Build your first partner program with a system designed to produce, accelerate an existing program per partner under management, or produce partner pipeline priced upfront, per qualified opportunity, or for booked revenue. Pick the path that matches your stage and your risk appetite.
Pick the path that matches your stage and go-to-market motion. Most teams start with one and layer in others as production scales.
For companies building their first partner program. You get the system, the plan, and the guidance to go from zero to a real partner program in 90 days, run by your own team. No partnerships hire required.
Covers your $500 activation and your first 3 months. Month-to-month after that, or $15,000/year with two months free.
Install the discipline your partner managers need: overlap-based account planning with Crossbeam, always-on 1:1 partner comms, meeting booking, and the first co-sell plays put in the field.
We identify the priority, pick the right partners, build the sales-ready play in a playbook workshop, and either hand your team a repeatable process or run the deployment for you.
A Senior Advisor and a Co-Sell Alignment Specialist are included in every engagement, on both paths.
Switch paths and adjust the inputs to see how pricing shapes up. Final pricing is set together after the underwriting conversation.
One flat fee to get moving, then a simple monthly rate. Includes your first 3 months of service and 10 partners under management. Your own team runs the program, with a certified advisor guiding you at key moments.
Your AI team is included. Eva and Alex come with every package at no additional cost.
10 partners included. Each partner beyond 10 adds $300/month automatically, with your card on file. You will always see the meter before you cross it.
$5,000
Covers your $500 activation and your first 3 months.
$1,500 base, 10 partners included
$75,200
$5,000 upfront covers months 1–3; then 9 months at $7,800/mo.
A full-time partnerships hire costs $120,000 to $150,000 fully loaded, plus a six-month ramp.
A $30,000 flat fee covers ramp process setup, coaching, and administrative support by a named resource to reduce administrative burden. The pilot includes 10 partners under management. Each additional partner beyond 10 during the pilot is $1,000. After the pilot, pricing is $500 per partner per month with a minimum of 10 partners under management.
We only manage partners expected to produce. No need to load your entire partner base into the program. Start where the pipeline actually is.
Four-month pilot investment
$30,000
Includes 10 partners; $1,000 for each additional partner during the pilot.
Ongoing monthly after pilot
$500 per partner per month
Four-month pilot: one month to meet partners, run the workshops, build the playbooks, and draft the sequences, then 90 days of execution. List price is $15,000 per playbook. The pilot is for up to 5 activated plays (2 free plays included during pilot) so you’re only paying for 3 plays.
SQO target per play reflects what the play is expected to produce during the four-month pilot.
Pay Upfront
Pay Per Qualified Opportunity
Pay For Booked Revenue
Illustrative only. Fees, SQO conversion, and win rate depend on the play, participating partners, deployment scope, and the underwriting outcome.
Pilot investment
$45,000
List price $15,000/play. You pay for 3 plays (5 included, 2 free).
Expected pipeline production
$2,500,000
SQO target × avg deal size × 5 plays
Expected closed-won revenue
$750,000
Pipeline × 30% win rate
Total fees paid
$45,000
Flat pilot fee for 5 plays (2 free during pilot)
You are invoiced per qualified opportunity
$750
At-risk fee of $75,000 ÷ 500 target SQOs. Accrues per SQO produced until the $90,000 cap is reached; after that, no further fees are owed.
You are invoiced per closed-won deal
$4,000
Expected closed-won deals: 30 (target SQOs × 30% win rate).
Rounded up to 30 deals, and the at-risk fee is calculated on that.
At-risk fee of $120,000 ÷ 30 deals. Accrues per deal until the $135,000 cap is reached; after that, no further fees are owed.
Expected ROI
$705,000
Expected closed-won revenue minus total fees paid
Number of closed won deals to break even
2
Based on avg deal size of $25,000
To translate this into expected pipeline production and success criteria, book a working session with our team.
Outcome-based pricing is not automatic. Before we approve it, we validate the sponsor, partners, and attribution path. We do not need a play that already wins in market; we develop the play that accelerates production. We do need prior history of wins with the partner so there is market validation that the technology and/or services combination is accepted. If we see a clear path to production, we put skin in the game. You can still choose to pay upfront if you prefer.
If the program looks like an experiment, there is no prior history, and we do not see a guaranteed path to revenue, we either do not take you on as a customer or we call that out as risk and offer the upfront option. We may not offer outcome-based pricing because it is a meaningful investment on our part, and we do not typically invest in taking on the cost of a customer’s R&D.
A real internal sponsor and prior history of wins with the partner, showing market validation that the technology and/or services combination is accepted. We develop the play that accelerates production.
Warm partner relationships where the door is already open.
