Proposal for Starlink Enterprise

10x Growth: Seller Productivity
and Sales Execution Program

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 Investment

Prepared 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

You have the plan. The job now is speed at scale.

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.

The 3x Seller

AI is not bound by the 2,000 hours.

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.

2,000Working hours in a seller's year
1,600Seller Capacity, the hours left for commercial work
320 to 400In front of customers, 20 to 25 percent of Seller Capacity

These are our working benchmarks. The assessment replaces them with your numbers before cutover.

Overnight

Account research and a ranked list of the right accounts for tomorrow, built while the seller sleeps.

Before the call

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.

After the 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

Two sprints to Christmas, each read against your baseline

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. One north star metric, agreed with you in the first week (win rate is the likely candidate), is read at every checkpoint against the baseline.

Oct 5 to Oct 23

Light assessment

  • Half a day on site, on five live calls
  • How sellers spend the week, read from Salesforce and tool activity
  • North star metric and pilot group agreed
Out: your baseline, on one page
Oct 26 to Nov 20

Sprint A

  • Right accounts, weekly activity, stage exit criteria
  • Sellers build their AI routines on Grok
  • Leaders run a weekly review against the process
Starts the week after the October 21 cutover
Nov 23 to Nov 27

Thanksgiving week

  • No new changes
  • Day 30 readout against the baseline
  • Course corrections for Sprint B
Out: what to keep, cut and add
Nov 30 to Dec 18

Sprint B, Phase 1A

  • The test launch, on what Sprint A proved
  • AI routines that run without being asked
  • Your content served in Grok at the moment of need
Day 60 readout before the holiday break
Late January

Day 90 readout

  • North star against baseline
  • Scale plan for the full team and new hires

What stays with you

A library your team and your AI both use

Content in GrokOur library, licensed for twelve months and loaded where sellers already work
Seller routinesThe overnight, pre-call and post-call routines from the sprints
A living playbookThe pilot group's best examples, served before the call
Leader reviewThe weekly review your leaders run against the process
Trainer kitEverything your incoming enablement team needs to run the next cohort

Investment

Everything inside one box

ItemWhat it coversPrice
Light assessmentHalf day on site on five live calls, how sellers spend the week from your own activity data, and the north star metric and pilot group agreed$10,000
Impact SprintTwo sprints, October to DecemberFundamentals 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, and the 30, 60 and 90 day readouts on the north star metric$110,000
Impact Assurance Retainer30 hoursA revenue architect on demand for call analysis, AI coaching builds and whatever becomes the next priority$35,000
Content license for Grok12 monthsOur library of materials, loaded into Grok for just-in-time learning on live deals$40,000
Total$195,000

Option: a weekly day on site

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.

Ready when you are

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

Your revenue architects

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.

Revenue architect
Revenue architect
Revenue architect
Revenue architect

Next steps

Ready to start the week of October 5

  1. Sunday callThirty minutes before your flight to tighten the box.
  2. Agree the metricThe north star and the pilot group, with Dan Zurek.
  3. AssessmentFive live calls and your activity data, done before cutover.
  4. Sprint AKicks off October 26, the week after Salesforce goes live.