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Read case study →Building a business-development motion for the first time, running one where leads still fall through the handoff, or not sure your market is even big enough to justify a CRM: the answer starts the same way. Nobody can tell you which CRM fits, or whether you need one at all, without seeing how your team actually finds, sells to, and keeps customers. Not a comparison site, not a vendor, and not us.
So that is where we start. We map how your prospecting, closing, and account management actually work today, find where the handoff between them breaks, and hand you a written report: whether you need a CRM, which one, and what to fix first. Yours to keep, whether you work with us or not.
7 days · Written report · Free. It begins with one short call to check the fit. No pitch, no obligation.
You see the leads slipping. We know exactly where they go missing.
A rep replies to an email, and now someone has to remember to follow up before the moment passes. A deal reaches signature after months of back and forth, and the account quietly changes hands, sometimes by a message, sometimes by nothing at all. The person handling everything, prospecting and selling and every account after that, keeps answering the client already on the phone before the lead who just replied. Nobody sees any of this fail on a single day. What they see, a quarter later, is a new-business number that keeps missing target and nobody who can say exactly why.
These four patterns show up in almost every business-development team we look at. What nobody can see from the outside is which ones are costing you leads today, and what to fix first. That is exactly what the audit finds.
More CRM rollouts fail than succeed, by more than two to one, a pattern researchers have tracked for two decades. It is almost never the software. The tool gets bought to fix a role structure, prospecting, closing, account management, that was never actually built.
So we map how your business actually finds new customers today: who is prospecting, even if that is one person doing three jobs at once, how a reply turns into a qualified conversation, how the deal reaches signature, and what happens the day after that signature, whether someone owns the account or it lands in a shared inbox nobody checks. We find exactly where the handoff between those stages loses information, and whether your addressable market is even large enough to sustain a business-development motion in the first place.
That map is the CRM Audit, and it is the first step of working with us. Only once it exists does any decision make sense: implement a CRM, fix the one you have, or confirm you do not need one yet. It is free, and everything we produce is yours to keep whether you go any further or not.
A full written report built around your company, not a generic summary.
A visual Customer Journey Map showing every stage a lead moves through, from the first reply to signature to the account handoff after that. Most owners have never seen it drawn out this way.
Matched to your addressable market and your sales process. If your market is too small or your structure is not ready, we say that instead, and explain why.
Usually which roles need splitting apart, and in what order, before any software can hold them together.
Usable with us or any other vendor you like. It is yours. No invoice attached, no pressure to proceed.
If the audit shows we are not the best people to help you, we say so directly and point you to someone in our network who is. We would rather lose the project than do it badly.
The first step of working together is the audit, and it is free. Here is how you get to it.
A couple of questions on size, what you sell, and where the process hurts. Decides fit before anyone's time goes in.
A conversation about how deals move through your business today, who does what, and what has been tried before. By the end, we both know whether the audit is worth your time. If it is not, we say so on the call.
A working session, usually remote, where we map your business process together. Within 5 to 7 business days, you receive your full written report. That is it.
Aleksey, the founder of the Meccanica Middle East, found me through my YouTube channel. A company based in Dubai. Their business is...
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A while back, Andris Zigurs reached out through the form on my website. He is the Business Development Executive at Vervo. Vervo...
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In early 2025, the Investment and Development Agency of Latvia (LIAA) reached out to us. They were heading to Japan. LIAA had...
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We had been sitting in a Proks conference room in Riga for about an hour when one of their senior leaders said,...
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We met Mida in Gargždai, Lithuania, at a roofing plant where you could hear the extrusion line from the car park. The...
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A few years ago, a call came in from Centrs Dardedze. A nonprofit in Riga, Latvia. Around 25 people. They work with...
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A few years ago, I got a call from Credo Autoprieks. It’s a driving school in the Baltics, headquartered in Riga. They...
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A few years ago, a call came in from Rio Verti. It’s a family-owned Italian outerwear brand, founded in 1989 in Florence....
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I remember the first long conversation with the Fintera team in Warsaw. They wanted to rebuild their customer portal on Salesforce. Fintera...
Read case study →There is no catch. A few of the businesses that go through the audit decide to have us implement what it recommends. That is where we make our money.
We have found this works better than any sales call. Instead of telling you we are good at this, we show you. You walk away with a real deliverable that took real expertise to produce, and you keep it whether you go further or not. No invoice, no chasing, no pressure.
The only thing we ask: show up ready to talk openly about how deals actually move through your business today.
Never split sales into separate roles before? Good. Figuring out whether you should is exactly what the audit is for.
