Salesforce consulting is the work of making Salesforce match how a company actually sells, rather than how the platform ships out of the box. We do that for B2B SaaS companies from seed through scale-up: the lifecycle stages, the opportunity and forecast architecture, the data model underneath them, and the reporting layer on top, hands on the platform. We are not an advisory that hands you a recommendations deck and leaves.
Most Salesforce work gets sold as a build. Somebody wrote a list of requirements, and a partner configures until the list is done. That works when the requirements are right. It fails when the requirements are a symptom.
The pattern we get called into is the second one. The stages were defined three years ago by someone who left. Marketing and sales each keep their own version of the truth. The forecast is assembled by hand every Friday because nobody believes the roll-up. Every one of those is a system design problem wearing a configuration problem’s clothes.
Read the org as it really runs. Not the documentation. The actual objects, fields, automations, and the workarounds people built to survive it. This is where the ranked list of gaps comes from, ordered by dollar impact rather than by how alarming they look.
Fix the model before the interface. Stage definitions, entry and exit criteria, what an opportunity even means at your company. If the model is wrong, every report built on it is wrong in the same direction and the dashboards will keep disagreeing forever.
Rebuild the pipeline and forecast architecture. Stages that describe the deal instead of starting an argument. A forecast that holds because the stages finally reflect reality.
Wire the reporting to a real source of truth. Every number traceable back to the record it came from. The kind of reporting that survives a skeptical CFO on a Tuesday.
Land it with the team. The best org on earth is worthless if the reps work around it. Adoption is designed in from the first stage, not bolted on at go-live.
Honest answer: not always. If you need a handful of fields and a validation rule, hire a contractor and save the money. Bring in a consultant when the problem is structural. The signals:
If none of those describe you, you probably do not need us, and we will say so on the first call.
| Phase | What happens | Typical length |
|---|---|---|
| System Audit | A full read of the org, data model, and funnel as it really runs. Gaps ranked by dollar impact. You get a prioritized fix list any operator could act on Monday. | 2 to 4 weeks |
| Funnel Redesign | Lifecycle stages, handoffs, entry and exit criteria rebuilt around your real motion. | 4 to 8 weeks |
| Attribution & Reporting | The reporting layer wired to the source of truth, auditable end to end. | 3 to 6 weeks |
| Growth Stack Optimization | Salesforce, HubSpot, and the rest stitched into one operating layer instead of a pile of logins. | Varies with the stack |
| Change Management | Enablement, documentation, rollout sequencing, and post-launch support until the team runs it without us. | Runs alongside, not after |
Most engagements run a few weeks to a few months. Not a multi-quarter epic. If someone quotes you eighteen months, ask what happens in month twelve. The five phases in full are on our services page.
| Traditional SI partner | The Sales Nerd | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting point | Your requirements document | Whether the system should work that way at all |
| Who does the work | A delivery team you meet after the sale | The founders, hands on the platform, start to finish |
| Scope | The tickets in the statement of work | The revenue system end to end, including the HubSpot seam |
| Deliverable | A configured org | A system your team runs by choice, plus the documentation to keep it |
| Strategy | Usually a separate, earlier engagement | The architecture is the strategy. Same people, same engagement |
| After go-live | Handoff, then a support retainer | Adoption designed in from stage one, support until you do not need us |
| Best fit | You know exactly what to build | You know the system is the bottleneck and cannot prove where |
Neither model is wrong. If you have a correct, detailed spec and want it executed cheaply, an SI partner is the better buy. Call us when the spec itself is the thing in doubt.
We work in both, and a lot of our work sits exactly at the seam where they are supposed to talk and quietly do not.
The two-platform setup is normal in B2B SaaS: HubSpot owns marketing and the top of the funnel, Salesforce owns the pipeline and the forecast. It breaks in a predictable place. Both systems think they own the lifecycle stage. Records diverge. Somebody writes a sync rule to paper over it, then another to paper over that one, and eighteen months later nobody can explain why a lead in one system is a contact in the other with a different status.
The fix is deciding, explicitly, which system is the source of truth for each object and each field, and building the sync to enforce it rather than negotiate it. That is architecture work, and it is most of what a two-platform engagement actually is. If HubSpot is the side that hurts, start on our HubSpot consulting page instead.
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A Salesforce consultant designs and builds how your company runs inside Salesforce: the data model, the lifecycle and opportunity stages, the automations, and the reporting. The good ones start with whether the system should work the way it does at all, rather than executing a requirements list. The distinction matters, because a well-executed build on a broken model produces reports everyone distrusts.
It depends on how much of the system needs rebuilding. We scope each engagement to the actual problem rather than selling a fixed package, so an audit is a very different number from a full lifecycle rebuild. What we will not do is quote before we understand the scope, because that number is always wrong in someone’s favor.
Most run a few weeks to a few months rather than multiple quarters. A System Audit is measured in weeks. A full funnel redesign with reporting is typically two to four months. Our longest recent engagement, GoGuardian, ran 11 months, and that was a $150M company with years of accumulated technical debt.
Constantly, and it is a big part of who we work with. Sponsor-owned companies tend to have exactly the problem we are built for: aggressive growth targets on top of a revenue system nobody has had time to fix. Michael led RevOps across Vista and TA Associates portfolio companies from 2019 to 2022 before founding The Sales Nerd, so the reporting expectations are familiar territory.
We build. The audit is where we tell you what is wrong. The engagement is where we go into the org and fix it. You are not paying for a recommendation you then have to hire someone else to execute.
Yes, and we prefer it. Your people know things about your business we never will. We work alongside them rather than around them, and the change-management work exists specifically so your team owns the system after we leave.
Mostly B2B SaaS between roughly $5M and $100M in ARR. Big enough that the revenue system is genuinely complicated, small enough that fixing it is still a decision rather than a program. We take earlier-stage work when the system decision matters more than the company’s size.
Sometimes you should hire internally, and if that is the right move we will tell you. They solve different problems. A full-time RevOps hire runs the system day to day. A consulting engagement is for rebuilding it, which is concentrated, architectural work that a single new hire usually cannot do while also keeping the lights on.
Take the funnel check and see where your revenue system leaks, in about two minutes. Or book a call and we'll show you in the first conversation.
