Sales process design from lead to order, built on RISE within the COMPOSE Sales Model®. We design it. Your chosen partner builds it.
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Can we make the current one better?
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Why can’t they use what we have already given them?
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Just get AI to do it?
…the problem is the same every time. The process was never designed to drive the business.
Systems integrators bring deep platform expertise, and they rightly lead with the technology. What a technology-first programme can miss is what a strong sales process has to do for the business.
It has to be globally consistent and follow the customer journey. It has to carry the internal steps you want every seller to take, while safeguarding your data, compliance, due diligence, approvals and policies. And it has to stay simple for a seller to run, however much detail sits underneath.
When the process is designed apart from how the business is managed, sellers and managers drift back to spreadsheets and quietly accept that the system does not work for them. Compose Sales Partners designs the process first, so the platform is built around how you sell and how you lead.
Process before platform. The way you sell is designed first, and the system follows the design.
Simple to run. Easy for a seller to follow, with the detail and the controls working underneath.
Built for how you manage. Stages, data and cadence designed around your operating model and management rhythm, so the forecast lives in the system.
Independent of technology. Requirements any platform partner can build from.
Sales process design at Compose Sales Partners starts from your go-to-market strategy and operating model, and is built with your sales, operations, finance and technology teams. It covers:
We interlock with order to cash and the processes around the sale, so nothing breaks at the boundaries.
THE CASE FOR A STRUCTURED SALES PROCESS
86%
of B2B purchases stall during the buying process. A process built around the customer journey keeps deals moving.
Source: Forrester, The State of Business Buying, December 2024
49%
of CSOs say sales and marketing define a qualified lead very differently, so the first handover is broken before it starts.
70%
of companies do not effectively integrate their sales plays into their CRM and revenue technology.
Source: Bain & Company, 1,200+ commercial executives, April 2025
1 in 5
commercial leaders say they have realised the full value of their sales technology. The gap is rarely the platform itself.
Source: Bain & Company, 1,200+ commercial executives, April 2025
60%
of CSOs say their revenue number is largely driven by factors outside their control. Structure brings more of it back within reach.
5x
Sales leaders who overhaul data, automation and user experience will be five times more likely to gain a return from AI by 2028.
Source: Gartner prediction, July 2026
RISE is the Compose Sales Partners framework for sales process architecture and revenue operations design, creating commercial foundations that are engineered to run.
RI
The processes, roles and data your business sells on
Revenue Infrastructure covers the core architecture of modern sales organisations: process, methodology, roles, data models, CRM and CPQ design, and the effective deployment of AI agents. It builds the foundations needed to run sales efficiently.
Buyer-led stages, entry and exit criteria and the activities inside each.
MEDDPICC, BANT, SPICED or any other, built into the stages, gates and fields.
Who owns, approves and supports each step, and what passes at every handoff.
Lead definitions, routing and the marketing to sales handover.
CPQ, deal desk, discount approvals and contract lifecycle, with legal and finance interlocks.
Account planning, whitespace, account reviews, renewals and expansion.
Crediting, splits and quota attribution data, so plans pay accurately.
CRM, CPQ and AI agent requirements, the data model and how data moves between systems.
SE
The rhythm that runs on top of it
Sales Execution provides the operating rhythm that sits above it, from forecasting and pipeline management to performance analytics and business reviews, ensuring consistent execution and predictable growth.
Forecast categories, submission cadence and the evidence behind every call.
Pipeline reviews, coverage and hygiene standards managers can run.
The weekly, monthly and quarterly cadence of reviews and decisions.
One definition per measure and the dashboards leaders act on.
Territory and account assignment and the internal requests that support sellers.
Process compliance built into the system and the management routine.
Risk signals, coaching prompts and guided next steps for sellers.
Ownership, change control and continuous improvement as the business evolves.
The best sales processes feel light to the people who run them. Underneath, the same process keeps the business consistent, follows the customer journey and protects the data, controls and policies the company depends on. Compose Sales Partners designs both layers together, with your management rhythm built in.
ON THE SURFACE
UNDERNEATH
Fewer stalls between steps, and handovers that hold.
Evidence at every stage, so the number reflects what is real.
Pipeline reviews, deal inspection and forecast calls drawn from the same process and data.
An AI-ready sales process is one where the stages, the data model and the workflow are designed for AI agents and copilots to work inside them. Most sales organisations are investing in AI, and far fewer can show the return. Compose Sales Partners designs the foundation that closes that gap, so AI improves decisions and gives sellers time back where it counts.
WHY THE FOUNDATION MATTERS
Where AI agents and copilots work inside the sales process.
What has to be true in the process before AI can add value.
How Compose Sales Partners uses AI to design faster, with practitioners accountable.
