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Impress Your CEO With These Reports:The Boardroom CX Intelligence Reports That Drive Business Decisions

Written by Sameer Narkar
Published on 18 May 2026
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Impress Your CEO With These Reports:
The Boardroom CX Intelligence Reports That Drive Business Decisions

Most CX teams spend hours building reports nobody acts on.

The CSAT deck goes into the board pack. Someone nods. The meeting moves on. Nothing changes. A week later, the same problems surface in a different format.

Here is the uncomfortable truth: the problem is not your data. It is the questions your data is answering.

CX operations tools tell you what happened. Ticket volumes, response times, agent throughput. Useful for running the team. Not useful for running the business. A CFO does not need a sentiment chart. A CEO does not need an NPS trend. What they need is intelligence that answers the question they are already asking: what is happening to our brand, what does it mean for our revenue, and what do we do about it?

That is exactly what KRC, the Konnect Research Cloud, was built to deliver. Below are six reports that show what boardroom-grade CX intelligence looks like in practice. Each one is drawn from real brand data. Each one ends with decisions, not observations.

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Brand & Perception Intelligence

The Brand Perception Snapshot

The Question Your CEO Is Asking KRC

“What do customers actually think of us right now — across every channel, in plain language, in real time?”

This is the report that surprises leadership teams most. Not because the data is shocking, but because it exists at all. Most brands measure brand perception through quarterly surveys. By the time results arrive, the conversation has moved on. KRC monitors live customer conversations across social media, review platforms, forums, and open web sources in real time and synthesises them into a clear leadership narrative.

The most powerful insight KRC surfaces is not a number. It is a tension. In the Financial Services and Payments analysis below, 59,172 mentions were captured across a two-month period. At the 30,000-foot view, sentiment looked healthy. IMF recognition. National pride. Record transaction volumes. But at ground level, a completely different story was being written.

Report 01 · Brand Perception Financial Services / Payments · Dec 2025 – Jan 2026
59,172 mentions analysed across 6 channels · 5,351 influencer posts captured
59,172 Total Mentions
79.5% Neutral Sentiment
31% Twitter Unresolved Rate
“India’s gift to the world” 30,000-ft institutional narrative
“Abandoned when it matters” Ground-level consumer reality
7.2M Followers of Grok — actively recommending users REMOVE BHIM

42% of all complaints were failed UPI transactions with refunds never received. The positive institutional narrative and the negative consumer narrative are running simultaneously — and the consumer narrative is winning where purchase decisions are made.

Every unresolved complaint on Twitter is indexed by Google and AI search engines permanently. It becomes part of the brand’s public record. At a 31% unresolved rate on Twitter, the brand is creating thousands of negative first impressions daily that no marketing budget can override.

The Brand Perception Snapshot gives your CEO a single, synthesised answer to the question they are always asking but never get cleanly: what do our customers actually think of us?

What Next
01
Launch a public resolution tracker on Twitter/X within 14 days
Every resolved complaint receives a visible public reply within 2 hours. Target: unresolved rate from 31% to under 10% in 60 days.
02
Initiate an emergency BHIM UX sprint — this is a product crisis, not a PR crisis
Grok recommending BHIM removal is a category-level threat. A PR response without a product fix will accelerate the negative narrative. Target: BHIM back to net positive on 2+ platforms within 90 days.
03
Build a monthly CEO and CMO Brand Perception Brief from KRC data
One page. Three sections: what changed this month, what is the top reputational risk, what decision does leadership need to make. Raw intelligence, not curated narrative.
Cost of Inaction

Leadership is currently making brand decisions without knowing what 59,172 customer conversations are saying. Every quarter this continues is a quarter of strategic misalignment between what the brand believes about itself and what customers actually experience.

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Risk & Revenue Intelligence

The Revenue at Risk Early Warning Report

The Question Your CEO Is Asking KRC

“Where is customer trust eroding before it hits our financials — and how much revenue are we about to lose?”

