Enterprise / PE-backedProfessional Services

Moving outbound off a native CRM sequencer and wiring a signal-trigger layer into it

Outbound consolidated onto one platform

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Play leadSarmadRevOps team · LeanScale

The problem

The firm ran two systems of record, a CRM for go-to-market and a separate operational system for delivery and billing, and the seam between them leaked. Outbound lived in the CRM's native sequencing tool, which the business-development team had outgrown: reps couldn't complete cadences whose steps interleaved email and calls, and historical context lived in a system they had to leave the sequencer to check.

The play

  1. 1
    Migrated outbound onto a dedicated sales-engagement platform

    Ported active CRM sequences across one at a time, closing enrollment in the old tool while letting in-flight contacts finish.

  2. 2
    Split every cadence by channel, because that was the actual blocker

    Reps were stuck when a cadence alternated email and call steps and the call couldn't be made, the email step behind it was unreachable. Each cadence was split into a paired email-only and call-only cadence running on different intervals, with enrollment and un-enrollment kept in sync across the pair so a contact entering one entered both.

  3. 3
    Built a signal-trigger library and specified each trigger before building it

    Triggers for contact job changes, company hiring and departures, funding events, and transaction events such as mergers, acquisitions and public listings. Each was documented in a working sheet covering trigger name, description, intended output, who the resulting task or notification routes to, frequency, filter parameters and credit cost.

  4. 4
    Tuned the triggers rather than trusting them

    Alert volume proved unworkable within the first weeks, so the program was audited for repeat populations and false positives against real examples.

  5. 5
    Rebuilt the re-engagement motion for lapsed relationships

    The data came first: years of historical meeting records consolidated, contacts enriched and de-duplicated, last-meeting and desired-next-meeting dates backfilled, and a rule to select which dormant contacts were actually workable.

  6. 6
    Fixed lead source end to end
  7. 7
    Closed the loop to the delivery and billing systems

    Rolled invoiced amounts from the operational system's project records back into CRM deals, aggregated by invoice group, so booked value could be compared against what was actually billed, including a historical backfill of legacy projects as retroactive deal records.

What it moved

Outbound consolidated onto one platform

Active sequences were retired from the CRM and rebuilt in the sequencer, with historical meeting and email context synced across so reps stopped bouncing between two systems mid-task.

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