The fractional RevOps and GTM operations firm behind The LeanScale Podcast, building revenue infrastructure for companies scaling from Series A through pre-IPO.
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Every "state of AI in GTM" report is a survey of intentions. This one counts only what we could watch being built, deployed and used — and it separate…
A B2B SaaS benchmark is only comparable when the denominator, the panel, the statistic and the time basis all match. Run these five checks in order — …
Most "state of the stack" reports are self-reported surveys. This one is reconstructed from what these companies actually operate — and adjusted for a…
The market sorts by altitude — from high-margin strategy/IP at the top to commoditized ops delivery at the bottom. Altitude predicts M&A destiny: the …
What survives when you stop reading RevOps content marketing and go back to the primary documents — the survey PDFs, the press releases, the benchmark…
All figures from our own reconstruction of SEC Form D filings, 2014–2026. Cohort-level results use Series A vintages 2014–2019, which have 78+ months …
Series B vintages 2014–2019 (n = 645), each observed for 78+ months. Median detected Series B is $25.9M and median graduating Series C is $55.0M — bot…
How LeanScale runs delivery where LeanScale is involved.
Every Attribution project moves through the same four phases. Know what you produce in each — and know that, like CPQ, this is a project you win or lo…
Three customers, two CRMs, two motions — and the same six stages every time. The centre of gravity here sits in Blueprint: the trigger you design and …
Most playbooks start at Blueprint. This one starts before that — with three things that have to be true before you are willing to run the project at a…
Every CPQ project moves through the same four phases. Know what you produce in each one — and know that, like Quote to Cash, this is a project you win…
Half the bad advice online cites the wrong product. "Revenue Cloud" has meant three different things. When someone says "move to Revenue Cloud," they …
Every migration moves through the same four phases. The weight sits in phase one — get the Blueprint right and the other three go smoothly. 1 Blueprin…
Every Executive GTM Reporting project moves through the same four phases. This is a project you win in the Blueprint — by the time you're building cha…
Most playbooks are heaviest in Build. This one is heaviest in Blueprint — by a mile. Plan your time accordingly. 1 Blueprint Mine their systems for ev…
Every GTM Lifecycle project moves through the same four phases. Know what you produce in each one. 1 Blueprint Research their systems & company. Surfa…
Every Lead Routing project moves through the same four phases. Know what you produce in each one. 1 Blueprint Pick the routing model, map the channels…
Light on meetings, heavy on up-front analysis. Most of the value lands before the discovery call. 1 Blueprint Research inside + outside their systems;…
Same lifecycle as every other playbook in the library — pointed at the start of the relationship instead of a single build. 1 Blueprint Consume the ha…
Every Quote to Cash project moves through the same four phases. Know what you produce in each one — and know that this is a project you win or lose in…
Territory design is unusual: almost all the work lands in Blueprint. If you do that part right you can one-shot the whole plan and get a green light i…
The Go-to-Market lifecycle is the full customer journey expressed as one connected set of stages, from first touch through renewal. It works when ever…
Real engagements involving LeanScale.
A growth-stage AI company wanted its own go-to-market team running on AI rather than manual pipeline updates. LeanScale shipped a set of Claude-based …
A B2B software company sells into a small, finite target list where form fills are far too rare to qualify on. LeanScale built a capped behavioral sco…
A growth-stage cybersecurity vendor had no rigorous way to tell reps which accounts to work. LeanScale built an account priority score, a competitor-d…
A financial-software company's lean in-house team needed more build-and-maintain capacity than it could carry across a tightly coupled Salesforce, Hub…
A cybersecurity vendor's CRM had accumulated roughly a quarter of a million records with heavy duplication and large firmographic gaps, which made tie…
A financial-services data company's executives had stopped trusting their CRM pipeline. LeanScale re-derived the sales lifecycle from two years of act…
A growth-stage workforce-technology company was losing inbound leads and event contacts between MQL and pipeline, with attribution that did not agree …
An AI company scaling its sales org fast had a nearly empty Salesforce: no enrichment, no territory model, no routing, and inbound piling up in a defa…
A financial-services technology company had a mature CRM in which the fields that actually predicted deal size were mostly empty, and was pushing into…
A PE-backed financial-services platform's marketing team was assembling attribution by hand in spreadsheets and could not fully defend its dashboards.…
An executive sponsor at a financial-services technology company had prototyped AI sales agents with no path to production. In a fixed-term sprint, Lea…
A fast-scaling B2B software company selling both self-serve and sales-led into high-volume SMB had no CPQ, no product catalog, and billing split away …
A technology company was collapsing an à-la-carte price list into tiered good/better/best packaging across its customer segments. LeanScale rebuilt th…
A workforce-technology company's home-grown quoting logic broke on multi-year and ramped contracts. LeanScale rebuilt quoting across five quote types …
A growth-stage legal-technology company outgrew its go-to-market systems as its team and customer base scaled. LeanScale re-architected the HubSpot de…
A sales-technology company lost its CPQ during a CRM consolidation and could not send contracts at all. LeanScale built the replacement in DealHub — c…
A subscription software platform ran a self-serve trial funnel alongside an enterprise sales motion, with every inbound lead matched, segmented by com…
Co-founder of LeanScale and host of The LeanScale Podcast.
