The discovery call

Book a discovery call

A graph8 account executive asks how your team works today, gives you a first read on where the problem probably is, and tells you straight whether the review is worth doing now. The call is free. It cannot tell you exactly what is wrong, because that takes watching the work.
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Pick a time

Video call, thirty minutes, free, with a graph8 account executive. It is a working conversation, not a demo. Bring one number you cannot explain.

If it is a fit, the next step is the blueprint. An engineer spends 45 minutes with one person from each role that touches revenue, watching them do their normal work, and gives you four documents: your ontology, your workflows, a roadmap and a gap list. It can be done in a couple of days; how long it takes depends on booking the sessions.

You can also skip the call and buy the blueprint on the pricing page.

See how the review works
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What happens on the call

Mostly questions about how your team sells today. You do most of the talking.

How accounts get chosen
What counts as a qualified meeting
What makes a rep work one account before another
How reps decide what to say
Where the work gets stuck
The SDR to AE handoff
What managers coach on
Which numbers get reviewed
Which tools you use for what
What AI is already sending
Who owns the definitions
What you tried last quarter
What you get, either way

Our first read

Where we think the problem probably sits, from what you describe. A guess you can test, not a finding.

Where we would look first

Which of the six areas of the Tenbound Standard we would start with. A place to start looking, not a finding.

The Standard itself

The six areas the review scores against. Free to read and cite, whether or not you buy anything.

A straight answer on fit

Whether the review would tell you anything you do not already know.

Questions for your own team

The few things worth checking internally before anyone spends a dollar.

A no, if it is one

If the review would not help you yet, the account executive says so.

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Who it is for

Book it if some of these describe your team. Skip it if you want an outsourced SDR team, a product demo, or you already know the answer and only need budget.

The number misses and nobody can say why Your best rep and your average rep are far apart Sales and marketing count qualified leads differently You have a tool for every step and still copy data between them AI tools send emails and nobody set the rules Leads go quiet after the first call Dashboards show activity, not what caused it You are about to buy another tool to fix it
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Send a message instead

No time that works? Tell us what is not moving. An account executive reads it and replies on whether a call is worth your thirty minutes.

Discovery call request

Company, team size, what is not moving

No cost

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Replacing a fully automated motion with personalized outreach booked three times the meetings in her second month. Video messages returned replies at roughly 25 percent, against 1 percent for plain email.

Lauren Wadsworth Head of Global Sales Development, Segment The Sales Development Podcast, Tenbound interview archive

Calls into his priority bucket (people who answered before) connect at 20 to 30 percent, against about 5 percent on cold dials. Around 80 percent of reachable contacts connect within the first 3 to 5 attempts, so lists refresh on that cadence.

Ryan Reisert Outbound practitioner, the Buckets methodology Tenbound interview archive

Findings are as shared by the speakers in their interviews in the Tenbound archive.

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Who we have worked with

Ten years of Tenbound sales development work.

Next step

Other ways to start

Buy the blueprint outright, or place your own team in six questions first and bring the result to the call.