Partner playbook · Pay-Forward Program

You bring the client. We run their funnel for a month. At our cost.

No trial. No demo. No "let us show you a dashboard." For thirty days we operate as the client's outbound engine — we build the target account list, enrich the contacts, run the campaign, and capture the first-party signals off their own website. At the end we hand over a proof pack with real names, real journeys and real warm leads.

Your job is to bring a client who passes three gates. That's it.

What we actually do

The offer, in one paragraph you can repeat

Say it like this

"For one month they'll run your outbound for you, and they cover the cost. They'll build the list of companies you should be going after, find the actual decision-makers with verified contact details, run the campaign, and put tracking on your website so you can see which of those companies come and look at you afterwards."

"At the end of thirty days you get a report with names in it. Which companies were reached, who engaged, who came to your site and what they read, and which ones are warm enough to call."

"You're not signing anything. You're not paying for the month. If the report is worth nothing to you, you walk away with the list."

The reason this converts is that it removes the two things that kill B2B software deals — the implementation risk and the "will it work for us" question. There's nothing to evaluate. There's a month of work, and then evidence.

We bear

Platform and infrastructure cost, enrichment credits, campaign build, list construction and the operating time for the month.

They bring

A website we can tag, a named point of contact, a one-hour ICP session, and sign-off on the messaging before anything sends.

They keep

The target account list and the proof pack, whether or not they continue. That's the pay-forward part, and saying it out loud is what makes it credible.

You get

Referral terms — commission, trigger and timing to be confirmed before distribution.

Qualification

Three gates. All three, or don't bring it.

A month of paid-for work is a serious commitment on our side, so the filter has to be real. Each gate below is written as a question you can ask in ordinary conversation — you never need to use a technical word.

01

B2B driven

They sell to companies, and the sale is worth chasing

The whole engine identifies visiting companies and reaches buying groups. A consumer business has nothing for it to work with. And the sale has to be big enough that a handful of warm leads changes their quarter.

Ask"Who buys from you — other companies or the general public?" and "Roughly what's a typical deal worth to you?"
Passes ifSells to businesses, and one new client is worth a meaningful sum — the kind of number where winning two would be a good month.
02

Pivoting to their own data

They've felt the pain of rented channels and are ready to own the relationship

This is the attitude gate, and it's the one partners get wrong most often. We're not looking for someone who understands data strategy. We're looking for someone who is fed up — ads getting more expensive, lead lists going stale, platform changes hurting them, agency reports they don't trust. That frustration is the readiness signal.

Ask"Where do your leads come from today, and how's that going?"
Passes ifYou hear frustration with paid ads, bought lists, agencies or platform dependence. Any version of "we're pouring money in and I can't see what comes out" is a pass.
Fails ifThey're content. Someone happy with their current lead flow will not give you an hour of their time, let alone a month of attention.
03

Funnel discipline

Someone will actually follow up on what we hand over

The hardest gate and the one that decides whether the month succeeds. We can deliver forty warm leads into a business with no one to work them, and thirty days later it looks like the programme failed. It didn't — the follow-up did.

Ask"If I handed your team twenty warm leads on Monday, who picks them up and what happens by Friday?"
Passes ifThey name a person or a process without hesitating. A sales head, a CRM they actually use, a weekly pipeline review, a rep who owns follow-up.
Fails ifThe answer is vague, or the answer is "me, when I get time." A busy founder with no sales support will not work the list, and the proof pack will die in an inbox.

The fourth requirement — non-negotiable, and it's technical

They must let us put a tracking tag on their website. Without it there is no first-party data, no visitor journeys, and no proof pack worth the name — we'd be running a generic outbound campaign and calling it something else.

You don't need to explain it. Just confirm the door is open: "Would your web person be able to add a small tracking snippet to the site? Takes them ten minutes." If the answer is "we'd have to go through a long approval" or "we don't control the website," flag it to us before you promise anything.

