The Value Selling Sprint

Six weeks.
One segment.
A kit your reps can use on Monday.

A value-selling kit built on what you already have — your positioning, your existing collateral and your sellers.

Do I have a problem?

The best sellers lead with the customer’s problem. Your collateral leads with your product.

  • Decks and one-pagers that open on features and screenshots

  • Every rep telling the story a different way

  • First calls that run on product, not economics

  • Content that gets read but doesn’t start conversations

  • New hires taking a quarter to sound credible

The Value Selling Sprint settles what you say and why in one working session, then rebuilds what you already have around it — the one-pager, the first-call deck, the content and the first call itself. Same brand, same design, told in a different order. We are not redesigning anything. Your positioning and your brand are never changed, and everything is built in close coordination with Product Marketing and Sales Enablement.

The Sprint

Working session to a kit in six weeks. One session with your marketing, sales and enablement leaders settles what you say and why; everything else in the kit is written from the signed version.

  • W1

    The first draft. A first version built from public data and what you already know — your deck, call recordings, win-loss notes.

  • W2

    The working session. Two to three hours with the room. New versions come back while everyone is still together.

  • W3

    Sign-off. Product marketing and enablement approve, then leadership signs off.

  • W4–6

    Into the kit. Everything else is written from the signed version — the model, the leave-behinds, the content and the first call.

What the sprint hands you.

Assets for each stage of the buyer’s journey: what they read before they call you, what you say on the call, and what you leave behind — all telling the same story.

Output 01 of 06

Point of view workshop

The case everything else is written from — root cause, triggers, the number — settled in one working session and signed off.

  • Document
  • Structured Markdown
  • Live in Supercase
1Who’s in the room
Product Marketing
Sales Enablement
Sales Leader
Top Rep
Subject Matter Expert
acme — point-of-view.md
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SummaryAcme makes revenue leaders able to see risk in the quarter while there is still time to act on it… so CROs stop discovering slippage in the last three weeks.…more
Audience · role / dept / company profileCRO or VP Revenue Operations (economic buyer) · VP Sales (champion) · Finance (the skeptic). B2B software, $50M–$500M, forecast reviewed weekly.…more
3
Problem statementRevenue leaders find out a quarter is short too late to do anything about it, because the signal arrives through the same people whose numbers are at stake.…more
C-suite ladderForecast misses hit guidance credibility and board confidence… which flows to hiring plans and valuation multiples.…more
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Root causeOrgs treat forecast accuracy as a discipline problem and add inspection, when it is a data-latency problem. More inspection makes the number later, not better.…more
5
Buying triggers
Missed a quarterNew CROBoard or PE scrutinyRevOps hireCRM migrationUpmarket move…more
End state · change typeRisk visible in week three, not week eleven. Change type: both (people + process)…more
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Canary metricShare of at-risk deals flagged before the final month of the quarter. Source: CRM stage history + close-date changes.…more
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Cost-of-inaction narrativeQuarters keep landing short with no time to react, forecasts carry risk the review cannot see, and discounting becomes the tool of last resort in the final fortnight.…more
Acme is a fictional company used as an example. Yours is built from your own positioning, your collateral and your sellers.
What you’re looking at· 7 notes

Reframing collateral before agreeing what it should say produces prettier versions of the same thing. The workshop is where that gets settled, with product marketing and enablement in the room, so what comes out is theirs.

  1. 1
    Who’s in the room

    Product marketing owns the positioning this has to stay true to and sales enablement owns what happens after, so both are core stakeholders from the start and everything that comes out is theirs to own afterwards.

  2. 2
    One paragraph, spoken not read

    Written to be said aloud in a first call. It becomes the opening of the reframed one-pager and the first slide of the deck.

  3. 3
    The problem in the buyer’s words

    Stated as what goes wrong in their organisation, with no product and no category. Every later asset inherits this sentence.

  4. 4
    Root cause — why the obvious fix fails

    The claim a point of view makes that messaging does not, and the one a buyer is most likely to argue with. It becomes the second block of the first-call deck.

  5. 5
    Buying triggers

    Observable events that make the problem urgent. They drive account scoring, the content angles, and the questions in the first-call agenda.

  6. 6
    Canary metric

    A leading indicator that moves before revenue does, with the system it is read from — so the maturity model’s levels can be described in something measurable.

  7. 7
    Cost-of-inaction narrative

    What continuing as-is costs, in words. The number comes later; this is the reasoning it rests on.

Your guides.

An actionable point of view needs three things at once, and the two people running your sprint cover all three.

  • Expert articulators. Buyer-centric value a room can agree on.

  • Expert math modelers. A number finance will check, not dismiss.

  • Technical infrastructure. Iterate, evaluate and roll out in hours, not months.

Tom Williams
Tom Williams
Co-founder, CEO
  • Expert math modelers
  • Technical infrastructure

The math and the machinery: the impacts behind each step of the maturity model, the Cost of Inaction number, and the software the kit is configured in.

23 years in B2B sales strategy, RevOps and product marketing. Head of Revenue Strategy at Clari after it acquired his company, DealPoint. Built the Supercase modelling engine.

Aaron Bean
Aaron Bean
Co-founder, go-to-market
  • Expert articulators

The words a room can agree on: the facilitated session, the point of view itself, and the reframe of your leave-behinds, your content and your first call.

Two decades helping go-to-market teams at Google, Microsoft, IBM and Lenovo sharpen their story and run account-based programs.

Book the consultation

Six weeks. One segment. A kit your reps can use on Monday.

Start with a free 30-minute Value Selling consultation with a founder.

  • ✓A call with a founder, not a sequence.
  • ✓You get the outline: the session, who attends, and what comes back.
  • ✓No commitment to the software. The kit is yours either way.

Prefer email? hello@supercase.ai

Free 30-minute Value Selling consultation

Tell us what your collateral leads with today.

Also available

Two more ways we work with revenue teams.

The Point of View Sprint

Your organization’s best thinking about the problem you solve, configured once and pressure-tested on your first 10 accounts.

  1. 01Point of view
  2. 02Cost-of-inaction model
  3. 03Change plan
  4. 04Grounded research
  5. 05Business case & one-pager templates
  6. 06Your first 10 accounts, tuned by hand

Four weeks. One point of view. Your first 10 accounts.

supercase.ai/pov-sprint

The Revenue Cadence Sprint

The meetings your revenue teams run, assessed and rebuilt — mapped by team, with a playbook and a defined data set for every one.

  1. 01Cadence assessment
  2. 02Cadence map, by team
  3. 03A playbook for every meeting
  4. 04The data each meeting runs on
  5. 05Rollout and enablement

One Cadence. CRO gets data. Team gets strategy.

supercase.ai/revenue-cadence-sprint

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