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Recover the payment without damaging the relationship

Celthrac's agentic AI reads the full account context — value, sentiment, support history, receivables — and builds a recovery path that fits the customer, instead of firing the same cold notice at everyone.

CRM · SalesforceERP · Sage IntacctRuntime · n8n or CeligoPattern · Agentic + human-in-the-loop
SaaS & Subscription · agentic
The challenge — SaaS, Subscription Finance & Professional Services

Recover the payment without damaging the relationship

Celthrac's agentic AI reads the full account context — value, sentiment, support history, receivables — and builds a recovery path that fits the customer, instead of firing the same cold notice at everyone.

01 · The challenge

What it costs today

Rigid dunning mechanisms handle every failed transaction uniformly. The result is a one-size-fits-none process that under-recovers from casual users and actively annoys the strategic accounts you can least afford to upset.

02 · Where legacy breaks

Why rule-based fails

Rule-based billing flows fire on a fixed schedule with fixed copy. They can't weigh a customer's lifetime value, can't read sentiment or open support tickets, and can't decide that this account should be handed to a human instead of an email cadence.

03 · The AI-First response

What the agent does

When Zuora signals a payment failure, our agent reviews the account across systems: customer sentiment and open support metrics in Salesforce, accounts-receivable history in Sage Intacct. It then builds a hyper-tailored recovery path — a direct payment link for lower-tier users, and for a key strategic account, pausing automated notices entirely and drafting a personalized alert for the named Account Executive to handle.

Why agentic AI wins

Reasoning, memory and action — not another rule.

Agentic edge

Value-aware.Recovery effort scales with the worth and fragility of the relationship.

Agentic edge

Sentiment-sensitive.Unhappy or at-risk accounts are handled with care, not cadence.

Agentic edge

Human-routed where it counts.Strategic accounts reach a person, not a dunning loop.

The business case

What this pattern returns.

You improve recovery rates on routine failures while protecting the high-value relationships that drive the majority of revenue. Fewer strategic customers are pushed toward churn by a tone-deaf collection email — and your AEs get a warm, contextual handoff instead of a fire to put out.

We engineer the recovery logic as a context-reasoning agent on the runtime your stack favours. AI-First means dunning becomes relationship-aware revenue recovery — the difference between collecting a payment and keeping a customer.

Runtime · n8n or CeligoGovernance · human-in-the-loopEU data residency · GDPR-nativeAudit trail · ISO 27001-aligned
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