
Part IV
Data, AI & Scale
Health scoring, capacity planning, and the operational infrastructure to run the system at scale.

Four Parts. One Operating System.

A complete post-sale system — from strategic foundation through operational scale.

I
Foundation
The 2026 Customer Success Evolution
Why the old reactive playbook is broken and what the modern revenue-driven CS function looks like.
II
Pipeline
Architecting the Post-Sales Pipeline
The five stages of scalable growth — from identifying opportunities to closing net revenue.
III
Execution
AI-Enabled Lifecycle Plays
Eight structured plays that deliver right-touch engagement at every customer inflection point.
IV
Scale
Data, Automation & Operationalizing at Scale
The operational infrastructure — AI, data governance, health scoring, and capacity planning.

The Toolkit

Every framework is designed to be deployed, not just understood. Click to explore interactively.

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CS Maturity Curve
Reactive → Proactive → Strategic. Diagnose where your team is and map the path forward.
Part I
🤝
The IKT Framework
Four questions that make every Sales → CS handoff seamless: Why, Who, What, Success.
Ch 2
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Post-Sales Pipeline
Five stages — Identify, Align, Advocate, Intent, NRR Close — for predictable expansion.
Part II
The Five Questions
The battle-tested questions that anchor every Kickoff and Alignment Meeting.
Ch 10 & 15
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Value Blocks
Break massive objectives into Lego-like packets. Each block is a meaningful win.
Ch 13
💡
5-Step Insights Formula
One-liner → Background → Results → Action → Reinforce. Make every insight land.
Ch 14
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Health Score Matrix
Build from your healthiest customers — not from reverse-engineering failure.
Ch 20
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Post-Sale Journey Map
12 months. 8 rows. Customer thinking, inflection points, service blueprint, loyalty blockers, builders, and health signals — in one system view.
Core Artifact
📐
Capacity Planning
Replace the $2M ARR/CSM rule with Designed Effort and the 65% Availability Rule.
Ch 22
🛠️
Health Score Builder
Interactive tool to design, weight, and validate a health scoring model built from your healthiest customers — not from reverse-engineering failure.
Interactive Tool · Ch 20
⚙️
CS Capacity Planner
Calculate Designed Effort, map availability against your book of business, and forecast headcount with the 65% Availability Rule.
Interactive Tool · Ch 22

Retention & Growth ROI Calculator

Six interactive modules showing exactly what avoidable churn costs you — year one, over a decade, and at exit.

Retention & Growth ROI Calculator
Live
Required CAGR
48.3%
to hit your revenue goal
Year 1 Uplift
+$640K
120% vs. 90% NRR
Valuation Delta
+$214M
at exit with target NRR
01
Benchmark Comparison
Where you stand vs. B2B SaaS
02
Year 1 Growth Rate
NRR impact from day one
03
Cost of Churn (CAC)
The treadmill in dollars
04
Sales Burden
What quota NRR carries for you
05
Multi-Year Trajectory
Compounding gap over time
06
Exit Valuation
NRR's impact on what you're worth
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Live sliders · 6 analysis modules · Benchmarks included

Built to Be Used, Not Just Read

Each tool operationalizes a core chapter — turning frameworks into working models you can run against your own data.

Health Score Builder · Ch 20
Live

Health Scoring That Actually Works

Design, weight, and validate a health scoring model built from your healthiest customers — not from reverse-engineering failure. Four guided steps from criteria selection to score simulation.

01
Criteria Selection
Traditional + growth-oriented signals
02
Weighting Model
Allocate 100% by predictive power
03
Score Simulation
Test against real account profiles
04
Rollout Plan
5-step launch framework
Open the Health Score Builder →
CS Capacity Planner · Ch 22
Live

Proactive Capacity Planning

Replace the $2M ARR/CSM rule with a data-driven model. Calculate Designed Effort per customer tier, map against the 65% Availability Rule, and forecast headcount needs as you grow.

01
Designed Effort
Prep + execution + follow-through
02
65% Rule
Direct vs. indirect effort split
03
Book Mapping
Current accounts vs. capacity
04
Headcount Forecast
With new hire ramp modeling
Open the Capacity Planner →

The 8 Lifecycle Plays

Every play targets a key inflection point — the moments where loyalty is built or blocked.