Writing

Notes on selling, pricing and proving outcomes.

Pricing, proof, and the chain between what you sell and what your customers actually get.

Pricing

The Way We Sell Technology Is Breaking. Quietly.

Per-seat and per-hour pricing worked because usage was a fair proxy for value. AI is breaking that proxy, and BPO already showed how slowly a shift like this really moves.

The chain

One Story, Four Tellings, Four Break Points

Forty minutes with an enterprise leadership team, and they couldn't connect their offer to an outcome their customers care about. That's the norm, and it breaks in the same four places every time.

Deal insight

The Biggest Deal We Ever Won and Didn't Sign

An eight-figure BPO contract, days from signature, that we walked away from. And why the gap that killed it is usually visible long before anyone signs.

Deal insight

What a 1999 Contract Still Gets Right About Outcome Pricing

AI is supposed to make outcome-based pricing scalable. The commercial questions it raises were being asked, and answered, twenty-seven years ago.

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