GTM Diagnostic

Diagnose what's really holding your revenue back.

Before you fix execution, you need clarity. A fixed-scope diagnostic built on Winning by Design's Bowtie + Revenue Architecture — run by operators who've fixed the engine, not just sketched it.

Recognized by HubSpot · Salesforce · G2 · Winning by Design
Diamond · #1 Customer FirstHubSpot NA 2024
Consulting PartnerSalesforce
200+ ReviewsG2 & HubSpot combined
Winning by Design AmbassadorWinning by Design
01 / 07 Who this is for

You're accountable for growth.
Without a clear view of what's driving or limiting it.

RevOps lead, VP Sales, COO, or founder of a mid-market company. Maybe your CRM drifted from your product database. Maybe you inherited a bad install. Maybe you never had a CRM at all. You want one clean project. One product-and-billing-connected system. One source of truth.

Starting point 1

New HubSpot install

HubSpot is live but the data model doesn't match how you sell. Pipeline lives in reps' heads and walks out with them.

Starting point 2

Stalled rollout

HubSpot is bought but never fully built. Nobody uses it. It doesn't talk to billing or your product database. Adoption is dead.

Starting point 3

Underused HubSpot

HubSpot is live but underused. Wrong hubs, missing integrations, no enablement, or you've outgrown the original build.

Four teams. Four wins. One system.

Marketing

Campaigns, lists, and lifecycle stages wired to real pipeline outcomes. MQLs that convert because sales actually follows up. Attribution that reconciles to closed revenue.

Sales

Proposals generated in minutes against live product catalog and pricing. Pipeline stages that match how your reps actually sell. Forecasts that hold up on Monday morning.

Service

Tickets, knowledge base, and customer health on the same record as the deal. CS sees every sales conversation. Sales sees every renewal risk.

Leadership

One dashboard across Marketing, Sales, and Service. Forecasts that reconcile to billed ARR. History preserved for renewals, QBRs, and board reporting.

02 / 07 Why GTM engines fail

Revenue doesn't leak because the market is bad.
It leaks because nobody's pressure-tested the whole system.

Out-of-the-box GTM Diagnostics skip the three things that make RevOps work: a data model that matches how you sell, integrations that tie HubSpot to your billing and product stack, and the enablement that gets every team using it daily. Most revenue teams we talk to have already failed one GTM engine. The rest are running sales on spreadsheets.

01

What's actually broken

Your CRM is a disconnected island. Deals in one system. Usage events in your warehouse. CS tickets in a third tool. Finance reconciles quarterly in a spreadsheet, and it never ties.

Or, if HubSpot is barely used: the pipeline lives in a shared Excel file three reps have open at once. All analysis is tied to the Bowtie — acquisition, retention, expansion. Nothing hand-waved.

02

How it feels day to day

Tired of explaining why the forecast and billed ARR don't match.

Anxious about the SOC 2 and renewal-data audits you're not sure survived the last GTM engine.

Stuck between a generalist agency with a 6-week playbook and an SI quoting $400K.

03

Why this is wrong

Revenue data and production data belong in one system.

"We're too small for a CRM" stops being true the first time you lose a renewal because nobody knew it was up.

The villain

The generic diagnostic playbook. The 6-week HubSpot install that treats your business like every other HubSpot install. Three out of four revenue teams we onboard have already paid for one.

03 / 07 Why revenue teams pick us

We replace guesswork with evidence.
Using the same Bowtie + Revenue Architecture frameworks that power Winning by Design.

We know the 18-month GTM engine that stalled at "data mapping." We know the audit where finance asked for billing and renewal records that no longer existed. We know the meeting where leadership realized the "CRM" was a 14-tab Excel workbook, and the person maintaining it just gave notice.

Every engagement starts from the assumption that something is already broken.

 

200+ verified reviews

On G2 and HubSpot combined. Public. Auditable. Not anonymous quotes pulled from a case study.

 

Unified Method

Our playbook. Refined across dozens of implementations.

 

Stack bench depth

Stripe, Chargebee, Segment, Snowflake, Zendesk, Intercom, Gainsight, Plex.

 

HubSpot Impact Awards

Rookie Agency of the Year 2023. AI Excellence 2025.

 

Winning by Design Ambassador

Revenue-architecture methodology trained and certified.

