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Case StudyFinanceCustomer Retention

From Manual to AI: Customer Retention in Finance

Learn how a finance company used Arahi AI to automate customer retention, achieving 60% reduction faster monthly churn rate and $340K impact in annual revenue saved.

Company Profile

Company Type

Wealth management company

Team Size

20-100 employees

Industry

Finance

Key Challenge

Struggling with inefficient manual customer retention processes that were slowing growth and increasing operational costs. Their primary concern was audit readiness.

Tools Connected

QuickBooksXeroPlaidStripeSalesforce
Setup Time90 minutes
Agents Deployed4 AI agents

The Challenge

Manual customer retention was the biggest bottleneck in this wealth management company's operations. Their team of 20-100 employees processed hundreds of customer retention requests weekly, each requiring multiple steps, cross-referencing against finance-specific requirements, and coordination between departments. The average customer retention request took 45 minutes to complete manually, and the backlog was growing by 15% each quarter.

Beyond the time drain, the quality of their customer retention output was inconsistent. Different team members followed different procedures, and there was no standardized way to handle edge cases that are common in finance. A recent audit revealed that 12% of completed customer retention records contained errors that required rework — costing the organization an additional $50K annually in correction and remediation efforts. The leadership team recognized that continuing to throw people at the problem wasn't viable and began searching for an AI-powered solution.

The Solution

Arahi AI provided the automation backbone this finance team needed. They deployed a multi-agent workflow that breaks the customer retention process into discrete, automated steps — each handled by a specialized AI agent. The first agent monitors triggers from QuickBooks and Stripe. The second agent analyzes and processes incoming requests using finance-specific business logic. The third agent executes actions across connected tools and notifies team members via Slack.

The beauty of the no-code approach was speed of implementation. The team had their first agent live within 90 minutes, and the full customer retention workflow was operational within a single afternoon. They used Arahi AI's template for finance customer retention as a starting point, customized the business rules to match their specific process, and connected their existing tool stack without writing a single line of code. Within the first week, the agents had processed over 200 customer retention instances with 99%+ accuracy — more than the team typically handled in a month.

The Results

Measurable improvements across key finance customer retention metrics.

Monthly Churn Rate

60% reduction

Before

5.2%

After

2.1%

At-Risk Detection Lead Time

Proactive vs. reactive

Before

After cancellation

After

14+ days before churn

Retention Intervention Success

189% improvement

Before

18%

After

52%

Annual Revenue Saved

$340K impact

Before

$0 (no proactive program)

After

$340K recovered

NPS Score

142% improvement

Before

24

After

58

We went from spending half our day on customer retention to having it just happen automatically. The AI agents handle the routine work perfectly, and our finance team can focus on the strategic decisions that actually move the needle. I wish we had done this a year ago.

VP of Operations

Wealth management company

Key Takeaways

The most important lessons from this finance customer retention automation project.

This finance team proved that customer retention automation doesn't require technical expertise — the no-code platform made it accessible to business users.

Scaling customer retention capacity by 10x without adding headcount fundamentally changed the economics of their finance operations.

Consistent AI-powered processing eliminated the quality variance that came with different team members handling customer retention differently.

Real-time visibility into customer retention metrics gave leadership the data they needed to make better strategic decisions.

Implementation Timeline

From zero to production in 90 minutes — here's how they did it.

Step 1: Mapped the existing customer retention workflow

Documented every step of the current manual customer retention process, including decision points, exceptions, and handoffs between team members. Identified which steps could be fully automated versus those needing human oversight.

Step 2: Built the automation in Arahi AI

Used Arahi AI's no-code builder to create the customer retention workflow: connected QuickBooks and Plaid as data sources, configured AI decision logic for finance-specific requirements, and set up automated actions and notifications.

Step 3: Parallel run with manual process

Ran the AI agents alongside the manual process for one week to compare outputs. The AI matched or exceeded human accuracy on 98% of customer retention instances, with the 2% of edge cases automatically flagged for human review.

Setup Time

90 minutes

AI Agents

4 AI agents

Tools Connected

5 integrations

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about automating customer retention in finance.

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