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Precision GTM: The RevOps Lever Stack

Event held on Jun 26, 2025
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    Aaron McReynolds: Yeah. So head to the website, alysio.ai, and then please just message me on Linkedin. I I try and get back to every. DM, yeah. alicio.ai.

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    Julia Nimchinski: Thanks again and moving right along. Let’s welcome Jose Romero.

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    Julia Nimchinski: maybe of product and platform at X Factor.

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    Julia Nimchinski: They’ll be presenting precision. Gtm, their revops lever, stack.

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    Julia Nimchinski: Say, how are you doing.

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    Jose Romero: Good, good! Thank you for having me here today.

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    Julia Nimchinski: Our pleasure.

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    Jose Romero: So it’s a pleasure to be here that last session with Aaron was very good, because I think there’s a lot of overlap between what you’re gonna hear me talking about and in his point of view. So I think we agree in a lot of things. But

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    Jose Romero: so today we’re going to talk a little bit about moving away from, you know. Gtm, firefighting to strategy to talk a little bit more about a new framework for running Gtm in a very surgical way.

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    Jose Romero: using AI. So what you know what Aaron was saying, I had a chart for the Gartner has identified that about 13% of a Cro’s work week is spent firefighting, sorry doing strategic work. 87% firefighting. So

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    Jose Romero: Gtm teams today are very reactive by nature. So that that is a big problem. And and it’s it’s something that needs to change in order for for teams to be able to meet and exceed their goals.

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    Jose Romero: So

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    Jose Romero: what does that mean? More? More precisely right? So Rev. Ops, it’s really a 3 legged stool. Right? It’s sales marketing customer success and their challenges.

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    Jose Romero: If we treat things separately as 3 different functions, this stool starts falling apart because it’s 1 interconnected system. So, for example, if we decide to push sales to close faster. It destabilizes the whole system.

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    Jose Romero: creates bottlenecks, wasted resources because the data and in the actual system is not disconnected. It’s all interconnected. So it drives inaccurate results, inefficient outcomes. So

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    Jose Romero: what are these levers that we talk about? Right? I mean, I think a lot of a lot of us on this call are very familiar with them. I mean, I’ve listed some of them here, but it’s a mix of marketing sales customer success in financial levers from top funnel qualification, velocity, conversion, retention, expansion. So the problem is, you know, they’re all intertwined. So how do you handle that? What ends up happening

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    Jose Romero: is that we end up creating what we call a growth guest gap. The

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    Jose Romero: the you know.

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    Jose Romero: as as I’ve been both building AI and Ml. Systems at companies like Amazon for over the years and also been in go to market for companies like Verisign. I’ve always bumped into this problem. We build AI models, whether we were building AI models to build

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    Jose Romero: to running Gtm teams. The the problem is always the same. We’re forced to take multi-million dollar guessworks in with, you know, using brittle spreadsheets. So

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    Jose Romero: the question is, you know, how do we do this differently? I think we can and must move from, you know this guesswork to a more engineered approach to growth.

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    Jose Romero: So what do we mean by that? Right? So let’s just take an example.

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    Jose Romero: So your your you know your team does a heroic job of shortening sales cycle, and we all think that’s a win.

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    Jose Romero: But if the marketing lead velocity doesn’t change.

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    Jose Romero: then your high performing reps are now idle for a month

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    Jose Romero: of the quarter. So that’s what I call a bottleneck in action. Right? So it’s a Gtm system it’s

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    Jose Romero: the system is is, you know, is as only as fast as the slowest part. So you speed up sales cycle. Now you find what? Where your next bottleneck is at, and that’s the thing you got to fix next. So how do you? How do you find those bottlenecks? How do you proactively adapt to those things

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    Jose Romero: so

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    Jose Romero: as a way to help move things along. I’ve put together a Pdf. That I can share with the group. So there, there is a way to start closing this gap today

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    Jose Romero: and take a if we

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    Jose Romero: take a couple of examples that I’ll share on this. Pdf, you can use a tool like cloud desktop, for example, in a salesforce, Mcp. Server, and then, instead of just chasing your reps or relying on run rates, these 5 prompts that you see here leverage generic llms as a smart calculator in a way to provide far deeper insights into pipeline health, lead, conversion, stall opportunities, engagement, etc.

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    Jose Romero: to have a more nuanced projection on revenue impact.

