Seed → Series C Startups

Your customers are leaving.
I make them stay.

Fractional Chief Customer Officer + AI-powered CS platform. No $350K hire. Measurable results from week one.

22% → 7%
Churn Reduction
85% → 115%
NRR Improvement
+20% Faster
Time to Value
The Problem

When growth speeds up, retention falls apart

You closed the deals. Built the product. But customers keep leaving — and nobody knows how to stop it.

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Churn is eating your growth

You spend $50K+ to acquire each customer, then watch them walk after 8 months. Your board is starting to notice.

$50K+ CAC wasted per churn
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Your CS team is firefighting

No playbooks. No health scores. No early warning system. You find out about churn when the cancellation email hits.

Zero visibility into at-risk accounts
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A full-time CCO costs $350K+

Salary, equity, benefits, ramp time. For a Series A-C startup, that's a massive bet — with 6+ months before ROI.

6-9 month ramp before impact
The Solution

You get the executive and the platform

Not advice on a slide deck — a battle-tested CS leader backed by a proprietary AI engine deployed inside your org.

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Fractional CCO
The Executive

25+ years of C-suite customer success leadership — from Oracle to high-growth startups — embedded in your team at a fraction of the cost.

CS org design & hiring strategy
Churn root-cause analysis & remediation
NRR & expansion revenue playbooks
Board-ready CS metrics & reporting
Team coaching & process documentation
Executive Business Reviews (EBR/QBR)
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CCOPilot.ai
The Platform

A proprietary AI-powered customer success platform — deployed as part of every engagement. Not a recommendation to buy Gainsight.

Predictive health scoring & risk alerts
15 AI agents for CS automation
Automated EBR/QBR generation
Workflow orchestration engine
Customer journey & lifecycle tracking
ROI & value realization dashboards
CCOPilot.ai

CS automation, without the enterprise price tag

How It Works

From diagnosis to results in weeks

01

Diagnose

Deep-dive into churn data, customer journey, team structure. Root causes identified within two weeks.

02

Deploy

Implement playbooks, health scoring, and AI automation through CCOPilot.ai. Working tools on day one.

03

Scale

Optimize, measure, and build the self-sustaining CS engine. When ready for a full-time CCO, I help you hire and transition.

See It In Action

4 Minutes That Could Save
Your Next 100 Customers

Watch how a fractional CCO and an AI-powered platform work together to turn churn into retention — and retention into revenue.

22→7%Churn
Reduction
Book a 20-Min Strategy Call →
85→115%NRR
Improvement
Proven Results

Real numbers. Real engagements.

Customer Churn
22%7%
Net Revenue Retention
85%115%
Time to Value
Slow+20%
MTTR
High-15%
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Seed / Series A

PMF but no CS function. Foundation needed fast.

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Series B

Growth is real but churn scaling. Investors asking about NRR.

Series C

Enterprise-grade CS ops needed before next round.

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Turnaround

Churn is a crisis. Need someone who has done this before.

What People Say
Your Fractional CCO

I've built this before.
Multiple times.

25+ years leading Customer Success, Professional Services, and Support — from Oracle's enterprise CS division to high-growth cybersecurity startups. Two successful Fortune 500 acquisitions (IBM and ServiceNow).

I also built CCOPilot.ai because I got tired of watching startups manage customer health in spreadsheets.

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Shane James
Shane James
Fractional CCO & Founder
Reduced churn 22%→7%NRR 85%→115%2 Fortune 500 exits
📍 Apollo Beach, FL
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Author Buy on Amazon →
"Your Customers Are Lying to You: How AI Exposed Everything Wrong with Customer Success — And What to Do About It"

Stop losing customers you didn't need to lose.

Book a 20-minute strategy call. No pitch, no pressure — just an honest look at your churn data.

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