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Articles, podcast appearances, and webinars on revenue operations, GTM strategy, and operational leadership.
Articles & Frameworks
Designed to Scale: Building Revenue Architecture That Compounds
14 chapters across governance, incentive design, tech stack architecture, lifecycle design, and the AI disruption reshaping RevOps.
Preview Chapter 1 →The Revenue Architecture Manifesto
A definitive guide to building revenue systems that compound. Governance, incentive design, AI-built alternatives, and tech-stack rationalisation.
Read Manifesto →75% Faster Order-to-Cash & 8x SDR Conversion
How structural alignment and ruthless qualification criteria transformed a scaling SaaS revenue engine.
Read Case Study →Why More Pipeline Won't Fix Your Close Rate
How ruthless qualification architecture improved demo-to-close rates from 30% to 40%.
Read Case Study →Churn is an Architecture Problem, Not a CS Problem
How to build an operating model that drives 110% Net Revenue Retention.
Read Case Study →BizOps vs RevOps: The Founder's Guide
A founder's guide to structuring operations from Pre-Seed through Series B, debunking the systems trap, and building ops that compound.
Read Guide →What Does a Revenue Operations Advisor Actually Do?
The role gets confused with CRM admins, consultants, and managed agencies. Here's what a senior RevOps advisor actually owns, and how to know which model fits.
Read Guide →The Executive Guide to Fractional RevOps
Everything SaaS leaders need to know about fractional RevOps, what it is, when you need it, what it costs, and how to avoid common mistakes.
Read Guide →Billing Software Alternatives: Build vs. Buy
How custom billing architecture delivers better revenue recognition and governance than legacy platforms like Chargebee, Maxio, and Zuora.
Read Guide →Salesforce CPQ Alternatives: Build vs. Buy
How custom AI-built alternatives offer better architecture and lower TCO than legacy CPQ tools.
Read Guide →CLM Alternatives: Architecture Over Apps
How operator-led contract design delivers better governance than enterprise CLM tools.
Read Guide →The Trap of Revenue Forecasting Tools
Why revenue forecasting is a governance problem, not a software problem.
Read Guide →RevOps for Series A SaaS
What revenue operations looks like at £1M–£5M ARR, building the foundation before you need to scale it.
Read Guide →RevOps for Series B SaaS
Scaling revenue architecture at £5M–£20M ARR, when data governance and process discipline become non-negotiable.
Read Guide →RevOps for Series C+ SaaS
Enterprise-grade revenue operations at £20M+ ARR, multi-segment governance, predictability, and AI-augmented operations.
Read Guide →RevOps with HubSpot
How to architect HubSpot for serious revenue operations, and when it's the right (or wrong) choice for your stage.
Read Guide →RevOps with Salesforce
How to architect Salesforce for revenue operations that scale, object model, CPQ, integration patterns, and governance.
Read Guide →HubSpot vs Salesforce for RevOps
An operator's comparison of HubSpot and Salesforce for revenue operations, decision framework, migration guidance, and platform-agnostic principles.
Read Comparison →The True Cost of a 'Frankenstein' GTM Tech Stack
Why buying more SaaS tools won't fix your broken revenue engine, and how to simplify your architecture for better RevOps performance.
Why AI Won't Fix Your Broken Revenue Forecast (Yet)
AI forecasting tools can't fix bad pipeline data, inconsistent stage definitions, or missing governance. The real problem with revenue forecasting is structural, not technological.
AI in RevOps: Stop Buying Wrappers, Start Building Architecture
Most AI-powered RevOps tools are wrappers around language models bolted onto legacy platforms. Why purpose-built AI architecture delivers better outcomes at lower cost.
Data Debt: The Hidden Anchor Dragging Down Your Series B Valuation
Dirty CRM data, inconsistent definitions, and missing attribution don't just hurt operations. They erode investor confidence, inflate due diligence risk, and quietly drag down your valuation.
Territory Design Is Revenue Architecture, Not a Spreadsheet Exercise
Territory models are structural decisions that shape pipeline quality, rep behavior, and forecast accuracy. Most companies redesign territories using last year's data and gut feel. Here's why that fails.
Pricing Governance: The Revenue Lever Nobody Owns
Pricing sits between Sales, Finance, and Product with no clear owner. Without governance architecture, discount approvals are either too loose or too rigid, and margin erodes silently.
Compensation Plan Architecture: The Silent Killer of GTM Alignment
Misaligned comp plans silently destroy GTM strategy. How incentive architecture drives rep behaviour, deal quality, and revenue outcomes more than any playbook or CRM workflow.
