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Allow Staircase to write AI Follow-Up to Different Activity Types

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  • March 31, 2026
  • 7 replies
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ajprince
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Current Gap:

We have a Gainsight health score measure which looks at whether a Business Review has been conducted for a customer. 


We also use the AI Follow-Up feature from Staircase to automate timeline entries with transcribed meeting summaries from customer meetings happening MS Teams. 

However, when these AI follow ups are logged from Staircase to Gainsight, they are always classified as a “Meeting” activity type. This means that in order for an automated meeting from Staircase logged to GS timeline to “count” against the scorecard measure, a CSM has to remember to go into Timeline and update the activity type. Maybe they’ll remember to do that, maybe they won’t. And it will affect the customer’s health score if they don’t.

Staircase knows and is already detecting when a business review has occurred.

As an admin, I don’t have the ability to configure or map this any other way. 


Proposed Solution:

Instead, we’d like to be able to map different conversations detected by Staircase to different timeline activity types in Gainsight.

 

For example, we’d like to be able to map lifecycle events detected by Staircase into different timeline activity types, like:

  • Business Reviews
  • Commercial conversations/renewals
  • Kick-Off calls

7 replies

darkknight
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  • Expert ⭐️
  • March 31, 2026

I don’t have Staircase (yet) but this is a huge gap in the platform even with OG AI Follow-Up and Gong. It’s got my vote.


romihache
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  • April 1, 2026

This is exactly the use case we expect AI to solve for! Take my vote!


dcassidy
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  • April 2, 2026

This would be a huge win for Admins. 


spencer_engel
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  • April 15, 2026

We have this exact same issue. In our case, a CSM Manager was trying to change a recent “Meeting” that should’ve been logged as a Business Review. The author was on PTO, so I as the admin had to go in and change the type myself. Not a huge deal on a one-off basis, but obviously not scalable. We would greatly benefit from the same enhancement the Gainsight Assist plugin recently got, where users can choose the meeting type prior to logging.

 


heather_hansen
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  • April 21, 2026

Yes please!  It would be such a win for my teams to not have to go in and readjust the type for specific activities. Feels like you could definitely create some prompts in Staircase to tell it how to push to specific types.


bradybluhm
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  • April 28, 2026

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This is clearly resonating, and the use case is solid. AI Follow-Up writing exclusively to "Update" creates a real gap when your health score logic depends on specific activity types like Business Reviews.

@spencer_engel  great point about the Gainsight Assist plugin already supporting type selection. We should be consistent across the platform on this.

I'm bringing this to our planning discussions. The ability to configure which activity type AI Follow-Up writes to (or let users select at the point of logging) is the right direction. Appreciate the detailed examples from everyone -- they help us prioritize.

Even better if Staircase also learns to detect certain types of meetings to automatically select and deliver that to Timeline with AI Follow-Up.

@ChiragJ for visibility and roadmap consideration.


ChiragJ
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  • April 30, 2026

Noted the feedback , we will consider bringing a setting for Admins to pick a default for Emails and one for meetings that get auto logged in Timeline.