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    Jose Romero: So these are practical, immediate things you can do today. And at the end of this session. I’ll share that. Pdf. And you can take a quick look. What I’ll do is I’ll just pivot over really quickly, so you can take a take a quick snap at it. But again Julia has the Pdf. And she’ll share it. So these

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    Jose Romero: prompts, for example. This is a pipeline health prompt if you connect. Let’s say you use cloud desktop or any tool that leverages. Mcp. You could connect your your salesforce instance to it. You create an integration user and you’re off to the races, and then you can start asking questions. So in this, in this example, I’m doing an analysis trying to figure out the gap

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    Jose Romero: in opportunity creation. So

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    Jose Romero: I’ve you know, asked it a few very pointed things like, you know, the last 12 months I want to exclude bottom and top

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    Jose Romero: outliers by amount and sales cycle. And I want to predict what new opportunities need to be created between today and the end of the fiscal year in order to hit my target. And I also want to predict the number of opportunities that will be created between now and the fiscal year. So basically, what am I targeting as a opportunity generation

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    Jose Romero: right now? Versus how much do I need? Am I going to have a gap? And it’s, you know, this is different from what you can do with salesforce. It’s salesforce will only go so far right? It cannot do forecasting. It cannot do predictive analytics.

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    Jose Romero: And so when I ran this particular one.

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    Jose Romero: It gave me a full analysis. And you know, we’re using mock data on a salesforce instance. But it it went deep, right? It went ahead and sat and identified that, you know, I give an example of an 8 million dollars target. It’s identified how many opportunities I needed. It identified what my rate of opportunity creation needs to be versus what it is. And I figured out, you know my, what my opportunity creation gap is.

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    Jose Romero: So this is what I mean about a growth guess gap. So this is using mathematics to come up with a mechanism to identify where your bottlenecks are at.

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    Jose Romero: So with this, there’s like, I provided 5 different examples, one for lead, conversion, bottleneck, identification, and many others be, you know, I’ll share this with a group, and if anybody, of course, has any questions on the document, be more than happy to answer them.

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    Jose Romero: But so this is great. I mean, this is fantastic. It moves you away from, you know the the crystal ball and the prayers, and

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    Jose Romero: in the end of endless scrolling of of spreadsheets. And you know, megabyte size spreadsheets that, you know are break down after certain usage into a more modern, faster way of understanding not only what’s happened, but what will happen.

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    Jose Romero: So you know. Growth. AI, I think, is certainly a better way than using spreadsheets. But then there’s still some challenges with using off the shelf. AI, right? So it’s a huge step forward from spreadsheets. But there are some limitations that you can see right. The systems aren’t talking to each other. All of this data is not necessarily speaking to each other. If it’s not sitting in the same place.

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    Jose Romero: you still have to provide some context, and you know, in the form of averages and other things that it may not have available to it immediately. And most importantly, these tools cannot simulate what we call second order effects on your decisions. They can’t answer questions like, what happens to my sales capacity. If this marketing campaign succeeds

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    Jose Romero: right for that, we need a new class of AI something that is beyond

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    Jose Romero: what a standard off the shelf AI can do. So, you know, here’s where your AI becomes much more. It’s not just any. AI. We’re talking about. Not a generic Chatbot. We’re talking about an AI that is purpose built for the revenue engine. So it’s trained on specific dynamics for sales, capacity, pipeline velocity, marketing campaigns, etc, etc.

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    Jose Romero: This is what we call a new emerging category. We’re calling growth AI, and this is designed to overcome all these limitations that generic ais don’t have by understanding the causal relationship in your Gtm system.

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    Jose Romero: So what do I mean by causal relationship? Right? The 1st level of of AI is predictive. AI. It’s the 1st level of intelligence is powerful

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    Jose Romero: in the the Pdf. That I’ll share has leverages that in many of the examples that I share.

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    Jose Romero: It analyzes your historical data and forecasts what will happen next?

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    Jose Romero: It can give you more accurate sales, forecast or identify customers at risk of churning, but it has a critical limitation. It operates in correlation, and a speaker earlier talked about correlation versus causation. So I’m going to hit that same topic. Now, a predictive AI might tell you that a rep who say flies to meet clients has higher win rates, but it cannot tell you if the travel is, what caused the win

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    Jose Romero: right is is that’s the difference between correlation versus causation. So what caused the the the improved winds? Is it the fly, the flight? Or is it something else?

