Interview users who cancelled

The real reasons customers cancel.

Their answers checked against how they used it.

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How it works.

River finds everyone who cancelled lately, writes each a short personal note, checks every answer against how they used your product and ranks the reasons by people and revenue lost.

  1. Say who counts as gone

    Paid cancellations in the last 90 days, or users gone quiet for 30 days.

  2. River reads, then writes

    Each note picks up from what they already said in a ticket or reply.

  3. The fixes that matter

    Reasons ranked by people and revenue lost, each quoted, then the top three fixes.

What you get.

  • A Churned Sheet: plan, revenue lost, tenure, usage trend, stated and real reason
  • A personal note to each, with a link to book 15 minutes
  • A Doc on why people leave, with quotes, the top three fixes and win-back drafts
The finished result of Interview users who cancelled in River

Start in three steps.

  1. River’s app icon

    Get River

    Download the app for your computer.

  2. River’s first question, “What’s your role?”, with Founder chosen

    Sign up as a founder

    When River asks your role, choose Founder.

  3. Start “Interview users who cancelled”

    Press + in your Dock, open Playbooks, and press Start. River asks who counts as gone, then reads why each one left.

A few things to know.

Why talk to people who left?

YC’s growth advice is to learn why customers left before chasing new ones.

Will it try to win them back?

Only where something changed. If you shipped a fix for exactly their reason, River drafts a note naming it, and it never offers a discount.

What does it cost?

It uses your plan’s AI credit, like everything else in River. It reads cancellations and their reasons straight from your Stripe.

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Try it on your own work.

Download River, choose Founder, and press Start on “Interview users who cancelled”.

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