Sales process re-engineering at Compose Sales Partners runs in four design phases and a fifth that makes it real. Each phase is built with your sales, operations, finance and technology teams, and ratified with the field and with technology before the next begins.
Map what actually happens today, end to end, including the workarounds, handovers and spreadsheets.
Design the target process in workshops, with roles, RACI and handovers agreed and ratified with the field.
Define the data model: what each step captures, one definition per measure and the schema AI relies on.
Write the system requirements and design how CRM, CPQ, integrations and AI agents support the process.
Finalise the design, investment case and phased roadmap, then govern the build and hand over to your team.
Compose Sales Partners does not carry out technical implementation. We support you in selecting the right implementation partner to bring the process to life, then stay close to the build so what is delivered is what was designed.
Every engagement delivers a designed, documented and ratified sales process, the data model that powers it and a roadmap your business can commit to.
Simple on the surface and comprehensive underneath: buyer-led stages, evidence at every gate, entry and exit criteria and the RACI and handovers at each step.
Forecast categories, pipeline reviews and deal inspection designed into the process, so the spreadsheets can retire.
Data quality, compliance, approvals, policies and margin protected by design, without adding work for the seller, aligned to your operating model.
One definition per measure, a sales data model and schema, and clear places for AI agents to add value.
A finalised design, an investment case, a phased rollout plan and support in selecting the right implementation partner.
Managing Partner, Compose Sales Partners
Most sales technology programmes start with the platform and hope a process emerges from configuration. It rarely does, and the business quietly goes back to spreadsheets. A strong sales process is globally consistent, follows the customer journey and protects the company’s data, controls and policies, yet stays simple for a seller to run. Design that first, build the management rhythm into it, and the platform, and the AI on top of it, finally have something worth running.
Straight answers on designing a sales process your business, your forecast and your platform can run on.
Sales process design defines how your business turns a lead into revenue and keeps growing the account afterwards. It covers the stages, entry and exit criteria, activities, roles and data for each core process, from lead to opportunity and quote to cash to account management and forecasting. Compose Sales Partners designs these processes from your go-to-market strategy, so the process, the forecast and the platform all describe the same business.
Sales process architecture describes how a business sells at every level of detail, from the end-to-end value chain down to the workflow in the system, with roles and accountability mapped at each level. It connects strategy to execution. When the architecture is designed properly, leaders, managers, sellers and the technology all work from the same definitions, and the data the business relies on is captured once, in the right place.
RISE is the Compose Sales Partners framework for sales process and platform design, part of the COMPOSE Sales Model®. Revenue Infrastructure covers the core commercial processes, roles, data flows and technology requirements. Sales Execution covers the forecasting process, pipeline management, rhythm of business and sales analytics that run on top. Designing both halves together is what makes a process work in the field and in the system.
Rarely on its own. A CRM scales whatever process you give it, including the workarounds. When the process, roles and data definitions are designed first, the platform has something worth building, adoption follows because the system matches how people sell, and managers stop running the business from spreadsheets.
No, and we do not claim to. Compose Sales Partners designs the process, defines the data model and writes the system requirements. We support you in selecting the right implementation partner, and your internal team or that partner builds and configures the platform. If needed, we can stay close to the build to make sure what is delivered matches what was designed, and our practitioner team has deep experience of leading these implementations with SIs.
As a complement. Systems integrators are expert at implementing and configuring platforms at scale, and they rightly lead with the technology. We bring the sales operating knowledge that shapes what they build: a process that is globally consistent, follows the customer journey, protects your data, approvals and policies, and stays simple for sellers to run. The integrator gets a clear brief, and you get a platform built around how your business sells.
AI depends on clean definitions, reliable data and clear steps to act on. Compose Sales Partners designs the process and data model so every stage produces consistent, trustworthy information, then identifies where AI agents and copilots can save time or improve a decision, with approvals and governance built in. That gives AI a foundation to work from and gives the time it saves somewhere useful to go.
Yes, when it is designed with intent. Compose Sales Partners builds a common core: one set of stages, definitions and data that every region runs, so the business can compare performance and forecast globally. The process and data model are then structured to absorb local variation in regulation, products, pricing and approvals without breaking that core. Detailed local workflows can sit beneath it where global execution needs them. The core itself stays the same everywhere.
Yes. Bringing two sales organisations together usually means two processes, two sets of definitions and often two platforms. Compose Sales Partners designs one target process, one data model and a phased path to get there, so the combined business can forecast and manage as one while integration continues.
Yes. A sales process only creates value once people run it every day. Compose Sales Partners supports launch and rollout with the change plan, seller and manager enablement, process documentation and playbooks, and the governance that tracks adoption after go-live. We stay alongside your implementation partner through testing and go-live to confirm that what launches matches the design, then help leaders embed it through the rhythm of business.
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