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    Jose Romero: Versus causal? You know this is where the the big changes. It goes deeper to understanding cost and effect.

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    Jose Romero: So you think about the question, if I pull this lever?

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    Jose Romero: what is true and causal impact of to the entire system, what will actually, by moving this lever. What is the trickling effect?

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    Jose Romero: So this is how we move from forecasting systems to simulation.

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    Jose Romero: So we can model complex trade-offs like, you know, hiring more reps versus increasing campaign, spend and see the probable outcomes before we commit a single dollar. This is how we find out which lever truly moves the number, because at the end of the day the business succeeds. If they can hit the revenue goals.

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    Jose Romero: So you know, let’s go a little bit deeper into simulation. And what I mean by simulation. So let’s take a real world example in a complex scenario. So you have a Cro. Say, that’s you know, worried about hitting an annual number, right? And ask you, as a revops person, to model the impact of 4 different improvements across the entire. Go to market engine.

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    Jose Romero: In in this example, you know the the they’re asking to modify attrition.

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    Jose Romero: retention, win rate, and Mql. To SQL. Conversions so and go figure out. If that’s the right combination. If you try to do that on a spreadsheet, it’s pretty pretty much impossible.

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    Jose Romero: The interconnected dependencies are too complex.

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    Jose Romero: But if you, if you use an AI system that is built purpose built for for revops, you will be able to achieve that. So you’re not guessing anymore. You’re simulating. You adjust these levers, and the system instantly models the compounding effects across the whole revenue engine. It tells you not just the potential revenue lift, but also that you’ll close the gap in 9 months, that you will need

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    Jose Romero: an 8% increase in pipeline to support the higher win rate. It’ll factor all of these things things for you. So this is the big difference between a panic guess. For because the Cr asked you to do this to a precise data-driven approach.

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    Jose Romero: So you know, what does this look like in real world? I’ll just pivot to an example. Here we’re looking at a capacity performance dashboard, where you can simulate. What could you could do? You know what would happen if you say increased your average sales price, or you decreased your attrition, and you. When you move these levers in real time, your your outputs change.

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    Jose Romero: You’re

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    Jose Romero: you’re seeing that that by modifying your your new business or increasing your new business average sales price by a percentage. It. It changes the whole system. You modify your let’s say your your America’s sales attrition. You reduce it. It also modifies the whole system.

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    Jose Romero: You decrease your RAM time. It modifies your whole system. So it’s a it’s a way to, you know. In one place be able to model all these different possible scenarios.

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    Jose Romero: So

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    Jose Romero: But we go. We need to go further, because there’s so many levers that kind of more than 30 30 levers. What is the right combination?

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    Jose Romero: What are? What are the right levers to move? In which way? Right? There isn’t a single answer. To be honest right. The it all depends on what the business can achieve.

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    Jose Romero: given its resources in its, in its scenarios, and where it’s at right now in their history. So if we, if we then take this approach and build a multi-agent system across it, it can actually decipher a set of potential scenarios and provide them to the user. So this is ultimately, this isn’t a solution to replace revops.

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    Jose Romero: It’s a solution to elevate revops and even amplify it. So you’re moving away from the mundane manual analysis to something more automated. So it frees revops teams to focus on high value, strategic work

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    Jose Romero: by designing, say, better playbooks, handling complex exceptions, even fine tuning, some of the AI responses. So your your job as a revops person becomes now you become the chief architect of the Company’s entire revenue generation engine

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    Jose Romero: something to another interesting point to share. This is a slide that we put together with the revenue operations associates. They are the company who put together the Revops book and are offering the revenue operations certification, and they are in this chart showing the top reasons why Gtm teams are failing is because revops are not focused enough

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    Jose Romero: and don’t have the right tools to drive these top growth drivers that are listed in here. So

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    Jose Romero: with a growth AI system. You can now spend more time on strategy and less on firefighting. So these are the things that that could be more impactful if you if you had if you could move away from firefighting into more strategic planning and becoming that that chief architect or chief architect of revenue?

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    Jose Romero: So you know, you’ve you’ve heard through today a lot about agentic AI and systems that execute tasks. And you know that’s the future, and it’s powerful.

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    Jose Romero: But agentic execution is only as good as the strategy it’s executing. So the focus of growth. AI

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    Jose Romero: is to go one level above it’s empowering you, engineer. The strategy itself.

