What is Customer Success in 2026?
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On Monday, you find out. Join our Head of CS training starting October 20, 2025. This is one of the most impactful programs we offer because it focuses on the critical aspects of Leadership, Management, and Coaching that every Head of Customer Success needs to leverage to drive real business impact. Our live sessions are going to focus on the big shifts AI is having on everything we do in Customer Success. While the core, underlying principles of building, running, and scaling a CS org haven't changed, AI has fundamentally changed how you will execute on those principles going into 2026. Secure your spot now and get ready to level up your CS leadership skills. ~Lincoln BTW: A significant number of enrollments for our programs happen right before the start date. Especially our leadership programs. Even though this is a virtual program, space is limited because of the hands-on, highly interactive nature of the live sessions. So if you’re planning to join us, take action today to ensure you don’t miss out, ...... |
Lincoln Murphy
I help SaaS companies Maximize LTV through Customer-centric Upselling
While SaaS stocks got destroyed because of the threat of AI, we were spinning up AI agents at ListKit that make our team 5x more productive. We have Agentic workflows that literally do work for our customers they can't and don't want to do themselves allowing us to open up an entirely new revenue stream. We pivoted our underlying infrastructure to optimize for AI, which unlocked customer-facing product enhancements we couldn't have shipped before. Our customers are getting better results....
It's Friday. Somewhere right now, one of your customers is looking at what they pay you every month, looking at what they actually use, and thinking: "I could just vibe code this on Lovable this weekend." But here's the thing. Most of them don't actually want to. They don't want the headache. They don't want to maintain it. They don't want to be the person who ripped out a working tool and replaced it with something they duct-taped together in Claude over a weekend. They just want you to know...
That sentence should terrify every SaaS company on the planet right now. And the stock market just proved it. Last week, $300 billion in value got wiped from software stocks in two days. Figma. Salesforce. ServiceNow. Adobe. LegalZoom. All hammered. This wasn't from a bad earnings report. Revenue at most of these companies is still strong. The market didn't punish their performance. It punished their future value. It looked at what AI can do right now, today, and said: we don't believe these...