RevOps for Product-Led Growth: Why PLG Needs Architecture, Not Just Analytics
PLG companies think they don't need RevOps because the product sells itself. They're wrong. Activation funnels, expansion triggers, and usage-based pricing all require operational architecture.
Building RevOps from Zero: A Series A Company's First-Year Architecture
From founder-led chaos to governed revenue engine in 12 months. How a fractional RevOps engagement built the foundation that made a Series B raise possible.
Automating the Exceptions: Using AI to Enforce GTM Governance
Revenue exceptions erode GTM discipline silently. Learn how AI-enforced governance architecture catches non-standard deals, discount overrides, and process bypasses before they compound.
The Death of the £100k SaaS Contract: Replacing CPQ & Billing with Custom RevOps Architecture
Six-figure SaaS contracts for CPQ, billing, CLM, and forecasting are becoming indefensible. How AI-built alternatives are replacing bloated GTM platforms at a fraction of the cost.
How a Series B SaaS Eliminated £350k in Annual Tool Spend Without Losing Capability
A GTM tech stack audit revealed 14 platforms with massive overlap and data fragmentation. Rationalisation and custom AI replacements cut £350k in annual spend while improving data integrity.
The Hidden Tax of Multi-Tool GTM Stacks on Your Data Model
Every new tool adds a data model translation layer. After five to ten tools, nobody can trace a lead from source to revenue without manual reconciliation.
How to Talk to Your Board About Revenue Architecture
Boards understand pipeline and quota. They don't understand operational debt, governance gaps, or why a RevOps investment prevents a forecasting miss. Here's how to translate architecture into board language.
From 6-Month Sales Cycles to 6-Week: How Revenue Architecture Compressed Enterprise Deal Velocity
How qualification governance, pricing standardisation, and approval workflow redesign compressed enterprise sales cycles by 75% at a Series B SaaS company.
The RevOps Metrics That Actually Matter (And the Ones That Don't)
Most RevOps dashboards track lagging indicators that confirm what everyone already knows. Leading indicators require architectural decisions about what to measure and why.
Lead Routing & Attribution: Surviving Without the Bloat
You don't need LeanData, Chili Piper, or a six-figure attribution platform. How to build lead routing and marketing attribution architecture that works inside your CRM.
Quota Setting Is a Design Problem, Not a Math Problem
Quotas set from top-down targets create behaviour distortion. Quotas designed from capacity models, territory potential, and pipeline reality create accountability.
The £500k GTM Tech Stack Audit: Identifying Bloat and Data Debt Before Series B Due Diligence
Your GTM tech stack is probably costing £500k+ and half of it is architectural debt. A step-by-step framework for auditing software bloat and data debt before Series B due diligence.
RevOps Agency vs. Fractional Operator: The Structural Flaw in Outsourcing
Hiring a RevOps agency gets you junior admins clearing a ticket queue. Hiring a Fractional Operator gets you senior revenue architecture. Understand the difference before you scale.
The Sales-to-CS Handoff Is Where Revenue Goes to Die
Handoff failures aren't CS problems. They're architecture problems. The handoff should transfer context, not just ownership. Most companies lose critical deal context in the transition.
Incentives Shape Behaviour More Than Strategy Does
Revenue performance reflects incentive design more than strategic intent. This article explains how compensation, authority and measurement logic drive behaviour inside revenue systems.
Customer Success Tech Alternatives: Why You Don't Need a £40k CS Platform
Gainsight, Vitally, ChurnZero, most CS platforms solve a visibility problem, not a retention problem. How to build customer success architecture that actually drives NRR without the six-figure spend.
Misalignment Is Usually Designed, Not Accidental
Revenue misalignment rarely happens by chance. Incentives, authority structures and leadership trade-offs often design the behaviour that later appears dysfunctional.
Change Management Is an Architecture Problem, Not a People Problem
Failed RevOps transformations aren't adoption failures. They're design failures. If the new process creates more friction than the old one, rational people will revert.
GTM Strategy & RevOps: When Revenue Growth Masks Structural Weakness
Revenue growth can conceal structural misalignment in incentives, forecasting, and operating models. This article explains why growth alone is not evidence of structural strength.
Sales Forecasting Governance: Why Revenue Targets Fail Before the Quarter Begins
Revenue targets often fail due to structural misalignment long before the quarter begins. This article explores why incentive design, pipeline assumptions and leadership pressure shape outcomes early.
