Interest turns into stalled deals. Buyers engage but don't commit. The motion works sometimes, but not reliably. The root cause is almost always one of six conditions — and it's rarely the one you think.
Book a Call →Before we speak, you send two call recordings, your sales materials, and your investor deck. Everything gets reviewed before the first session — so we start at depth, not orientation. No ramp time. No small talk about what you do. We go straight to what's actually happening.
"After working with Dave, I stopped pitching our product as a fix for broken e-commerce shops and started framing it as a removal for strategic constraints that executives can bring to their board. That changes everything about how a conversation goes, how people perceive our solution, and how a cycle unfolds."
Mathis came to the SPRINT selling nexwise as a fix for broken e-commerce shops. After five days, he reframed the core problem as a strategic constraint: scarce product expertise causing companies to quietly walk away from revenue.
He identified that his two closed deals succeeded largely on the strength of his champions — not a repeatable motion. He left with a sharper ICP, a clearer problem statement, and a framework for qualifying which pipeline deals were real.
He is now building the motion before making his first sales hire — and working closely with Dave to build the foundation of nexwise's revenue engine.
After 250+ founder conversations — most of them in the last year — the same three things are killing deals right now. Not pipeline. Not product. Not market timing. These three.
Most consultants share perspective based on what they saw two years ago at their last company. Dave is talking to founders every day. The patterns in a SPRINT aren't pulled from memory — they're pulled from conversations that happened this week. That's the difference between advice that fits your moment and advice that fit someone else's.
That's actually the most common thing founders say before a SPRINT. And in about 80% of cases, the thing they were certain about turns out to be a symptom — not the cause. The value isn't confirming what you think. It's finding what you've been building around without realizing it.
Two recent call recordings, your current sales materials, and your investor deck. That's it. I review everything before our first session so we don't spend time on orientation. We go straight to what's actually happening in your deals.
The question is what it costs to keep doing the wrong thing. Most founders who come into SPRINT have been stuck for two to four months. At seed or Series A, that's not just runway — it's a quarter of investor patience. Five days to find the real constraint is cheap relative to another quarter of fixing the wrong thing.
Seed and Series A B2B SaaS founders, typically $500K–$10M ARR. You have a product, you have some customers, and the motion works sometimes — but not reliably. That's the sweet spot. If you're pre-revenue or pre-product, the timing probably isn't right yet.
You leave with a named constraint, a concrete next move, and a clear picture of what to focus on first. Some founders go on to work with me on Founding AE hiring once the motion is cleaner. Others take the diagnosis and execute on their own. Either is fine — the goal is that you know what to do next, not that you need me to do it.
Five days to find out. Book a call to see if SPRINT is the right fit.