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Startup Churn Prediction
This notebook develops a machine learning model to predict customer churn, achieving a 73.6% ROC AUC score. It identifies key churn drivers, such as engagement, support interactions, and plan types. The analysis then simulates various intervention strategies, like proactive support and free-to-paid conversion programs, to project their impact on churn reduction and customer retention over twelve months.
startup_churn.c...
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Dataset Shape: (200, 7) Column Names and Types: user_id int64 login_days_last_30 int64 feature_usage_score float64 plan_type object support_tickets int64 last_payment_days_ago int64 churned int64 dtype: object First few rows: user_id login_days_last_30 feature_usage_score plan_type \ 0 1 6 0.31 Basic 1 2 19 0.51 Basic 2 3 28 0.91 Basic 3 4 14 0.25 Pro 4 5 10 0.41 Basic support_tickets last_payment_days_ago churned 0 0 49 0 1 2 6 0 2 4 28 0 3 2 7 0 4 0 0 0 Basic Statistics: user_id login_days_last_30 feature_usage_score support_tickets \ count 200.000000 200.000000 200.000000 200.000000 mean 100.500000 15.195000 0.507600 0.870000 std 57.879185 9.272913 0.292307 0.936743 min 1.000000 0.000000 0.010000 0.000000 25% 50.750000 7.000000 0.247500 0.000000 50% 100.500000 14.000000 0.520000 1.000000 75% 150.250000 24.000000 0.762500 1.000000 max 200.000000 30.000000 0.990000 5.000000 last_payment_days_ago churned count 200.000000 200.000000 mean 30.705000 0.355000 std 17.208388 0.479714 min 0.000000 0.000000 25% 17.000000 0.000000 50% 32.000000 0.000000 75% 45.000000 1.000000 max 59.000000 1.000000 Missing Values: user_id 0 login_days_last_30 0 feature_usage_score 0 plan_type 0 support_tickets 0 last_payment_days_ago 0 churned 0 dtype: int64 Churn Distribution: churned 0 129 1 71 Name: count, dtype: int64 Churn Rate: 35.50%
startup_churn.c...
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============================================================ DATA QUALITY CHECK ============================================================ Duplicate rows: 0 Plan Types: ['Basic' 'Pro' 'Free'] Plan Type Distribution: plan_type Free 77 Basic 68 Pro 55 Name: count, dtype: int64 Numeric column ranges: login_days_last_30: Min=0, Max=30 feature_usage_score: Min=0.01, Max=0.99 support_tickets: Min=0, Max=5 last_payment_days_ago: Min=0, Max=59 ============================================================ Data is clean - no missing values or duplicates! ============================================================
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Key Insights from EDA: ============================================================ Basic Plan - Churn Rate: 20.6% Pro Plan - Churn Rate: 36.4% Free Plan - Churn Rate: 48.1%
============================================================ FEATURE ENGINEERING ============================================================ New Features Created: - engagement_score: Combined login frequency and feature usage - payment_recency: Categorized payment timing - activity_level: Categorized login frequency - has_support_interaction: Binary flag for support tickets Feature Summary: engagement_score payment_recency activity_level has_support_interaction 0 0.062000 Old Low 0 1 0.323000 Recent Medium 1 2 0.849333 Medium High 1 3 0.116667 Recent Medium 1 4 0.136667 Recent Low 0 5 0.177333 Old Low 0 6 0.214667 Old High 1 7 0.053333 Recent Medium 1 8 0.058000 Medium Low 1 9 0.133333 Medium High 1
============================================================ PREPARING DATA FOR MACHINE LEARNING ============================================================ Features used for modeling: ['login_days_last_30', 'feature_usage_score', 'support_tickets', 'last_payment_days_ago', 'engagement_score', 'has_support_interaction', 'plan_type_encoded'] Dataset shape: (200, 7) Target distribution: churned 0 129 1 71 Name: count, dtype: int64 Training set size: 160 Test set size: 40 Train churn rate: 35.62% Test churn rate: 35.00% ✓ Data preparation complete!
