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Pivot CRM Workflow from Field Feedback

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Problem

Company Context

RoutePro is a B2B SaaS company that sells scheduling and job management software to small field-service businesses such as HVAC, plumbing, and electrical contractors. The company has 12,000 paying businesses, $28M ARR, and competes with larger platforms by positioning itself as easier to use for owner-operators and teams with fewer than 50 technicians.

Problem

RoutePro launched a new mobile-first workflow intended to help technicians update job status, capture notes, and upsell add-on services while on site. Six months after launch, adoption is below expectations: only 22% of active technician accounts use the workflow weekly, and accounts that tried it have a 34% completion drop-off between "arrived on site" and "job closed." Churn among small accounts has also increased from 2.8% to 3.5% monthly.

Field feedback from ride-alongs, support calls, and customer advisory sessions shows a consistent theme: technicians do not want to complete detailed CRM-style updates during a job. Instead, many want a faster "finish the job and get paid" flow with photo capture, customer signature, and invoice generation in under 2 minutes. Sales and Customer Success believe RoutePro should significantly change the product direction, but Engineering warns that rewriting the workflow will delay other roadmap commitments.

Deliverables

  1. Explain how you would synthesize the field feedback and determine whether the current product direction is wrong.
  2. Identify the target users and their most important jobs to be done.
  3. Recommend how RoutePro should change the product or service offering, including what to keep, remove, or redesign.
  4. Prioritize an MVP plan and explain the key trade-offs.
  5. Define how you would measure whether the change improved product-market fit and business outcomes.

Constraints

  • You have 1 PM, 1 designer, and 5 engineers for the next quarter.
  • You must show measurable impact within 12 weeks.
  • Existing enterprise customers rely on some of the current workflow fields for compliance reporting.
  • The company cannot afford more than a 5% increase in support volume during rollout.