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    Jose Romero: though other systems are going to focus on automating the how we use causal AI to help you master the why and simulating what ifs?

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    Jose Romero: So? We believe the greatest leverage. Leverage comes from not just doing things faster, but from deciding to do the right things in the 1st place. So instead of guessing, just get it right the 1st time.

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    Jose Romero: So you, you know, you can simulate. Go to market trade-offs. You can close this growth guest gap and replace your spreadsheets with an always on strategy, you know, moving beyond just automation, automating tasks. Truly engineering your growth.

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    Jose Romero: So that’s you know what precision Gtm is all about? Is this confident, coordinated execution, using causal, not correlation.

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    Jose Romero: And with that I will stop and answer any questions.

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    Julia Nimchinski: Phenomenal session. Let’s get into the question. So one of the questions.

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    Julia Nimchinski: that keeps coming up is most of our Gdm trade-offs still happen in spreadsheets and back channel threats.

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    Julia Nimchinski: What actually changes when you move to AI simulations.

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    Jose Romero: So.

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    Jose Romero: The the spreadsheets.

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    Jose Romero: you know. So there’s there’s many data sources where this information is kept. It’s it’s kept to your point of spreadsheets, on, maybe on, on conversations, on chats, on emails, on, you know, even calls that are transcribed with gong so the the main difference here is that in order to for you to be able to appropriately simulate right? Ai systems are only as smart as the data that they have access to so

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    Jose Romero: feeding it. All the right data in order for it. To be able to simulate things properly is the only approach, but more precisely on on the question here. Right? I mean, there’s 30, some variables in go to market. So the the key thing that we’re doing here is trying to simulate the

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    Jose Romero: correlation and then causation of these variables. So

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    Jose Romero: the the mathematics basically behind and the science behind growth, and how how moving one lever impacts the other lever. So it’s a little bit less about where data is stored, and more about how to apply mathematics to the data in order to come up with reliable outcomes.

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    Julia Nimchinski: They? People are asking, what’s the most surprising insight? A team uncovered running these simulations in your practice.

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    Jose Romero: Yes, so we we had one customer in essence identify that the board number that was being provided was just not achievable with the resources they had. So they they had a number, a number a number over their head, and no matter what adjustments they could make there was no way for them to actually hit that number. So

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    Jose Romero: it it it uncovered in essence. Gave you gave that team the ammunition to go back to the board and say, based on what we have today. We can’t achieve this, and may may not be able to achieve it in some time, because things like sales rep ramp time are are a factor that you cannot really manipulate. Right? So if it takes time in this case that company. Their ramp time was 9 months.

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    Jose Romero: Even if they start hiring people that day, they would not see an impact to that number until the the following year.

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    Julia Nimchinski: Another question. Here rev-ups often find itself as a cleanup crew.

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    Julia Nimchinski: How does this help move the function upstream? Closer to decision making.

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    Jose Romero: So

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    Jose Romero: And and you know, I’m gonna elaborate on the cleanup crew. So things don’t go well, they are told. Go look into why they did not go well and fix it.

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    Jose Romero: So it goes back to the whole firefighting reactive approach that I was talking about earlier. The

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    Jose Romero: the this approach

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    Jose Romero: changes the paradigm completely, because it does 2 things for you in real time. It’s telling you, what are these metrics look like right now? So you don’t have to do a lot of spreadsheet work to figure that out. And not only that, it’s also looking into the future and tells you, and it’s telling you already what’s going to happen before it happens. So

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    Jose Romero: if you think about it from the standpoint of

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    Jose Romero: today, you’re basically blind to to what’s going to happen. And and then your door gets knocked by the Cro saying, we have a problem. You don’t even know what the problem is. They’re explaining you the problem. You actually have to figure out what exactly happened, because they’re going to explain to you something at a very high level. You got to go deep. Now figure it out, and then come up with a proactive response.

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    Jose Romero: This, on the other hand, flips the script. You actually know, even before the Cro. What is going on? You’re being proactive. Now you’re looking at things and going.

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    Jose Romero: We’re going to have a problem here and here and here. So you go to the Cro and you tell a Cro we’re going to have these problems. What can we do about them? Cro Net will never get us prize, because they already know from the system what the next problem is. So whenever they’re having a C-suite conversation that Cro is never on the hot seat.

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    Julia Nimchinski: Question from Diana, how ready are your typical clients with data to feed this system.

