Engagements

Productized engagements. Defined scope. Written deliverables.

Four tiers, designed to compound. Each engagement has a defined scope, a defined timeline, and a defined definition of done — and an internal owner at your company by the time we finish. The Tier 1 fee credits against the first month of Tier 2. Senior throughout, no bait-and-switch. Pricing shared on the first conversation.

Tier 01 · Diagnostic

Diagnostic Sprint

Fixed scope · 2–3 weeks · one-time

The problem

You're curious but not ready to commit to a multi-month retainer. Buying a multi-month engagement on a first conversation is unrealistic — for either side. A 2–3 week structured audit produces a defensible roadmap and gives you a low-risk way to evaluate the operator before a larger commitment.

What's delivered

  • Full GTM audit covering CRM, processes, data quality, tech stack, and forecasting.
  • Stakeholder interviews: CRO/VP Sales, CMO/Head of Marketing, Head of CS, plus 2–3 reps. 45 minutes each.
  • Metrics baseline report: data completeness, duplicate rates, stale pipeline, forecast variance over the last 2 quarters, tech stack utilization and renewal calendar.
  • 90-day prioritized roadmap with 10–15 initiatives ranked by (Impact × Urgency) ÷ Effort. Bottom two-thirds explicitly killed.
  • Written current-state report (8–12 pages) plus a recorded findings readout for absent stakeholders.
  • 60-minute findings readout with CEO and named stakeholders.

Definition of done

Roadmap signed off in writing by CEO plus at least one functional leader. Top 3 priorities for the next 60 days documented in a single page. The work product is yours regardless of whether we continue.

What's out of scope

No implementation work — no deduplication, workflow rebuilds, or dashboard creation. No vendor procurement decisions on your behalf. No custom integration work. The Diagnostic produces the plan; Tier 2 builds against it.

Start a Diagnostic Sprint


Tier 02 · Build

Foundation Build

90 days · monthly cadence

The problem

The diagnostic surfaced what's broken. Now the operating system needs to be built — data model, lifecycle definitions, pipeline stages, forecasting cadence, dashboards, handoff SLAs — in a way your internal team can own afterward. This is the engagement that produces the case study.

How the 90 days run

Days 1–30 — Discover & Prove

  • Admin-level access to CRM, marketing automation, BI, warehouse.
  • Stakeholder interviews complete; current-state report delivered (8–12 pages).
  • Top 5 dashboard errors fixed by day 30 — visible win.
  • One previously-undocumented process (typically lead routing or deal stage criteria) documented in a shared wiki.
  • First weekly written 1-page status. Cadence continues through engagement.

Days 31–60 — Build the Operating System

Four parallel workstreams:

  • Data Foundation. Source-of-truth model, required-field validation rules, enrichment waterfall, historical cleanup to 95%+ completeness on core fields, written data dictionary.
  • Process & Lifecycle Design. Lead lifecycle definitions, marketing-to-sales SLA, deal stage exit criteria, lead routing rules in CRM automation, sales-to-CS handoff template.
  • Forecasting & Reporting. Weighted pipeline model, Commit/Best/Pipeline categories, weekly forecast cadence, exec dashboard (one screen), sales manager dashboard, CS dashboard.
  • Team Enablement. Playbook (max 20 pages), two 60-minute training sessions, adoption tracking, weekly office hours.

Days 61–90 — Institutionalize & Transition

  • Final documentation library with named internal owner per system.
  • Top 10 "how to" recorded training videos.
  • Monthly RevOps governance cadence with written agenda template.
  • Before/After ROI report with dollar-quantified impact.
  • Tier 2 → Tier 3 transition proposal delivered in week 12.

90-day acceptance criteria

  • Data completeness on core CRM fields: 90%+.
  • Forecast accuracy improvement vs. day-30 baseline: target 30–40%.
  • CRM adoption: ~60% → ~95%.
  • 2–3 executive dashboards live and used in weekly forecast calls.
  • Internal owner identified for every system built.
  • Written before/after ROI report delivered.

Payment & terms

Monthly invoicing, not milestone-based. Net 15. First invoice paid before kickoff. 30-day termination for convenience either side. Change orders priced and approved in writing before work begins.

Discuss a Foundation Build


Tier 03 · Govern

Fractional RevOps Leader

6-month minimum, auto-renew · 20–25 hrs/mo

The problem

The foundation is built. You don't need another build phase — you need ongoing strategic governance to keep the system from degrading, support hiring decisions, evaluate the tech stack quarterly, and serve as a trusted advisor to the CRO and to yourself on revenue strategy.

What's delivered

  • Monthly forecast governance review with CRO/CEO. Written 1–2 page memo.
  • Quarterly GTM strategy review with full leadership team. Deck delivered.
  • Quarterly tech stack roadmap update including renewal-calendar review.
  • Hiring support when you're ready for a RevOps analyst — interview rubric, scorecard, candidate sourcing input.
  • Async availability for major decision review (comp plans, tech purchases, org design).

Acceptance criteria

Forecast accuracy maintained or improved quarter-over-quarter. Tech stack consolidation savings tracked and reported. Internal RevOps capability matures over time — you should be moving toward needing A&Y less, not more. That is the right outcome.

What's out of scope

Day-to-day CRM administration. Hands-on dashboard building, workflow construction, data cleanup. Sales coaching at the rep level. (All referrable, or scoped as a Tier 2 extension.)

Discuss a Tier 3 retainer


Tier 04 · Advise

Executive Advisory

6-month minimum · 4–6 hrs/mo

The problem

You've hired a full-time RevOps lead and no longer need fractional leadership. You still want pattern-recognition from the operator who built the foundation. Most consultants lose this client entirely. Tier 4 keeps the relationship intact — and most Tier 3 graduations should attempt this conversion.

What's delivered

  • Monthly 90-minute strategy session with CEO/CRO.
  • Quarterly offsite participation (in-person or remote).
  • Async Slack/email availability for ad-hoc decisions.
  • Review of major decisions — comp plans, major tech purchases, org design changes.

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Cross-tier standards

What every engagement carries.

Contract architecture

MSA + SOW model. MSA signed once per client (5–7 pp). SOW per engagement (2–3 pp). Liability capped at fees paid in the prior 12 months — mutual. Client owns work product on payment; A&Y retains pre-existing frameworks with license-back.

Payment terms

Net 15. First invoice paid before kickoff. Monthly invoicing for retainers and Tier 2 builds — not milestone-based. Change orders priced and approved in writing before work. 1.5%/mo late fee. 30-day termination for convenience either side.

Cadence

Tier 1: weekly written 1-page status, final readout in person/video. Tier 2: weekly written 1-page status, milestone reviews at day 30/60/90. Tier 3: monthly forecast governance memo, quarterly GTM review. Tier 4: monthly 90-min session, quarterly offsite.

Quality bar

A deliverable is done when it has all four: written, has a named internal owner at your company, that owner has reviewed and explicitly accepted it, and there's a measurable acceptance criterion that can be verified after we leave. This is the firewall against the "consultant left and we don't actually use any of this" failure mode.

If your shape of problem is one of these, the first conversation is 30 minutes.

If A&Y isn't the right fit — wrong stage, wrong sector, wrong shape — you'll get a referral to a specialist who is. That happens in roughly one in three first calls.

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