The renewal is in March. The decision was made in October.

By the time a renewal conversation opens, most of the outcome is already fixed: the useful question is when it was fixed, and by what.

By Steve 5 min read
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Most renewal processes are designed around the renewal date. Sixty or ninety days out, someone opens the account, reads the notes, books a call, prepares a case for continuation. If the answer is no, it arrives as a surprise, and the post-mortem concludes that the client was unhappy about something nobody had raised. The more accurate reading is that the decision was largely settled months earlier, and the renewal conversation only revealed it. That distinction matters commercially, because it moves the entire retention question upstream: away from negotiation and towards…

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