When to Hire Your First RevOps Person (And What to Hire Them For)
Most companies hire RevOps too early for the wrong role, or too late after the data debt is already crushing. A framework for timing, scope, and seniority of your first RevOps hire.
The Revenue Architecture Playbook for Series A SaaS
What to build in months 1-3, 3-6, and 6-12 at Series A. CRM setup, pipeline governance, first comp plan, basic forecasting, and data hygiene before the debt compounds.
The Transition from Founder-Led Sales to a Governed Revenue Engine
Founder-led sales got you to £2M ARR. It won't get you to £10M. How to transition from heroic selling to a governed, repeatable revenue engine without killing the momentum.
Designing a Revenue Operating Model That Scales
Revenue performance does not scale by accident. This article explains how leadership decisions around incentives, ownership and authority shape a revenue operating model that either compounds or fragments over time.
RevOps Team Structure: From First Hire to Full Function
How to structure a revenue operations team at every stage, from solo operator to full function. Org chart logic, role definitions, reporting line trade-offs, and the mistakes that create expensive dysfunction.
Revenue Is Not a Funnel. It's an Operating System.
Revenue performance is not the result of isolated funnel stages. It is the output of an operating system shaped by incentives, ownership and structural decisions.
The Hidden Cost of Revenue Exceptions
Revenue exceptions feel small in the moment. Over time, they create operational debt, forecasting distortion and margin erosion. This article explains why saying yes too often weakens revenue systems.
Why RevOps Becomes Reactive (And How to Fix It)
Many RevOps teams become reactive over time. This article explains why it happens and how leadership can reposition RevOps upstream to design revenue systems instead of reporting on them.
Why Your CRO and RevOps Leader Are Misaligned (And How to Fix It)
CRO and RevOps misalignment is structural, not personal. When the commercial leader and the operational architect disagree, the revenue engine stalls. Here's how to fix the relationship.
The First 90 Days of a Fractional RevOps Leader: A Playbook
What a senior fractional RevOps leader actually does in the first 90 days. A phase-by-phase playbook covering audit, architecture, and execution for B2B SaaS companies.
The Difference Between a RevOps Leader and a CRM Administrator
Most companies hire a CRM admin and call them RevOps. The gap between system administration and revenue architecture is where GTM strategy goes to die.
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Take the Free AuditThe Secret to Scalability: Embracing Enablement
How a holistic approach to enablement across your go-to-market teams is the true secret to sustainable, long-term growth.
Read on LinkedIn →Boost Your Bottom Line: How RevOps Can Transform Your Business
The tangible financial impact of implementing a strategic Revenue Operations function within your organization.
Read on LinkedIn →What is Revenue Operations? (The Short Version)
A concise, no-fluff explanation of what Revenue Operations is, what it does, and why it matters.
Read on LinkedIn →Maximising Revenue Through Cross-Functional Collaboration
How breaking down silos and fostering collaboration between Sales, Marketing, and CS is key to maximizing revenue.
Read on LinkedIn →Mastering Revenue Operations on SaaSCast
Core principles of RevOps and how to implement them for immediate impact.
Listen Now →The Importance of Data Integrity on The Revenue-Driven Podcast
Why clean, reliable data is the absolute foundation of any successful RevOps function.
Listen Now →Mastering Change Management with Revenue Operations Alliance
Strategies for overcoming resistance and ensuring successful adoption of new processes.
Listen Now →RevOps in Motion Podcast
Trends and challenges in the world of revenue operations and GTM strategy.
Listen Now →RevOps: What It Is, Isn't, and How to Do It Right
A foundational session with RevOps Co-op on the role of RevOps and a roadmap for implementation.
Watch Now →SoundCloud Feature: A Chat on RevOps
The evolution of RevOps and its strategic importance for modern B2B companies.
Listen Now →The Head of Sales Operations Role with Ebsta
Leadership and strategy involved in running a modern sales operations team.
Listen Now →Maximizing Revenue: What RevOps Needs in a Partner
Key criteria and collaborative strategies for successful partnerships in the RevOps ecosystem.
View Event →Mastering Renewal Forecasting
Building accurate and sustainable forecasting models for renewal and recurring revenue.
Watch Now →The Importance of Change Management
The people-side of RevOps, covering how to effectively manage change and drive adoption.
View Event →Sales Enablement Summit London 2022
Key strategies for empowering sales teams, from the Sales Enablement Summit.
Watch Now →Driving Predictable Revenue
Systems and processes required to build a predictable revenue engine.
View Recording →RevOps & The Board
How to effectively communicate RevOps strategy and impact to executive leadership.
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