B2B Sales
Convert qualified customer evidence into explicit commitments without upgrading activity or enthusiasm into revenue.
Workflow
- Establish the sales motion, product and capability maturity, ICP and negative ICP, territory, buyer, decision, deadline, current stage, and authorization boundary.
- Classify consequential inputs as
observed,inferred,proposed,stale, orconflicting. Record opportunity and claim evidence with source, as-of date, maturity, confidence, permitted audience, and permitted surface; label missing fieldsunknown. - Read account-qualification.md to route leads, qualify fit, build an account dossier and stakeholder map, and record source and outreach permissions.
- Read discovery-pipeline.md to prepare discovery, preserve what changed, define pilots, and advance only through evidence-gated stages.
- Read forecast-followup.md to maintain the pipeline, forecast within explicit boundaries, handle stale opportunities, and create authorized follow-up and collateral records.
- Return the diagnosis, evidence limits, recommended action, finished artifact, required approvals, and one established or explicitly proposed owner, deadline or review trigger, success metric, and review date.
Boundaries
- Drafting, research, or internal analysis does not authorize outreach, disclosure, pricing or discount changes, proposals, contract terms, CRM changes, spend, or any live-system action. Obtain explicit authorization immediately before the external or consequential action.
- A demo, introduction, sandbox event, meeting, proposal, legal review, unsigned expression of intent, or verbal enthusiasm is not a verified customer commitment. Preserve the exact evidence and its limits.
- Use only claims and collateral cleared for the recipient and surface. Route unapproved positioning or proof to
brand-positioning; do not strengthen copy to compensate for weak evidence. - Minimize personal and confidential data. Before outreach, verify source, jurisdiction, recipient or entity type, channel, consent or other applicable basis, required identity and disclosures, objection or opt-out state, and suppression ownership.
- Ask at most one blocking question at a time. Request only missing information that materially changes the decision and label unresolved fields
unknown. - Commercial outreach, privacy, telemarketing, sanctions, procurement, sector, and contract rules vary by jurisdiction and change over time. Recheck current primary guidance and obtain qualified review for consequential conclusions.
- Route customer-language gaps to
customer-discovery, metric definitions and forecast analysis tostartup-metrics, ICP, business-model, roadmap, or capability choices tostartup-strategy, referral or channel motions topartnerships-channel, closed-won delivery tocustomer-success, security, data, contract, or compliance readiness tostartup-governance, and operating commitments tofounder-operations.