Problem · Owners
I am the only person who can sell this, and I am out of hours.
Revenue depends on you explaining the product, and you are already explaining it 30 hours a week. The instinct is to hire a salesperson. The spreadsheet usually disagrees, because the part of your week worth renting is not the closing. It is the prospecting, the follow up, and the content that answers the question before the call.
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Kinetic at $10,000 a month runs the prospecting, the follow up, and the content, and books qualified meetings on your calendar with a brief. You take the meeting, which is the one job only you can do. Pricing is published.
Split the job before you fill it
Selling is four jobs wearing one title. Prospecting: finding and reaching the right accounts. Qualifying: confirming fit and getting a meeting held. Closing: the technical conversation where founder knowledge wins. Following up: the ten touches after the meeting that turn interest into a signature. Founders are irreplaceable at the third and terrible at the first, because prospecting is repetitive and the founder always has something more urgent.
Rent the first, second, and fourth. Keep the third. That split is why our outbound seat books the meeting, briefs you, and steps out.
Why the first sales hire usually fails
A salesperson inherits your demand environment. If the site is thin and nobody has heard of you, the best closer alive sits in an empty room, and SaaStr's writing on first sales hires puts the miss rate near a coin flip. An account executive loads to $120,000 to $180,000 with on target earnings, ramps for three to four months, and often leaves inside two years. Budget the miss: $80,000 to $150,000 for zero meetings, then start over.
For a technical product this is worse. The rep also has to explain a knockout model, a diagnostic, or a billing workflow to a buyer who knows more than they do.
What to buy by stage
Under $1 million: the founder sells, and the money goes to a site and content that carry the technical explanation so each call starts halfway done. That is Baseline at $2,500. $1 million to $10 million: rent the pipeline and keep the close. Kinetic at $10,000 runs content, ads, and one outbound seat with a monthly meeting number in writing, and the founder takes the meetings. Past $10 million with a sales team: hire sales leadership and hand them a documented system rather than a blank page. The Protocol exists for that handoff.
What changes in your week
Prospecting hours go to zero. Meeting prep drops because every meeting arrives with a brief. Calls get shorter because the prospect has read the pricing page and the case study before showing up. Founders on Kinetic typically hold 8 to 15 more qualified conversations a month and spend fewer hours in sales than before, because the hours that remain are the ones that close.
Questions on this problem
You, or a closer on your side. Our contact form asks this before we quote Kinetic. If the answer is nobody yet, start with content and paid demand until there is.
No, on purpose. For a technical sale, founder knowledge closes and prospecting wastes it. We rent you the prospecting.
Around $5 million to $10 million, when the founder cannot take every meeting the system books. Hire an account executive who closes, not an SDR who prospects, and give them the runbooks.
George Stoff, Founder and Lead Engineer
Thirty years building software, brands, and demand. On every account.