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Forecastable

It’s All About The Team

The Forecastable business has evolved over the better part of a decade into a fully-managed services organization, backed by world-class talent and investors.

The Power Behind the Platform: Meet Our Leadership Team

We believe collaboration is key. That’s why our platform is built and guided by a team with a proven track record of success in co-selling. Get to know the minds behind the movement.

Alex Buckles

Product, Partnerships, and Value Engineering (Co-founder)

Jenelle Friday

Customer Success

Paul Johnson

Chief Technology Officer
(Co-founder)

Adrian Miele

Director of Advisory Services

Mollie Bodensteiner

Revops Advisory

How We Differ

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The First Partner Co-Selling Methodology + Certification Ever Created

  • Officially Distributed via Partnernomics & University of Central Missouri
  • Co-Sell Certified Sales Leader Certification Offered via Communities like Pavilion
For more information on our available certifications, by role, please email certifications@forecastable.com
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100+ Global Go-To-Market Consultants Ready to Serve

Certifications achieved through Forecastable’s Referral Partner Program or Certified Co-Sell Advisory program.
Please email advisory@forecastable.com to learn more.
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Managed Software & Services Provider (MSSP)

Whether leveraging Forecastable’s fully or partially-managed co-sell program offerings, all technology and service providers required to stand up, execute, and scale your co-sell program can be purchased on a single contract.
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Unique Up-Market & Down-Market Expertise & Offerings

  • Forecastable’s CEO was a 6x CRO. He served companies ranging from venture-backed startups to $500M+ ARR organizations with oversight over global revenue functions, including partnerships involving complex & worldwide distributors and resellers.
  • Forecastable’s founder has nearly two decades of enterprise sales expertise, particularly in SaaS. also grown two professional services organizations, deploying co-selling strategies in both scenarios, with both leading to eventual exits. His life’s passion is serving those on the autism spectrum through his organization, Pathways for Autism.
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Flexible Enterprise & Startup Financing

  • Enterprise: Whether you want to finance your partner program to spread out risk, normalize partner spend, or to add more MDF fuel to your partner machine, we’ve got options for you. Your CFO will love you for it!
  • Startups: Let us become your partnerships department. Forecastable has all of the strategies, tactics, and technologies you need to operate a fully-functioning partner program, including partner managers, partner operations personnel, and ops-level sales assistants.
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Co-Marketing &
Co-Selling Expertise

While Forecastable is the market leader in co-selling, it has partnered with a network of other organizations for best-in-class partner marketing services.
Whether you need to tell better-together value stories at scale, simple partner webinars, or complex partner ABM campaigns deployed, it can all be done on a single Forecastable agreement.
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Partner Program Board Reporting That Holds Up

What is partner program board reporting? Short answer: Partner program board reporting is the summary you take into a board or executive review to show what the partner program is producing and what it costs. It is not the activity dashboard your team runs on. It matters because the board funds pipeline and efficiency, not […]

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Through-Channel Marketing: What It Is and How It Works

Short answer Short answer: Through channel marketing is demand generation a vendor runs through its partners, supplying campaigns, content, and funds so partners market to their own customers under their own brand. It matters because partners own trusted relationships a vendor cannot reach directly, but most of these programs underperform because they push vendor material […]

Partnership Marketing: What It Is and How to Run It

Short answer Short answer: Partnership marketing is joint marketing between two companies that combine audiences, content, and channels to generate demand for a shared value proposition. It matters because a co-branded campaign borrows the trust and reach of both brands at once, which is why a partner webinar or joint guide usually outperforms the same […]

B2B Partner Marketing Strategy: To, Through, With

What a B2B partner marketing strategy is Short answer: A B2B partner marketing strategy is the plan for how you market to partners, through partners, and with partners, so partner relationships turn into pipeline rather than logos on a slide. It works when each of those three audiences has its own goal and the whole […]

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Partner Program Board Reporting That Holds Up

What is partner program board reporting? Short answer: Partner program board reporting is the summary you take into a board or executive review to show what the partner program is producing and what it costs. It is not the activity dashboard your team runs on. It matters because the board funds pipeline and efficiency, not […]

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Partner Revenue Forecasting: A Practical Method

What partner revenue forecasting is Short answer: Partner revenue forecasting is the practice of predicting the revenue a partner program will produce, using pipeline and conversion data rather than optimism. It matters because partnerships is usually the one revenue line no one can forecast, which is why it is the first line cut when the […]

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Partner Performance Tracking: Metrics That Matter

What partner performance tracking is Short answer: Partner performance tracking is the practice of measuring what partners actually produce, from early activity through sourced and influenced pipeline to closed revenue. It matters because most programs track the wrong end of that chain, counting logins and portal visits while the CRO asks about pipeline. Effort is […]

