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What does Sales Engine do?

Sales Engine is a commercial performance consultancy. We help B2B organisations operating in complex commercial environments (including PE-backed businesses, enterprise and channel-led organisations) strengthen performance across marketing, sales and customer success, improving pipeline, conversion, retention and commercial visibility.

What is a Commercial Performance Diagnostic?

A Commercial Performance Diagnostic is a structured review of your commercial engine across marketing, sales and customer success. It assesses pipeline, conversion, retention and team effectiveness to show where growth is slowing and what to address first, and leads into a clear plan for what to do next: a 100-day revenue plan where the business needs a focused next step.

What is CORD Intelligence?

CORD Intelligence is the AI-enhanced execution layer behind the CORD methodology. CORD stands for Collaborate, Outcomes, Refine, Deliver. CORD Intelligence helps sellers apply the methodology in practice by capturing thinking, connecting deal artefacts and making commercial work more visible, coherent and useful.

What experience do you have?

Our consultants have led, grown and exited businesses across agencies, SaaS, technology and industrial sectors. Many of our team bring decades of operator experience.

Which markets do you specialise in?

We focus on B2B environments with complex commercial dynamics: long sales cycles, multiple stakeholders, complex channels and non-transactional products. We work across software and technology, professional services, industrial businesses, channel-led organisations and PE-backed contexts.

How do you work?

Every engagement starts with a conversation and a clear view of the commercial challenge. From there, we define the right first step, then provide the leadership, specialist support or capability needed to move the work forward.

How long does a typical engagement last?

That depends on the scope. Diagnostics and 100-day plans are shorter. Fractional leadership and capability work tend to run longer. We shape the work around the stage, priorities and pace of the business.

How is your work priced?

Our work is priced around the scope, level of support and duration involved. Some engagements begin with a defined diagnostic or project. Others are structured as ongoing support over a longer period. We keep the commercial model clear from the outset, so there is a shared understanding of what is included, how the work will run, and what it will cost before work begins.

What does a Commercial Performance Diagnostic involve?

A Commercial Performance Diagnostic is a structured first step. It reviews performance across pipeline, conversion, retention and team effectiveness to identify where growth is slowing, what needs attention first, and what the right next step looks like. The diagnostic looks across marketing, sales, customer success and sales-to-delivery alignment. It gives leadership teams a clear, prioritised view before committing to broader work.

How do engagements usually start?

Most work starts with a defined first step: typically a Commercial Performance Diagnostic, a focused diagnostic, or a clearly scoped piece of support. From there, we shape the engagement around what is needed, with clear scope, timing and commercial terms agreed from the outset.

Do you work globally?

Yes. While Sales Engine is based in the UK, the team works with clients across multiple markets and can support international businesses and investor groups.

How is Sales Engine different from other consultancies?

We stay close to the work. We combine strategy, execution and capability improvement. We focus on commercial performance across the full customer journey, not just one function.

How do we get started?

Start with a Commercial Performance Diagnostic. It gives you a prioritised view of strengths, weaknesses and what needs attention first, and a clear plan for what to do next, including a 100-day revenue plan where the business needs a focused next step.

What is MEDDIC?

MEDDIC is a B2B sales qualification framework: Metrics, Economic Buyer, Decision Criteria, Decision Process, Identify Pain, Champion. It helps sales teams assess deal quality, improve pipeline discipline and focus effort on winnable opportunities.

What is MEDDPICC?

MEDDPICC extends MEDDIC with two additional elements: Paper Process (the procurement and legal steps to close) and Competition (who else the buyer is evaluating). It is best suited to enterprise and complex sales environments.

What is sales effectiveness?

Sales effectiveness is the ability of a commercial team to consistently win the right business, at the right value, in a repeatable and scalable way. It covers qualification, conversion, process discipline and the connection between marketing, sales and customer success.

What is RevOps?

RevOps, revenue operations, aligns the processes, systems, data and reporting across marketing, sales and customer success into a single, unified commercial operation. It gives leadership teams a clear, end-to-end view of performance.

What is post-acquisition commercial integration?

Post-acquisition commercial integration is the process of aligning sales processes, CRM systems, pricing models, team structures and customer strategies across combined businesses after an acquisition, to protect existing revenue and build a foundation for growth.

