The score is only as good as the signals feeding it, so the work starts with instrumenting them: product usage where available, engagement, support activity, and renewal proximity, weighted into one number a CSM can defend. Thresholds trigger action, not decoration: an at-risk account creates an owner and a task, not just a color.
We built this kind of visibility while rebuilding customer success operations for a fast-moving SaaS company whose CEO had been running RevOps personally. Risk stopped surfacing for the first time at the cancellation conversation.