What’s Your Change Flags™ Score?

The Change Flags™ Quiz

13 questions · ~4 minutes · Free scorecard

Find the expansion revenue leaking out of your NRR.

Every Change Flag™ opens a re-evaluation window in your existing accounts. Score yourself on all nine flags and see what the gaps are costing you. In dollars.

  • Your score, tier, and nine-flag heat map, on screen instantly
  • Your annual leak – priced from your own ARR and NRR against your segment’s top-quartile benchmark – then itemized flag by flag
  • Head-to-head against Stagehand, the composite benchmark everyone gets scored against
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Free. No email required. Results on screen instantly.

Every flag priced in dollars
The money math – sample readout
~$8.4M/year
The gap between one $120M-ARR SaaS and its segment’s top-quartile NRR – compounding to ~$30M by year three – in accounts they already paid to acquire.
Identity~$1.9M
Habits~$1.6M
Economics~$1.4M
Perception~$1.2M
Their leak, split across the nine flags, weighted to where they’re weakest.
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Shopify Sprout Social Elevar Wordable

The framework

You’ll be scored on the nine Change Flags™

Change Flags get planted in three places. Each one is a category of change that compounds into expansion if you respond to it – and into churn if you don’t.

PLATFORM

The changes you ship

01
Features Do existing accounts ever find them?
02
Products Does your base cross-activate?
03
Perception Did your repositioning reach them?

ACCOUNT

The changes in your users

04
Habits Are you tracking the right usage patterns?
05
Identity Are role shifts invisible?
06
Mastery Are power users ready for more?

MARKET

The changes in the world

07
Economics Are budgets shifting priorities?
08
Norms Are you sharing new defaults?
09
Paradigms Do they know you have the new table stakes?

The diagnosis

A sample of the flag-by-flag diagnosis.

05 · IDENTITY2/10~$1.9M of the leak
“We segment by the role captured at signup.”

Champions get promoted, users change roles, accounts change hands – and your product keeps talking to who they were on day one. Every identity change is a re-evaluation window that someone else is closing.

That’s your custom score, run through all nine flags. Add your email for the deep dive and recovery plan.

The benchmark

Meet Stagehand, the company you have to beat

Stagehand is the composite reference company everyone gets scored against, assembled from patterns across $50M+ SaaS. Stagehand is a theoretical, 8-year-old project management platform for creative agencies – and has since expanded into client portals and proofing.

You’ll see yourself against Stagehand on all nine flags – ahead, level, or behind – before we ever ask for an email.

Like most $50M+ SaaS companies, Stagehand runs a genuinely good feature-launch playbook. But almost nothing else systematically. That lands them at 3.2/10: Blind, which is closer to the post-growth reality than we like to admit.

Most teams expect to clear the bar easily. It stings, but most teams don’t.

The benchmark scorecard
3.2/10 · BLIND
YouStagehand
Features
BEHIND
Habits
AHEAD
Identity
LEVEL
Sample rows. You’ll get all nine – free, on screen, no email.

The money math

Your leak, in dollars. Not adjectives.

Most quizzes end with a vague label you can’t really do anything with. We’ll ask for your ARR and NRR, then benchmark you against the top quartile of companies priced like yours – the number your actual peers are hitting.

Then we build a recovery plan: we split your leak across the nine flags, weighted to where you scored weakest.

Your ARR × (your segment’s top-quartile NRR − your NRR) = the leak
Example: $120M ARR at 105% NRR, against the 112% mid-market top quartile, leaks ~$8.4M a year. And because NRR compounds, that gap grows to ~$30M by year three if nobody owns it.
~$8.4M/yr
ARR × the NRR gap, every year
~$30M BY YEAR 3
the same gap, compounding, if nobody owns it
+$1.2M/yr
what a 1% NRR lift adds, compounding

Rather not hand over your ARR and NRR? Skip them. We’ll score you against the average instead, and your leak comes back normalized – per $100M of ARR.

How it works

No email required. Results on screen instantly.

Get the readout with zero commitment. You only give your email if you want the deep dive and recovery plan.

Free, instantly

No email. No gate. On screen the moment you finish.

  • Your Change Flags™ Score and tier (Blind, Partial, or Systematic)
  • The nine-flag heat map: exactly where changes slip past your lifecycle
  • Your weakest and strongest flags
  • You vs. Stagehand on all nine flags
  • Your annual leak, priced from your ARR and NRR
If you drop an email

Your recovery plan

Built from your thirteen answers. Not from a template.

  • The leak itemized: dollars attributed to each flag, weighted to your weakest
  • A diagnosis on every flag: what your answer actually says, and what systematic would have looked like
  • A month-by-month plan for your three weakest flags, starting with the most expensive one
  • Coming soon A custom Change Flags™ email drip, matched to your highest-priority fixes
Nikki Elbaz

Hey, I’m Nikki.

I’ve spent nearly 15 years in the trenches of lifecycle strategy – building complex activation sequences for Shopify, cracking tough aha moments for Wordable, and earning a 64% increase in paid upgrades for Doodle.

Through that work, I kept seeing the same thing:

The product, the users, and the market keep changing – and nobody tells the existing accounts.

The Change Flags™ framework is the playbook I built to fix it, and this scorecard is how you find out where it’s costing you.

15 yrs
of SaaS lifecycle strategy
+64%
paid upgrades earned for Doodle
9 flags
every hidden churn risk, mapped

Ready to see your score?

13 questions. ~4 minutes. The silent churn signals you’re currently coached to ignore. Found, scored, and priced.

Free. No email required. Results on screen instantly.