Engagement manager at LeanScale; came up through customer success into operations and business intelligence, focused on attribution and usage-based tracking.
Customer-success professional and early LeanScale Engagement Manager; a CS practitioner who argues customer success is a company's 'front porch' and most underrated growth engine.
Systems architect at LeanScale; an early adopter of ChatGPT for Salesforce admin and RevOps work.
Co-founder and Chief Architect of LeanScale; a Salesforce and RevOps systems architect who has connected CRM, marketing automation, and GTM tooling across multiple scaling B2B companies.
Former Head of AI at LeanScale; host of the AI-agent build-along episodes.
Jason Tatum on inheriting a 12-year-old product with real product-market fit and no acquisition motion underneath it, the empty-calendar test, describing yourself in your customers' language, and getting an impossible list done bird by bird
Alex Reynolds on the $10 million booth with thirty reps on their phones, why 3x event ROI is a terrible bar, badge scans as a vanity metric, half of all tickets selling in the last two weeks, and proof of humanity in the age of AI avatars
Steve Dinner on why the two-week sprint is finished, the three tracks and two gates replacing it, the 29:1 RevOps ratio he had to right-size, and why an LLM should manage your CRM like a code base
Cole Gillespie on writing the recipe for a sales rep, turning "responsive" into a three-hour SLA, the four things every person should expect off the elevator, and why the leader who has to be asked for the raise already lost
Hassan Irshad on the RevOps build order from Series A to post-IPO, compensation without contracts, and why AI makes the context layer RevOps owns more valuable than ever
Joey Gilkey on the reach rate almost nobody measures, the four pillars of outbound, an SDR who isn't allowed to book meetings, and why AI belongs in the back of the house
Aimee Menne on the two-question FDE test, knowing when customers are pulling you into services, the maturity curve from first hire to P&L, and how Sourcegraph packages implementation, hours and outcomes
Cheyenne Griffith on the three conditions a company has to meet before enablement can work, why the SKO launch is the smallest part of the job, and why maintenance is the AI problem that keeps her up at night
SecureAuth CRO Mark van Oppen on the three ways agents cause incidents, continuous authority, turning the CISO into the department of yes, the spam cannon on every desk, and building pipeline on trust
Clearbox co-founders Shawn Tenam and Lila Rest on why Reddit rewards the human effort automation can't fake, how to earn your way past the karma gate, and the cost engineering behind a $75-a-month product
Luke Hoffmeister on internal attrition, why 20% is life-changing to them and a rounding error to you, and culture as follow-through rather than snacks
Derek Mogar on quote-to-cash in the AI era: the four-step build, the guardrails, and why trust in the data is where most projects fall short
Andy Guttormsen on demos as a product and brand engine, hiring the leader before the reps, and why Circle renamed RevOps the internal AI team
Sarah Madden (Smadds) on the three buckets every skill falls into, the rule of three, and the infrastructure discipline underneath it
Day AI's Christopher O'Donnell on the folder every RevOps team is quietly building, and why multiplayer mode barely works
Anthony Enrico on a field study read from live systems rather than a survey — and why your headcount picks your CRM
Justin Lee on building GTM on a headless Salesforce, the empathy an SDR seat teaches, and the messy mechanics of consumption pricing
GTM Council co-founder Noah Marks on why software is becoming a services industry, and how to become the pipeline czar at your company
Typeform CRO Bryce Winkelman on running self-serve and enterprise at once, fighting for brand budget, and the industry-expert hire most teams miss
LeanScale CTO Jake Toepel opens the hood on the agent fleet behind a whole portfolio — and why one company's messy definitions become thirty boards' worth of wrong answers
Dvir Ginzburg of Encore AI on the metric that tanks revenue, why 'acts human' is the real moat, and the customer who lied to an AI agent
LeanScale CTO Jake Toepel runs an agent through ICP, messaging and pipeline diagnosis — then shows why it breaks on your own CRM
Yishi Zuo of Tavus on poker, expected value, and why the right go-to-market call can still lose
Anthony Enrico on the 12-month window between your Series A and the go-to-market machine your Series B is actually buying
Mica, founder & CEO of Amplemarket, on agentic GTM — building outbound agents that research, personalize, and run while you sleep
Jerry Brooner on four exits, the secret pre-IPO roadshow, the truth about startup equity, and why every revenue leader should be building their own agents
Gabby Stoller of Big Happy on creative-first ad tech, building a digital-out-of-home division from scratch, and the GM-to-CRO leap
Joshua Trott on selling in heavy industries, RevOps as the operational backbone, and why delivery — not the deal — is the real contract
Scott Sinatra on MEDDPICC, the new multi-threading, why POCs are the default, and building go-to-market for enterprise AI's chaos
Yasin's build-along on the folder-and-file architecture behind LeanScale's agentic operating system
A live build-along: AI agents for sales, sales management, marketing, customer success, and RevOps — plus the 2026 agent-platform landscape
PartnerStack CRO Mike Head on AEO, why LLMs trust third-party content, and how partnerships became the highest-leverage growth channel
Tom Witte (CRO, Upflex) on hybrid work, AI-orchestrated culture, and becoming an AI-first revenue leader
Josh Heller (Coactive AI) on market annealing, the CRO's real job, and why clarity beats doing more
Tyler Molinaro on compressing government sales cycles, hiring for problem-solving over pedigree, and using AI agents to make a lean team outbuild a funded one
Robert Moseley on why CRMs break, and how AI removes humans from the data
Maranda Dziekonski on tying CS to revenue, comp plans, NRR, brand, and real AI use cases
Christian Peverelli on AI-native outbound, the death of spam, and putting agency-grade prospecting in one operator's hands
Ebsta founder Guy Rubin on the 2025 B2B Sales Benchmark Report — sales velocity, deep ICP over TAM, and ruthless qualification.