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Partner Program ROI Metrics That a CFO Will Trust

What partner program ROI metrics are Short answer: Partner program ROI metrics are the numbers that show what a partner program returns against what it costs, expressed in the language a finance team uses to fund things. They only matter if the CFO trusts them, which means the metric has to trace to CRM pipeline […]

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Partner-Sourced vs Partner-Influenced Pipeline

Short answer: partner-sourced vs partner-influenced pipeline Partner-sourced vs partner-influenced pipeline is the distinction between deals a partner opened for you and deals a partner helped you accelerate. It comes down to origin: sourced means the opportunity did not exist for you until the partner brought it, while influenced means the partner added value to an […]

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The Partner Data Flywheel: How It Compounds

Short answer: the partner data flywheel The partner data flywheel is the compounding loop, developed at Forecastable, that turns partner conversations into actions, actions into pipeline, and pipeline into revenue, then feeds what it learns back into the next cycle. It exists because most partner programs treat data as a report to read once, when […]

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Partner Valuation Certainty: What Execs Want

Short answer: partner valuation certainty Partner valuation certainty is the outcome executives are actually buying when they fund a partner program: a more predictable, profitable, and differentiated business that underwrites a higher, more defensible company valuation. We named it at Forecastable because most partner programs sell pipeline, and pipeline is not what a CFO is […]

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Partner-Sourced Pipeline Targets: Set a Real Number

Short answer: what partner-sourced pipeline targets are Partner-sourced pipeline targets are the specific dollar amount of new pipeline a partner program commits to originate in a period, built from a coverage model rather than a hopeful percentage. They are the number that turns partnerships from a cost center into a forecastable line. Set them from […]

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Partner Pipeline Hygiene: Keep Co-Sell Clean

Short answer: what partner pipeline hygiene is Partner pipeline hygiene is the weekly discipline of keeping co-sell deals honest: attributed to the right partner, staged to reflect reality, and cleared of anything that has gone stale. It is what stops a partner pipeline from filling with dead deals and phantom influence that inflate the number […]

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Co-Sell Forecast Accuracy: Make It Predictable

Short answer: what co-sell forecast accuracy means Co-sell forecast accuracy is how reliably partner-sourced and partner-influenced pipeline lands where you said it would. It is built on three things: clean attribution so the pipeline is real, partner-specific stage definitions so deals are aged honestly, and a weekly reconciliation of forecast against actuals. Executives fund a […]

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Referral Partner: What It Is and How to Work With One

Short answer Short answer: A referral partner is a company or individual who introduces you to prospects in their network in exchange for a fee, without taking part in the sale or the transaction. It matters because a referral partner opens warm doors that cold outreach cannot, but the model only produces when the referral […]

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Frequenty Asked Questions
on Forecastable Use Cases

Forecastable’s Managed Services can be utilized to facilitate improved collaboration and execution amongst Account Teams, Partner Teams and Marketers through a number of Use Cases. Please find answers to frequently asked questions about our Use Cases below.
Any Business-to-Business Company that needs to improve collaboration and execution with external or internal teammates.
Forecastable provides a Managed Services offering where Consultants known as Advisors use our SaaS technology either for or with your team members to drive better execution in Accounts and Opportunities across Teams. The Platform has an Open API to integrate with your CRM as well as other third parties such as Crossbeam or Reveal for their Account overlap data.
A Forecastable Advisor is a Fractional Management Level Consultant sourced by Forecastable on a Project. They host and lead recurring meetings to facilitate collaboration & execution. They deliver objective and invaluable coaching, guidance and oversight. Sales Admin level resources known as Alignment Specialists work full time to schedule meetings, update information and provide reports.
Users of Forecastable can be either Forecastable’s Advisors and/or your Reps, Partner Managers, CSMs and other related Team members

#1: Sales Reps Co-Selling alongside one or more Partners

#2: Sales Specialist Teams Co-Selling

#3: Partner Recruitment / Expansion Coordination 

#4: Global Account Team Coordination

#5: Enabling Start Up Sales Reps to perform Up Market Selling

#6: Partner Revenue Scale Up for Startups

#7: Market Development Funds Partner Activity Facilitation & Monitoring

Increased earnings from closing more Accounts/Sales. Increased collaboration contributes to more Wins. Project Admin Resource frees up time obtaining Updates / Status Reporting. Ability to share relevant information across CRM Systems. Receive Coaching from an objective 3rd Party Advisor. Better Account/Opportunity/Customer Org visibility across Teams. Increase Skill Level by using Enterprise Selling Workspaces / Coaching. Improved Visibility of Account Overlap. Improved Visibility of Contact Overlap and obtaining warmer Introductions.
Users of Forecastable can be either Forecastable’s Advisors and/or your Reps, Partner Managers, CSMs and other related Team members.

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