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Customer story

Trusted partner who delivers.

We began with a complicated Salesforce to HubSpot migration under a deadline. This group came together and helped us through it, took the time to customize for our needs, and taught the entire team how to use the new custom optimizations. We then expanded our partnership and they've accomplished everything they said they would — they have proven their worth and are now one of our closest partners.

Harvey G. · President & CEO, FlexKey · Salesforce → HubSpot Migration Read the FlexKey case study
★★★★★
4.9
G2 & HubSpot · 200+ reviews
04 / 07 How the engagement works

Your path to clarity.
Four phases. Each compounds the last.

Four phases diagnose the system. When the engagement ends, you hand off to RevOps Services — where findings become the build queue and execution is owned. Diagnostic and RevOps Services run hand in hand.

Timeline varies case by case — most engagements run three weeks, depending on scope, company size, and interview breadth. Scoping call is where we lock the exact scope in writing.

The elefante Proven Process™
01
Diagnose
the System
Phase 1

Build the shared, evidence-based picture.

  • Stakeholder interviews with Sales, Marketing, CS, RevOps, and Finance
  • Quantitative pull on the full Bowtie — acquisition, retention, expansion
  • Data, process, and system audit mapped against industry benchmarks
  • Leadership alignment on the real constraints limiting scale
2 Weeks
 
02
Align &
Prioritize
Phase 2

Translate insight into a plan leaders will defend.

  • Findings ranked by business impact — not noise, not hot takes
  • Shared definitions of success, risk, and tradeoffs across the C-suite
  • Executive-level roadmap grounded in evidence, not opinion
  • Explicit call on what not to fix yet — protect capacity
6 Weeks
 
03
Enable
Execution
Phase 3

Support teams applying the decisions in live workstreams.

  • Frameworks applied to pipeline, segmentation, and handoff design
  • Leaders coached to reinforce alignment through behavior and metrics
  • Early indicators tracked — velocity, conversion, forecast accuracy
  • Ownership handed off so momentum survives beyond the engagement
10 Weeks
 
04
Reinforce & Evolve
Phase 4

Keep the revenue system scaling as the business shifts.

  • Pressure-test decisions as market and business conditions change
  • Recalibrate priorities as new constraints emerge
  • Maintain executive alignment across growth phases
  • Ensure the system scales instead of regressing
Go-Live
 
P1
P2
P3
P4
RevOps
as a Service
Go-Live

The hand-off: diagnostic done. RevOps Services takes it live.

  • Findings report benchmarked against industry comparables
  • Prioritized remediation backlog with business-impact scoring
  • Maturity scorecard across strategy, process, data, and behavior
  • Executive readout — warm handoff into RevOps Services
Diagnostic complete → go-live into RevOps Services. Findings become the build queue.
What we promise in writing

Six commitments. Signed before the first interview.

Every engagement is scoped in writing, priced in writing, and governed by the same six promises. We don't overpromise. We overdeliver on what we sign.

No findings delivered without evidence — quant data, interviews, benchmarks.

All analysis is tied to the Bowtie — acquisition, retention, expansion. Nothing hand-waved.

Findings report delivered in writing — so decisions don’t die in a slide deck.

Executive readout happens live — with all decision-makers in the room.

Fixed scope. Fixed price. $15,000. No scope creep.

If we’re the wrong fit, we’ll refer you to Winning by Design direct — no hard feelings.

14-24 wks
Typical timeline from assessment to go-live — varies by complexity
0
Config defects across our last 12 implementations
7+ yrs
Of deal, subscription, and usage data preserved
200+
Verified reviews on G2 and HubSpot combined. Public. Auditable.
05 / 07 Your next step

Stop debating priorities. Get a ranked list.

45 minutes. Current-state map. Three highest-risk integration points. An honest answer on whether we're the right partner.

Schedule a GTM Assessment→
Not ready to book? Start here.
Read: Best GTM Diagnostic Partners for 2026 — including the competitors we'd send you to for the right fit.
Coming soon: GTM Diagnostic Readiness Checklist — the 22 questions we run before quoting.
06 / 07 What's at stake

What happens when you skip the diagnostic
entirely.

We've cleaned up more failed GTM engines than we've run from scratch. And we've stood up first implementations for companies that waited three years too long. The pattern is always the same.