The systems in place to attribute leads, opportunities, and closed-won cleanly.
The people, messaging, and cadence to run the play end to end.
The initial four-month pilot is a flat $30,000 and includes 10 partners under management. Each additional partner beyond 10 during the pilot is $1,000. After the pilot, pricing is $500 per partner per month with a minimum of 10 partners under management. We only put the partners expected to produce under management, not your entire base.
Choose upfront for the lowest total price, per qualified opportunity for shared risk, or for booked revenue where we carry the most risk. List price is $15,000 per playbook. The four-month upfront pilot is a flat $45,000 because it includes 5 plays, with 2 free plays included during the pilot, so you pay for 3 plays. The pay per qualified opportunity model is 2x the upfront pilot (capped at $90,000): a flat $15,000 down and the remaining $75,000 at risk, billed based on percent attainment of the SQO dollar target at the end of the pilot period or upon attainment, whichever is sooner. The pay for booked revenue model is 3x the upfront pilot (capped at $135,000): a flat $15,000 down and the remaining $120,000 at risk, paid out quarterly based on attainment of the closed won target. Services continue throughout the pilot period and the contract remains open until all sales qualified opportunities related to the playbooks have been closed won or closed lost. Upside beyond the cap is yours with no additional fees. Final pricing depends on the play, participating partners, deployment scope, attribution readiness, and how much risk we assume.
A fixed fee upfront removes the risk Forecastable would otherwise carry across the deployment window, which makes it the lowest of the three options in total.
Before we approve outcome-based pricing, we validate the sponsor, partners, and attribution path. We do not need a play that already wins in market; we develop the play. We do need prior history of wins with the partner so there is market validation that the technology and/or services combination is accepted. If we see a clear path to production, we put skin in the game. You can still choose to pay upfront. If the program looks like an experiment with no prior history and no guaranteed path to revenue, we either do not take you on as a customer or we call that out as risk and offer the upfront option. We do not typically take on the cost of a customer’s R&D.
Yes. Both programs can be funded through MDF and cost-shared with participating partners where the play warrants it.
No. We only manage the partners expected to produce with real sales motions. There is no need to load your entire partner base into the program.
A partner account loaded into Forecastable and synced from your CRM. Path A includes 10. Sync an eleventh and your price increases by $300/month per partner, automatically, with your card on file. You will always see the meter before you cross it.
Start gives you the system and the plan, and your own team runs it, with a certified advisor guiding you at key moments. Accelerate is Forecastable running your program with you across your full partner base. That is why the per-partner rate differs: $300 per partner when you run it, $500 per partner when we do.
Book a working session. We map the priority, size the play, and give you a price you can take to your CFO.
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My journey from Education to Operations has equipped me with a unique perspective and skill set that perfectly aligns with Forecastable’s mission to help businesses improve sales collaboration through partner co-selling strategies.
At Forecastable, I am passionate about empowering teams and organizations to unlock the full potential of strategic partnerships. By leveraging my expertise in communication, leadership, and operational efficiency, I contribute to creating seamless co-selling processes that align with business goals and deliver exceptional results.
The intersection of my educational foundation and operational experience fuels my dedication to fostering alignment, building trust, and enhancing collaboration between partners. I am driven by the opportunity to contribute to a platform that not only optimizes sales strategies but also strengthens relationships that lead to long-term growth.
Paul Johnson has 20+ years of software development and consulting experience for a variety of organizations, ranging from startups to large-enterprise organization with highly-complex needs.
Mr. Johnson has a long track record of successful technology deployments.
This, combined with his deep passion for machine learning and exceptional user experience design, allows him to lead our technical direction from the front with confidence.
After serving in The United States Marine Corps, Alex Buckles spent the next two decades as a student of revenue production and an advocate for innovation.
Along the way, he has helped numerous companies achieve double and triple-digit growth by crafting and executing high-performing go-to-market strategies, with co-selling at the center of each.
As a once-advanced technical marketer, an expert sales & partner professional, and a strong customer success advocate, Mr. Buckles understands the impact of these functions aligning not only on revenue production, but on the day-to-day execution of the go-to-market strategy. This concept of revenue-team alignment is what quickly became the foundation of Forecastable back in January of 2018.
In his free time, you’ll find him spending quality time with his children, one of whom is on the autism spectrum. 1 in 36 children in the U.S. are on the spectrum and boys are four times more likely to be diagnosed than girls.
With that in mind, Mr. Buckles plans on dedicating the rest of his life serving those living with autism, through his organization Pathways for Autism. From his perspective, there must be a scalable and financially self-sustaining infrastructure established to put as many individuals with autism as possible on a path towards complete independence as adults.