Where to hunt

The verticals where this breaks through fastest

These aren't guesses — they're the segments where the offer has already found traction or where the buying pattern fits the model exactly. Red means go there first.

Technology & funded companies

B2B SaaS, Series A–B IT services & systems integrators ERP partners — SAP, D365, Oracle Cybersecurity vendors FinTech EdTech HealthTech Data & analytics consultancies

Why they convert: long sales cycles, named-account buying, a marketing owner who already thinks in pipeline terms, and genuine pain from rising paid-acquisition costs.

Services & specialist businesses

HR & HRMS providers Staffing & recruitment firms Specialty clinics & diagnostics groups Professional services — audit, legal, consulting BFSI & insurance intermediaries Logistics & freight Manufacturers & exporters selling B2B Commercial real estate

Why they convert: high-value relationships, referral-dependent growth that has plateaued, and almost no existing digital acquisition capability — so the improvement is dramatic and obvious.

The highest-quality lead you can bring us

A company that sells to enterprises, has a named list of target accounts they're already trying to win, and isn't landing them. They've done the hard thinking about who they want. They just have no way to tell which of those accounts is warming up, and no reliable way to reach the right people inside them. That is exactly the gap this month closes, and the conversation is short because they already understand the problem.

What happens

The thirty days, week by week

Share this with the client. Knowing the shape of the month is what converts "sounds interesting" into "let's start." The order matters — each stage feeds the next.

Days 1–3 · Setup

Tag, targets and a one-hour session

Tracking goes live on their website. We run a working session to define exactly who they want to sell to — industry, size, geography, job titles, the accounts they've been chasing without success. Their existing target list, if they have one, goes in here.

Days 4–7 · Build

Account list and contact enrichment

We build the target account list, then find and verify the real decision-makers inside each one — not one contact per company, but the buying group. Every email is validated before it enters the campaign so their sending reputation stays clean.

Days 8–12 · Approve and launch

Messaging signed off, first sequence live

They see and approve every message before it sends. Nothing goes out in their name that they haven't read. Then the campaign launches and the first responses start landing.

Days 13–21 · Run

Campaign runs, website signals start arriving

This is where the two halves connect. People who received the outreach start visiting their website — and because the tag is live, we can see which companies came back, which pages they read, how long they stayed and how often they returned. That behaviour is what separates a polite reply from a real buyer.

Days 22–28 · Route

Warm leads handed over as they surface

Warm leads don't wait for the report. As accounts cross the intent threshold they go straight to the client's team with the full journey attached, so follow-up happens while interest is live.

Days 29–30 · Prove

Proof pack and the decision conversation

Full report, walked through live. Then one straightforward conversation about whether to continue.

The deliverable

The proof pack — what we commit to reporting

Say these numbers out loud when you're pitching. A specific list of what they'll receive is far more persuasive than any promise about results, and it sets expectations we can actually meet.

Day 30 proof pack · every figure comes with the underlying names
Measure What it means in plain terms Why it matters to them
Accounts identified Companies matching their ICP, built into a named target list An asset they keep regardless of what they decide
Accounts touched Companies that actually received outreach Proof of reach — the top of the funnel, filled
Contacts enriched Named decision-makers found and verified inside those companies Shows the buying group, not one guessed contact
Contacts engaged People who opened, clicked or replied The first real signal of interest
Accounts returning to site Companies that came to the website after being contacted The moment outbound and first-party data connect — this is the number that sells the platform
User journeys captured Page-by-page replay of what each account read, how deep, how often Their sales team walks into calls knowing what the prospect cares about
Warm leads delivered Accounts that engaged and showed buying behaviour on site The headline number — the one the founder will judge the month on
Meeting-ready leads Warm leads with a named contact and a clear next step Directly convertible pipeline
First-party vitals Return visits, pricing-page views, session depth, time between touch and visit The evidence that intent is real rather than polite
The line that closes the month

"Here are eleven companies that read your pricing page after we contacted them. Three came back twice. Your team hasn't called any of them yet."

