Singula Recovery

From dunning, to decisioning.

The decisioning layer above your billing platform. Sits on top of Stripe, Recurly, Chargebee, Zuora, Adyen — or your own — and decides per-customer-per-failure: when to retry, on which channel, in what tone, and which failures to write off. We're paid only on what we recover.

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Positioning

The dunning market has three lanes. We're a fourth.

Existing vendors help operators run dunning workflows, recover failed B2C card payments, or query the card networks. Singula is the layer above — the per-failure decisioning none of them productise.

Lane 1
Billing platforms

Run the dunning workflow.

  • Stripe Billing
  • Recurly
  • Chargebee
  • Zuora
  • Adyen
Lane 2
Recovery specialists

B2C card-recovery, narrowly.

  • FlexPay
  • Butter Payments
  • Gravy
  • Volt
Lane 3
Account updaters

One vector, one network.

  • Visa Account Updater
  • Mastercard ABU
  • Stripe Card Updater
Lane 4 · Singula Recovery
Decisioning

Cross-vertical. Performance-priced. Per-customer, per-failure.

What should we
do with this failure?
Operator pain

The questions every recurring-revenue business now faces.

01

Fixed-schedule retries.

Every billing platform retries on the same calendar — Day 1, Day 3, Day 7, Day 14 — for every customer, regardless of why the card failed or who the customer is. Industry data suggests intelligent retry timing alone recovers 15–30% more revenue. Almost nobody has productised it.

Singula

Calibrates retry timing to each customer's pay-cycle, decline class, prior-failure pattern and engagement state. The Day 1 retry that's mathematically wasted gets skipped. The Day 5 retry that lands on payday gets the customer back.

02

Voluntary and involuntary churn, conflated.

Operators report a single churn rate and can't reliably separate the two. Aggressive dunning recovers more revenue short-term but accelerates voluntary churn. Soft dunning preserves relationships but loses recoverable money. The dial is set globally, never per customer.

Singula

Classifies every failure on a voluntary-vs-involuntary axis and calibrates tone to LTV and engagement signal. High-value engaged customers get soft. Disengaged compound-risk customers get firm. The dial moves per failure, not per platform.

03

Card-on-file decay, ignored.

Visa Account Updater and Mastercard ABU exist. Adoption is patchy. A meaningful percentage of "involuntary" churn is actually a card the operator could have silently refreshed and didn't. The customer never sees a decline screen — because the failure never happens.

Singula

Orchestrates account-updater queries by recoverability score, not on a fixed sweep. Pre-Failure Radar forecasts the next 30 days of billings, scores each one, and triggers the silent VAU lookup before the issuer ever sees an attempt.

Why now

The market has reached the point where this matters.

Recurring revenue is the dominant business model across pay-TV, telco, energy, insurance and B2B SaaS. The infrastructure to bill is mature; the intelligence to recover is empty.

5–12%
Of monthly billings fail across recurring-revenue businesses. Streaming, telco, energy, insurance, B2B SaaS.
£4.8B
Annual UK leakage from failed payments. Most of it written off as involuntary churn.
60%+
Of those failures are predictable from signals before the issuer ever sees a decline.
0
Vendors productising true per-customer-per-failure decisioning today. The lane is open.
The method

Decision Moments. The pattern behind the toolkit.

Singula's platform is built on a single repeating pattern. Detect the moment a decision is needed — a payment failed, a card decaying, an engagement signal shifting. Decide the right intervention given customer, issuer, failure and goal. Act through the operator's existing dunning and messaging stack. Measure the outcome and fold it back into the next decision. The pattern carried us through pay-TV subscribers and membership organisations. It transfers cleanly to failed payments.

01

Detect

Failed-payment events arrive via REST within seconds. Pre-failure signals — card expiry, engagement decay, issuer drift — are scored daily.

02

Decide

Composite recoverability score across customer signal, issuer signal, failure context and voluntary classifier. Treatment selected from a calibrated library.