How does Sales Engine support focused projects?

Many engagements start with a clearly scoped piece of work: a Commercial Performance Diagnostic, a pipeline diagnostic, an SDR programme or a CRM implementation. Focused projects deliver targeted improvement without committing to a broader programme.

How does Sales Engine support broader commercial programmes?

For businesses that need cross-functional improvement, we deliver integrated growth programmes that connect marketing, sales and customer success into a single, measurable commercial system: typically over 6–12 months.

What is sales transformation?

Sales transformation is the structured process of improving how a business sells: across people, process and tools. It goes beyond training or technology to address the full commercial model, including strategy, leadership, capability and operational discipline.

What is commercial performance?

Commercial performance is the overall effectiveness of a business's revenue-generating activities across marketing, sales and customer success. It covers pipeline, conversion, retention, customer value and the systems that connect them.

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Frequently Asked Question

Our consultants have led, grown and exited businesses across agencies, SaaS, technology and industrial sectors. Many of our team bring decades of operator experience.

We focus on B2B environments with complex commercial dynamics: long sales cycles, multiple stakeholders, complex channels and non-transactional products. We work across software and technology, professional services, industrial businesses, channel-led organisations and PE-backed contexts.

Every engagement starts with a conversation and a clear view of the commercial challenge. From there, we define the right first step, then provide the leadership, specialist support or capability needed to move the work forward.

That depends on the scope. Diagnostics and 100-day plans are shorter. Fractional leadership and capability work tend to run longer. We shape the work around the stage, priorities and pace of the business.

Most work starts with a defined first step: typically a Commercial Performance Diagnostic, a focused diagnostic, or a clearly scoped piece of support. From there, we shape the engagement around what is needed, with clear scope, timing and commercial terms agreed from the outset.

Yes. While Sales Engine is based in the UK, the team works with clients across multiple markets and can support international businesses and investor groups.

We stay close to the work. We combine strategy, execution and capability improvement. We focus on commercial performance across the full customer journey, not just one function.

Start with a Commercial Performance Diagnostic. It gives you a prioritised view of strengths, weaknesses and what needs attention first, and a clear plan for what to do next, including a 100-day revenue plan where the business needs a focused next step.

MEDDIC is a B2B sales qualification framework: Metrics, Economic Buyer, Decision Criteria, Decision Process, Identify Pain, Champion. It helps sales teams assess deal quality, improve pipeline discipline and focus effort on winnable opportunities.

MEDDPICC extends MEDDIC with two additional elements: Paper Process (the procurement and legal steps to close) and Competition (who else the buyer is evaluating). It is best suited to enterprise and complex sales environments.

Sales effectiveness is the ability of a commercial team to consistently win the right business, at the right value, in a repeatable and scalable way. It covers qualification, conversion, process discipline and the connection between marketing, sales and customer success.

RevOps, revenue operations, aligns the processes, systems, data and reporting across marketing, sales and customer success into a single, unified commercial operation. It gives leadership teams a clear, end-to-end view of performance.

Post-acquisition commercial integration is the process of aligning sales processes, CRM systems, pricing models, team structures and customer strategies across combined businesses after an acquisition, to protect existing revenue and build a foundation for growth.

Many engagements start with a clearly scoped piece of work: a Commercial Performance Diagnostic, a pipeline diagnostic, an SDR programme or a CRM implementation. Focused projects deliver targeted improvement without committing to a broader programme.

For businesses that need cross-functional improvement, we deliver integrated growth programmes that connect marketing, sales and customer success into a single, measurable commercial system: typically over 6–12 months.

Sales transformation is the structured process of improving how a business sells: across people, process and tools. It goes beyond training or technology to address the full commercial model, including strategy, leadership, capability and operational discipline.

Commercial performance is the overall effectiveness of a business's revenue-generating activities across marketing, sales and customer success. It covers pipeline, conversion, retention, customer value and the systems that connect them.

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CORE SERVICES

Commercial Leadership

GTM & Proposition

Sales Execution

CS & Delivery

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CORE SERVICES

Commercial Leadership

GTM & Proposition

Sales Execution

CS & Delivery