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Plug the
Funnel.
Route Faster.

For demand gen and marketing ops teams who watch leads disappear between form-fill and SQL. We rebuild the path so the right rep gets the right lead in under two minutes.

For Demand Gen · Marketing Ops · RevOps
Drives Pipeline · Velocity · MQL→SQL conversion
Engagement From 4 weeks · Retainer or fixed-fee
Outcome SQLs sales actually accept
PlatformsMarketoHubSpotSFDC + PardotLeanData6sense
What this service is

The funnel isn't broken. It's leaking in five specific places.

Every demand gen team we meet is haemorrhaging leads at the same five points: capture, dedupe, scoring, routing, and follow-up. Most of it is fixable in a quarter. We diagnose your leak profile, then rebuild the seams, schema, scoring, routing rules, SLA enforcement, on the platform you already pay for.

Covers
✓01Lead Generation
✓02Data Collection
✓03Segmentation
✓04Lead Scoring
✓05Lead Nurturing
✓06Lead Routing
✓07CRM Integrations
✓08Pipeline Management
Field Note · No.04

Speed-to-lead beats lead score. A 5-minute response is 21× more likely to qualify than a 30-minute one, and most teams take over 24 hours.

Operations Brief , UNEXPECTED404
Live model · Routing waterfall

Where 99% of your leads actually go.

Per 10,000 form fills. Industry-typical funnel on the left, post-engagement on the right. Toggle to see what tuning recovers.

Funnel · per 10,000 form fills Live
TOFU
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CRM
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Routed
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Worked
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SAL
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Won
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The compounding cost of a leaky funnel.

Most B2B teams lose 99% of form fills before close, and 70% of that loss happens in the boring middle: dedupe, routing, and follow-up SLAs. Tighten those three seams and the same volume of leads produces 4× the pipeline.

Closed-won / 10k
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Cycle time
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How a typical engagement runs

From kickoff to live in a quarter or less.

Five phases. Five working agreements. Each one ends with something live, measurable, and handed back to your team.

01
Wk 1–2

Discovery

Audit your funnel, lead sources, scoring history, CRM state.

02
Wk 3–4

Architecture

Schema, scoring model, routing logic, designed and signed off.

03
Wk 5–7

Build & Wire

Forms, enrichment, journeys, assignment rules, shipped.

04
Wk 8

Launch

Soft-launch with sales. Tune SLAs. Watch the funnel breathe.

05
Ongoing

Optimize

Monthly review, scoring refresh, segment iteration.

You should know

Five symptoms.
Five fixes. Side by side.

The left column is what we walk into on Lead Management. The right is what we ship: same operating surface, cleaner ownership, and fewer manual workarounds.

Today · inconsistent and manual
After · governed and observable
  1. 01
    Today

    Unorganized Lead Capture

    Vital information about potential leads is missed or recorded inaccurately. Forms collect data nobody reads. CRM fields drift. By the time sales picks up the lead, half the context is gone.

    →
    After

    Accurate Capturing

    Relevant lead information is collected from every source, web, events, integrations, and organized for instant access. No fields drift, no detail dropped.

  2. 02
    Today

    Poor Scoring Algorithms

    All leads treated equally, regardless of likelihood to convert.

    →
    After

    Scalable Lead Scoring

    Multi-criteria scoring that adapts dynamically as new behavior comes in.

  3. 03
    Today

    Generic Nurturing

    One message for everyone. Engagement collapses.

    →
    After

    Personalized Nurtures

    Content that meets each lead's stage, interest, and buying signal.

  4. 04
    Today

    Outdated Practices

    Strategies built for buyers who don't exist anymore.

    →
    After

    Continuous Optimization

    Always-on review of trends, performance, and incoming signals.

  5. 05
    Today

    Misaligned Marketing & Sales

    Two teams in silos. No shared definitions. Hand-offs lose half their value because nobody agrees what a "qualified lead" actually means.

    →
    After

    Marketing & Sales in Sync

    Shared definitions, shared dashboards, shared SLAs. Every interaction is tracked and analytics drives the next strategy revision.

