Third-Party QBR Moderation

Your QBRs aren't working.
Everyone in the room
already knows it.

We sit in the room with your sales team and go through every deal in the pipeline. Your team provides the numbers. We provide the verdict.

4,847
QBRs survived by our founders
50+
Combined years in pre-sales
$0.25
Commission earned per rep dollar
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Not a one-size-fits-all

Tailored to Your Needs

I need help. I am a…

  • How do I know if my deals are actually as strong as I think?
  • How do I prepare for a QBR without getting ambushed?
  • Why do my deals keep slipping at the last stage?
  • How do I get honest feedback on my pipeline without asking my manager?
  • What does a strong deal actually look like to someone outside our company?

A Cold Eyes Review puts your deals in front of people who don't know you, don't work with you, and have no political reason to be kind. They won't be. That's the whole methodology.

Book a Cold Eyes Review
Sound familiar?

Check the ones that apply.

Each one is a question someone paid us to answer.

If you checked more than three, you don't have a pipeline problem.

You have a QBR problem.

Our proprietary framework, developed over a combined 50+ years in the field

The BRUTAL™ Method

Six pillars. One outcome. No more lying to yourselves.

BBenchmarked

Every deal, every rep, every forecast is measured against what good actually looks like — not what your team insists it looks like.

RReal-time

Scoring happens live, in the room. No retrospective adjustments. No chance to clean up the pipeline before we see it.

UUnbiased

We have no quota. We have no relationships to protect. We have no reason to tell you your deals are fine when they aren't.

TTransparent

Every observation is documented. Every score is explained. Nothing is whispered in the hallway after the meeting.

AAccountable

The session ends with named owners and dated commitments. Not action items. Not 'let's revisit.' Commitments.

LLive-scored

In Cold Eyes Review sessions, every attendee scores every deal in real time. Democratic. Anonymous. Devastating. Effective.

The name is not a coincidence.

The process

How it works

01

Book

Cold Eyes Review for individual reps, Pipeline Reckoning for VP Sales teams, or Revenue Tribunal for full revenue org assessment. Choose your level.

02

Get in the Room

We go through every deal, every rep, and every forecast assumption in real time. The BRUTAL™ Method. Everything gets a score. Nothing gets a pass.

03

Do Something With It

You leave with a written action plan: named owners, specific dates, no wiggle room. Your team can't argue with it because nobody on your team wrote it.

What we offer

Three Tiers of Maniacal Revenue Focus. Zero Mercy.

Pick the one that matches how deep the problem goes.

Tier 1 — Individual

Cold Eyes Review

$500 / seat

For individual reps and AEs preparing for a QBR or wanting an honest read on their pipeline before they're in the room.

  • Group session — other reps from unrelated companies
  • You present your deals, strangers score them live
  • No politics. No colleagues. Nobody in the room with a career reason to be kind about your numbers.
  • Anonymous scoring via the live button
  • Written feedback on each deal presented
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Tier 2 — VP Sales

Pipeline Reckoning

T&E + $500 / rep

For VP Sales who need an honest, independent assessment of their team's pipeline, forecast, and execution — without the internal politics.

  • Private — your team only, no outsiders in the room
  • Full pipeline review across every rep and every deal
  • Forecast reality check: which of these deals do you actually believe will close
  • Rep accountability scoring using The BRUTAL™ Method
  • Written action plan with named owners and dated commitments
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Tier 3 — CEO / CRO

Revenue Tribunal

Contact Sales

For CEOs and CROs who need to assess not just the pipeline, but the VP Sales and the full revenue organisation. Not just what's in the deals. What's in the leadership.

  • Private — CEO/CRO level, full revenue org in scope
  • VP Sales is part of what gets assessed
  • Go-to-market strategy, org structure, and the culture that produced this forecast — all in scope
  • Full Pipeline Reckoning included for every team
  • Enterprise add-on: Live Firings™ available
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Enterprise Add-onRevenue Tribunal only

Live Firings™

On-site. Real time. One conversation your management team has been putting off. We have it instead. Available exclusively as part of the Revenue Tribunal engagement. We do not describe this further in public.

Cold Eyes Review feature

Everyone gets
a button.

In Cold Eyes Review sessions, every attendee receives a physical scoring device. As each rep presents their deals, everyone else rates them in real time — anonymously.

These are people from unrelated companies with zero political reason to be kind to your sales team. They will not be.