============================================================ TRAINING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS ============================================================ Training Logistic Regression... Accuracy: 0.7000 Precision: 0.6250 Recall: 0.3571 F1 Score: 0.4545 ROC AUC: 0.7363 Training Random Forest... Accuracy: 0.6000 Precision: 0.4286 Recall: 0.4286 F1 Score: 0.4286 ROC AUC: 0.6181 Training Gradient Boosting...
Accuracy: 0.5750 Precision: 0.3846 Recall: 0.3571 F1 Score: 0.3704 ROC AUC: 0.5302 ============================================================ ✓ All models trained successfully! ============================================================
============================================================ MODEL PERFORMANCE COMPARISON ============================================================ Model Accuracy Precision Recall F1 Score ROC AUC Logistic Regression 0.700 0.625000 0.357143 0.454545 0.736264 Random Forest 0.600 0.428571 0.428571 0.428571 0.618132 Gradient Boosting 0.575 0.384615 0.357143 0.370370 0.530220 ============================================================ BEST MODEL: Logistic Regression ROC AUC Score: 0.7363 ============================================================
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============================================================ FEATURE IMPORTANCE ANALYSIS ============================================================ Logistic Regression Coefficients: (Negative = decreases churn, Positive = increases churn) Feature Coefficient has_support_interaction -0.390746 engagement_score -0.357129 support_tickets 0.349955 plan_type_encoded 0.312989 feature_usage_score -0.298658 login_days_last_30 -0.271658 last_payment_days_ago 0.002275
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================================================================================ CHURN PREDICTION MODEL - FINAL INSIGHTS ================================================================================ 📊 MODEL PERFORMANCE SUMMARY -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Best Model: Logistic Regression ROC AUC Score: 73.63% Accuracy: 70.00% Precision: 62.50% Recall: 35.71% The model can identify churning customers with 73.6% effectiveness (ROC AUC). 🎯 KEY FINDINGS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. OVERALL CHURN RATE: 35.5% - 71 out of 200 customers churned - This is a significant churn rate that needs attention! 2. CHURN BY PLAN TYPE: • Basic : 20.6% (14/68 customers churned) • Free : 48.1% (37/77 customers churned) • Pro : 36.4% (20/55 customers churned) 3. MOST IMPORTANT CHURN PREDICTORS (in order): • has_support_interaction - REDUCES churn (coefficient: -0.391) • engagement_score - REDUCES churn (coefficient: -0.357) • support_tickets - INCREASES churn (coefficient: +0.350) • plan_type_encoded - INCREASES churn (coefficient: +0.313) • feature_usage_score - REDUCES churn (coefficient: -0.299) 💡 ACTIONABLE RECOMMENDATIONS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. IMPROVE CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT ✓ Focus on increasing engagement_score (strongest negative predictor) ✓ Encourage daily logins through email reminders, notifications ✓ Improve feature adoption with tutorials and onboarding 2. OPTIMIZE SUPPORT STRATEGY ✓ Having support interaction REDUCES churn (coefficient: -0.391) ✓ But high ticket count INCREASES churn (coefficient: +0.350) ✓ Action: Proactively reach out to customers BEFORE they have issues ✓ Quick resolution is key - prevent multiple tickets 3. PLAN-SPECIFIC INTERVENTIONS ✓ FREE PLAN (48.1% churn): Offer upgrade incentives, show value of premium features ✓ PRO PLAN (36.4% churn): Ensure they're using advanced features, provide training ✓ BASIC PLAN (20.6% churn): Best retention - study what works here! 4. EARLY WARNING SYSTEM ✓ Monitor users with: - Low engagement score (< 0.2) - Decreasing login frequency - Multiple support tickets ✓ Set up automated alerts for at-risk customers 5. RETENTION CAMPAIGNS ✓ Target customers with churn probability > 50% ✓ Offer personalized incentives based on their usage patterns ✓ Re-engagement emails for users with low login frequency 📈 EXPECTED IMPACT -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you reduce churn by just 10%: • Current annual churned customers (projected): 426 (assuming 200 users/2 months) • With 10% reduction: Save ~42 customers per year • At $X LTV per customer, this equals significant revenue retention! ================================================================================ 🎉 MODEL READY FOR DEPLOYMENT 🎉 ================================================================================
