Pipeline stages tied to product activity, lead scoring driven by usage signals not just form fills, hand-offs from BDR to AE without a re-introduction call. The CRM finally reflects what's happening in the product.
HubSpot or Salesforce setup
Product-activity sync
Usage-driven lead scoring
BDR → AE hand-off automation
02 · Product-led activation
Self-serve trial that converts to a sales conversation.
PLG sign-up funnel for the trial users, sales-assisted close for the qualified accounts. Activation milestones surfaced as MQL signals, drop-offs routed to a save-play queue. The product-qualified lead, fully instrumented.
PostHog activation tracking
PQL routing to sales
Reverse-trial automation
Self-serve to sales-assisted handoff
03 · Expansion + upsell tracking
Account expansion, signalled from the product.
Seat usage, feature adoption, plan-cap proximity — surfaced as expansion signals to the AE before the customer notices. Net-revenue retention climbs because the upsell call happens at the right moment.
Seat-usage tracking
Plan-cap proximity alerts
Feature-adoption signals
Expansion-play routing
04 · Customer success motions
Health scores that mean something.
Vitally or Catalyst-style health scoring driven by real product activity, success-plan templates per segment, save-plays auto-routed when signals turn red. The CSM team stops being a support escalation queue.
Vitally / Catalyst integration
Per-segment success plans
Health-score automation
Save-play queue routing
05 · Billing + procurement
Annual contracts, MSAs, and the procurement portal.
Stripe Billing or Chargebee for annual deals, NetSuite or Xero on the back end, AvidXchange-style procurement portal handling. The contract with the customer's procurement team, automated.
Stripe Billing or Chargebee
NetSuite or Xero sync
MSA + DPA workflows
Procurement portal handling
06 · BrainBase
Sales playbook + CS knowledge + product docs.
Battle cards, objection handling, deployment runbooks, product docs, customer FAQ — searchable from the CRM, the product, the support inbox. The GTM brain every new hire ramps on in week one.
Sales battle cards
CS deployment runbooks
Product documentation
AI-assisted retrieval
Sample engagement
The B2B SaaS that lifted NRR by 22 points.
Twelve staff. £1.8M ARR. HubSpot and the product running on separate planets.
A pre-Series-A B2B SaaS ran HubSpot for sales and PostHog for product but had no signal flowing between them. Three-week build: product-activity sync into HubSpot, PQL scoring driving BDR routing, expansion signals surfaced to AEs in real-time, Vitally health scores. Six months in: net-revenue retention climbed twenty-two points, expansion ARR up forty percent, sales cycle eleven days shorter.
How we measure: NRR measured quarterly across 142 active accounts, baseline drawn from trailing four quarters pre-build vs two quarters post-build; sales cycle = days from MQL to closed-won, weighted by ACV.
+22ptsnet-revenue retention
+40%expansion ARR
−11 dayssales cycle, average
Builds for saas
Use cases that fit.
Each is a tightly-scoped build, fixed price, owned by you.