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Staircase - Define New Data Sources

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  • October 31, 2025
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ajprince
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"An AI is only as good as the data it learns from."

Staircase provides incredible insights for our business already around retention, engagement, sentiment, and expansion.

How can we take it further?

We need it to know more about our business so that it has access to all of the information we would want it to crawl when our users ask it for recommendations and next steps.

Why Would this be Important?

  • Maximizing Value Delivery to the Customer - Helping CSMs close any knowledge gaps by allowing them to see what’s been missed or overlooked.
    • Imagine a query like “Help me identify top adoption opportunities for my entire book of business”
  • Unlocking Expansion Opportunities Across the Entire Business - Credit to ​@dcassidy for sparking these ideas - Imagine what that could do for the Expansion Analysis. Looking at 100-ish products against companies with a similar profile and "company x benefits from adding product abc" and guiding the CSM on how they might work through that with the customer.
    • Imagine using a query like “complete a whitespace analysis across our entire segment/customer base and suggest the top adoption/expansion opportunities”
  • Taking EBR/Strategic Conversations Further
    • “Based on my customer’s desired outcomes and business challenges, which solution/features can we recommend to them? Include value proof points from other customers who have shared that this has helped them”
    • "What LMS courses would by customer benefit from taking, based on their knowledge from the tickets, community posts, product usage, etc?”


We need Staircase to be able to crawl data sources like:

  • LMS platforms - understanding what learning courses are available to our customers
  • Community platforms (and not just Gainsight’s) - understand what our customers are saying, common solutions to our customer’s problems, ideas, etc.
  • Knowledge Bases - Crawl all of the knowledge base articles and product information
  • Public Websites (ours, our distributors, our partners, and our competitors)
  • Telephony platforms (transcripts) - where our support teams will be communicating with customers beyond simply the ticketing platform for live support, field service requests, etc.

I’d view all of this as beyond simply an integration--the need is for Staircase to actually “crawl” and “ingest” this information.

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dcassidy
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  • October 31, 2025

+1

Adam’s ideas are great! Here are just a couple of use cases I can add to support this:

As my SFDC team is building out customer communities/community forums, it would be really cool to see if Staircase could crawl the community posts to understand our business and the users/data/sentiment a little more. 

We have a lot of impassioned users who spend time on our Idea Board (Aha, in our case) and it would be interesting to see if Staircase could look at what people are saying related to Product X and capture that as engagement/sentiment. 
 


ajprince
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  • March 11, 2026

Additional data sources we need to be fed into Staircase as well!

  • Gainsight PX
  • SFDC community
  • JO/Gainsight Surveys

bradybluhm
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  • April 28, 2026

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The premise is right -- Staircase gets smarter with more data. Since this was posted, we've shipped Salesloft and Webex integrations plus S3 data export, so the integration surface is expanding. We are also in active discovery on Phone Call ingestion sources. @ajprince, i know this is important for you all.

@dcassidy  the community/forum crawling idea is absolutely something we want to build. Staircase analyzing sentiment and engagement from your customer community alongside email and meeting data would give a much fuller picture and is a true engagement platform. I think it could change how CSMs use Community in general. Its on our Roadmap, but not near term at the moment.

@ajprince  on the specific sources: PX data, surveys, and SFDC community are all on the radar. For Surveys, I am actually considering GS Timeline itself to be a possible ingestion source once we build the "GS Timeline ingest to Staircase" feature (in our nearterm roadmap)

Any other sources that you all want prioritized outside of Communities, Usage, Calls and Surveys?