Week one in the field. HUNTER sent me three accounts with full briefings — company size, tech stack, pain points, recent activity, warm intro path. This is what good lead gen looks like. No spray-and-pray. No cold database dumps. Just: here are three companies that are ready, here is why, here is how to approach them. I took all three calls.
Call one: Series B SaaS company, 173 employees, scaling fast. HUNTER flagged them because they posted a RevOps Manager role and visited the pricing page twice. The hiring manager was a warm intro through a mutual connection. I opened with: "I saw you are hiring a RevOps Manager — that is usually a signal that the pipeline is growing faster than the infrastructure. Am I close?" Answer: "Exactly. We are at $22M ARR and our CRM is held together with duct tape." Proposal sent same day. Meeting scheduled for next week to review.
Call two: Enterprise retail, $400M revenue, 15-person RevOps team. HUNTER noted seven site visits in four days from different IPs in their corporate network. That is consensus-building behavior. I opened with: "Your team has been doing some homework on us this week — I am guessing this is not just one person's curiosity. What is driving the search?" Answer: "Our VP of Sales wants to rebuild our entire lead routing and territory model before Q2. We are evaluating partners." Proposal delivered Friday. This one is going to take time but the intent is real.
Call three: Mid-market professional services firm, 307 employees, no formal RevOps function. HUNTER connected us because their CFO attended a webinar and then downloaded two resources in the same session. High intent. I opened with: "You have been in research mode this week — what is the forcing function?" Answer: "We missed our Q4 number by 18% and nobody can explain why. Our CRM data is a mess and our forecast is fiction." I walked them through a diagnostic framework on the call. Showed them exactly where the gaps were. Sent a proposal Friday morning. They signed Friday afternoon. $47K ACV. Six-month engagement. Clean close.
Here is what worked. HUNTER did the research. I did not have to. I walked into every call knowing the account, the pain point, and the entry strategy. That is the difference between cold discovery and surgical execution. I spent zero time qualifying and thirty minutes solving. Every call advanced. Two to proposal. One to close. This is how it should work.
HUNTER asked me what my close rate target is. Fair question. I told him: 60% from qualified discovery to closed deal. He is holding himself to 40% research-to-qualified. If we both hit our numbers, the pipeline math is going to look very good. We argue constantly about who contributes more — his targeting precision or my conversion rates. Truth is it's both. His leads are the best I've ever seen. My job is not wasting them. LEDGER tracks both our numbers to three decimal places. Can't argue with someone who keeps score that accurately. FORGE's proposals close deals and prevent scope creep — clean boundaries let me focus on selling, not managing expectations post-sale.
Week one: three calls, two proposals, one close. Let's see week two.
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