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What 361,000 Opportunities Reveal About Forecast Slippage
Operational data across 361,000 opportunities is blunt: much of the pipeline you commit to slips, in knowable ways. Here is why forecast slippage is predictable, and how to forecast on evidence instead of the board.

Lolita Trachtengerts
7 days ago3 min read


A Forecast You Can Defend, Deal by Deal
Every forecast survives until someone asks why a committed deal slipped. Here is how to build a forecast you can defend, deal by deal, with evidence under every number instead of ratios and gut feel.

Lolita Trachtengerts
Sep 83 min read


Revenue-Data Provenance: The Trust Layer AI Forecasting Needs
AI will forecast confidently on wrong data, and the output looks the same either way. Here is why provenance, knowing where each number came from, is the trust layer AI forecasting needs.

Lolita Trachtengerts
Sep 83 min read


The Deals Quietly Stalling in Your Pipeline
Deals rarely die in a meeting; they die by sitting. Here is why stalled deals hide in your pipeline, why time in stage is the honest signal, and how a velocity warning catches the stall while you can still act.

Lolita Trachtengerts
Sep 84 min read


The Revenue Forecasting Platform Landscape: How to Evaluate Your Options
Every revenue platform promises a better forecast. A fair map of the forecasting landscape, Clari, Aviso, People.ai, Revenue.io, and Spotlight.ai, and the criteria that separate them.

Lolita Trachtengerts
Jun 253 min read


QBR-Ready Dashboards in Salesforce: Why RevOps Needs Truth, Not Spreadsheets
RevOps loses days each quarter exporting data and stitching spreadsheets for QBRs, only to present numbers leaders still question. Spotlight.ai solves this with QBR-ready dashboards that live inside Salesforce. No more manual prep or offline decks — just inspection-ready, evidence-based dashboards that save RevOps time and give CROs confidence in the boardroom.

Lolita Trachtengerts
Sep 5, 20253 min read
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