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Describe the person who signs, the person who uses and the person who blocks.

A buyer persona for a software company is a written picture of each role inside a target account: who feels the problem, who approves the spend and who can stop the deal in security review. GullySales builds these from your closed-won and closed-lost deals, so the sequences and pages speak to a real role.

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Scope, fee, reporting and term are agreed in writing after we have read your brief and spoken to you.

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What buyer persona means

A buyer persona is a plain description of the kind of customer who actually buys from you. It includes what they search, what worries them and who else they ask before deciding. GullySales builds this from real enquiries and past sales rather than a generic template, then uses it to write every page and advert.

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Where it usually goes wrong, and what we would do.

  • “The user who signs up is rarely the person who pays”

    A product lead starts the trial, a finance head holds the budget and an IT manager checks the vendor. One persona for all three produces a message that fits none of them, and the trial never turns into a contract.

  • “Job titles hide what the buyer actually does”

    Head of operations means one thing at a twenty-person company and another at a listed group. A persona written from titles alone sends the same email to both, and one of them deletes it.

  • “The blocker is usually missing from the deck”

    Deals stall with a security reviewer, a procurement desk or an engineer who built a rough version in-house. Nobody wrote that role down, so no message was ever aimed at the person who could say no.

  • “Closed-lost notes hold the sharpest wording”

    When a prospect explains why they chose a rival or did nothing, they use their own words for the problem. Those lines belong in the persona, and most CRMs only keep them as a one-word reason code.

What we do

What we deliver for SaaS and software companies.

Every deliverable, what it covers for you, and the result it is there to produce. Nothing here is an extra.

  1. Role maps for the champion, the approver and the blocker

    One page per role showing what each cares about, what they read, what they fear and what they need to see before agreeing.

    Result: Your AEs can name who sits in each seat on a live deal.

  2. Persona language mined from calls and lost deals

    Recorded calls, support tickets and closed-lost notes read for the exact phrases buyers use about the problem.

    Result: Open the sequences and the wording matches what your customers actually say.

  3. Objection sheet by role

    The questions each role raises, with an answer your team can give without improvising, including the awkward ones on security and switching cost.

    Result: A new rep handles a technical objection from the written sheet.

  4. Persona-matched trigger list

    The events that put each role in motion, such as a new head of function, a funding round or a competitor's price change.

    Result: Every outbound message in the sequencer carries a stated reason tied to a role.

  5. Fit and misfit criteria

    A short list of the accounts and roles that buy well and the ones that sign, churn and complain.

    Result: Lead scoring in your CRM reflects the written criteria.

How the result is measured

  • Enquiry match to persona
  • Conversion rate by persona
  • Content aligned to persona

Recorded as a baseline before work starts, so every later report has an honest comparison.

Read the full B2B and B2C buyer persona development page

Who it is for

This is written for these SaaS and software companies.

  • Seed and Series A B2B SaaS still selling founder-led
  • Bootstrapped vertical SaaS with a small team
  • Product-led companies adding a sales motion
  • Developer tools moving upmarket into team plans
  • Healthcare, fintech and other compliance-heavy software
  • Agencies and services firms productising a platform
  • Marketplaces with a supply side to recruit
  • Companies with a full AE bench and no pipeline to feed it
  • Software companies entering the US from another market

How it works

From your first message to the first report.

No open-ended retainer. Every step gives you something in writing.

  1. First

    Your brief

    You tell us what you need in a few short steps: your business, what you want, where enquiries come from and how they are handled.

  2. After the brief

    A conversation and a written scope

    We read it, then talk with whoever handles your enquiries. If you want our help, the scope, the fee and the reporting come in writing, and nothing starts before you have read them.

  3. Before work starts

    Baseline recorded

    The numbers this work is meant to move, such as enquiries, quotations, orders, visits or renewals, written down so every later report has an honest comparison.

  4. After the baseline

    The first fix goes live

    The fix we agreed to start with is put in place and measured against the baseline, whether that is a reply, a follow-up, a page, a listing or the handover between marketing and sales.

  5. As agreed

    Report against the baseline

    What moved, what did not, and what changes next, in plain words. How often you get it is set in writing before work starts.

  6. At renewal

    Renew on the numbers

    The term ends and you decide whether to continue from the results. The length is agreed in writing before anything starts.

How the buyer persona work runs

  1. 1

    Understand the current view

    We start with how your team currently describes the customer, since the gap between belief and reality is often the finding itself.

  2. 2

    Audit past enquiries and sales

    We look at recent enquiries and closed deals to see who actually bought, not who was assumed to buy.

  3. 3

    Interview customers and staff

    Short, structured conversations surface the real language, worries and triggers behind a purchase.

  4. 4

    Build the personas

    Findings are written into short, usable persona documents rather than a long report.

  5. 5

    Apply to your marketing

    We show exactly where each persona should change a page, an ad or a script you already have.

Why us

Why owners pick GullySales over an agency.

  • Marketing and sales, as one job

    Most agencies stop at the enquiry. We also fix what happens after it: the reply, the follow-up, the quote and the CRM.

  • The person on the first call does the work

    No account managers in between. You are never handed to someone you have not met.

  • A baseline before anything starts

    Your numbers are written down on day one, so every later report compares against something honest.

  • The fee in writing, split three ways

    Our time, your media spend and production on separate lines. You always see what goes to us.

  • No guarantees we cannot keep

    The term is agreed in writing and never a default twelve months. We never promise a ranking or a lead count, because nobody controls those.

  • Hours that fit your day, agreed up front

    Which hours we overlap with yours is settled before any work starts, so you know when a reply is coming and when it is not.

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Your brief

Tell us what you need, and we will read it before we call.

Eight short steps about your business, what you want and who decides. Most questions are a tap, and you can skip any you would rather answer on the call.

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FAQ

Questions owners ask before they call.

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How many personas does a SaaS company need?
As many as there are distinct roles in a typical deal, usually a user, an approver and a blocker for one product. A second product or a different company size can add more. We start with the roles in your last few closed deals.
We have no customer interview data. Can we still build one?
Yes. Closed-won and closed-lost records, sales call recordings, support tickets and onboarding notes already hold the language. Where there is a gap, we suggest a handful of short customer calls, which you would need to arrange.
Does the persona replace our ideal customer profile?
No. The ideal customer profile describes the company that fits. The persona describes the people inside it. You need both, and the second is built on the first, so GullySales checks the account definition before writing any role.
How much does it cost?
There is no price list, because the work differs by business. The fee is scoped after we have read your brief and spoken to you, and put in writing before anything starts, split into our time, your media spend and production.
How long is the contract?
The term is agreed in writing after we have spoken, along with the fee and the reporting. It is never a default twelve months, and renewal is decided on the numbers against the baseline recorded at the start.
How soon will we see results?
It depends on the trade, the channel and what is already in place. After we have read your brief and spoken to you, we say what we would expect to move first and how it will be measured against the baseline. Nothing here is guaranteed.
Who will actually do the work?
The person you speak to before anything starts. We work from one office in Nagarbhavi, Bengaluru, with no account managers in between.
What do you need from us?
Your brief, and a conversation. After that, access to whatever this work touches, such as your website, your accounts or your enquiry record, and time with the people who handle your enquiries.
What if we are not happy with the work?
Tell us and the plan changes. Everything is reported against the baseline, so a number that is not moving is visible to both sides. The term is in your written scope, and the refund and cancellation policy sets out the rest.

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