# Customer success software stack

> A reported field guide to eight products that sit around customer success but do different jobs: Apty and Appcues guide behavior inside software; Rocketlane and Baton organize implementation; Planhat and SmartKarrot centralize customer operations; Churned predicts and automates retention; and Churn360 is a caution against treating a vendor list as timeless. The practical lesson is to diagnose the broken handoff in the customer journey before buying another platform.

## Achievements

- Apty publicly reports more than 1,000 customers, more than 7 million users and support across more than 1,000 enterprise applications.
- Planhat raised a $50 million Series A in 2022 after bootstrapping for over six years.
- ClientSuccess acquired Baton in 2024 to add onboarding and implementation capabilities.
- Appcues supports web and mobile experiences for onboarding, feature adoption and feedback without requiring engineering for every change.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — The category increasingly markets agentic execution and automation, but product scope still varies sharply by lifecycle stage.
- **2026-01** — Planhat documented expanded revenue features for both pre-sales CRM and post-sales customer-success work.
- **2025-11** — Churned formally announced Co-Pilot for automated retention and revenue actions.
- **2024-06** — ClientSuccess announced its acquisition of Baton.

## Links

- Website: https://www.planhat.com/

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Last updated: 2026-08-08