×
5–14 yrs

Deal history, gone

Retention requirement missed. Finance can't produce records. Renewal and usage claims can't be validated.

×

Billing sync silently breaks

Orphaned invoices. Broken commissions. 2–5% of revenue leaks through typos and missed renewals.

×

Sales reverts to Excel

Workflow slower than the spreadsheet. Pipeline visibility collapses. Back to where you started.

×

Operations inherits a broken handoff

Rebuilds orders from emails, PDFs, and phone calls. Ship dates missed. Wrong parts shipped.

×

Finance can't reconcile

4 hours of manual mapping every Monday. Or no forecast at all, just gut feel.

×

Customer Success loses context

No deal-to-subscription chain. Every call starts with a 20-minute phone reconstruction.

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$200K

14 months in. Over budget.

Three major accounts lost. Board asking questions nobody wants to answer.

This is the default outcome of a generalist-run GTM Diagnostic. Not a worst case. The base case.
07 / 07 What good looks like

90 days after a clean GTM Diagnostic.

Not aspirational. This is what our clients are running on today.

One source of truth

Customer, deal, subscription, and product-usage data in one CRM, synced to your billing + data stack. Sales, operations, service, and finance pull from the same numbers.

15–30%

Sales closes faster

Proposals generated in minutes against live product catalog and pricing data. Proposal-to-close cycle drops 15–30% in the first quarter.

Operations gets a clean handoff

Closed deals flow to billing with full account, plan, and contract context. Order entry time drops.

Finance reconciles on Monday

CRM opportunities tie to billing-system ARR. Month-end close drops from days to hours.

Customer Success has context

Customer history, product usage, renewal status, and open-opportunity data on one record.

Leadership dashboards match reality

Forecasts reconcile with billed ARR. CFO, CRO, COO looking at the same number.

Compliance is audit-ready

7+ years of deal, subscription, and usage data preserved, searchable, exportable on demand.

You're the RevOps leader who delivered what three predecessors couldn't.
Implementation Engagement Models

Fixed scope. Fixed price.
One engagement. Three weeks. $15,000 — the same WbD methodology at a mid-market price point.

 

Phased Implementation Support

Month-to-month engagement for teams rolling out HubSpot in phases or needing hands-on support during a long diagnostic.

$10K–$30K
per month · 6 month minimum
  • Dedicated diagnostic team
  • Weekly sync + async support
  • Integration work included (billing, product, CS)
  • Flexes with scope as you discover
Start with phased support
Frequently asked

Answers to the questions we get every discovery call.

Can't find yours? Bring it to the assessment.

How long does a GTM Diagnostic actually take?
Most run up to 24 weeks (6 months) from assessment to post-launch, but it varies case by case. Timeline depends on the complexity of the diagnostic, the amount of historical data, the number of billing and downstream integrations, and how much internal bandwidth your team can lend. Lean Sales Hub setups with clean data can wrap in weeks; larger implementations with heavy billing and data-stack integrations run longer. The assessment is where we lock the timeline in writing.
Can you integrate HubSpot with our billing + product stack? +
Yes. We've built working integrations into Stripe, Chargebee, Recurly, Segment, Snowflake, BigQuery, Zendesk, Intercom, Gainsight, HubSpot, and Salesforce. The assessment includes a current-state map of every sync point.
What if HubSpot is already partially live? +
That's a common starting point. We audit the existing portal, keep the parts that fit, and rebuild the parts that don't. The 3-week method accounts for what's already live so we don't waste what's working.
What happens if validation fails before go-live? +
We don't go live. Period. You get a written rollback plan before go-live, and we run parallel validation on production-scale data before anything gets flipped.
HubSpot or Salesforce? +
Depends on your stack, your team size, and where your other systems live. We implement both. The assessment includes a platform recommendation based on your current stack and team.
What if you're the wrong partner for us? +
We tell you. And we tell you who we'd send you to instead. Our listicle lists competitors we respect. Fit matters more than winning the deal.
Ready when you are

Ready to see what's really holding your revenue back?

45 minutes. Written scope, risk register, fixed price. Before we touch a record.

HubSpot Diamond Partner #1 Customer First NA 2024 Winning by Design Ambassador
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