Recognize three or more? Book the 10-minute intro call →

What this actually entails.

Four core capabilities, working as one system.

Phase 01 · Capture
  • Forms
  • Enrichment
  • Dedupe
  • Progressive profiling
01

Capture & Qualify

Forms, gating, enrichment, dedupe and progressive profiling. Every lead lands enriched, normalized, and ready for routing. We rebuild the front door so signal beats noise.

DeliverableCapture spec + enrichment rules
Phase 02 · Score
  • Behavioral scoring
  • Firmographic fit
  • Decay rules
02

Score & Prioritize

Behavioral and demographic scoring models tuned to your funnel. We build the math so reps spend their day on the leads that close, not the ones that ghost.

DeliverableScoring model + tuning playbook
Phase 03 · Nurture
  • Stage-aware journeys
  • Re-engagement
  • Field-level personalization
03

Nurture & Engage

Stage-aware nurture journeys, personalization at the field level, and re-engagement triggers that actually wake cold leads up. Content meets the moment, every time.

DeliverableNurture programs + engagement triggers
Phase 04 · Route
  • Round-robin
  • Geo + segment
  • SLA enforcement
04

Route & Hand-Off

Round-robin, geo, segment, account. Assignment logic that respects how your team really works. SLAs enforced. Marketing-to-sales hand-off becomes a clean transfer, not a black hole.

DeliverableRouting rules + SLA dashboards

Four phases · One system · zero leakage

Common questions

Questions we hear every week.

If you don't see yours here, the easiest way to get an answer is to ask. We don't gate calls.

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First measurable signal usually lands in 4–6 weeks once routing and scoring are live. Compounding gains, better-tuned scoring, smarter nurtures, show up in months 2–4.

Almost never. We work in what you already own, HubSpot, Marketo, Salesforce, Pardot, Iterable. The job is to make those tools actually do the work they were bought to do.

Your team. We document everything, run training, and stick around on a retainer if you want a shared brain. The goal is leverage for your operators, not dependency on us.

It usually is. Phase one starts with cleanup, duplicates, decayed records, broken sources, before any scoring model gets built. Garbage in still equals garbage out, even with AI.

Yes. We tend to handle the technical layer; agencies handle creative and demand. We sit in the same Slack and divide work cleanly.

Pairs well with

Services that strengthen this build.

Most engagements pull in one or two adjacent services. Use these when the build needs cleaner data, sharper routing, or a broader operating model.

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01 / StrategyPairs well

Martech Strategy

Frame the bet, platform mix, operating model, and roadmap before the build queue.

  • Stack audit
  • Roadmap
  • TCO model
→
02 / AgentsPairs well

Agentic Engineering

Production agents with tools, evals, guardrails, observability, and human handoff.

  • Tools
  • Evals
  • Guardrails
→
03 / LeadsCurrent

Lead Management

Capture, dedupe, score, route, and nurture without leaks between marketing and sales.

  • Scoring
  • Routing
  • SLA
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04 / ProgramsPairs well

Marketing Automation

Behavior-triggered programs that ship at scale across lifecycle, nurture, and expansion.

  • Lifecycle
  • Triggers
  • Reporting
→
05 / DataPairs well

Data Management

Schemas, cleanup, enrichment, quality monitoring, and governance.

  • Schemas
  • Sync
  • Governance
→
06 / WorkflowsPairs well

Workflow Automation

Integrations and back-office workflows that remove manual handoffs.

  • Triggers
  • Routing
  • Audit
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◆ Let's talk · 10-minute intro call

Stop losing leads to plumbing.

Most lead-management problems aren't a strategy issue, they're a wiring issue. We rebuild the wiring so the strategy gets to actually run.

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47%
avg lift in MQL→SQL conversion across recent rollouts
< 5 min
lead routing SLA, post-launch, round-the-clock
0
leads dropped on the floor between marketing & sales
4×
more SQLs per quarter on the same lead volume after re-routing
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