Build a Defensible Investment Case for Pre-Sales Execution
Use this page to align leadership on three decisions: engagement depth, operating safeguards, and expected commercial impact.
All plans run on Pay After Deliver. No upfront commitment.
Determine Your operating fit Engagement in 8 Inputs
The engine returns a recommendation, confidence level, rationale, and ranked alternatives.
Recommendation
Recommended plan: Complete the assessment to generate a recommendation.
Confidence: --
Rationale
Plan ranking (recommended + alternatives)
Lead-generation policy: --
Capacity Matrix by Plan (Commercials Excluded)
These matrices define delivery capacity, scope boundaries, and operating rules for Assist, Office, and Enterprise.
Quick Definitions
- Active pursuit: one live opportunity supported end-to-end in pre-sales, from discovery to scope approval.
- Client meeting: call preparation, attendance, minutes, and next-step ownership.
- Deck: new deck or major refresh (mini decks count as a deck).
- Solution asset: solution outline, HLD, roadmap, integration view, assumptions, and risk controls.
- Proposal pack: scope, milestones, acceptance criteria, commercial narrative, and annexures as needed.
- Consultants on demand: specialist experts scheduled for selected calls with your approval and confidentiality controls.
How to Read the Plans
- Without leads: your team provides pipeline, AiXO runs conversion execution.
- With leads: AiXO adds pipeline build to pre-sales execution.
- Lead generation is structured as a 90-day minimum execution track.
- This section covers capacity, scope, and safeguards; commercials are excluded.
Assist Plan: With and Without Leads
| Category | Assist Without Leads | Assist With Leads |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | You already have leads, need help converting | You want leads plus basic pre-sales support |
| Lead generation | Not included | Included, pipeline build |
| Lead gen minimum term | Not applicable | 90 day minimum commitment recommended |
| ICP definition and targeting | Light refinement | Included, ICP definition and refinement |
| Target list | Not included | Included, build and refresh monthly |
| Messaging and sequences | Not included | Included, create and iterate |
| Outreach execution | Not included | Included, outreach and follow ups |
| Meeting booking | Your inbound or your sources | Included, booking and qualification notes |
| Lead qualification | Included for your leads | Included for AiXO generated and your leads |
| Active pursuits at a time | Up to 2 | Up to 2 |
| Client meetings per month | Up to 6 | Up to 6 |
| Decks per month | Up to 2 | Up to 2 |
| Solution assets per month | Up to 2 (outline or light HLD) | Up to 2 (outline or light HLD) |
| Proposal and scope packs per month | Up to 2 (skeleton to standard pack) | Up to 2 |
| Revision cycles | Up to 2 | Up to 2 |
| Governance cadence | Weekly status and next steps | Weekly status and next steps plus lead gen reporting |
| Turnaround SLA | 72 hours | 72 hours |
| Consultants on demand | Not included | Not included |
Office Plan: With and Without Leads (Consultants On Demand Option)
| Category | Office Without Leads | Office With Leads |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | Regular pursuits, you already have pipeline | You want pipeline build plus full pre-sales execution |
| Lead generation | Not included | Included, pipeline build |
| Lead gen minimum term | Not applicable | 90 day minimum commitment recommended |
| ICP and targeting | Included, refine what you sell and who you target | Included, define and iterate ICP and targets |
| Target list | Optional input from you | Included, build and refresh monthly |
| Messaging and sequences | Optional input from you | Included, create and iterate |
| Outreach execution | Not included | Included, outreach and follow ups |
| Meeting booking | Your inbound or your sources | Included, booking and qualification notes |
| Lead qualification | Included for your leads | Included for AiXO generated and your leads |
| Active pursuits at a time | Up to 4 | Up to 4 |
| Client meetings per month | Up to 10 | Up to 10 |
| Decks per month | Up to 3 | Up to 3 |
| Solution assets per month | Up to 3 (HLD, roadmap, assumptions, risks) | Up to 3 |
| Proposal and scope packs per month | Up to 3 | Up to 3 |
| Revision cycles | Up to 3 | Up to 3 |
| Governance cadence | Weekly governance, owners, dates, next steps | Same plus weekly lead gen reporting |
| Turnaround SLA | 48 hours | 48 hours |
| Consultants on demand | Available as add-on | Available as add-on |
Enterprise Plan: With and Without Leads (Consultants On Demand Option)
| Category | Enterprise Without Leads | Enterprise With Leads |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | Enterprise pursuits, RFPs, multi stakeholder deals | Enterprise pipeline build plus enterprise pursuit desk |
| Lead generation | Not included | Included, pipeline build |
| Lead gen minimum term | Not applicable | 90 day minimum commitment recommended |
| ICP and account strategy | Included, refine ICP, target accounts, buying committee | Included, account strategy plus multi persona targeting |
| Target list and account mapping | Optional input from you | Included, account list plus stakeholder mapping support |
| Messaging and sequences | Optional input from you | Included, multi persona messaging and iterations |
| Outreach execution | Not included | Included, outreach and follow ups |
| Meeting booking | Your inbound or your sources | Included, booking and qualification notes |
| Lead qualification | Included for your leads | Included for AiXO generated and your leads |
| Active pursuits at a time | Up to 6, or 3 complex | Up to 6, or 3 complex |
| Client meetings per month | Up to 14 | Up to 14 |
| Decks per month | Up to 5 | Up to 5 |
| Solution assets per month | Up to 5 (integration view, governance posture as needed) | Up to 5 |
| Proposal and scope packs per month | Up to 4 | Up to 4 |
| RFP support option | 1 RFP sprint can replace proposal capacity, capped | Same |
| Revision cycles | Up to 4 | Up to 4 |
| Governance cadence | Weekly governance plus mid week working session | Same plus weekly lead gen reporting |
| Turnaround SLA | 24 to 36 hours | 24 to 36 hours |
| Consultants on demand | Available as add-on | Available as add-on |
Paid Expert Pods and Incremental Uplift Logic
Core bench remains included. Specialist pods are activated as paid overlays when evaluator risk, complexity, or compliance load increases.