Anthony Enrico (LeanScale) and Guillaume Jacquet (Vasco) on reverse-engineering ARR, unit economics that pass the board, and killing reforecast hell
Jack Jackson on performative productivity, spheres of influence, and empowering every level to act
VinnCorp co-founder Khurram Kalimi on why authenticity beats automation, treating your brain like an LLM, and building a network that opens doors
Zayd Ali on building Valley — the AI SDR for LinkedIn — and the shift from V1 blast outbound to V2 relevance
Theo Pavlich on hiring RevOps talent for curiosity over pedigree, why an unconventional background is an edge, and taming GTM tool sprawl
Justin St. Louis Wood on building revenue systems from first principles — then rebuilding them AI-first
Zev Lebowitz demos Attio — the AI-native CRM that molds to your motion instead of forcing you into someone else's
David Walker on why outbound is losing signal, and how one multimodal AI layer — chat, email, and voice — converts the inbound traffic every buyer already generates
Steve Dinner on running a high-output RevOps team with zero in-house admins or devs — agile, structure, specialist contractors, and AI
Tony Tom on Orca's account-first, AI-powered approach to B2B customer support
LeanScale co-founder Anthony Enrico on the Traction podcast — the modern, revenue-per-FTE GTM playbook for AI-era startups
Shaadik of LambdaTest on treating RevOps like a general physician — root causes, not symptoms
Vish on being the Hand of the King — how RevOps operators win on trust, structure their days, and grow toward the corner office
Stephanie Ucko on taking RevOps from a pre-IPO startup to a public company — SOX, quote-to-cash, and building to a post-IPO standard
Mario Paganini on brand as the last non-commoditized advantage, the two questions that start every rebrand, and how to split budget between brand and demand
Spencer Hodgson on betting on channels and reps with expected value
Michael Preuss on active leadership, AI-first teams, and building in the wartime era
David Weiss on matching the methodology to the motion — and why fundamentals beat silver bullets
Sophie Buonassisi of GTM Fund on the surfer/wave/surfboard framework, earned secrets, what real traction looks like, and the fundraise red flags investors can't unsee
Christina Brady on how Luster diagnoses and predicts sales-team skill gaps before they erode revenue
Bernardo Alves and Cameron Legge join Anthony Enrico to unpack what the Clari–Groove deal means for the sales tech stack and how RevOps should respond
Anthony Enrico on the layered scorecard for judging whether a RevOps team is actually working
Anthony Enrico and Bernardo on the three marketing metrics that tie demand gen to the bookings plan
Bernardo and Anthony Enrico on the three metrics that tell you if you'll hit your number — and how to calculate them without fooling yourself
Anthony Enrico and Bernardo Alves on what a VP of RevOps actually does — strategy over firefighting, owning the operating plan, and the cadence from annual to daily
Cameron Legge and Anthony Enrico on when to start RevOps, the first hires, and which executive it should report into
Alex Brower on graduating RevOps from a ticket-taking service center to the strategist in the planning room — and running planning as a real-time closed loop.
LeanScale Chief Architect Henrique Sakai on the five CRM foundations that make your revenue data trustworthy
Thomas Miller on value misstacking, worthiness over price, and gravity as the universal law of business
Thomas Miller on the inner core, the value triangle, and why RevOps needs plumbers and poets
Cameron Legge on designing fair, efficient sales territories for B2B SaaS
Tom Miller on the value exchange event, operating plans, and engineering repeatable winning
Anthony Enrico and LeanScale engagement managers Bernardo and Cameron on why most forecasts are wrong — and the simple fixes that get you one step closer to the truth.
LeanScale systems architect Christopher Martyen on debugging, generating, and translating Salesforce config with ChatGPT
Cameron Legge uses a basketball coach's playbook to explain why sales and marketing keep two scoreboards — and how to merge them into one
Cameron Legge on why customer success is your business's front porch — and its most underrated growth engine
Bernardo Alves on valuing new business and pipeline when nothing is committed
Bernardo Alves on what actually makes multi-touch attribution difficult — and the pragmatic first steps most teams should take instead