Retain / Save
Serial-switcher loyalty defense
The patient who joined for the first-month discount is already pricing out the next one — and to them, every GLP-1 program looks interchangeable.
What it does
A large slice of GLP-1 demand churns on price alone. Serial switchers hop from program to program to ride each introductory discount, and because the medication itself is commoditized they feel no reason to stay once the intro rate expires. The program acquires them at full cost, then watches them leave around the first or second month with nothing to show for it. The agent treats this as a defendable pattern rather than inevitable churn: it recognizes the discount-hopping signal early and makes the one argument a competitor's intro price cannot answer — the continuity of care that only this program holds. The patient's titration history, side-effect record, and saved context do not travel to the next discount; restarting elsewhere means starting clinically from zero.
How it works
- 1Trigger. a switching pattern surfaces — repeated price or "cheaper elsewhere" questions, cancel intent near the first or second month, or the timing aligning with the patient's introductory-discount expiry.
- 2Decision. the agent reads the patient's memory (tenure, current dose and titration progress, side-effect history, prior price questions) and decides whether to lead with a continuity-of-care argument, surface a legitimate lower-cost route within the program, or hand a genuine pricing case to a human. A judge gates every unprompted message for tone, claims, and policy.
- 3Action. on the patient's consented channel (chat, push, or WhatsApp) it makes the switching-cost case concretely — naming what their saved history protects and what restarting elsewhere would cost in re-titration and lost context — without disparaging any competitor and without a clinical claim it cannot support.
- 4Follow-through. the outcome and any pricing objection are written back to memory; if a real affordability problem exists, it routes into the cost-shock path rather than a hollow discount war; clinical questions hand off to a clinician; if the patient stays, queued outreach is cancelled. Defended-account impact is measured against a holdout.
Configuration
How the agent is wired for this use case.
- Customer record / CRM · read tenure, prior price questions, and cancel-intent signals; write objections and outcomes back
- Subscription billing · read intro-discount expiry and plan; surface a legitimate lower-cost route within the program
- Memory store · read titration progress, current dose, and side-effect history as the continuity-of-care argument
- Clinical escalation path · route any clinical question raised during the conversation to a clinician
- Messaging channel · make the switching-cost case and run the two-way conversation
What you need
The inputs this use case runs on. Your channels stay yours; the agent supplies the judgment.
Signals
repeated price or "cheaper elsewhere" questions, cancel intent near month one or two, introductory-discount expiry timing
Data
tenure and plan, current dose and titration progress, side-effect history, prior price-objection memory, channel consent
Guardrails
judge gating on every unprompted message; no competitor disparagement, no unsupported clinical claim; affordability cases route to the cost-shock path, not a discount war; clinical questions escalate to a clinician; stale-outreach cancellation on organic stay; holdout measurement of defended accounts
Metrics it moves
- churndown, by countering the discount-hop with a switching cost a rival intro price cannot match
- save-rateup, on accounts showing the price-shopping pattern near the intro-discount expiry
- ltvup, by holding patients past the first or second month they were acquired to reach
Related use cases
Cross-brand shared-memory retention
the persistent memory this defence weaponizes as continuity of care
Titration-cliff cost-shock save
where a genuine affordability case is routed instead of a discount war
Off-ramp safe-transition agent
the safe-stop sibling for patients leaving for clinical rather than price reasons
See it on your own customer journey
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