The Player-Coach Model (Designed to Make Us Obsolete)
Four steps. One senior revenue leader. From your first Evaluation to scale, capital or exit. We don’t just hand you a playbook and walk away. We get on the field with you until the playbook runs itself.
True revenue leadership isn’t taught in business school; it’s forged in the market. As an empirical CRO, Rich steps directly into your business. We build the strategy, construct the operational system to run it, and act as your player/coach -closing deals, leading your sales team, and refining the motion side-by-side with your team. Our ultimate measure of success? Leaving behind a high-velocity sales engine that your people execute seamlessly without our help.
The E.D.G.E.™ Path
Every engagement starts with the Evaluation, because every plan should start with the truth. From there, you move only as far as your company requires.
| Step | The question it answers | Investment |
| Evaluate: Revenue System Evaluation | Where does our revenue really stand? | $4,500 one time, credited if you continue |
| Drive | How do we make revenue steady? | $4,500/month + 5% of growth above your baseline |
| Grow | How does growth run without the owner? | $8,500/month + 5% of growth above your baseline |
| Expand | How do we scale, raise capital, or exit? | $12,500/month + 5% of growth above your baseline |
Evaluate
Start with the truth about your revenue.
A documented baseline, your revenue bottlenecks ranked, and a Revenue System Plan, reviewed personally by Rich in a 90-minute readout. See how the Evaluation works.
Drive
Make revenue steady.
Best for: Owners who are still the main seller, with up to three reps. Typically $5M–$15M.
What Rich does: Installs your Revenue System Plan in your CRM and coaches you weekly to keep it on track.
Cadence: Weekly check-in.
Outcome: A visible pipeline and a forecast you can plan around as you scale.
Investment: $4,500/month + 5% of growth above your baseline.
Grow
Make growth run without you.
Best for: Companies building or fixing sales and marketing alignment. Typically $10M–$30M.
What Rich does: Aligns sales and marketing, leads your sales team’s execution of the plan, and improves sales operations, including compensation design.
Cadence: Weekly pipeline review; monthly leadership meeting.
Outcome: Growth that no longer runs through the owner.
Investment: $8,500/month + 5% of growth above your baseline.
Expand
Scale, raise capital, or exit.
Best for: Companies with multiple teams or new markets, and scaling, a capital raise or an exit in view. Typically $20M–$50M.
What Rich does: Leads revenue across teams, new markets and offers, and prepares your revenue for capital or exit.
Cadence: Weekly leadership meeting; board and investor updates.
Outcome: Revenue ready to scale, raise capital, or exit.
Investment: $12,500/month + 5% of growth above your baseline.
Fit is by need, not just revenue.
The revenue ranges are guides. A $40M company whose owner still closes every deal may start in Drive. Your Evaluation will tell us where to begin.
How the 5% works
Your Evaluation documents your revenue baseline. In Drive, Grow and Expand, you pay 5% of revenue growth above that baseline, so we earn more only when you do. The exact terms are in your statement of work.
Fractional or full-time?
| GrowExpand fractional CRO | Full-time CRO | |
| Cost | $4,500–$12,500/month + 5% of growth | $250,000+ a year in salary, before benefits, revenue share, and equity |
| Risk | Month to month after the first 12-18 month term | Costly to hire, and costly to replace |
| Seniority | A senior revenue leader with a banker’s eye | Varies widely |
| Handoff | The person who evaluates your revenue leads it. Our successor need only manage what works. | A new hire, with new guesses, learning your business |
Why Founders Trust Rich?
His over $500M in closed deals articulates why his approach to Revenue Operations doesn’t just yield beautiful, 200-page reports you can’t implement. Rich has seen every stage of growth. He’s been a bank revenue strategist, a GTM advisor for two VC firms, and a Fractional CRO for companies led by men & women of vision -who never trade integrity for profits. More about Rich.
Every engagement starts with the truth.
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