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Ninety days in, adoption is 12% and the customer blames the product. What do you do?

The deployment worked. The software runs, the data flows, the demo landed. Nobody is using it. Two of the three research sets we vetted surfaced this from different angles, and it is the failure mode that ends renewals.

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Next in this trackEight months into a multi-year deployment, the executive who sponsored the whole thing resigns. What now?Next in this trackYour customer urgently needs a feature. Your own product team has looked at it and said no. Resolve it.Next in this trackA customer emails: 'the AI platform is giving incorrect answers.' No logs, no screenshots, no examples. Go.

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Interviewers are watching for whether you investigate before you conclude, because both instinctive answers are wrong. Defending the product reads as someone who has never been renewed, and immediately agreeing to build features reads as someone who will burn the remaining runway on the wrong fix. The four causes of low adoption take four incompatible remedies, and the candidate who names them and says which evidence separates them is the one who has actually lived through a quarter like this.

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