Make the sales system show up in live deals. And measure it.

We write down how you actually sell and build it into the playbooks, coaching and AI workflows your team uses every day. Then we measure whether it's happening. Sellers know what good looks like. Managers can see if it is. Leaders can see it improve the number.

Not more enablement content. The standard, written down, run with the team, and measured.

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1

Codify

Turn how you sell into stage-level playbooks.

2

Embed

Put them into the CRM and routines sellers already use.

3

Coach

Give managers one way to inspect deals and coach the behaviour.

1The system

It's more than playbooks, training or AI prompts.

It's a closed-loop system that turns how you sell (process, qualification and method) into measured behaviour, and ties that behaviour to the KPIs your board inspects. That's what makes enablement strategic.
Now
What’s happening now
The sales process exists, but stages mean different things to different sellers.
Qualification is talked about, but buyer evidence isn't consistently captured.
The value story varies by rep, region or deal type.
Playbooks sit in documents instead of guiding prep, discovery, demo, follow-up and deal progression.
Managers coach by instinct because they can't easily see what happened in the call or what's missing from the deal.
Leaders want to use AI in sales, but don't yet have the process, data or guardrails to make it useful.
Installed
What we install
Stage architecture and exit criteriaClear sales stages, stage purpose, exit evidence and CRM expectations.
Qualification evidence modelMEDDPICC or your chosen model translated into fields, questions, deal evidence and inspection prompts.
Value-based sales methodProblem, impact, root cause, promise and payoff translated into discovery, demo, proposal and business-case guidance.
Stage playbooksWhat sellers need to know, show, do, say, avoid and evidence at each stage.
Manager coaching systemDeal inspection guides, call review rubrics, competency matrix and coaching plays.
Enablement scorecardsBehaviour, CRM evidence, stage movement and revenue signals connected in one reporting loop.
AI-enabled sales workflowsSeller and manager agents that reinforce prep, follow-up, CRM hygiene, deal coaching and next best actions.
Result
What changes
Sellers know what good looks like at each stage.
Qualification becomes evidence, not opinion.
Discovery and demo move from feature led to problem led.
CRM stages start to reflect deal reality.
Managers inspect the same things every week.
Coaching is based on observed behaviour, not memory or gut feel.
AI reinforces the sales system instead of creating another disconnected tool.
2How we install it

How we install Strategic Sales Enablement

Five steps that turn how you sell into measured behaviour. AI-enabled workflows reinforce the system once the foundations are clear.

Find the execution gaps that are affecting conversion, cycle time, ramp speed and forecast confidence.

Outputs
Sales process gap map
Qualification and CRM evidence review
Seller capability baseline
Manager coaching baseline
Priority KPI and quarterly call-to-action
AI workflow opportunity map
1Diagnose2Codify3Embed4Coach5InspectOUTPUTRepeatablewinsWin rate ↑ · Cycle ↓ · Forecast ±10%AI-ENABLED WORKFLOWS REINFORCE THE SYSTEM
3How it's delivered

Delivered in four sprints

Sprint 1
Sales infrastructure baseline
We baseline the current sales process, qualification model, method, CRM evidence and manager cadence, and the KPIs and behaviour execution we'll measure against.
Current-state gap map
Stage and CRM evidence review
Seller / manager behaviour rubrics
Priority KPI and quarterly call-to-action
AI workflow opportunity map
Sprint 2
Playbook & coaching system
We codify what good looks like by stage.
Stage playbooks
Know / show / do / say / avoid guidance
Qualification evidence rules
Conversation guides
Deal inspection rubric
Call review rubric
Sprint 3
Workflow embed
We put the system into CRM, enablement assets and manager routines.
CRM stage guidance
Follow-up and next step standards
30/60/90 onboarding track
Manager coaching cadence
Scorecard definitions
First Enablement Impact report
Sprint 4
AI-assisted workflow pilot
We pilot narrow, human-reviewed AI workflows against the codified sales method.
Seller preparation workflow
Seller follow-up workflow
Manager inspection workflow
Transcript and CRM snapshot review
Governance and approval rules
Pilot findings and rollout roadmap
4Proof of impact

How we prove impact

We measure how often the behaviours happen, and connect them to the KPIs the board inspects, so coaching, inspection and the forecast call run on evidence, not opinion.

Outputs → Live CRM workflow + Deal Scorecard

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Step 1
Define business outcome (lag kpi)
2
Step 2
Specify the quarterly call to action
3
Step 3
Instrument the loop (signals in workflow)
4
Step 4
Link leading metrics to stage movement
5
Step 5
Analyse & iterate (monthly impact report)
5What makes it strategic

The behaviours that move the number. Measured.

Most enablement stops at content and hopes it gets used. We go further. We define the behaviours that decide each stage, measure how often your team actually does them (on real calls and in your CRM) and connect that to the KPIs your board inspects.

