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CUSTOMER PROCESS / GROW

Your next million is already in your data.

Expansion is the cheapest revenue any business earns, because the customer already trusts you. Shiplog finds the accounts ready for more and acts on them, one account at a time.

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Free to paid
Pro to enterprise
Hidden buyers, surfaced
ACROSS INDUSTRIES
Seats spreading to a second team and usage near a plan limit both earn an upgrade conversation.
Heavier use of a tier is the cue to move a subscriber up a plan, not a discount.
Repeat buyers signal readiness for a membership, bundle or higher value range.
Power use of a free tier is the clearest premium signal you will get.
The signals differ by business. The way Shiplog reads them, per account, does not.
WHY THIS MATTERS

Growth compounds fastest inside the customers you already have.

Acquiring a new customer means starting from zero trust. Expanding an existing one means building on a relationship that is already working. That is why net revenue retention has become the metric investors read first, and why expansion now drives a large share of new revenue for healthy software, subscription, marketplace and consumer businesses alike.

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Usage near a plan limit
The account is outgrowing what it pays for, which is an upgrade opportunity rather than a support ticket.
02
New users across a second team
The product is spreading inside the company, so seat and tier expansion is already earned.
03
Many signups, one company domain
An enterprise is using you through the back door, and the buyer can be surfaced.
BEFORE AND AFTER

The signals exist today. Acting on them is the gap.

100 percent is good. 110 percent is better. 120 percent and above is best. The gap between them is decided almost entirely by expansion.

Insight that never becomes action.
  • Expansion signals sit in a product analytics tool no one in the revenue team opens.
  • A lead surfaces in a dashboard, then someone copies it by hand into another tool.
  • Only named accounts get worked; everyone below the line is left to a generic sequence.
  • Most expansion windows open and close with no one watching.
Cost: The revenue was already there. It was simply never surfaced, timed, and acted on.
Signal to move, per account.
  • Shiplog reads the signals you already have and builds a live profile per account.
  • It reasons about readiness and surfaces the upsell the moment usage earns it.
  • The whole base is covered, not just the accounts a person can reach.
  • You approve, or Shiplog runs the move, mapped to how you sell.
Result: Expansion stops being a quarterly guess and becomes a continuous motion, sharpening the longer it runs.
THE WORK

One engine, three jobs that grow revenue.

Expansion is a timing problem. Approach too early and the account resists. Wait too long and the moment passes. Shiplog reads readiness per account, continuously, across the whole base.

Job 01Convert free to paid
Job 02Upsell pro to enterprise
Job 03Find hidden enterprise buyers
Job 01
Convert free to paid
Most free users never convert, and the ones who would are buried in a base too large to work by hand. Shiplog reads how each account behaves and runs personalised nurture, the education, offer and reminder that fits that account, so accounts move to paid when their behaviour shows they are ready.
Job 02
Upsell pro to enterprise
Expansion windows open and close quietly. Shiplog surfaces the upsell the second usage earns it, mapped to how you sell, whether plans, seats or credits. You approve, Shiplog runs the outreach.
Job 03
Find hidden enterprise buyers
Large companies often arrive as a scatter of individual signups on personal emails. Shiplog resolves those signups into real accounts, recognises when many belong to one company, and surfaces the enterprise buyer already forming.
EXPANSION SIGNALS

Readiness shows up before the customer asks.

Capacity, breadth, depth, identity, fit and health each say something different about timing. Shiplog reads all of them per account and only raises an expansion move once the account is healthy, so the ask lands.

MATURITY MODEL

How expansion capability evolves.

Each stage widens the share of the base where an expansion moment is caught.

01
Reactive
02
Manual
03
Triggered
04
Agentic
01 Reactive · Customer led
Expansion happens only when a customer asks. Revenue ready to grow sits untouched, and the number is unpredictable and mostly luck.
02 Manual · Named accounts only
A team works expansion by hand on the accounts it can track. The named book grows, but the rest of the base is uncovered.
03 Triggered · Rules and thresholds
Fixed rules fire an upsell when a threshold is crossed. Coverage widens, but the move ignores account context and fires whether or not the account is healthy.
04 Agentic · Reasoned expansion per account
Shiplog reasons over each account, raises the right move only when the account is healthy and ready, and runs it with your approval, mapped to how you sell.
BUSINESS OUTCOMES

What expansion moves.

These are industry benchmarks referenced in the Shiplog strategy analysis, not Shiplog performance claims.

106%
Median net revenue retention across recurring revenue businesses. Expansion is what lifts it above 100.
~50%
Share of new revenue that expansion drives at many healthy recurring revenue companies above scale.
120%+
Net revenue retention that marks best in class, reached almost entirely through expansion.
CHEAPER AND FASTER
Lower cost than acquisition
Expanding an existing account has a shorter path to revenue than winning a new logo, because the trust already exists.
COMPOUNDING
Grows on itself
Every interaction sharpens each account profile, so the next expansion decision is better than the last.
WHAT IT MEANS FOR YOUR TEAM
  • Cover the whole funnel, not just the top: one motion instead of three.
  • Nurture that fits each account, sent when its behaviour earns it.
  • Read only, mapped to how you sell, no migration.
  • Expansion you can forecast.
  • The ask lands because health comes first.
  • Coverage beyond your book.
  • Net revenue retention is the growth engine.
  • Grow without more reps.
QUESTIONS

Frequently asked.

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Find the expansion already in your data.

Point Shiplog at your base, read only, and see the accounts ready to grow that you are missing today.

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