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When a Stage Shouldn't Be Marked Complete
In most CRMs stage exit criteria are advisory, a rep clicks the stage forward regardless. Here is why voluntary criteria fail and how gating a stage on evidence makes the pipeline mean what it says.

Lolita Trachtengerts
Sep 243 min read


What a Deal Score Should Actually Tell You
Most deal scores are a single number pretending to be insight. Here is what a score has to do to be useful, explain itself and point to an action, and why an unexplained number gets ignored.

Lolita Trachtengerts
Sep 243 min read


Can You Trust an AI Agent on a Live Deal?
Handing an AI agent a live deal is a higher bar than a good demo. Here is what makes an agent trustworthy on real opportunities: shown evidence, grounding, and inspection you can repeat.

Lolita Trachtengerts
Sep 164 min read


Auto-Fill Your MEDDICC Roles: Champion and Economic Buyer
Every team says it runs MEDDICC, but the Champion and Economic Buyer fields are half empty and half wrong. Here is why hand-entered roles fail, and how populating them from evidence makes qualification honest.

Lolita Trachtengerts
Sep 83 min read


SMG and Spotlight.ai Announce Strategic Partnership
Bridging the Gap Between Methodology and Execution

Lolita Trachtengerts
Mar 24, 20255 min read
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