Dear visitor,
Many B2B companies contact me after a CRM rollout that never really took. The software worked fine for the closer entering notes. But the moment a lead moved from prospecting to closing to account management, things started falling through the cracks, and nobody could say exactly why.
I know what it costs when nobody can see what is really happening in a business. Before Muncly, I watched our family business go under for exactly that reason. That experience shaped how I work: I treat a CRM as a decision about which roles you actually need and how a lead moves between them first, and as software second.
I work directly with owners, without account managers in between. I also do not resell any platform. When I recommend Pipedrive, Attio, or Salesforce, or tell you that you do not need one yet, the recommendation is based on your market size and your sales process, and my fee is the same either way.
The first step is a free audit. I study how your team actually finds, sells to, and keeps customers, then send you a clear written report: whether you need a CRM, which one, and what to fix first. It costs nothing, and the report is yours whether we continue working together or not.
This is not my actual photo, I played with AI to put me at a desk on a sales call. But isn't it cool how far this AI technology has come?
We worked with Jeff to organize our sales process for a small sales and service team. He set up pipeline tracking, reports, and dashboards that give me a clear view of tasks, key accounts, and opportunities. The biggest change is visibility. I know what the team is working on remotely, and I have more control and predictability in managing opportunities and forecasting. I recommend working with Jeff and will turn to him again for the next step.
This is the second time I have worked with Jeff, now I know him for already 6 years. 6 years ago we built a very successful project for a local driving school, now we have created another sales system based on rules and tools. I should say that Jeff is an exceptional professional, a bit opinionated which creates a lot of debates, and sometimes we even argue, but all arguments are purely professional which I love and I definitely could recommend him as a great CRM professional.
Jeff helped us implement Salesforce to collect and manage leads coming from the stands in Japan. He built a simple process for tracking leads and worked closely with developers of other stand components to ensure the whole project was integrated and ran smoothly. We have worked with Jeff for a long time, and this is already our second project together. He is my go-to person for CRM implementations, and I would definitely recommend Jeff and his team.
Concrete working deliverables on time of what we needed. Extremely knowledgeable about the Salesforce platform. Incredibly smart team that understood our business and objectives right away. Highly recommended!
Thank you to Jeff, Vishal, and their team for the support. They prepared the assets in record time, quickly adapted to our feedback, and handled every question with care. We definitely recommend working with them and look forward to the next set of assets together.
There is no catch. You pay nothing and owe nothing. Some of the businesses that go through the audit later hire us to implement what it recommends, and that is how we earn. If you decide to stop after the audit, you keep the full report.
A 30 to 45 minute conversation about your company: how deals move through your business today, who does what, and what you have already tried. By the end, both sides know whether the audit makes sense. If it does not, we say so on the call.
It depends on the size of your addressable market more than on your revenue. Picture five people whose only job is finding new customers. If they could work through every potential buyer in a few months, a CRM will not earn back its license fee no matter how good the software is. If that same pool would keep five people busy for years without running dry, and customers keep cycling back into it, that is where a CRM, and the structure to use it, starts paying for itself. The audit tells you which side of that line you are on before you spend a cent.
Often a fix costs less than a rebuild, and the software is rarely the real problem. Most of the time a CRM goes unused because the roles around it, who prospects, who closes, who owns the account after that, were never actually agreed on. The audit tells you directly: is this a software problem, a structure problem, or both, and what fixing it would take.
For businesses running a full prospecting-to-account-management structure, we most often land on Salesforce for the closing and account-management side, because it flexes to fit almost any process. For prospecting and outreach specifically, Salesforce is genuinely weak, so we pair it with a dedicated outreach tool instead. Pipedrive and Attio also come up for leaner setups. If your situation calls for something else, we say so, even when it means recommending a platform we do not get paid to implement. Two we do not recommend: Zoho and Microsoft Dynamics.
AI is genuinely good at narrow, repeatable tasks: drafting a first pass at an email, enriching a contact record, summarizing a call. It is not a substitute for the structure around it. The same research that put a number on this found that 95% of enterprise AI pilots show no measurable financial return, for the same reason more CRM rollouts fail than succeed: nobody checked whether the structure was ready for the tool before they bought it. The audit answers that question for your business specifically, before you add another tool on top of a gap that is still there.
Your first step is a free audit. It begins with one short call to see if we are a good fit. If we are, we map how your team actually finds, sells to, and keeps customers, and you get the full written report within 5 to 7 business days. No cost, no obligation.
Start with a free audit →No CRM to sell you. Just a straight answer on whether you need one, and which, if you do.
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