This is the most strategically valuable report KRC produces, and the one most organisations never build until it is too late. By the time churn appears in financial reporting, the underlying dissatisfaction has existed for months. It was in the service centre complaints nobody escalated. It was in the Twitter threads that carried 45% of all negative volume despite representing only 18% of total mentions.

The automobile brand analysis below surfaces the defining insight: the brand is winning the consideration battle and losing the ownership battle. Pre-sale marketing is working. Post-sale experience is undoing it.

Report 02 · Revenue at Risk Automobiles · Feb 2026 · 12,492 mentions · 5,130 tickets
The gap between what the brand believes about its CX and what customers actually experience
8% Negative sentiment
Pre-Purchase (53 mentions)
40% Negative sentiment
Post-Purchase (83 mentions)
4,750 Tickets marked “Closed”
Only 11 Tickets marked “Resolved”
257h Avg Full Resolution TAT
(vs 78h close TAT)

73% of post-purchase complaints relate to a single fixable cause: the service centre experience. This is not a product problem. It is a dealer accountability problem that can be resolved without a single rupee of product investment — if leadership can see it.

The revenue risk is not in next quarter’s sales. It is in next quarter’s renewals, referrals, and repeat purchases from customers who bought believing the marketing promise and found a different reality on the other side.

The Early Warning Report maps exactly where trust is declining, which customer segments are most at risk, and what the window for intervention looks like before it becomes a churn event.

What Next
01
Audit the top 10 flagged service centre locations within 30 days
KRC identified specific locations by name. Set a 48-hour Twitter response protocol per location. Target: service centre complaints from 73% to under 40% of post-purchase pain in 90 days.
02
Fix the resolution gap before the next board review
4,750 closed, 11 resolved. Implement mandatory resolution verification before any ticket is marked closed. Target: close TAT and resolution TAT within 20% of each other in 60 days.
Cost of Inaction

The board is receiving data that suggests operational performance is strong. The customer data tells a completely different story. This gap between reported metrics and actual customer experience is the most dangerous risk in this report.

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Competitive & Market Intelligence

The Competitive Intelligence Brief

The Question Your CEO Is Asking KRC

“Where are our competitors gaining ground — and what are their customers saying that our sales team hasn’t heard yet?”

Most competitive intelligence comes from analyst reports and sales team anecdotes. Both are slow, filtered, and incomplete. KRC listens to what your competitor’s customers are saying publicly, in real time. The frustrations, the comparisons, the moments where a customer decides to switch. That intelligence is available now, in conversations happening today across every channel.

Report 03 · Competitive Intelligence Payments + Automobiles · Live customer conversations · Public social and open web
The competitive battle is not happening in advertising. It is happening in complaint threads.
Others BHIM’s market share category
(PhonePe 47% · GPay 37%)
53 Pre-purchase mentions citing
feature gaps vs competitors
92% Pre-purchase sentiment: Neutral
Curious. Not yet excited.

Every unresolved complaint thread containing a competitor mention is effectively a competitor referral. At current volumes, the brand is generating competitor referrals daily through silence.

The automobile brand analysis showed that competitors are not winning on product quality. They are winning on the perception of innovation and responsiveness. The competitive advantage is being lost in Instagram comment threads before a single showroom visit occurs.

The Competitive Intelligence Brief surfaces these shifts while there is still time to respond strategically rather than reactively.

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WFM Efficiency & Operational Intelligence

Agent Productivity & Operational Truth Report

The Question Your CEO Is Asking KRC

“Are we closing tickets or actually solving problems — and what is the true operational cost of the gaps in our CX team?”

There is a specific gap that appears in almost every CX operation KRC analyses, and it costs brands significant money every quarter. Tickets are being marked closed long before problems are actually resolved.

The airport brand analysis below covered 140,694 interactions, 8 agents, 30 days. What it found was not a talent problem. It was a design problem. The same team, with better routing and shift structure, could recover 1,400 additional answered calls per period and reduce email resolution time by 89% with zero additional headcount and a one-time investment of under Rs. 7.5 lakh.