Real-time deal ratings from strangers who have no reason to lie to you.
That's the feature.

Live scoring — current deal
6.0
/ 10  ·  6 voters
Click a number to cast your score. Anonymously.

Our clients prefer to remain anonymous.

You would too.

A publicly-listed cybersecurity company whose pipeline consistently outperformed their close rate

A Series B SaaS startup that genuinely believed their product could sell itself

A European enterprise software firm whose QBRs previously lasted four hours and resulted in no changes

An AI company that had confused ARR with pipeline

A fintech whose forecast accuracy improved from 43% to 71% after one session

A 12-person sales team whose VP Sales described the outcome as 'the most useful meeting we've had this year, and also the worst'

We could tell you who they are. We signed NDAs. The truth is in the metrics.

Results

What happens after a Tribunal

Pipeline Reckoning

The Pipeline Inflation Problem

−31%
pipeline removed from forecast

A 45-person sales team with 4× pipeline coverage was still missing their number every quarter. After one Pipeline Reckoning, 31% of deals were removed from the forecast. They missed that quarter by less. They hit the next one.

Outcome:Hit number next quarter
Cold Eyes Review

The AE Who Was Fine

2/10
average score from strangers

A VP Sales had one AE whose deals always looked close. After a Cold Eyes Review, three reps from unrelated companies independently scored that AE's largest deal a 2/10. It slipped. Again. The AE is now in marketing.

Outcome:Pipeline cleaned. Rep redirected.
Pipeline Reckoning

The Turnaround

+28%
win rate in two quarters

A 12-person sales team restructured their entire QBR format based on session output. Win rate improved 28% in two quarters. Their VP Sales attributed the change to — and we are quoting directly — 'not lying to ourselves anymore.'

Outcome:28% win rate improvement
Client feedback

What people say after

I've never cried at a business meeting before. My pipeline is now up 40%. I'm not sure how to feel about either of those things.

VP Sales, enterprise SaaS company
name withheld for obvious reasons

They identified the core problem in 11 minutes. We had been discussing it in QBRs for three quarters.

CRO, Series B cybersecurity startup
still employed

I thought I ran good QBRs. I was wrong about that, and apparently several other things.

VP Sales, B2B software company
anonymous

The Cold Eyes Review was the most confronting professional experience of my career. My pipeline improved 28% the following two quarters. I would do it again.

Sales Director, fintech
name withheld by request

We asked if they could be gentler. They said no. That was, in retrospect, the correct answer.

CRO, European SaaS company
forecast accuracy now 71%

Our best AE's deal was scored a 2/10 by three strangers. It slipped two weeks later. We don't talk about that AE anymore.

VP Sales, B2B tech company
the AE is in marketing now
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The founders

Who we are

Making Other People's Numbers for Two DecadesBehind every rep who hit quota, someone else carried the deals.

The Instigator

25+ years in enterprise technology pre-sales and SE leadership. Former Director and Principal Architect across multiple high-growth, venture-backed security and AI companies across Europe and North America. Has run quota-carrying organisations, supported hundreds of reps, and attended more QBRs than is medically advisable. Started taking notes on what made them a waste of time around year three. The notes filled several notebooks.

The Person the AEs Called When the Deal Got RealThe name in the chat when the prospect went quiet and everyone panicked.

The Accomplice

25+ years in cybersecurity pre-sales and GTM leadership. Former Vice President of Sales Engineering across Europe for global security companies. Started as an engineer. Ended up managing the people who manage the people who sell to your people. Has run and supported quota-carrying organisations across EMEA. Has heard every pipeline story. Knows which ones are true.

They met when one of them reported to the other. The reporting relationship was never formally resolved. They have been in a two-person echo chamber ever since.

Between them, they have supported hundreds of quota-carrying sales reps across Europe and North America. They were the people those reps called when a deal started going sideways — the ones in the room when the prospect asked the technical question nobody had prepared for, the ones on the flight when the deal needed to close in person. They made other people's numbers for two decades.

That experience — carrying the weight of deals you don't own, across reps you don't control, at scale — produces a very specific skill: knowing immediately when a deal is not what it appears to be. You can't afford to learn that slowly when the same lesson repeats itself across four teams simultaneously.

They got very good at this because they had to.

Questions

FAQ

Free, weekly

The Weekly Tribunal

One thing your sales team is doing wrong, delivered every week. Free. No upsell. Just the truth.

No spam. Unsubscribe whenever. We'll be honest about that too.

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