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Topic Trackers in Kickscale

This article explains how topic trackers help you understand key themes across all your customer conversations, including Meetings and Calls. You will learn what topic trackers do, how insights are extracted, and how to explore trends over time.

Fabian Riedlsperger avatar
Written by Fabian Riedlsperger
Updated over 2 months ago

Overview

Topic trackers surface the most important signals from your customer interactions.
Kickscale currently includes Feature Requests and Objections as built-in topic trackers.


These trackers help you spot trends, quantify themes, and drill down to the exact sentence where a customer raised a point.


How Topic Trackers Work

Every time Kickscale analyzes a customer conversation, we extract relevant insights for each active topic tracker.

What gets extracted

  • Objections: e.g., pricing, value, ROI, data compliance, integrations.

  • Feature Requests: e.g Bugs, Integration Request, UX Improvements

Kickscale then categorizes each extracted insight into a predefined category.
This creates clean, structured data you can explore over time.


Exploring Topic Insights

You can review all topic insights in the Insights section of your Workspace.

1. View overall trends

You see a chart showing how topics appear across conversations.
You can switch between:

  • Percentage view: In what percent of interactions a topic appeared.

  • Absolute numbers: How many times a topic appeared over time.

2. Filter your view

Refine your analysis by using filters, such as:

  • Meeting Types

  • Users

  • Deals

  • Interaction Type (Meetings or Calls)

This helps you understand trends within specific segments of your sales process.

3. Drill down into a topic category

Click any topic category (for example: Objections β†’ Data Compliance) to open a detailed view.

A dialog shows:

  • All conversations where the category appears

  • The extracted insights

  • The exact customer utterance when you hover over an insight

This gives you a fast and objective way to jump from a high-level trend to the real customer sentence behind it.


Use Cases

Topic trackers support teams across your revenue organization.

For Sales Leaders

  • Monitor objection trends over the last 30–90 days.

  • Identify new blockers emerging in the market.

  • Improve deal strategy using real customer signals.

For Product Teams

  • Track feature requests and understand demand patterns.

  • Validate roadmap priorities with unbiased data.

For Marketing

  • Understand messaging gaps.

  • Learn which objections appear most in specific customer tiers.


Tips & Best Practices

  • Review topic trends weekly to spot early shifts.

  • Combine filters to uncover deeper insights, such as objections by tier or by rep.

  • When investigating a trend, always click through to the conversation list to validate context.

  • Use extracted sentences as training material for your team.


If you need further assistance, feel free to reach out to us at support@kickscale.com.

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