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How do I understand customer sentiment from feedback?

Track how positive or negative customer feedback is across individual subscribers and entire organizations using automated sentiment analysis.

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Written by Chelsea Davis
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Summary

LaunchNotes automatically analyzes the emotional tone of every piece of feedback customers leave and assigns a sentiment score from -1 (negative) to 1 (positive). You can view sentiment scores for individual subscribers to understand their feedback history, or see aggregated sentiment scores by domain to gauge how entire organizations feel about your product updates.


Understanding sentiment scores

Sentiment scores help you quickly identify which customers or organizations are happy, neutral, or frustrated without manually reading through every feedback comment.

How sentiment scoring works:

  • LaunchNotes' AI assistant uses natural language processing to evaluate the emotional tone of each feedback item

  • Scores range from -1 (most negative) to 1 (most positive)

  • Sentiment dots are color-coded: 🟢 green (positive), 🟡 yellow (neutral), 🔴 red (negative)

Where to find sentiment scores

For individual subscribers:

  1. Go to Audience > Subscribers

  2. Click on the subscriber who sentiment you want to review and open their Subscriber info panel

  3. Select the Feedback tab

  4. Review the timeline view showing their feedback history with sentiment scores for each item

For entire organizations:

  1. Go to Audience > Domains

  2. Navigate to the Domain info panel for the organization you want to review

  3. View the average sentiment score displayed at the top of the panel

  4. This score aggregates sentiment from all feedback left by all subscribers from that domain

  5. You can also click on the Feedback tab to see individual feedback and their respective sentiment


Notes & important info

  • Sentiment analysis runs automatically on all feedback—no setup required

  • Individual feedback sentiment scores appear in each subscriber's feedback history

  • Domain-level sentiment scores can contribute to overall customer health scores

  • Positive sentiment values don't display a plus symbol, but use green color-coding

  • Domain sentiment helps you understand how an entire company or organization feels about your product updates


Common use cases

  • Identify at-risk customers: Spot subscribers or domains with consistently negative sentiment scores to proactively address concerns before they escalate.

  • Measure announcement impact: Compare sentiment scores before and after major announcements to gauge how customers received your updates.

  • Prioritize follow-ups: Focus your attention on subscribers with the most negative sentiment scores first.

  • Track relationship health: Use domain-level sentiment as part of your customer success strategy to monitor overall satisfaction trends.

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