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Sales & Customer Success Alignment
Foundations of Sales-CS Alignment
What is Sales & Customer Success Alignment
The Cost of a Broken Handoff: NRR Math
Sales-CS Alignment Maturity Model
Account Team Models: Pod, Swarm, Sequential
8 Warning Signs Sales and CS Are Misaligned
Sales-CS Alignment from SMB to Enterprise
The Handoff (closed-won → onboarded)
Closed-Won to Onboarded Handoff Process
Deal Context Transfer: What CS Actually Needs from Sales
Champion Transition from AE to CSM
Joint Kickoff Call: Agenda, Attendees, Outcomes
Preventing 'Sales Over-Promised, CS Under-Delivers'
Handoff Scorecard: Did Sales Hand Off Well?
Shared Definitions & Customer Records
Sales & Customer Success Alignment Glossary
Single Source of Truth: The Customer Record
What 'Successfully Onboarded' Actually Means
Customer Health Scoring with Sales-Context Inputs
ICP Refinement: CS Feedback to Sales on Bad-Fit Deals
Joint Ownership: Renewal & Expansion
Renewal Ownership: AE vs AM vs CSM
Expansion Ownership and the Upsell Motion
Sales Commission on Retention: Aligning Incentives
When Sales Gets Pulled Back into an At-Risk Account
The Joint QBR with the Customer
Multi-Product Cross-Sell Ownership
Feedback Loops
The Won-Deal Review: Post-Close Sales-CS Debrief
Churn Root-Cause Feedback Back to Sales
Voice of Customer Pipeline to Sales Messaging
The 'This Deal Shouldn't Have Closed' Loop
Closed-Lost-But-Saved: When CS Rescues a Deal
Joint Operations & Tools
Shared Customer Record Architecture
Account-Based Ops: Tier-1 Account Dashboards
The Joint At-Risk Account Review
Aligned Stack: CRM + CS Platform + Revenue Intel
Forecasting NRR Jointly
Org & Incentives
Should the AE Retain the Account Through Renewal?
The CRO Over Both Sales and CS Argument
The Pod Model: Dedicated AE + CSM Pairs
Compensation Aligned on NRR
Territory Design Across Sales and CS
The Library
Sales & Customer Success Alignment
Foundations
The Sales-CS Seam
What is Sales & CS Alignment
The Cost of a Broken Handoff
Alignment Maturity Model
Account Team Models
8 Warning Signs of Misalignment
SMB to Enterprise Spectrum
The Handoff
Closed-Won to Onboarded
Closed-Won to Onboarded Process
Deal Context Transfer
Champion Transition
Joint Kickoff Call Agenda
Preventing Sales Over-Promised
Handoff Scorecard
Shared Definitions
The Customer Record
Sales-CS Alignment Glossary
Single Source of Truth Customer Record
Successfully Onboarded Criteria
Customer Health with Sales Context
ICP Refinement Loop
Renewal & Expansion
Joint Ownership
Renewal Ownership: AE vs AM vs CSM
Expansion and Upsell Motion
Sales Commission on Retention
When Sales Pulled Into At-Risk
The Joint QBR
Multi-Product Cross-Sell Ownership
Feedback Loops
Closing the Loop
Won-Deal Review
Churn Root-Cause to Sales
VoC to Sales Messaging
This Deal Shouldn't Have Closed
Closed-Lost-But-Saved
Joint Operations & Tools
Running the Joint Motion
Shared Customer Record Architecture
Account-Based Ops Dashboards
Joint At-Risk Account Review
Aligned Stack: CRM + CS + Revenue Intel
Forecasting NRR Jointly
Org & Incentives
Structure That Aligns
AE Retain Account Through Renewal?
CRO Over Both Sales and CS
Pod Model: AE + CSM Pairs
Compensation Aligned on NRR
Territory Design Across Both Teams
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