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Sales training, process and certification · B2B technology

Escape the red ocean.Build predictable revenue.

Twelve weeks to a certified teamand then it keeps going

A sales team held to a written standard, for as long as you have one. You are a founder at a B2B technology company where revenue depends on who happens to be selling that quarter. Abdullah Saleh scores where your sales function actually is, writes the process around your live deals, trains the team on those deals, and certifies every seller on a recorded call against a standard they can fail. Certification lasts twelve months, which is why the work does not stop at a handover.

130+
Engagements delivered since 2018, across the UK, US, Canada, the Middle East and North Africa.
97%
Renew or keep working with us after the first programme.
93%
Introduce us to another company. Counted out of the same 130 engagements.

Who this is for

A technology company that sells to other businesses, making $3M to $15M a year in recurring revenue, where sales is not working.

01How much you sell depends on who is doing the selling.The way deals get won sits in the heads of two good salespeople, and nobody has written it down.
02A new salesperson takes six months to start closing, and some never do.There is no written standard to train them against.
03The sales forecast is a guess, and it keeps changing until the last few days.Nothing is scored, so there is nothing to check.

If people are not buying the product yet, or the problem is the product rather than the selling, none of the three engagements will fix it. We will tell you that on the call.

Our position

Writing the process down does not change your revenue. Training the team to use it does.

01Score02Write03Certify
Certification lasts twelve months, so the standard has to be re-tested after that.

01

We score how you sell today.

Every lead source, every point where a lead turns into a deal, and every deal you lost, scored against a published scale. Your level is set by your lowest score, not your average.

02

We write the process around your live deals.

Not a template and not a case study. The playbooks are written on the deals your team is working this quarter, which is the only version they will actually use.

03

We certify each seller on a recorded call.

Against the standard published on this site. Abdullah does the work himself, from the first assessment to the last certification. You will not be handed to a junior.

Sellers are scored on a recorded call, against five skills. Some count for more than others. Not everyone passes.

The whole standard →
Communication30%
Strategic thinking25%
Role competency25%
Coachability10%
Presentation10%
The five weights add up to 100%. The same scale is used for every role, from the first assessment to the quarterly review. Certification lasts twelve months.

Where people start

Three ways to start, each one covering more than the last, and one thing that carries on afterwards.

All fees →
Exhibit 1The five components of a revenue system and the five stages of a deal. Every decision a team makes has one place to live.MAVEN Applied Method, 2026

Seventy frameworks, every source credited

Inside the method →
CROCMEDDPICCLAARCSales Maturity ModelAdoption CurvePorter's Five ForcesAnsoff MatrixGreiner CurveMcKinsey 7SGalbraith Star ModelBalanced ScorecardPDSAADKARMECEThree HorizonsExperience CurvePirate MetricsSMART against FASTHay Guide ChartBaldrigeBusiness Model CanvasThomas-KilmannIshikawaZero-based budgetingKolb's Learning Cycle

Insights

Selected writing

All insights →
The methodTwenty-eight chapters. Seventy frameworks.The methods your buyers already know, with every source credited. You get it as the client pack when the work starts.
The strategistTen years inside the sales teams of B2B technology companies.Abdullah is on the first call, and on the call your team is certified on.
OutcomesClient details are anonymised by agreement. The numbers are not changed.37 meetings a month from outbound, up from four. Outbound means we contact the buyer first. We print how it was done beside every figure.

Why the change lasts

Asking a team to work differently lasts a quarter. Changing what gets measured makes it stick.

What gets measured

Ask a team to be stricter about which deals they chase and they will do it for a quarter, then go back. Nothing else changed.

What gets paid and checked

So every engagement rewrites the five rules that shape how a team behaves: what is measured, what is paid, what is checked, what is written down, and who decides.

What slips first

The standard. Sellers leave, new people arrive without it, and the bar drops slowly. The first sign is usually the sales number. That is why 97% renew or keep working with us.

The next step

Thirty minutes with the person who would do the work.

No slides and no script. You get Abdullah Saleh, the fees you have already read, and a straight answer about which of the three fits. Sometimes the answer is none of them yet.