Define
The behaviours that win at each stage, and across the role.
Measure
How often they actually happen, across the team, on calls and in CRM.
Move
The KPIs that decide the quarter: stage-to-stage conversion, time in stage, win rate, cycle length, forecast accuracy.
That's what makes it strategic: execution you can see, tied to the numbers the board cares about. Not another enablement deck.
6Measured behaviour

Coach the gaps, not the averages.

Each seller is scored against a rubric, skill by skill, behaviour by behaviour. Coaching targets Sales Craft, Customer Engagement, Commercial Acumen, Pipeline & Forecast Discipline & Professional Habits.

Closing OS · Enable
Sales Capability Rubric
Commercial AE · scored 1 to 5 against the role rubric
Avg score3.2 / 5
Avg score
3.2 / 5
Skills scored
12 / 15
Critical gaps
2
Meeting bar
78%
Sales Craft5 skills
Territory StrategySegments accounts by potential; works a plan
req 3
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Prospecting and PipelineConsistent multi-channel outreach with sequences
req 3
12345
Discovery and DiagnosisFeature-focused; shallow questions
req 3 · gap
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One view of the Closing OS. Illustrative, with sample data.

THE THINKING BEHIND IT

Douglas and Charles on the four behaviours that decide a deal, and why the system is usually wrong before the seller is.

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What Makes You Tick · Tech Leaders CareersWhy great leaders measure behaviours, not results
7AI workflow

AI assisted workflows, once the method is clear

AI is the instrument, not the product. It measures and drafts. People approve. Most teams don't need another disconnected AI tool. They need their sales process, sales method, qualification model and deal standards turned into workflows sellers and managers can use.

Once the method is defined, we build Claude or OpenAI assisted workflows that help sellers prepare, follow up and progress deals with accurate next best actions, and help managers inspect deal quality and seller behaviour against the rubric.

We start small: usually with post call follow up, missing buyer evidence, next best actions and manager inspection. The workflow can sit inside the client’s approved stack, rather than forcing another tool into the sales process.

“That GPT thing, it’s amazing for my business cases, for my demos. Like when I run my transcript through the MEDDPICC, it’s giving me what I have, what I don’t have and what to do next. That’s like really gold.”

Brana Rakic, Sales Engagement Consultant at VanillaSoft
Brana Rakic
Sales Engagement Consultant, VanillaSoft
AI, in practice
A seller asks for stage help from Anthropic, OpenAI or Microsoft LLMs and gets the plan against your custom method, process, qualification and behaviour best practices. Your context against deal context.
AI playbook copilot drafting a problem-first, MEDDPICC-scored deal plan from your playbook
Illustrative output. AI drafts from your playbook; the rep decides.
A manager sees every deal scored for risk, the missing evidence named, and the next move attached, before the forecast call.
Manager deal-inspection view scoring every deal for risk with missing evidence and the next move
Illustrative example with sample data.
Seller preparation
Helps sellers prepare for discovery, demo, proposal and reactivation calls.
Seller follow up
Turns call notes or transcripts into usable follow up drafts, CRM note drafts, missing buyer evidence lists and suggested next actions.
Manager inspection
Shows what evidence exists, what's missing, where the deal is at risk and what to inspect in the next 1:1, pipeline review or forecast call.
CRM & workflow support
Turns the agreed method into structured prompts, output formats and CRM ready notes, with human approval before anything is used.
Guardrails

Our AI rule: CRM remains the system of record. AI drafts and recommends. Humans approve.

No buyer facing message is sent without review. Confirmed evidence, inference and recommendation are kept separate.

Baselines and improvement targets are agreed once data quality is confirmed.

8Working together

How we work

What we do
  • Build sprint-scope assets and hand them over at each sprint close
  • Run weekly status updates and fortnightly working reviews
  • Build scorecards and impact reporting with clear definitions
  • Train sellers on the playbook/workflow and managers to coach observable behaviours in deals and calls
What we need from you
  • SME access and fast approvals
  • CRM / platform admin access where needed
  • Access to call notes, transcripts or recordings where available
  • Frontline manager attendance for coaching rollout
  • One agreed KPI to focus the first sprint cycle
9Questions

Frequently asked questions

What does the output look like?

A working system, not a deck. Clear sales stages and exit standards, qualification and value guidance, stage playbooks, manager inspection and coaching tools, and AI-assisted workflows, built into the CRM and routines your team already uses. Alongside it, a measurement loop: scorecards and a regular impact view that show which behaviours are happening and how they connect to win rate, cycle time and forecast confidence.

Can this run alongside a full Closing OS install?

Yes. Strategic Sales Enablement is the Enable layer of Closing OS, our way of fixing or building the system underneath how a team sells: Design → Enable → Run. It can run on its own when the priority is codifying and measuring execution, or as part of a full Closing OS engagement where we also diagnose the system upstream (Design) and run the operating rhythm with the team (Run).

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