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A stage with no exit criterion turns your forecast into a mood.

A CRM for a software company is the pipeline record: the account, the stage, the next step with a date, the champion and the person who signs. Product usage belongs on it too. GullySales defines the stages and the fields, then builds the read-out your board questions are answered from.

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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 CRM means

A CRM is the record where every enquiry, call and quote is kept against a customer, replacing separate notebooks, spreadsheets and memory. GullySales sets up or cleans an existing CRM and reports from it by enquiry outcome rather than by activity logged.

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For SaaS and software companies

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

  • “A stage needs one thing that must be true”

    If demo means whatever the rep felt after the call, the forecast is a feeling. Each stage needs a written exit criterion your AEs signed off on, and a deal that fails it moves backwards.

  • “Product usage belongs on the account record”

    Seats gone quiet, an integration disconnected, a workspace with one active user. Leave that in the product database and the CRM cannot see the renewal coming apart.

  • “Two contacts, not one”

    The champion and the person who signs the order have different problems. Most records hold one name, which is why a deal dies the week the champion changes jobs.

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. Stages with written exit criteria

    Each stage defined by one thing that must be true, agreed with your AEs and applied, so no deal sits in negotiation for a quarter without moving.

    Result: The forecast survives a question from your board.

  2. A next step and a date on every open deal

    A rule that no open opportunity exists without a scheduled next action and an owner, checked in the pipeline review rather than assumed.

    Result: Deals stop ageing quietly in the middle of the funnel.

  3. Champion and economic buyer held separately

    Both contacts on the record with their roles noted, and a flag on any deal that has never reached somebody with signing authority.

    Result: You know which deals are one resignation away from dying.

  4. Product usage joined to the account

    Seats, activation state and last login pulled onto the record, so sales and customer success are reading the same account.

    Result: A quiet workspace becomes visible before the renewal date.

  5. Closed-lost reasons on a short fixed list

    A small set of reasons, one of them mandatory, with a free-text line for the detail, so lost deals can be read as a group instead of one by one.

    Result: You can separate price losses from product losses.

  6. A pipeline read-out for the board

    Pipeline by stage with deal age, stage-to-stage conversion and coverage against target, built from the baseline taken before work starts.

    Result: The number in the deck comes out of the system, not a spreadsheet.

How the result is measured

  • Enquiries logged in the CRM
  • Data completeness
  • Reports generated from CRM data

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

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What to record, and when

What a software company should record about every account and deal, and whether a CRM is needed yet.

Lead source from a fixed list
Separate signup, demo request, outbound reply, partner and event. Founder-led teams often cannot say which channel produced their paying accounts.
The use case and the tool they use today
Record the problem they wanted solved and what they use now, even if it is a spreadsheet. Your comparison pages and your pricing answers come from this field.
Trial or pilot status
Note start date, seats activated and whether the champion has logged in. A pilot with no logins is a deal that needs a conversation now, not a place in the forecast.
Procurement, security and legal steps
Record whether a security questionnaire, legal review, vendor onboarding or GST invoice details are needed, and who owns each. These steps stall deals where nobody is looking.
Closed-lost reason from a short list
Use no budget, no decision, chose a competitor, built in-house or bad timing. Free text cannot be counted, and a count is what changes your next plan.
Do you need software yet?
A sheet suffices while the founder sells to a short list. Move to a CRM when a second person sells, when sequences go out, or when product usage must sit beside the deal.

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 CRM work runs

  1. 1

    Map the sales process

    We record how a deal actually moves from enquiry to close in your business today.

  2. 2

    Configure stages and fields

    The CRM's pipeline and fields are built to match that process exactly, not a generic template.

  3. 3

    Set up automations

    Reminders, assignment rules and follow-up triggers are configured so routine steps happen without manual effort.

  4. 4

    Test with real deals

    We run the configuration against actual current deals to catch gaps before the whole team relies on it.

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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We already have a CRM nobody updates. What changes?
Fewer fields and a reason to fill them. Most CRMs fail because reps are asked for twenty fields only management ever reads. We cut it to the ones that change a decision and put the read-out where the team can see their own numbers.
Do you work in our system or bring your own?
Yours. The records, the history and the definitions stay with you when the engagement ends. We bring the process and the discipline, not a tool you cannot see into.
Should product usage data go into the CRM?
Send a few signals only: last active date, active seats and integrations connected. Raw event logs stay in the product database. Choose signals a rep would act on, and check what customer data your own policy lets you share internally.
Who owns the CRM account if an outside team works in it?
Your company should create the account, hold the admin login and give outside people named users you can remove. Keep contact lists and sending domains in your name, and check the data-protection terms in your contract.
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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