The Chief Customer Officer Podcast.
Jeff Breunsbach & Jay Nathan talk to CS leaders who are actually building — not evaluating vendors, building. 4.9/5 on Apple Podcasts.
Stop Bending Your Business to Your Software
For thirty years we bought software off the shelf and reshaped our processes to fit it. Jay and Jeff argue that era is ending: at Junction, a salesperson and an ops leader each shipped their own internal pricing app, and Shopify's River agent now authors one in eight pull requests merged into the main monorepo.
The Segmentation Grid Behind Every CS Strategy
Jay walks through the customer segmentation workshop he ran this week — a deliberately simple grid of lifecycle stage, engagement model, and health status that gets leaders to say what should happen in the business before anyone argues about tools. Plus: what "harness lock-in" means for your AI stack, and why the customer quote you read never lands like the one you watch.
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Agent-First Customer Teams
Jeff Breunsbach shipped three things in one week—a community platform, a Claude-built CSM training academy, and an agent-powered internal wiki. He and Jay Nathan unpack the Karpathy-inspired philosophy of designing knowledge systems for agents instead of humans, why the engineering bottleneck has moved to customer success, and how to map product usage to P&L outcomes a CFO can see.
Do You Actually Need Forward Deployed Engineers?
Forward deployed engineers are the new hotness—but Palantir's model was built for eight-figure deals with zero competition. Jay and Jeff break down what your team actually needs instead, from onboarding agents that cut a week off time-to-value to cataloging work your CS team shouldn't be doing.
The Sticky Note Audit
Jay Nathan and Jeff Breunsbach break down an exercise Jeff ran with his CS team offsite—sorting every activity into keep, start, automate, delegate, or cut. Plus reverse roadmap reviews, cutting 50% of check-in calls, and the self-hosted agent platform Jeff's building with Buzz.
The 7 CS Capabilities Every Team Must Own
Jeff and Jay get honest about where the Chief Customer Officer podcast lost its spark—and what reignited it: a seven-capability framework for post-sale teams that cuts through the roles-and-titles noise. Support, onboarding, adoption, engagement, feedback, renewal, expansion. The fundamentals haven't changed. But how you build for them—and where AI fits in—has everything to do with what kind of CS org you'll have in two years.