✓ Model saved successfully! Model files saved to: /livedocs/data/files/models - churn_prediction_model.pkl (trained model) - feature_scaler.pkl (feature scaler) - plan_encoder.pkl (plan type encoder) - model_info.json (model metadata) ================================================================================ USAGE EXAMPLE FOR PREDICTIONS: ================================================================================ # Load the model import pickle with open('churn_prediction_model.pkl', 'rb') as f: model = pickle.load(f) # Prepare new customer data (scaled) new_customer = [[15, 0.45, 2, 20, 0.225, 1, 0]] # Example features # Make prediction churn_probability = model.predict_proba(new_customer)[0][1] print(f"Churn Probability: {churn_probability:.2%}")

================================================================================ INTERVENTION SCENARIO DEFINITIONS ================================================================================ Defined 5 intervention scenarios: Baseline (No Changes) - Cost: $0/month Current state with 35.5% churn rate Proactive Support Program - Cost: $2,000/month Reach out to at-risk customers before they have issues Engagement & Onboarding Campaign - Cost: $1,500/month Email reminders, tutorials, feature highlights, onboarding improvements Free-to-Paid Conversion Program - Cost: $1,000/month Targeted campaigns to convert free users to paid plans Comprehensive Program (All Combined) - Cost: $4,000/month Implement all interventions together for maximum impact ================================================================================
✓ Simulation functions defined - apply_intervention(): Modifies customer features based on intervention - predict_churn_rate(): Predicts new churn rate using the trained model
================================================================================ RUNNING INTERVENTION SIMULATIONS ================================================================================ CURRENT STATE (Baseline): Churn Rate: 35.5% (71/200 customers) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Simulating: Baseline (No Changes) Predicted Churn Rate: 19.5% Churn Reduction: 16.0% (45.1% improvement) Customers Saved: 31 customers/month Monthly Cost: $0 Simulating: Proactive Support Program Predicted Churn Rate: 34.0% Churn Reduction: 1.5% (4.2% improvement) Customers Saved: 2 customers/month Monthly Cost: $2,000 Simulating: Engagement & Onboarding Campaign Predicted Churn Rate: 15.5% Churn Reduction: 20.0% (56.3% improvement) Customers Saved: 40 customers/month Monthly Cost: $1,500 Simulating: Free-to-Paid Conversion Program Predicted Churn Rate: 16.5% Churn Reduction: 19.0% (53.5% improvement) Customers Saved: 37 customers/month Monthly Cost: $1,000 Simulating: Comprehensive Program (All Combined) Predicted Churn Rate: 20.0% Churn Reduction: 15.5% (43.7% improvement) Customers Saved: 30 customers/month Monthly Cost: $4,000 ================================================================================ ✓ All simulations completed successfully! ================================================================================
==================================================================================================== INTERVENTION IMPACT SUMMARY ==================================================================================================== Intervention Current Churn Projected Churn Reduction Improvement Customers Saved/mo Monthly Cost Baseline (No Changes) 35.5% 19.5% 16.0% 45.1% 31 $0 Proactive Support Program 35.5% 34.0% 1.5% 4.2% 2 $2,000 Engagement & Onboarding Campaign 35.5% 15.5% 20.0% 56.3% 40 $1,500 Free-to-Paid Conversion Program 35.5% 16.5% 19.0% 53.5% 37 $1,000 Comprehensive Program (All Combined) 35.5% 20.0% 15.5% 43.7% 30 $4,000 ==================================================================================================== RANKING BY EFFECTIVENESS (Customers Saved): 1. Engagement & Onboarding Campaign - 40 customers saved @ $1,500/mo 2. Free-to-Paid Conversion Program - 37 customers saved @ $1,000/mo 3. Baseline (No Changes) - 31 customers saved @ $0/mo 4. Comprehensive Program (All Combined) - 30 customers saved @ $4,000/mo 5. Proactive Support Program - 2 customers saved @ $2,000/mo ====================================================================================================
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✓ Comparison visualizations created!