| Specialist Pod | Commercial Mode | Typical Trigger | Expected Incremental Uplift (Directional) |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI Readiness & Value Office | Per call / sprint pod / monthly retainer | AI-led pursuit with finance scrutiny and weak business-case confidence | Win-confidence +6-11 points | cycle-time -8% to -14% |
| AI Security & Governance | Per call / sprint pod | Model-risk, data-governance, and assurance objections in committee | Technical trust +7-12 points | objection closure speed +10-18% |
| Cloud FinOps Sprint | Sprint pod / monthly retainer | CXO pressure on cloud spend, attribution, and ROI defensibility | Value clarity +8-15 points | cost-risk objection reduction 12-20% |
| Regulatory / Compliance Pod | Per call / sprint pod | ISO 27001, SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR-led procurement friction | Compliance readiness +10-18 points | approval friction -9% to -16% |
| RFP War-Room Pod | Sprint pod | Complex RFP scoring defense and multi-revision tender cycles | Proposal resilience +9-14 points | revision loops -12% to -22% |
| Platform Specialist Pod | Per call / sprint pod / monthly retainer | Salesforce/ServiceNow/SAP/AWS/Azure/GCP evaluator deep-dives | Evaluator confidence +8-13 points | conversion velocity +6-12% |
Use specialist pods only where risk-adjusted deal economics justify premium depth. This keeps base delivery lean while increasing boardroom defensibility on high-value pursuits.
Scope Protection Rules Across All Options
These safeguards protect quality and prevent unmanaged scope expansion.
| Topic | Standard rule |
|---|---|
| Lead gen performance | With leads is activity based with reporting, not a guarantee of closures. |
| Lead gen runway | Minimum 90 days for lead generation work. |
| Open-ended work volume | Not included, delivered within monthly capacity limits. |
| Implementation delivery | Not included, pre-sales only. |
| Legal contracting | Not included, we support scope clarity only. |
| Extra volume | Supported via add-on packs for extra pursuits, meetings, decks, proposals, revisions. |
| Client presence | Behind the scenes or co presenting with approval. |
| Confidentiality | Always, partner led engagement model. |
Translate Capacity Choice into Financial Impact
Calculate incremental revenue, gross profit, net gain, break-even pipeline, and risk-adjusted upside.
Assumptions used in this model
- Modeled outcomes are directional and assume weekly governance discipline.
- Lead-generation track is activity-based and follows a 90-day minimum runway.
- Net impact uses current pre-sales cost baseline and selected plan delta.
- Confidence score adjusts based on data completeness and operating maturity context.
Decision Pack Output
- Incremental revenue, gross profit, and net gain tied to your current win-rate baseline.
- Risk-adjusted net gain with explicit current pre-sales cost adjustment.
- Break-even pipeline by Assist, Office, and Enterprise scenarios.
- Model rationale and confidence level for leadership review.
ROI Results
Model version and release date appear after calculation.
Assumptions: directional model, no guaranteed closures, and outputs depend on disciplined execution cadence.
Recommended Sprint:
Break-even Pipeline by Plan
| Plan | Plan Price | Break-even Pipeline |
|---|
Interpretation: lower break-even pipeline indicates faster economics defensibility at current margin assumptions.
Sensitivity View (Conservative / Base / Aggressive)
| Base Lift | Modeled Lift | Incremental Revenue | Incremental GP | Net Gain |
|---|
Risk warning: sensitivity scenarios are directional and assume process execution quality remains stable.
Break-even by Gross Margin Scenario
| Margin Scenario | Assist | Office | Enterprise |
|---|
What this model does not capture
- Procurement-specific commercial concessions and legal redlining effects.
- Macroeconomic demand shifts across service lines and geographies.
- Execution variance caused by delayed stakeholder response cycles.
Formula explainability
- Incremental Revenue: pipeline × modeled win-rate lift.
- Incremental Gross Profit: incremental revenue × gross margin.
- Net Gain: incremental GP − (selected plan cost − current pre-sales cost baseline).
- Break-even pipeline: required pipeline where incremental GP equals plan investment delta.