That sentence is why the tracking tag is non-negotiable. Outbound alone produces replies. Outbound plus first-party data produces named accounts with observable intent — and that's a category of evidence they have never seen for their own business before.

The conversion

What happens at day thirty

The month is not a gift with no ending. Set the expectation on day one and the final conversation is easy — spring it at the end and it feels like a bait-and-switch, which costs you the relationship as well as the deal.

Say this at the start, not the end

"At the end of the thirty days they'll show you what they found and ask whether you want to carry on. If yes, you move onto a paid plan and keep the engine running. If no, you keep the list and the report and there's no invoice."

"They do this because arguing about software in a meeting is a waste of everyone's time. They'd rather show you your own pipeline."

Continue

Client moves to a paid plan and keeps the engine running with their own team or ours. This is the outcome the whole programme is built for.

Extend

Results are promising but the month landed badly — a holiday period, a leadership change, a slow start on the tag. We may extend rather than lose it. Our call, not a default.

Close out

They keep the list and the proof pack. We stay in touch. A well-run close-out often comes back six months later, so never let this end badly.

Ready to send

Pay-forward scripts

WhatsApp — warm contact

Hi Name — something I think you'd want to hear about.

A team I work with is running a programme where they take on your outbound for a month, at their cost. They build the list of companies you should be targeting, find the actual decision-makers, run the campaign, and track which of those companies then come and look at your website.

End of the month you get a report with real names — who was reached, who engaged, who's warm. You keep it either way.

They're only doing a few of these. Want me to put your name forward?

The qualifying conversation — in order

1. "Who buys from you — companies or consumers? And what's a typical deal worth?"

2. "Where are your leads coming from today, and how's that working out?"

3. "If I handed your team twenty warm leads on Monday, who picks them up?"

4. "Could your web person add a small tracking snippet to your site? Ten-minute job."

Four questions, under three minutes. If all four land well, you have a qualified pay-forward candidate and you should make the offer in that same conversation.

LinkedIn message — cooler contact

Hi Name, I'll be direct.

I work with a team running a limited programme for B2B companies: they operate your outbound for thirty days at their own cost — target list, contact research, campaigns, plus tracking that shows which companies visit your site afterwards.

You get a proof pack with named accounts and warm leads at the end. No cost, no commitment, and you keep the list.

It only suits companies selling into other businesses with a team ready to follow up. Sounds like company might fit — worth a short call?

Handover to us — send these seven things

1. Company name and website

2. Contact name, role, phone or email

3. What they sell and roughly what a deal is worth

4. Where their leads come from now, in their words

5. Who follows up on leads — the answer to gate three

6. Whether they can get the tag installed

7. Any target account list they already have

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Guardrails

How many you can bring

  • N pay-forwards per partner per quarter — the cap exists because each one is a month of real work, and confirmed slots beat a long waiting list
  • One per company, not one per contact within a company
  • We confirm before you promise — check the slot is open, then make the offer
  • Quality over volume — three qualified candidates are worth more to both of us than twelve unqualified ones

Don't bring these

  • Consumer businesses, retail, hospitality, anything walk-in
  • Companies who won't or can't install the tag
  • Businesses with nobody to follow up on leads
  • Anyone mid-way through a major system migration
  • Companies who want us to email lists they bought elsewhere
  • Anyone expecting closed deals in thirty days — we deliver qualified pipeline, not signed contracts, and promising otherwise guarantees a bad ending

Never promise a number

Do not say "you'll get thirty leads." Volume depends on their market size, their website traffic, their deal size and their own follow-up. Promise the process and the report — the specific measures listed in the proof pack — never a result. A partner who over-promises creates a disappointed client and burns a relationship that took years to build.

Where messages come from

Campaigns run on properly configured sending infrastructure, and every message is approved by the client before it goes out. If a prospect asks who the emails come from or expresses concern about how their contacts were sourced, don't improvise — that's a question for our team, and the answer is part of what we set up in week one.