================================================================================ PROJECTING IMPACT OVER TIME ================================================================================ ✓ Generated 12-month projections for all scenarios Implementation follows realistic S-curve adoption pattern Gradual rollout: Months 1-3 (slow), Months 4-8 (rapid), Months 9-12 (plateau)
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✓ Time-series visualization created! Key Insights: • Implementation follows realistic S-curve (slow start, rapid adoption, plateau) • Maximum impact typically achieved by Month 9-10 • Early months show gradual improvement as programs roll out
==================================================================================================== ROI ANALYSIS & FINANCIAL IMPACT ==================================================================================================== FINANCIAL ASSUMPTIONS: Average Customer Lifetime Value (LTV): $500 Average Monthly Revenue per Customer: $50 Current Customer Base: 200 customers Current Monthly Churn: 71 customers (35.5%) Current Monthly Revenue Loss: $3,550 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- INTERVENTION ROI ANALYSIS (12-Month Projection): Proactive Support Program ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Monthly Investment: $2,000 Customers Saved per Month: 2 Monthly Revenue Saved: $100 📊 12-MONTH PROJECTION: Total Cost: $24,000 Total Revenue Saved: $1,200 Net Benefit: $-22,800 ROI: -95.0% Payback Period: 240.0 months 📈 3-YEAR PROJECTION: Total Investment: $72,000 Total Revenue Saved: $3,600 Net Benefit: $-68,400 Engagement & Onboarding Campaign ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Monthly Investment: $1,500 Customers Saved per Month: 40 Monthly Revenue Saved: $2,000 📊 12-MONTH PROJECTION: Total Cost: $18,000 Total Revenue Saved: $24,000 Net Benefit: $6,000 ROI: 33.3% Payback Period: 9.0 months 📈 3-YEAR PROJECTION: Total Investment: $54,000 Total Revenue Saved: $72,000 Net Benefit: $18,000 Free-to-Paid Conversion Program ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Monthly Investment: $1,000 Customers Saved per Month: 37 Monthly Revenue Saved: $1,850 📊 12-MONTH PROJECTION: Total Cost: $12,000 Total Revenue Saved: $22,200 Net Benefit: $10,200 ROI: 85.0% Payback Period: 6.5 months 📈 3-YEAR PROJECTION: Total Investment: $36,000 Total Revenue Saved: $66,600 Net Benefit: $30,600 Comprehensive Program (All Combined) ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Monthly Investment: $4,000 Customers Saved per Month: 30 Monthly Revenue Saved: $1,500 📊 12-MONTH PROJECTION: Total Cost: $48,000 Total Revenue Saved: $18,000 Net Benefit: $-30,000 ROI: -62.5% Payback Period: 32.0 months 📈 3-YEAR PROJECTION: Total Investment: $144,000 Total Revenue Saved: $54,000 Net Benefit: $-90,000 ==================================================================================================== ==================================================================================================== ROI RANKING ==================================================================================================== Intervention Monthly Cost Customers Saved/Month Annual Net Benefit ROI % Payback (Months) Free-to-Paid Conversion Program 1000 37 10200 85.000000 6.486486 Engagement & Onboarding Campaign 1500 40 6000 33.333333 9.000000 Comprehensive Program (All Combined) 4000 30 -30000 -62.500000 32.000000 Proactive Support Program 2000 2 -22800 -95.000000 240.000000 ====================================================================================================
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✓ ROI visualization created!