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    Jose Romero: So yeah, that’s a typical problem that we hear from from our customers. Everybody has a data clean cleanliness problem. We do have

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    Jose Romero: systems behind the data that are actively looking at it and trying to clean it up. For example, our territory planning component we so cut their companies that leverage geographic territory assignments and their

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    Jose Romero: the accounts may not have all the correct information in some cases that doesn’t have any information on the geography, or where they, that account sits. So we go and clean that up. We make correct addresses, or we may actually fill addresses. So that’s just one example. But across the board we were looking at the customer’s data and try to clean up as much as we can.

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    Jose Romero: There’s still, things that you know can’t be done by us. They would have to be done by the by the customer. But ultimately,

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    Jose Romero: you know the the. It’s a collaborative approach to, to, you know, getting good results.

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    Julia Nimchinski: Another question here, how do you simulate headcount shifts without overfitting to historical performance.

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    Jose Romero: So I think the question is, you’re shifting a resource from one Geo to another. Geo. Or one role to another role, maybe from mid market to enterprise. So we do a couple of things right? So we’re looking at both that person’s performance against their peers. So how’s that person performed? So let’s say hypothetically.

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    Jose Romero: just to pick an example. You have a mid market rep that is promoted to be an enterprise. Rep. So they normally get promoted, because, you know, they’ve done better than than their peers. So we we do take that into consideration. But we also calculated an estimated yield for reps across time. So we do. A ramp time, calculation. How long does it take for a rep to to

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    Jose Romero: to hit a hit their stride in essence. And then what is that? Stride like? What? What is the estimate yield across different tenure bands? So we’re looking at, you know. Say, 0 to 6 months versus 6 to 12 months, etc. And we do make those calculations. And then, whenever a rep gets transition, we we consider that also in the math.

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    Julia Nimchinski: Another question here.

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    Julia Nimchinski: Super interesting. Given your background. Say, what? So yeah, what breaks first, st when companies try to build this kind of

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    Julia Nimchinski: lever model in house without a purpose, purpose, built platform.

    03:55:15.140 –> 03:55:36.640
    Jose Romero: The 1st thing that breaks is the models themselves. So there’s 2 things that are going on behind the scenes here. So you have both a machine learning model, which is different from an Llm. I think some of the folks in previous sessions discussed that a little bit before. Think about a machine learning system

    03:55:36.640 –> 03:55:46.279
    Jose Romero: whenever and you use spotify right spotify is making recommendations to you. That is not an Llm. But it’s still an engine that is looking at

    03:55:46.280 –> 03:56:09.249
    Jose Romero: what you clicked on, and the things that you did, and trying to give you a recommendation on what you may want made like next. That’s a machine learning model versus a large language model, which is, you know, we all know, Chat, Gpt, and Demini and all these other tools. So we do. A combination of these. So the biggest, the 1st challenge that customers typically have is an accuracy challenge.

    03:56:09.260 –> 03:56:13.970
    Jose Romero: So they try to clean up their data. They try to come up with.

    03:56:14.805 –> 03:56:41.310
    Jose Romero: A. You know a scenario where they manipulate these levers and come with an outcome. But they may not have the 1st first, st the full picture of how all these things are intertwined, and the the causal effects of them, and then tying that, together with an with an Llm. That would give you recommendations. So, tying the Ml. And the Llm. Together so that they

    03:56:41.510 –> 03:56:51.699
    Jose Romero: can work together in concert or orchestrate the the movement of these levers that that is typically where things fall flat.

    03:56:53.470 –> 03:56:59.769
    Julia Nimchinski: Let’s say there’s a lot of noise and confusion these days about AI hygienic AI, especially

    03:57:00.090 –> 03:57:01.980
    Julia Nimchinski: being a product leader.

    03:57:02.130 –> 03:57:17.880
    Julia Nimchinski: What would be your recommendations to all of the executives watching Ptm leaders. Where do they start? What do they read? What do they do? How do they transition from, you know? Well established Ptm. Model of running things to this new

    03:57:18.060 –> 03:57:19.810
    Julia Nimchinski: type of thing that no one knows.

    03:57:19.840 –> 03:57:33.606
    Jose Romero: No, I I appreciate the question. I something I think, about all the time. So one of one of the things that I do with our own organization is is, I’m kind of the AI sponsor AI

    03:57:34.170 –> 03:57:41.988
    Jose Romero: evangelist. And then for specifically with my CEO and and some of the executives. What?

