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Closing the Deal is an Operations Problem: How We Engineer Adoption, Not Just Sales

Jul 13, 2026
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Adversarial AI Pipeline
Key Takeaway

To halve your sales cycle and accelerate time-to-value, proactively identify all critical stakeholders and their specific buying criteria by asking about past solution purchases. Then, engage these individuals by sending internal documentation for pre-vetting, effectively multi-threading the sales process to compress an 18-month cycle to nine months.

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Our Take— Mike Sanders, Founder
“We see that identifying and closing operational gaps isn't just about technical implementation; optimizing the sales process itself can reduce time-to-value by 50%, directly impacting P&L.”
Closing the Deal is an Operations Problem: How We Engineer Adoption, Not Just Sales

To halve your sales cycle and accelerate time-to-value, proactively identify all critical stakeholders and their specific buying criteria by asking about past solution purchases. Then, engage these individuals by sending internal documentation for pre-vetting, effectively multi-threading the sales process to compress an 18-month cycle to nine months.

From the Source

"I can take an 18-month sales cycle and compress it down to nine."

— How to actually sell

Key Takeaways

  • 01Uncover buying criteria by asking about past solution purchases.
  • 02Identify all departmental stakeholders (e.g., compliance, purchasing).
  • 03Proactively pre-vet solutions by sending internal documents to identified stakeholders.
  • 04Multi-thread the sales process to compress an 18-month cycle to 9 months.

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How to actually sell

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