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Less tab-switching. More selling.

A modern seller spends Monday morning as an amateur detective, piecing together a customer from six systems that refuse to cooperate. We'd rather they spent it selling.

We find where the hours leak in prep, planning, pipeline reviews, and renewals. Then we redesign the workflow with the people who run it, and put the answer in the tool they already have open. Sometimes that's an agent. Sometimes it's a better handoff and one less meeting.

01
#selling

Modernizing selling

Give sellers their afternoons back.

Reps lose hours to research, call prep, CRM updates, and chasing other teams for answers. We measure where that time actually goes, then fix the parts that cost the most.

01.1We watch the real process

We talk to sellers, managers, and ops from prospecting through expansion, and compare the official process with what happens on a Thursday afternoon. They rarely match, and the gap is where the hours go.

01.2Everyone has a job. Most are doing three.

Sales development representatives find accounts, research them, start conversations, and hand off. Better account data helps them spend time on conversations worth having.

Account executives run discovery, build the buying group, prep, negotiate, and close. We cut the prep and admin. The relationship stays theirs.

Solution consultants prove technical fit. They need reliable account and product context before they walk in. The technical judgment stays theirs.

Customer success managers drive adoption, spot trouble early, and run renewals. Better signals tell them where to look. The customer conversation stays theirs.

For each role, we decide with the team what a system handles, what a person reviews, and what stays fully human.

Work, divided deliberately
Example task boundaries
RoleSystem handlesPerson reviewsPerson owns
01SDR
System handlesPrepare account briefs and draft outreach for review
Person reviewsCheck relevance, claims, and tone before sending
Person ownsChoose prospects and build the relationship
02Account Executive
System handlesSummarize calls and flag open deal questions
Person reviewsVerify the summary and next steps
Person ownsLead discovery, negotiation, and commitments
03Solution Consultant
System handlesGather requirements and draft demo notes
Person reviewsCheck technical fit and assumptions
Person ownsDesign the solution and explain tradeoffs
04Customer Success Manager
System handlesSurface usage changes and draft check-in notes
Person reviewsValidate signals against customer context
Person ownsGuide adoption and manage the account

The boundary changes with the work, the customer, and the risk. A draft is not an approved message.

01.3Data check before agent check

A tool is only useful when the account data is right and on time. We check CRM quality, freshness, and whether teams use the same definitions, and fix what's broken before recommending anything new.

01.4Start with one job

Account prep, opportunity research, post-call admin, or a handoff between teams. We pilot it with the people who'll use it, measure, and decide together whether to scale it, tune it, or kill it.

01.5If the only number that went up is emails sent, we'd like a word with ourselves.

We pick the business goal first: productivity per rep, revenue per employee, cost to serve, or customer growth. We set a baseline before changing anything, then track early signals like prep time, qualified meetings, deal progression, adoption, and data quality. Activity that rises while opportunity quality falls counts as a miss.

Start with the business goal
Outcome to early signals
North star / business goalGrow efficiently without losing customer trust
  1. Productivity per rep

    Early measure: time spent preparing for customer conversations

  2. Revenue per employee

    Early measure: qualified pipeline per commercial headcount

  3. Cost to serve

    Early measure: support effort per account

  4. Customer and revenue growth

    Early measure: retained accounts and expansion opportunities

Early measures show direction. They are not a substitute for the business result.

02
#gtm-ops

GTM planning and coverage

Territory planning without the three-week spreadsheet war.

Territory design, account assignment, quotas, capacity, coverage models, and how SDRs, AEs, SCs, and CSMs split the work. We build a working model on your own data first, so leaders can poke at the logic and compare scenarios before anything changes in production. AI helps with research, prep, and routine analysis. Sales leaders own the calls on territories, quotas, and team structure.

03
#revenue-operations

Connected revenue operations

One number per question.

We connect account, opportunity, usage, billing, and customer data, then agree the metrics and rules everyone reports from. That covers CRM hygiene, lead routing, pipeline reviews, forecasting, and renewal visibility. Where it pays off, we build AI tools that surface risk, answer "why did this number move?", and retire the manual analysis that eats your ops team's Fridays.

04
#customer-success

Proactive customer success

Hear about churn before the customer tells you.

We pull usage, support, stakeholder, and renewal signals into one review so CSMs see what changed and what still needs checking. Where the data supports it, a tested model or agent helps rank accounts and prep the brief. CSMs own the conversation, escalation, and commercial decisions. We measure how much earlier the warnings arrive and what the team does with them, against a control group where practical.

05
#marketing

Marketing

Relevance, at volume.

Segmentation, prospect research, lifecycle campaigns, and spotting customers who'd benefit from another product. We agree where a person reviews output, and we track opt-outs and conversation quality alongside response rates.

Shared context

These workflows lean on the same accounts, product activity, conversations, and support history. We plan the shared data once, so five teams stop rebuilding the same prep five different ways.

Built with the people doing the work

Users and managers help design and test everything we ship. We decide together where the output lives, what people do with it, and who maintains it. Every rollout has a feedback loop and a clear point where we decide to scale, change course, or stop.

See how Alder Works prioritizes accounts.

Walk through a fictional account prioritization with rules anyone can read.

Which part of your revenue engine squeaks?

Selling, planning, RevOps, marketing, or customer success. Point at the noise and we'll help scope a first project worth doing.