Founder-led sales

For the Founder Who Outgrew Founder-Led Sales.

The founder is back to doing sales personally.

The founder built the original motion on instinct and relationships. That worked. When the new system has a soft month, the fastest path to relief is to go do it themselves the old way — work the network, run the deals personally, hit the number.

It works, which is the problem. It relieves the pressure that would otherwise have forced the system to mature, and it signals to the team that the system is optional.

Most GTM builds fail in the quarter after the consultant leaves

100
Points scored across ten sections
10
Business days from kickoff to readout
All
Findings, ranked, with the cost of each

What this implies about how engagements should be structured.

If the failure reliably happens after handoff, then an engagement that ends at handoff is structured to fail. This is why I structure the RAINCLOUD engagement as 90 days of building followed by 90 days of advisory rather than a longer build. The second half is not padding, and it is not support.

$5,000 audit · $37,500 over 90 days · $7,500/mo after

A named owner

Ownership is transferred deliberately, to a named person, while there is still someone around to notice it has not really happened.

The first bad month

The first bad month happens with an experienced operator in the room — someone who can tell the difference between normal variance and a real problem, and who has the standing to say “change nothing this week.”

The weekly practice

The weekly practice gets rehearsed enough times to become habit rather than remaining an instruction in a document.

Hands off the wheel

Somebody is there to tell the founder to keep their hands off the wheel, which is a job that requires having done it, and having been wrong about it.

What you walk away with.

The same list as the pricing page, word for word.

What it isn’t.

The audit diagnoses. It does not build. The ICP rebuild, the message map, the pipeline model, the sequences, the scorecard in your CRM — those are the 90-day engagement.

$5,000 · 10 business days · required before any engagement · not credited toward the build · no refund

I don’t sell a 90-day build off a sales call, and you shouldn’t buy one. The audit is how we both find out whether this is worth doing. If you take the diagnosis and run the fix with your own team, that’s a working outcome — you own the score, the baseline, every finding and the business case either way. See the full fee schedule.

How to evaluate anyone who wants to rebuild your go-to-market.

Whether or not you work with me, ask these before you sign anything.

What happens in the quarter after you leave, and are you there for it?

If the engagement ends at delivery, you are buying a build and hoping for an outcome.

Who owns the system by name when you are gone?

If the answer is a team rather than a person, it has no owner.

What is the rule for changing something?

A motion with no change-control policy will be modified into noise by month three.

Which weekly practice must survive?

If they cannot name one specific recurring habit, they built assets, not a system.

Why is the audit required?

Because I won’t sell a six-month engagement off a sales call and you shouldn’t buy one. Ten days and $5,000 is how we both find out whether this is worth doing.

Where this starts

The free 40-Point Outside Audit. Then the 100-Point GTM Autopsy. Then the 90-day fix.

  1. Free 40-Point Outside Audit. Roughly 40 of the 100-Point GTM Autopsy’s 100 points: the ones that can be scored from outside the company, from public sources alone. No mystery shop. Scored by Colin, with an offer to walk through what he found. Request it on the 40-Point Outside Audit page.
  2. 100-Point GTM Autopsy. $5,000. Ten business days. Required before any engagement. Not credited toward the build. No refund. The audit is the trial. What the ten days include.
  3. 90-Day GTM Fix. $37,500: $15,000, then $12,500, then $10,000. Then advisory at $7,500 a month. How the 90 days work.

For B2B companies between $50M and $200M. Two builds at a time.

You already know it's broken.
The audit tells you what to fix first.

The free 40-Point Outside Audit scores the part of the 100-Point GTM Autopsy that can be read from outside the company, from public sources alone. The paid next step is the 100-Point GTM Autopsy: $5,000, ten business days.