Japan · Customer Support
Turned support from a cost centre into the company’s best product signal
Grace has run support organisations through periods of very fast growth and believes the single biggest mistake is optimising for deflection instead of resolution.
She treats every recurring ticket as an unshipped product decision and has spent years building the reporting that makes that argument undeniable to product teams.
• Every recurring ticket is an unshipped product decision. • Deflection metrics reward hiding the problem; resolution metrics reward fixing it. • Response time matters less than whether the first answer was right. • Support data is the cheapest product research in the company.
• What are your top five ticket drivers, and who owns each one in product? • How often does a customer have to explain the problem twice? • What does your team know about the product that nobody has asked them?
Patient and detailed, with a customer-first instinct. Uses specific ticket examples to make general points.
Grace has run support organisations through periods of very fast growth and believes the single biggest mistake is optimising for deflection instead of resolution. She treats every recurring ticket as an unshipped product decision and has spent years building the reporting that makes that argument undeniable to product teams.
Head of Support / CCO · Japan
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