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Staircase January 2026 We’re excited to share the 2026 insights from across the Gainsight. Inside, you’ll find updates designed to help you learn, connect, and grow. We hope you enjoy exploring what’s new, discovering fresh ideas, and finding meaningful ways to engage with the broader Gainsight family as we continue to grow together. Let’s dive in!   AI Feedback Loops: Smarter

There is a great baseline analysis in Staircase AI titled ‘Accounts dark’.  It would be helpful to export or allow this data set in data designer to develop an audience for JO programs.  Use Case:  Identify the accounts that we have not reached out to, or have been unresponsive as a target audience for a webinar and to drive specific messaging (around capabilities, value, adoption, etc.).

Hi Team,The AI Expansion Analysis is generated by identifying potential expansion opportunities through the analysis of customer communications and surfacing actionable insights. AI expansion analysis featureBut, here is a request to the expansion analysis to regenerate every week, giving them an up-to-date picture of what’s going well in the account and where/how we can upsell. Is that possible?

 This guide walks you through the steps to restore Salesforce, Slack, and Gong. Most customers complete the basic reconnection in about 30 minutes.Our team is always available to help, and you'll find support options at the end of this document.Before You BeginParticipants NeededTo complete reconnection smoothly, you'll want the following people available:  Role Why Needed Staircase Admin

One of my strategic CSMs is interested in getting the Meeting Prep PDFs delivered via Slack. She’s already receiving it via email, but would like both.I’ve already enabled the AI Meeting Summary Slack notification, but I don’t see anything for Meeting Prep. I’d love to see that enhancement added!In the interim, I have provided her with the following prompt to use in the Staircase Slack app, which has been useful: I have a meeting with [Company Name] soon, what do I need to know?Thanks for any help here.

I’m creating several reports for team managers in Staircase. I want the reports to be easy to understand, yet impactful, as I expect we can start to use these to quantify the need for extra manpower or to inform our performance reviews. So far, this is what I’ve come up with:  In this particular case, I’ve filtered to a time frame of 90 days; and while some of the team shows “5 days” of effort, others show just a few hours. Can someone share how “Effort Time” is calculated? My working theory is that it includes all emails sent/received, cases worked and meetings had (customer-facing only), and that it does not account for meetings where my org is NOT the organizer.If someone’s “Effort Time” is, for example, 5 days, are we saying that out of 90 days the person has put in 120 hours (24hx5) or is it

I am finding that a lot of times the “Extremely negative message” Lifecycle event is not what we would consider “Extremely Negative”. In many cases it may have negative sentiment, but it is not in the Extreme Category. What is the best way to calibrate this? I’ve been going through and trying to delete those that it has incorrectly classified, but I’m not sure that is helping to train the model. Any tips for how to improve this?  We have some cases where we have messages in foreign languages being translated via Chat GPT and it is flagging almost every message as extremely negative, even though in most cases they are simply reporting issues or asking for status updates as part of routine business. As you can imagine, a view like this is alarming for our account owners to see, and not accurately representing the customer relationship.  

 We want to improve how Staircase detects and surfaces risk-related events (e.g., “Extremely negative sentiment,” support escalations). Some customers report too much noise; others want higher recall. We’re exploring configurable sensitivity, simple presets, tenant-specific examples, consolidation of similar events, and clearer context in the timeline.Your input will guide what controls we build and how different personas (execs, managers, CSMs) consume these signals.Context for you:Current pain: Overfiring for some tenants, mixed accuracy, negative vs extremely negative imbalance. Directions being considered: Sensitivity presets (loose/medium/strict), optional per persona or account tier Tenant-provided examples to tune what should/shouldn’t trigger Consolidation of similar events and lightweight context/hover summaries Possible split of signals (support escalation vs sentiment vs high-severit

Staircase manages stakeholders by importing them from CRM systems and deducing them from tracked communication. This guide explains stakeholder creation, classification, and management within Staircase.Stakeholder in Staircase will be referred to as:Company Person  in Gainsight Contact in Salesforce## Stakeholder Creation in Staircase### CRM Integration and Domain ResolutionAll existing contacts from CRM accounts are imported into Staircase. Here's how domain resolution works:Note: If you are using Gainsight as your CRM, we only fetch Company Person records (Stakeholders) who are active in Gainsight. This applies specifically

Hello -  We have some CSMs that don’t call their QBRs, QBRs and instead just call them “Quarterly Syncs” or something like that. Because of this the “Missing QBR” insight is flagged for them. They obviously cannot edit a meeting from the past, so we’ve tried the following to get it to go away, and it remains. How can we resolve this? 1. Manually added a meeting and put QBR in the title and description. 2. We’ve created a Lifecycle Event and marked it as QBR.  

In the Churn Analysis Report, are the Reasons listed standard? Or do they change over time based on what it is seeing in the system?  

