'Call Outcomes' REST API
Problem
​In exit interviews, Balto customers attributed churn to the need for measurable ROI. Meanwhile, Customer Success was able to demonstrate ROI to some customers, who churned at a dramatically lower rate.




Approach
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Invest in the discovery of how Customer Success demonstrates ROI.
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Determine if the demonstration of ROI can be productized.
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Demonstrate that productizing measurable ROI is critical to reducing churn, improving scalability, and long-term profitability.
Execution
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Perform an internal study recording the data used to demonstrate ROI - call outcomes were uncovered as uncaptured data.
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Conduct user interviews to determine the sources of call outcome data and their relative validity.
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Get buy-in from the C-suite to adjust the priorities of the integration team away from new connectors and towards data that enables the platform to create a diversity of valuable features.
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Investigate the APIs that make outcome data available and work with Data Science to canonize a model.
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Collaborate with design on an internal-only facing UI for call outcome configurations.
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Build it as a module available to all telephony connectors.
Results
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Balto can now house the data needed to perform experiments that measure the ROI of coached behaviors.
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Product actively pursues a suite of related features, including outcome-based analysis, content ranking, and agent coaching.
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Balto leadership is 100% bought-in on measurable ROI as a pillar of Balto's market value.