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Business Owners Are Worst Clients

Hacker News · May 3, 2026, 3:06 PM

Key takeaways

  • My goal was to identify a pattern on client terminations, what made them leave and what were some early patterns to identify before they left.
  • After Claude produced said analysis - I did some manual verification on most of the data because this peaked my curiousity.
  • When business owners were the puchaser and the point of contact - it could be easily predicted that they will go on to become worst clients.

Ajay CMay 03, 2026Share Using Claude, I analyzed our shared inbox and email history dating back to 2010 to identify patterns in client terminations. For context, I run a digital marketing agency and clients are generally B2B small to medium sized businesses that are digital marketing clients.

My goal was to identify a pattern on client terminations, what made them leave and what were some early patterns to identify before they left.

After Claude produced said analysis - I did some manual verification on most of the data because this peaked my curiousity.

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