Proposal for Starlink Enterprise
A light assessment built on the analysis your team has already done, followed by two sprints timed around the Salesforce launch and the holidays.
See the plan InvestmentPrepared for Dan Midura, Chief Revenue Officer, Starlink Enterprise, with Dan Zurek · Prepared by Dan Smith, Founding Partner and Chief Learning Officer, and Jacco van der Kooij, Founder, Winning by Design
What we heard
Your team has done the analysis. The technology is ready; humans and process move more slowly, and a system moves at the pace of its slowest part. At this scale, the plan needs more hands to land fast, and it has to lift productivity across the whole team.
How this tracks to 10x
Your 2025 analysis put the chance of reaching 10x at about 56 percent, with a wide range of outcomes. This work raises those odds and tightens the range with two levers: it buys every seller more selling time, and it makes the middle of the team perform consistently.
| A seller's year | Hours |
|---|---|
| Working hours | 2,000 |
| Organizational work: internal meetings, training, planning | about 400 |
| Seller Capacity, the hours left for commercial work | 1,600 |
| In customer meetings today, 20 to 25 percent of Seller Capacity | 320 to 400 |
| Given back by AI, as preparation and follow-up fall from 1.5 hours to 0.5 per meeting | about 540 |
540 hours is about a third of Seller Capacity, returned to every seller each year and spent with customers. These are working benchmarks; the light assessment replaces them with your numbers.
At day 90 we rerun your 10x model on the new numbers, so you see how far the odds moved and how much the range narrowed.
The 3x Seller
A seller works about 2,000 hours a year. AI works around the clock and across many opportunities at once. It takes on the work around the conversation: research, preparation, administration and monitoring. That frees the seller for the work only humans can do, the conversations that move a deal.
Account research and a ranked list of the right accounts for tomorrow, built while the seller sleeps.
The brief, the people in the room, and the one question to ask next. Stuck at the critical event on this deal? Here is the question, drawn from the last call.
The follow-up drafted, Salesforce updated, and any deal missing an exit criterion flagged before the forecast call.
Everything runs on Grok. We supply the content, the prompts and the standard for what good looks like; your engineers own the agents. The goal is to use AI to make the sales experience more human.
The plan
The path to the 3x Seller runs in stages. Sprint A builds 1x: fluency with AI and the fundamentals that matter most. Sprint B moves the pilot to 2x, handing the work around the conversation to AI. The three weekly numbers lead and win rate follows, each read against the baseline at every checkpoint.
What stays with you
Every part of the sprint is documented for people and for AI, and our library is licensed into Grok to serve it at the moment of need.
Investment
| Item | What it covers | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Light assessment | Half day on site on five live calls, how sellers spend the week from your own activity data, and the weekly numbers and pilot group agreed | $10,000 |
| Impact SprintTwo sprints, October to December | Fundamentals training for sellers in both sprints, AI routines on Grok for every seller in the pilot, leaders and trainers equipped to run the weekly review, the written process and trainer kit, and the 30, 60 and 90 day readouts | $110,000 |
| Impact Assurance Retainer30 hours | A revenue architect on demand for call analysis, AI coaching builds and whatever becomes the next priority | $35,000 |
| Content license for Grok12 months | Our library of materials, loaded into Grok for just-in-time learning on live deals | $40,000 |
| Total | $195,000 |
A Winning by Design revenue architect at Hawthorne one day a week through both sprints, seven days in all, at $5,000 a day ($35,000). On site for the assessment, the Sprint A kickoff and the day 30 readout is already included. Travel billed at cost.
The data model across the full customer lifecycle, inbound routing by ICP, and the quote to cash workflow. Each is outside this box and can be scoped once the Salesforce foundation is in place.
Who you work with
Two to three revenue architects from this team run the sprints with your team, on site and remote, and stay on call through the retainer to make sure impact is achieved.
Lindsey Bye
Antoine Mandy
Alia Pirani
Selena RiceNext steps
Appendix
The thinking behind this program, from Winning by Design's Growth Institute.