As a Staircase admin, or Staircase user, we are currently unable to add more filters to help us communicate the right notifications to the right people at the right time.For example, I’d like to suggest a few more options like:ARR threshold - Having the tier/segment filter is helpful, but isn’t the whole picture. We want to include a dollar threshold that allows us to filter out much of the “noise” currently being created by turning on all extremely negative sentiment notifications Topics/Products + Events - i.e. ability to notify on extremely negative sentiment only related to Product X or when a specific topic is mentioned. The feedback from our users right now is that they are getting overwhelmed with too much “noise” of feedback that isn’t relevant for them in emails. We want to help drilldown these further so that they retain their full value in being actionable and relevant for the recipient.

When looking at the relationship details between an employee and stakeholder, the details frequent reference “average”. What is that average based on? Average compared to their normal interaction patterns, other stakeholders on the account, average across all stakeholders, the tier? And is it the same for response time, sentiment, formality, etc?    

Is there a way for us to see if an account is connected to Gainsight via a domain or contact sync? It would be very helpful to have this flag on the account so we know. 

I got this response in a recent query for “Ask me Anything” in Staircase. Is this a real capability or a hallucination? If it is real, how does “automated watch” work and where would the alert appear?“I will set up an automated watch on future deal notes and implementation projects for those keywords so we’re alerted the moment a true replacement use-case appears.”

Hello Team, If you’re wondering why your meeting summary isn’t showing up in AI Follow-Up (Staircase), here are some simple reasons and tips to help you understand and troubleshoot the issue. How Meeting Summaries Are Created:To generate a meeting summary, two key things must happen:- The meeting organizer’s calendar (Google or Microsoft) must be integrated with Staircase.    Through calendar integration, we retrieve the scheduled calendar event and its associated meeting ids. Please note that if the organizer’s calendar is not integrated, we can still get the meeting event from one of the participants whose calendar is integrated. In such cases, we generate summaries based on meeting provider restrictions. For example, if the zoom authorized user has read access to all meetings and we obtain the meeting ID via their calendar event, we can generate summaries but MS teams won’t allow us to read the transcripts of

When executing the Sync to Gainsight option in Staircase for a missing contact, what information is part of the workflow? I see it sends First Name, Last Name, Email and Company, but it doesn’t seem to send the Title, which is a critical component of a contact entry. Is this an error, or is the title not syncing by design? 

We are a Staircase AI Customer and have Call Summary Upload turned on in Staircase AI to get Timeline entries autogenerated in Gainsight. We do not have AI Follow Up in GS CS turned on. Does anyone know whether we should turn both features on to capture the timeline entries within GS, or do the features do the same thing? Is one better than the other? 

I am looking for some definitions for a few of the insights. Some of them are defined in the help file, however, I can’t find definitions for the following: No Reach-out to Stakeholder Stakeholder not engagedAlso, for the “Account responds slower than usual” insight. How is “slower than normal” defined? Is it based on a global response SLA? Or is it based on the normal response time for each stakeholder? Lastly, are we able to clone and modify an Insight or rename them? We have EBRs not QBRs and our org would like the insight to be called EBR. 

Hi All! We implemented Staircase in or around May. We’ve just started writing the Staircase health/sentiment/engagement scores to our Gainsight instance. Our intention is to, eventually, roll these into our overall Gainsight health scores.Having reached out to Support, I’ve learned that the Staircase scores are updated a few times daily. We’ve created a tracker, but are looking for advice - would it be more prudent to do daily or weekly snapshots? What is everyone else doing? Is there a recommended cadence? Thanks!

We're encountering a bit of an issue with automated emails sent from let’s say renewalreminder@mycompany.com. They are currently being flagged as a "Commercial Discussion" by Staircase, and the email content is coming through in plain HTML.Why is the email content being captured like this?      What options do we have to prevent these emails from being categorized as "Commercial Discussion"?  · For example, if we add an exact phrase or the sender's email address as an excluded term, would that work? · If a customer replies to such an email, would that reply also be ignored/excluded by this setting?  

If you’re using Microsoft Outlook as your calendar and MS Teams as your meeting provider, you may sometimes face challenges integrating Staircase AI for meeting summaries and follow-ups. This guide addresses common confusions and helps you troubleshoot integration issues quickly. What Happens After Connecting Outlook Calendar and MS TeamsWhen you connect your Outlook calendar and MS Teams with Staircase, two applications appear in your Azure Active Directory: 1. Staircase AI  or Gainsight App for Calendar   - App ID: `504f82fe-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx`

Curious on how others are leveraging Staircase data in Gainsight aside from the Staircase Health Score.  Are you adding AI Summaries to Cheat Sheet?  Using Insights or Events to trigger CTAs or automated emails to customers?  How are you documenting follow up on things that Staircase flags for a customer?

Hello Staircase friends! If you’ve ever been curious about the Relationship Heat Map or how to leverage it, take a look at this short explainer video I created:  This video covers how Staircase AI identifies and visualizes relationships between customers and vendors using our stakeholder heat map. You'll learn how to access this feature, which shows the strength of relationships based on communication signals over the last 90 days. Learn more about the minimum threshold for defining a relationship and the various factors that contribute to assessing relationship strength. Additionally, please read this article for more information on the relationship multi-threading strategy.