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Stylo and Geckoboard: bringing customer sentiment into Zendesk dashboards

If you lead a support team, you already have plenty of data. Seeing how many tickets are coming in, how long customers are waiting, and whether your team is hitting SLAs is pretty straightforward (especially when using Geckoboard to monitor Zendesk KPIs in real-time!). But what’s often not so obvious is where things are about to go wrong - which conversations are quietly becoming frustrating, which customers are at risk of churning, or where agents are under the most pressure right now.

How MTD Training brought hidden data into the open and shifted their culture

MTD Training, a leadership and management training provider based in Coventry, had plenty of data but very little shared visibility. Important numbers lived in Salesforce, spreadsheets and handwritten notes. Only a few people could access them, and even then, different reports often gave different answers. For Chief Operating Officer Kelli Grinter, this created a real challenge.

From Volume to Value: How Zendesk Teams Should Rethink Reporting in 2026 with Lumi Fagbure, AdvoCX

In this session from the Geckoboard Breakfast event, Lumi Fagbure, Founder of advoCX and former Zendesk Professional Services consultant, shares a practical and very real world look at how AI is reshaping reporting for support teams. Lumi explains why traditional volume reporting is no longer enough and how teams can use AI driven signals to understand what customers want, where processes fall down, and how well automation is working.

Geckoboard Breakfast: Measuring What Matters in Support, 2026

In the Autumn of 2025 we brought together Zendesk customers, implementation partners and friends of Geckoboard for a focused discussion on how support teams are preparing for 2026. Across the fireside chat, guest talks and informal conversations, one theme kept coming up. Teams are moving away from traditional volume reporting and toward clearer, more meaningful visibility into what really shapes customer experience. Here is a breakdown of what we covered and the takeaways you can use right away.

How AI is Changing Support KPIs in 2026 with Eric Nelson, Stylo

AI is changing support faster than most teams can keep up. In this talk from our Geckoboard Breakfast event, Eric Nelson, CEO and co founder of Stylo, shares what their eighteen-month study reveals about how KPIs are shifting as AI becomes part of day to day operations. Eric covers what happens to CSAT when new models drop, why voice is rising again, and how customers are adapting their expectations. He also breaks down the practical changes teams can make right now from rebuilding knowledge bases for AI context, to tightening KPI cycles from annual plans to 60 or 90 day reviews.

Geckoboard Breakfast 2025 Highlights: AI, reporting trends, and real time visibility

A quick look at the ideas and conversations that shaped our first Geckoboard Breakfast event in London. In this highlights reel you’ll hear customers and partners talk about fast growing data sets, how AI is reshaping support, and why real time visibility still matters for every team. You’ll also see how Geckoboard customers use dashboards day to day including weekly customer facing reports and team wide SLA visibility.

Fireside chat: real success stories of using live data in support

A short fireside chat from the Geckoboard Breakfast event in London, featuring Tom Mercer from Spotler and Chris Brogan from Token. They share how real time dashboards help them stay ahead of issues, improve SLA performance, keep product and support aligned, and give customers a clearer view of what’s happening.

From Tickets to Trust: Why Support Should Own Retention

By Grant Stanis, CEO of TeamSupport Most CEOs still think of customer support as the team you call when something breaks. They measure success in tickets closed and response times. But in B2B, that’s an outdated—and expensive—way to operate. If your support team isn’t part of your retention strategy, you’re burning money and losing customers you already worked hard to win.

The Best B2B Support Software to Boost Client Retention

Client retention is the lifeblood of B2B success, yet many organizations struggle to maintain lasting customer relationships. With the right B2B customer support software, businesses can transform their retention strategies and unlock significant profit growth. Research from Harvard Business Review shows that improving customer retention by just 5% can boost profits by 25% to 95%.