Read client health with Client Intelligence

Before you can defend or grow an account, you have to be able to read it — and read it faster than the client can. Thread gives you three lenses on every client: Client Intelligence (the per-client dashboard and knowledge base), Magic Sentiment (how each conversation actually feels), and the notes and applications that keep an account’s context in one place. This lesson is how a CSM uses all three.

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The Client Intelligence dashboard

Client Intelligence is Thread’s per-client knowledge product, under the Service Intelligence umbrella. Every time a thread is resolved, Thread analyzes it and either writes a new knowledge article or updates an existing one — so an account’s dashboard is a living picture of what that client actually needs help with. See Getting started with Client Intelligence for the full manager walkthrough. For a CSM, the dashboard is your account-health cockpit. Drill into a client and you get: The technician-facing side of the same product is worth knowing too: the Client Intelligence service tech guide shows how your desk gets in-conversation article suggestions from the same knowledge base. When you tell a client “our techs already know your setup,” this is the mechanism behind it.

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Magic Sentiment — your earliest warning

Magic Sentiment scores customer satisfaction in real time so you catch a souring relationship weeks before it shows up in a renewal conversation. It runs quietly in the background: it watches every thread for customer replies, analyzes the last three messages from the end user, and scores sentiment live. See Configure Magic Sentiment for setup and the escalation workflows. How to read the score:

• Every thread starts at a neutral 50, and each message can raise or lower it, on a 0 (very negative) to 100 (very positive) scale.
• Scoring starts only after the customer’s third message — early frustration is common in IT support, so the first message is excluded from the overall score.
• Thread-level scores roll up to a company average you can watch on the Client Intelligence dashboard.

Sentiment is most useful as a trend, not a snapshot. One tense thread means someone had a bad Tuesday; a two-week slide across an account’s average means you have a relationship problem to get in front of.

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Notes and applications — hold the context

The best CSMs never let an account’s context live only in their own head. Client Intelligence gives you two places to write it down so the whole desk — and Super Magic — can use it:

• Client Notes capture what tickets can’t: executive sponsors, approved hardware lists, the change-request process, SOPs pulled from IT Glue or Hudu. Paste static text into the Notes tab and it’s immediately indexed and searchable via Super Magic. When a tech asks Super Magic “who’s the approver at Acme?”, your note is the answer.
• Applications show which software each client actually uses, built from conversation history — so a resolution matches their real environment (their VPN client, their line-of-business app) instead of a generic fix.

Between the dashboard, sentiment, and notes, you can answer the only question that matters walking into any account conversation: is this relationship getting healthier or not, and what’s the evidence?

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Next

You can read an account. Now turn a whole quarter of it into a story a stakeholder will act on.