Report 04 · Agent Productivity & Ops Truth Airport Brand · Jan–Feb 2026 · 140,694 interactions · 8 agents
Agent Leaderboard — Composite Score: Volume · Speed · Resolution · Sentiment
80 #1 Vipul Master
520 tickets · 1.4h reply · 0 reopened
78 #2 Ravi Shankar
430 tickets · 1.2h reply · Speed Specialist
48 #8 Raghavendra Arya
29.6h resolution · Needs Coaching
63% Call abandonment rate
2,939 customers walk away per period
213h Avg email resolution TAT
Benchmark: under 18 hours
Rs.7.5L One-time fix cost
Zero additional headcount

The gap between rank 1 (score: 80) and rank 8 (score: 48) is a coaching gap, not a talent gap. Vipul Master’s top 3 behaviours can be codified and coached across the entire team within 30 days.

What Next
01
Approve the 3-shift restructure immediately — zero incremental cost
Shift A: peak social and calls. Shift B: dedicated email backlog. Shift C: overnight clearing and cross-training. Target: email TAT from 213h to under 24h in 60 days. 1,400+ additional calls answered per period.
02
Approve IVR redesign budget of Rs. 2–4L — call abandonment from 63% to under 30%
2,939 customers are walking away unanswered every period. Each is a service failure that costs more in churn risk than the entire IVR investment. Target: abandonment under 30% within 60 days.
Cost of Inaction

The one-time fix cost is Rs. 3.95L to 7.5L. The monthly revenue risk of a 63% call abandonment rate and 213-hour email TAT is significantly higher. Every week of inaction is thousands of unserved customers and a growing gap between brand promise and customer reality.

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Campaign & Customer Retention Intelligence

The Campaign & Promotion Intelligence Report

The Question Your CEO Is Asking KRC

“Did our last campaign build loyalty or damage it — and what signals should we have caught before the damage was done?”

Most marketing teams measure campaign success by revenue and reach. Neither metric captures what customers actually felt during and after the campaign. KRC tracks sentiment before, during, and after promotional periods, and surfaces the signals that tell you whether a campaign built brand equity or quietly eroded it.

The quick commerce brand analysis below produced the starkest finding in all six reports. The December campaign was financially successful. It was experientially destructive.

Report 05 · Campaign Intelligence Quick Commerce · Nov 2025 – Feb 2026 · 4,196 mentions analysed
The campaign drove GMV. It destroyed loyalty. KRC caught the signals 72 hours in.
29.4% Peak negative rate
Dec 8 campaign week
707 Negative promotion
signals detected
34/wk Negative mentions still running
10 weeks post-campaign
38% Boycott / Never
Ordering Again
27% Switching to
Competitor
15% Consumer
Court Threat

Customers posting churn signals — “never ordering again”, “boycott”, “switching” — received the same slow 10-hour resolution as routine order queries. No priority escalation was triggered. The window to retain them closed.

The mathematical problem: the revenue generated by the campaign is smaller than the lifetime value of the customers who signalled they were leaving. The brand traded short-term GMV for long-term loyalty erosion.

Ten weeks after the campaign ended, 34 negative mentions per week were still being generated from it. The reputational damage of a badly executed promotion outlasts the revenue it generates.

What Next
01
Build a Promotion Health Dashboard before the next campaign launches
Hard trigger: if negative sentiment exceeds 15% within 72 hours of campaign launch, pause and review. The December campaign peaked at 29.4%. This trigger would have fired on Day 3.
02
Create a churn interception queue immediately
Any post containing “boycott”, “never ordering again”, “switching”, or “fraud” — auto-flagged, senior agent within 60 minutes. Not the standard queue. The window to save a churning customer is measured in hours.
03
Close all 255 open promotion tickets before the next campaign
These customers will be the first to respond negatively when the next campaign reminds them of the last one. Personalised resolution and goodwill gesture for each. 255 resolved = 255 potential advocates created.
Cost of Inaction

255 unresolved customers are a live negative sentiment risk sitting in your pipeline. When the next campaign launches, they will be the loudest voices in the conversation. The cost of resolving them now is a fraction of the reputational cost of having them respond negatively to the next campaign.