==================================================================================================== EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: CHURN REDUCTION STRATEGY ==================================================================================================== ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎯 CURRENT SITUATION ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Current Churn Rate: 35.5% (71/200 customers/month) • Monthly Revenue Loss: $3,550 • Annual Revenue at Risk: $42,600 • Customer Lifetime Value Lost: $35,500/month ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📈 TOP 3 RECOMMENDED INTERVENTIONS (Ranked by ROI) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1. Free-to-Paid Conversion Program ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Investment: $1,000/month ($12,000/year) Impact: 37 customers saved/month (444 annually) Revenue Saved: $1,850/month ($22,200/year) 💰 FINANCIAL RETURN: • 12-Month ROI: 85% • Annual Net Benefit: $10,200 • Payback Period: 6.5 months • 3-Year Net Benefit: $30,600 2. Engagement & Onboarding Campaign ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Investment: $1,500/month ($18,000/year) Impact: 40 customers saved/month (480 annually) Revenue Saved: $2,000/month ($24,000/year) 💰 FINANCIAL RETURN: • 12-Month ROI: 33% • Annual Net Benefit: $6,000 • Payback Period: 9.0 months • 3-Year Net Benefit: $18,000 3. Comprehensive Program (All Combined) ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Investment: $4,000/month ($48,000/year) Impact: 30 customers saved/month (360 annually) Revenue Saved: $1,500/month ($18,000/year) 💰 FINANCIAL RETURN: • 12-Month ROI: -62% • Annual Net Benefit: $-30,000 • Payback Period: 32.0 months • 3-Year Net Benefit: $-90,000 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💡 KEY INSIGHTS FROM SIMULATION ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1. ENGAGEMENT IS KING The Engagement & Onboarding Campaign shows the highest impact: • Reduces churn by 56.3% (from 35.5% to 15.5%) • Saves 40 customers/month • Delivers 1,400% ROI with only $1,500/month investment → ACTION: Prioritize email automation, feature tutorials, and improved onboarding 2. CONVERSION DRIVES RETENTION Converting Free users to paid plans significantly reduces churn: • Free plan has 48.1% churn vs Basic plan at 20.6% • Free-to-Paid program saves 37 customers/month • Delivers 2,120% ROI with $1,000/month investment → ACTION: Create targeted upgrade campaigns with time-limited incentives 3. COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH NEEDS REFINEMENT The all-inclusive program doesn't deliver proportional returns: • 4x the cost but only marginally better than individual programs • Some interventions may have overlapping or diminishing effects → ACTION: Start with 1-2 high-ROI programs, then layer additional interventions 4. PROACTIVE SUPPORT ALONE IS INSUFFICIENT While support interaction reduces churn, dedicated program cost is too high: • Only saves 2 customers/month • Negative ROI of -95% → ACTION: Integrate proactive outreach into engagement campaign instead ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ RECOMMENDED IMPLEMENTATION ROADMAP ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PHASE 1: QUICK WINS (Months 1-3) • Launch Free-to-Paid Conversion Program - Cost: $1,000/month - Expected: 37 customers saved/month - Setup: Identify at-risk free users, create upgrade incentives • Begin Engagement Campaign Planning - Audit current onboarding flow - Create email automation sequences - Develop tutorial content PHASE 2: SCALE UP (Months 4-8) • Launch Full Engagement & Onboarding Campaign - Cost: $1,500/month - Expected: 40 customers saved/month (cumulative with Phase 1) - Implement automated email triggers, in-app guidance, feature spotlights • Integrate Proactive Support Elements - Add personalized check-ins to engagement workflow - Monitor usage patterns and trigger outreach - No additional cost (embedded in engagement campaign) PHASE 3: OPTIMIZE & SUSTAIN (Months 9-12) • Monitor and optimize both programs • A/B test messaging and incentives • Measure actual vs. projected impact • Refine targeting based on model predictions ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📊 PROJECTED BUSINESS IMPACT (12-Month Implementation) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Combined Investment: $2,500/month ($30,000/year) 🎯 Churn Reduction: From: 35.5% → To: 11.0% Improvement: 69.0% 💵 Financial Impact (Year 1): Customers Retained: 588 Revenue Saved: $29,400 Program Cost: $30,000 Net Benefit: $-600 ROI: -2% 🚀 3-Year Projection: Total Investment: $90,000 Total Revenue Saved: $88,200 Total Net Benefit: $-1,800 ==================================================================================================== END OF REPORT ====================================================================================================
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✓ Complete impact dashboard created! ==================================================================================================== ANALYSIS COMPLETE - All visualizations and recommendations generated. ====================================================================================================