{"slug":"voice-of-customer","title":"voice-of-customer","summary":"Builds the loop from what customers say to what gets changed — collecting feedback, distinguishing signal from noise, routing it to owners, and closing the loop back to the customer. Use this to set up a feedback program, design or interpret CSAT/NPS, decide what customer feedbac","platform":"Claude","tags":[],"authorName":"LLM Mart","authorSlug":"llm-mart","score":0,"source":"github","price":null,"verified":false,"createdAt":"2026-08-30T09:48:22.18579Z","repo":{"url":"https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount","stars":2031,"forks":316,"license":"MIT","updatedAt":"2026-09-17T19:13:19Z"},"bodyHtml":"<hr>\n<h2>name: voice-of-customer\ndescription: Builds the loop from what customers say to what gets changed — collecting feedback, distinguishing signal from noise, routing it to owners, and closing the loop back to the customer. Use this to set up a feedback program, design or interpret CSAT/NPS, decide what customer feedback deserves action, get product to act on recurring issues, or diagnose why feedback is collected but nothing changes.</h2>\n<h1>Voice of customer</h1>\n<p>Most feedback programs collect diligently and change nothing. The collection is the easy half; the\nloop is the whole value.</p>\n<h2>Sources, weighted honestly</h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Support contacts</strong> — the highest-volume and least <em>prompted</em> source, and the most under-used.\nPeople contacting you have a real problem nobody asked them about. But the sample is strongly\nself-selected: it excludes everyone who silently churned, worked around the problem, or would\nnever contact you. Treat it as operational evidence to be normalized per active account and\ntriangulated against churn and behavioral data — never as representative of the customer base.</li>\n<li><strong>Churn and loss reasons</strong> — the most valuable and most under-sampled. People leaving have no\nreason to be polite.</li>\n<li><strong>Interviews</strong> — depth, small n, best for understanding <em>why</em> something in the data is happening.</li>\n<li><strong>Surveys</strong> — breadth, and only meaningful once you know what to ask.</li>\n<li><strong>Public reviews and forums</strong> — biased toward extremes, useful for what people say when you are not\nin the room.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Anything a customer built a workaround for outranks anything they merely said in a survey.</p>\n<h2>On CSAT and NPS</h2>\n<p>Both are useful as trends and misleading as targets. The moment a team is measured on a score, the\nscore improves faster than the experience does — asking at the favorable moment, coaching for the\nrating, excluding difficult segments.</p>\n<p>Treat the score as a prompt for the free-text answer, which is where the information is. Segment\nbefore concluding: an overall score is an average of experiences that have nothing in common.</p>\n<p>Never target a number without also watching the behavior it is supposed to predict.</p>\n<h2>Turning feedback into change</h2>\n<p>The failure is not collection, it is triage. Feedback needs:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Categorization against a stable taxonomy</strong>, so volume per cause is countable across periods.</li>\n<li><strong>Quantification.</strong> \"Several customers mentioned\" loses every argument. \"Eighty-one contacts this\nquarter, four percent of active accounts, twelve of them on enterprise plans\" wins.</li>\n<li><strong>A named owner per theme</strong>, outside the feedback function. A theme owned by the team collecting\nit goes nowhere.</li>\n<li><strong>A standing review</strong> where product, support, and success look at the same list together.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Distinguish requests from problems. Customers describe solutions; your job is to recover the problem\nunderneath, because the request is often not the best fix for it.</p>\n<h2>Closing the loop</h2>\n<p>Tell the customer what changed and that they prompted it. Almost nobody does this, which is exactly\nwhy it works — it converts a complainer into someone who reports the next issue instead of leaving.</p>\n<p>Also close it internally: show the support team what shipped because of what they escalated, or they\nstop escalating.</p>\n<h2>Never</h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Report themes without volume.</li>\n<li>Let one loud enterprise account set the roadmap without checking how widely the problem is shared.</li>\n<li>Run a program with no mechanism for anything to change as a result. That is a survey habit, not\na feedback loop.</li>\n</ul>\n","files":[{"path":"SKILL.md","sizeBytes":4036,"isText":true}],"reviewScore":null,"reviewSummary":null,"trust":{"provenance":"trusted-source-unreviewed","notice":"Community-authored content, reproduced verbatim and not vetted as instructions. 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