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Record the cloud, the trigger and who signs, so no assessment is forgotten.

A CRM for a cloud and DevOps firm is the one record of every account, contact, assessment, proposal and retainer, with the fields this trade needs: cloud in use, trigger, estate and decision date. GullySales sets up the fields, stages and reports in the tool you already pay for, and moves your scattered spreadsheets and inboxes into it.

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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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Last updated 6 Oct 2026.

For cloud and DevOps service companies

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

  • “Projects live in the delivery tool, leads live in a spreadsheet”

    Jira or a project board holds the signed work, and a sheet kept by whoever remembers holds the prospects. Nobody can see that the client whose migration finished last month also asked about backups on the first call.

  • “One client, six contacts, no map”

    The CTO, the finance lead, the senior developer, the compliance owner and two vendor contacts all touch one account. When each sits in a separate inbox, an engineer new to the account sends a proposal to the wrong person.

  • “Renewal dates sit in contracts, not in the system”

    Retainer end dates, commitment plan expiries and vendor credit dates are stored in PDFs and in engineers' memories. The date passes, and the client hears about it from the vendor's reminder instead of from you.

  • “Engineers skip forms that ask too much”

    A system with thirty mandatory fields is bypassed by people who live in a terminal and measure the day in tickets. Every field has to earn its place, or the record is empty exactly where the sales lead needs it.

What we do

What we deliver for cloud and DevOps service companies.

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

  1. Fields built for this trade

    Cloud in use, team size, estate to be moved, trigger, who signs, who influences, decision date and the view of the client's own engineer, set up as short pick-lists and not free text.

    Result: Any record can be sorted by cloud or by trigger.

  2. Stages that match the sale

    Enquiry, discovery, assessment, proposal, negotiation, project, run handover and retainer, each with an exit rule stating what must be recorded before a deal moves on.

    Result: A deal's stage means the same to everyone.

  3. An account and contact structure

    One account with every contact linked, a role against each person and a note on who signs, including contacts at the cloud vendor and any software house involved.

    Result: You can see who to call and who to copy.

  4. Date fields that raise reminders

    Retainer end dates, vendor credit expiries, commitment plan renewals and next-contact dates, each linked to a reminder for a named owner.

    Result: Nothing lapses unseen.

  5. An import of your existing records

    Spreadsheets, mailbox contacts and old proposals cleaned, de-duplicated and loaded with the original source kept, in a tool such as Zoho CRM or HubSpot if you already use one.

    Result: Your first day in the system starts with real accounts.

  6. Reports the owner reads

    Enquiries by source, trigger and cloud, assessments against projects signed, projects that became retainers and the reasons for losses, read against the baseline recorded before work began.

    Result: The owner sees which sources and triggers become signed work.

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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Fields worth keeping

What a cloud and DevOps firm should keep on each prospect and project.

Cloud in use and trigger
The person who takes the first call writes the platform and the event: a bill rise, an outage, a migration deadline or an audit. It decides who answers and how the matter is treated.
Contacts and their roles
The sales lead lists the CTO, the finance contact, the on-call engineer and the signer. It shows who is missing from a stalled deal.
Assessment stage
Updated by the engineer on the job: access requested, access given, findings drafted, walkthrough held. It shows where assessments wait on the client.
Stack and tooling
The engineer notes Kubernetes, Terraform, CI tools and databases in use. It lets the next proposal be specific and groups clients by what they run.
Retainer or contract end date
Entered by the account owner from the contract. It raises a reminder before the renewal conversation is due.
Source of the project
Chosen from a short list: search, vendor referral, client, meet-up, partner. It is the field that tells you where signed work comes from.

Who it is for

This is written for these cloud and DevOps service companies.

  • Migration specialists moving data-centre workloads to AWS, Azure or Google Cloud
  • DevOps and CI/CD consultancies working with product start-ups
  • Managed cloud and site reliability retainer providers
  • Kubernetes and platform engineering teams
  • FinOps and cloud cost optimisation specialists
  • DevSecOps practices preparing clients for SOC 2 and ISO 27001
  • Resellers and managed service partners for one cloud vendor
  • Data engineering and database migration firms
  • Hosting providers moving up to managed cloud

Not for

It is not the right fit if.

  • You run a handful of retainers that you know by heart, and the delivery tool already holds the dates.
  • Your engineers see the CRM as a sales chore, and nobody will enter an assessment stage they did not choose.

How it works

How the CRM work runs

The work itself, in order. How an engagement starts, from your brief to a written scope, is set out on our method page.

  1. 1

    Map the sales process

    We sit with the people who sell and write down how a deal moves from enquiry to payment, including where it stalls.

  2. 2

    Agree stages, fields and owners

    Each stage gets a name your team already uses and a proof that the deal has left it. We agree which fields are required at which stage, and who may change what.

  3. 3

    Build on a copy

    Pipeline, fields and views are built on a trial copy where the CRM offers one, or in a separate pipeline where the plan allows. Live work stays untouched.

  4. 4

    Connect channels, then switch on automations

    Channels are connected first. Each automation is then switched on separately, so a misfiring rule is easy to find.

  5. 5

    Test with real deals

    The people who will use the CRM run open deals through it. Gaps are fixed before the whole team switches over.

  6. 6

    Switch over and trim

    Once real use shows which fields stay empty and which stages nobody uses, those are cut and the handover record is updated.

Where this fits

Three pieces of sales work, in this order.

This work sits inside sales management. A target, a review routine and someone who owns the number.

  1. Step 1

    Sales audit

    Find where deals are being lost and what to fix first.

    Start here if you cannot say where orders are lost.

  2. Step 2

    Sales process design

    One written way to sell, from first enquiry to repeat order.

    Start here if every salesperson sells differently.

  3. Step 3 · you are here

    Sales management

    A target, a review routine and someone who owns the number.

    Start here if the team has targets and no routine.

Tell us what you need Your brief is read before we call. Scope, fee and term in writing.

FAQ

Questions owners ask before they call.

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Which CRM suits a firm of our size?
The one your team will open every morning. Zoho CRM and HubSpot are in ordinary use among Indian service firms, and a shared sheet with fixed columns serves a very small team. Choose on how easily an engineer can log a call, not on feature lists.
Should the CRM connect to our ticketing and project tools?
Link the account, not every ticket. Store the project name, the lead engineer and the go-live date in the CRM so the retainer conversation can be planned. Copying whole tickets across fills the system with noise that nobody reads.
How do we stop engineers skipping updates?
Keep the form short, let them log by replying to a message where the tool allows it, and make the CRM the only place the owner looks at the pipeline. People keep up the record they know is being read.
Should the CRM hold client credentials or access details?
No. Keep contacts, stages and commercial notes there, and keep access in a secrets store or the client's own system. A CRM with many users is the wrong place for keys, and a breach there would be your own.
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.

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