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$130K found before anything was built.

Company held by agreement · numbers from their books

The objective

Give a technical team direction to scale: find where the money was leaking, translate the tech for buyers, and map exactly what was needed to convert.

What the gap scan found
  • Two key roles undefined, work landing on the wrong desks
  • Spend spread across tools and efforts nobody owned
  • Deep tech the buyer could not understand, so it was not converting
  • What we deployed
  • Audited the team and expenses, reallocated to positive ROI
  • Buyer branding, messaging, and AI and tech translation
  • LinkedIn strategy, custom templates, and workflow support
  • Mapped what was needed to convert, then built it out
  • Measured in their books
    $130K

    saved and reallocated in the first month, from the gap scan alone.

    +35%sales traffic in the first month
    5-10 hrsback every week once the workflow support went live
    Client results
    2new clients closed within 60 days
    Month 1the savings landed before any build started
    Dailythe realigned strategy is what the company runs on today
    Pipeline
    2 clients closedin the first 2 months after the LinkedIn strategy and workflows went live
    Highlights and notes

    The client is unnamed by agreement, standard for BERMO engagements. The numbers are from their own books and analytics, and references are available on an intro call.

    The story.

    They came in asking for help with growth. The gap scan found the money first. Two key roles were undefined, so critical work kept landing on the wrong desks. Spend was spread across tools and efforts nobody owned. And the product, genuinely deep AI, was described in language buyers could not follow.

    Before building anything, BERMO audited the team and the expenses and reallocated the spend to where it would return: $130K put back to work in the first month. Then the build: buyer-first branding and messaging that translated the tech, a LinkedIn strategy with custom templates, workflow support that gave hours back every week, and a mapped plan for exactly what was needed to convert.

    Sixty days in: +35% sales traffic and 2 new clients closed. The realigned strategy is what the company runs on today.

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