    03:57:42.980 –> 03:58:06.510
    Jose Romero: One of the things one quote from Sam Altman that I that I really liked, that I keep repeating is, I think, about about a month ago. He said that he analyzed the demographic patterns of people who use chat, gpt, and notice that the prompts being used are drastically different between teenagers.

    03:58:06.510 –> 03:58:16.979
    Jose Romero: 20 year olds and 30 year olds not he never mentioned 40, 50, 60 year olds. He just stayed with those and said that 30 year olds use chat gpt as a replacement to search.

    03:58:17.410 –> 03:58:33.794
    Jose Romero: Well, night, 1819 year olds are using Chat Gpt as an operating system. And then he went deeper and saying, explaining what that meant. And so in essence, they are using chat, gpt as a

    03:58:34.880 –> 03:58:39.550
    Jose Romero: somebody to bounce off life decisions before making them.

    03:58:39.620 –> 03:59:09.600
    Jose Romero: So they’re thinking about doing something, and they bounce off that idea off that system. So it’s not replacing their decision. It’s not that they’re now having the chat. Make the decision for them the chat they’re just consulting. They think they have a thought that they’re going to go in this direction, and they want to consult with AI on it. I think that’s a powerful thought that everybody should consider is as you’re transitioning into this AI world. You know.

    03:59:09.780 –> 03:59:19.530
    Jose Romero: We know now that the younger generation uses cell phones differently than the older generation. Same things that happen with AI, and the faster we start adopting

    03:59:20.020 –> 03:59:26.579
    Jose Romero: using AI like, like like younger people, the the more attuned we’re going to be, the smarter. We’re going to be.

    03:59:28.280 –> 03:59:30.820
    Julia Nimchinski: What do you think they’re working on with Johnny? Ive.

    03:59:32.407 –> 03:59:47.829
    Jose Romero: I I’m can only tell you. You know these are just. I’m just putting together the dots. But the fact that apple is no longer working as closely with Openai.

    03:59:49.090 –> 03:59:54.500
    Jose Romero: Tells me that they are basically want to put together an AI 1st

    03:59:55.378 –> 04:00:06.559
    Jose Romero: device. Honestly think that, you know, 5, 10 years from now. The way that we interface with phones is or devices just gonna call it a more generic term is different.

    04:00:06.800 –> 04:00:20.109
    Jose Romero: We still gonna need screens for certain things. But majority of the time, we’re just gonna be talking to the devices. And so instead of you know, booking. I don’t know. Let’s say that you want to book something in your calendar or send an email. You just tell the AI

    04:00:20.330 –> 04:00:36.219
    Jose Romero: so why why have to open up your phone and start clicking clicky, clicky, clicky when you can just tell it to do what you want it to do. And it’s learning your preferences, anyway. So it’s becoming better at understanding how you think so. It it eventually becomes an extension of you.

    04:00:37.210 –> 04:00:41.060
    Julia Nimchinski: Last question, I promise, what do you think? Chat gpt, and

    04:00:42.110 –> 04:00:46.149
    Julia Nimchinski: the alike will turn into a distribution platform.

    04:00:46.780 –> 04:00:51.230
    Jose Romero: I’m sorry I didn’t catch your whole question, so what do I think? Chat, gpt, and.

    04:00:51.490 –> 04:01:01.450
    Julia Nimchinski: Yeah. And you know all of the perplexity, Claudes and the like will turn into full blown social media, slash distribution platforms.

    04:01:03.560 –> 04:01:08.943
    Jose Romero: Not sure if I’m answering your question by saying this, but I think there there was a

    04:01:10.180 –> 04:01:39.220
    Jose Romero: an idea of having a super intelligence, and I think that idea is becoming slightly harder to achieve as time passes. So the Nirvana moment was, we have. We’re going to create the super intelligence that is going to do everything. And as they’re getting to having these systems be generalizable, being able to say something, it learned here and apply it over here is becoming hard to impossible. So

    04:01:39.710 –> 04:02:07.399
    Jose Romero: I think what’s going to end up happening is all of these companies are going to pick an area, and they’re going to excel at that area. And, and, you know, drive revenue from being good at that. But this idea of having one company that rules at all, because they have control over everything, at least, for now they’re having where I think on the the research papers that I’ve read, people are having a hard time getting to that point.

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