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Backstory vs. Gainsight Customer Success

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricBackstory

by Backstory

Gainsight Customer Success

by Gainsight Inc.

Overall rating4.54.5
Review count6301,767
Ease of use9.08.3
Ease of setup8.67.2
Quality of support9.28.8
Meets requirements8.98.8
NPS67.71004966.474322
Small Business10.7%9.2%
Mid-Market35.0%57.4%
Enterprise54.4%33.3%
Total page views1,0183,634
Total LLM citations2,77524,897

Backstory

Backstory (formerly People.ai) is the Revenue Answers Platform for GTM leaders. Revenue leaders ask the same questions every day: Is this deal real? Where's my risk? What do I focus on next? Backstory gives you straight answers - grounded in 100% of actual revenue activity, not CRM guesses. With more than a decade of training AI models on billions of sales interactions, Backstory connects every signal to the right accounts and opportunities and delivers answers where you already work - whether that's your CRM, Claude, Copilot, or other AI tools you already use.

Pros

  • Helpful
  • Customer Support
  • Ease of Use
  • Intuitive
  • Easy Setup
  • Customization

Gainsight Customer Success

Gainsight Customer Success brings together rich agentic insights, relationship-level intelligence, and a multi-dimensional health scoring to surface risk and expansion opportunities a full quarter earlier, then turns those insights into action through coordinated retention, expansion, and renewal motions across every customer segment, including the long-tail.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Centralized Information
  • Visibility
  • Health Monitoring
  • Customer Support
  • Health Scoring