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For the CRO & VP Sales

Your CRM should accelerate pipeline. Right now it's slowing it down.

Sales ops debt compounds: every manual process, every data gap, every reporting workaround costs pipeline velocity. A Cloud Nerd POD owns the platform — so your team sells instead of troubleshooting Salesforce.

Week 1
First revenue-ops improvements shipped
$0
Change orders on platform fixes and enhancements
30 days
To a clean, documented, governed CRM
100%
Fixed monthly cost — budget it like headcount

What changes on your P&L

Three problems a POD retires
from your budget review.

Pipeline data you can't trust

If your CRM data is wrong, your forecast is wrong. Boards don't forgive pipeline surprises.

  • Data quality audit and remediation in week one
  • DAISA-automated data governance going forward
  • Forecast-grade data, weekly

Sales ops backlog killing velocity

Your team has 40 open requests and one overloaded admin. Deals stall while IT queues build.

  • Dedicated POD burns the backlog — starting immediately
  • Senior architect on every request, not a tier-1 ticket
  • New process deployed in hours, not sprint cycles

No platform roadmap

You're reacting to fires, not building toward a revenue architecture. Every quarter looks the same.

  • 90-day roadmap delivered at the end of month one
  • Board-ready reporting on platform investment vs. outcomes
  • Architecture that scales with your headcount plan

The comparison you're already running

Hire a Salesforce admin + developer, or one Retain a Core POD.

Hire a Salesforce admin + developer

$290K year one
  • Fully-loaded year-one cost for two roles
  • Search time: 50–70 days each
  • First deliverable: month 3–4
  • Architecture depth: limited to their experience

Retain a Core POD

$180K year one
  • Annual cost of a Core POD
  • First deliverable: week one
  • Architect-led platform governance from day one
  • Deep bench — every Salesforce cloud covered

Bring your hiring plan.
We'll bring the math.

A 30-minute briefing built on your actual numbers: the roles you were about to open, what they'd really cost, and what a POD delivers against the same budget.