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Growth & Product Intelligence

The Product Launch Intelligence Report

The Question Your CEO Is Asking KRC

“Based on our customer data — which new product category should we launch next, and which one should we wait on?”

This is the most forward-looking of the six reports, and the one that most visibly demonstrates the shift from reactive CX to strategic intelligence. Most product launch decisions are made from internal data: sales trends, buyer surveys, competitor catalogues. KRC makes the same decision from external data — what customers are already asking for, what creators are already excited about, and where the brand has enough goodwill to launch without needing to manufacture demand.

The question “which product should we launch?” used to require a market research firm, a focus group, and six weeks. KRC answers it from live customer data in 48 hours.

Report 06 · Product Launch Intelligence Fashion / E-Commerce · Customer conversations, creator mentions, sentiment ratios
KRC analysed every product category. Here is what the data recommends.
LAUNCH NOW Statement Accessories
(Bags & Jewellery)
501 mentions · 75.4% positive · Only 2 negative
LAUNCH Q2 Women’s Activewear
& Athleisure
223 mentions · 82% positive · Supply chain first
DO NOT LAUNCH Plus-Size Apparel 66 mentions · 40.9% negative · Wait for supply readiness

Statement Accessories has the highest positive-to-negative ratio of any category analysed. Only 2 negative mentions in the entire dataset. The creator pipeline is already warm. Zero demand generation required. This is the lowest-risk, highest-enthusiasm category in the data.

The Plus-Size warning is equally important. A 40.9% negative rate does not mean the demand is not there. The demand is real. What it tells you is that the supply chain is not ready. Launching without a fully stocked, well-priced range would confirm the existing perception gap and damage the brand’s relationship with exactly the customers it is trying to attract. The data is telling you to wait. And when the data changes, KRC will tell you.

What Next
01
Greenlight Statement Accessories within 30 days
Prioritise influencer seeding over paid media. The creator pipeline is warm. Let organic demand pull the category. 501 mentions, 75.4% positive, zero demand generation required.
02
Begin Activewear supply chain lock and creator briefing in parallel
82% positive is the strongest audience appetite signal in the dataset. India’s fastest-growing fashion segment. Lock supply chain quality commitments and seed 5–10 micro-creators before Q2 launch.
03
Set a data-triggered go decision for Plus-Size — not a calendar date
When KRC shows positive rate above 60% and volume above 100 mentions per month, that is the launch signal. This removes executive guesswork from timing and protects the brand from a premature launch.
Cost of Inaction on Accessories

501 customers are actively expressing interest with only 2 negative mentions. This audience is ready to buy now. Every month of delay is organic demand that either converts to a competitor or dissipates entirely.

“The brands winning in 2026 are not the ones with the most dashboards. They are the ones whose leadership teams make faster, sharper decisions — informed by what their customers are actually experiencing.”

None of these six reports came from surveys. None came from NPS scores or CSAT averages. They came from actual customer conversations happening in real time, across the channels where your customers are most honest and most unfiltered.

And none of them are dashboards. They are answers. Synthesised, contextualised, boardroom-ready answers to the specific questions your CEO and CFO are already asking, just not getting clean responses to.

CX operations tools tell you what happened last month. KRC tells you what is happening now, what it means for the business, and what to do about it. The shift from CX management to CX intelligence is the single most important upgrade available to enterprise leadership teams right now.

Your customers are generating millions of signals every day about how they feel about your brand, your products, your competitors, and your market. That intelligence exists. The question is whether your platform is built to surface it as an answer — or bury it in a chart.

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Sameer Narkar
Sameer Narkar
Founder & CEO – Konnect Insights

Sameer Narkar is the Founder and CEO of Konnect Insights, an AI-powered customer experience platform designed to help enterprises understand…

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