03

Act

Recommendation returned via API to your existing dunning stack. Timing, channel, tone, account-updater query, escalation path — all per failure.

04

Measure

Outcomes flow back. Treatments improve. Recovery rates compound across the failure portfolio. The counterfactual is measured against a held-out control.

End to end

Deflect. Recover. Triage.

Four live tools today. One Decision Moments engine running across the whole lifecycle of a failed payment — before the decline, in the retry window, and after the cycle leaves something behind. Three of those tools form a continuous operational sequence; the fourth is the diagnostic that backstops it.

01
Deflect
Pre-Failure Radar
Before the decline.

Scores every upcoming billing on probability of failure. Refreshes the card silently via the network account-updater, nudges the customer to update before payday, sends a light-touch retention message at the right moment. Most failures never happen — the customer never sees a decline screen, the retry cycle never has to start, and voluntary churn is never triggered by friction the operator paid to create.

02
Recover
Recovery Console
In the retry window.

Per-customer-per-failure decisioning on the failures that do hit. Retry timing calibrated to the customer's pay-cycle, decline class, and prior-failure pattern. Channel chosen by engagement state. Tone calibrated to LTV and voluntary-classifier signal. Account-updater orchestrated by recoverability score. The right retry, the right way, the first time.

03
Triage
Bad Debt Triage
After the cycle.

Multi-cycle aged debt routed to one of six treatments — chase hard, chase soft, retain, suspend, refer, write off. Including the most valuable recommendation no other vendor will ever make: stop chasing this 26%, they're costing you more than they'll ever return.

Same engine, three moments. Pick the one that bites first — connect us, and we'll show you what the others are quietly losing too.

Built on this method

Seven tools. One platform.

Four are live. The rest land through 2026.

The Recovery toolset
04 live · 03 in build
01
Recovery Console

The wedge. Single-screen daily view of failed payments with intelligent retry recommendations, channel and tone selection, and projected recovery against the fixed-schedule baseline.

Live
02
Pre-Failure Radar

Predicts which customers' next payment will likely fail and recommends pre-failure intervention — card update prompts, payment method nudges, light-touch retention before the issuer ever sees a decline.

Live
03
Bad Debt Triage

Ranks every overdue and at-risk customer by probable recoverability, separates voluntary from involuntary, and recommends per-case treatment — chase hard, soft, suspend, refer, write off, retain.

Live
04
Voluntary × Involuntary Splitter

The first defensible separation of voluntary and involuntary churn — diagnostic, reportable, board-ready. Stops operators conflating two churn drivers that need opposite interventions.

In build · 2026
05
Treatment Library Designer

Visual canvas for designing and tuning dunning treatments — retry timing, channel, tone, escalation, deflection — with simulation showing projected recovery and churn impact before deployment.

In build · 2026
06
Recovery Treasury

Whole-platform portfolio view. Failed-payment volume, recovery-rate trend, recovered revenue, treatment-library effectiveness, voluntary-vs-involuntary split, top movers. The CFO portfolio dashboard.

In build · 2026
07
Recovery Copilot

Natural-language interface for finance-ops teams to interrogate the failed-payment estate, segment customers, and orchestrate treatment changes through conversation rather than dashboards.

In build · 2026
Who we are

Same engine. Multiple verticals.

Singula Decisions was born in broadcasting. The decisioning platform that runs subscriber intelligence for pay-TV operators, that we extended into membership organisations, that we're now pointing at ad-supported streaming — is the same engine we're now turning toward failed-payment recovery. Different vertical, same pattern. We are not a fintech vendor that found subscriptions. We are a subscriber-intelligence company that has been quietly running production dunning for years.

Connect for 30 days · pay only on what we recover

30 minutes. A conversation about your numbers.

No deck. No procurement gauntlet. Tell us your monthly billing volume and your current recovery rate, and we'll show you what we'd recover instead. Performance-priced — we get paid only on uplift.

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