We create Sales Success.

Sales that works on both sides of the Atlantic.

Fractional sales leadership for European companies building their US business, and fractional RevOps for US B2B teams that have outgrown their spreadsheets. Senior experience, a few days a month, no full-time hire. AI agents handle the research, prospecting and CRM busywork, so your sellers can sell.

Stage 1Market insight
Stage 2Positioning & content
Stage 3Demand & pipeline
Stage 4Enabled sellers
Stage 5Closed-won

Our offers

Two ways we help.

Same experience, two starting points. Pick the one that sounds like you.

For European companies entering the US

US Launch Partner

Your first senior US sales leader, from day one.

You’ve proven your product at home. Maybe you’ve founded a US entity or won a first American customer. Now you need a US pipeline that doesn’t depend on one person’s network, and a headquarters that trusts the US numbers. Joe grew up in Stuttgart, has built his career in the US, and today runs US sales for a German software company. He knows what headquarters expects, what US buyers expect, and where the two clash.

Who it’s for

  • German, Austrian, Swiss and other European B2B companies in their first US years
  • A US entity founded recently or planned, with few people on the ground
  • Leaders who want the US motion right before hiring a US VP of Sales

Problems we solve

  • “We have a US company and a first customer. What now?”
  • Pricing, contracts and support that make US buyers wait on Germany
  • No US forecast headquarters believes
  • Direct reps, distributors, agencies, trade shows: too many options, no one to decide
  • The risk of a wrong first US hire

What you get

  • US Readiness Sprint (4–6 weeks): US ideal customer profile and segments, competitive landscape, US pricing and packaging check, channel recommendation, 90-day pipeline plan, US-ready messaging
  • Fractional Head of US Sales: pipeline and forecast cadence, monthly reporting to your board or Geschäftsführung, US CRM setup, outbound motion, hands-on help on early deals
  • Hire and hand off: profile, interviews and onboarding for your first US sales hire, plus a documented US playbook
  • AI-assisted prospecting from week one, so your US pipeline starts building early.

Remote-first from Chicago, overlapping the German afternoon · English or German · 3-month minimum, then month to month · Travel only when it really matters, agreed in advance

Auf Deutsch? Gerne. Wir sprechen Ihre Sprache, im wörtlichen und im übertragenen Sinn.

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For US B2B companies scaling sales

Fractional RevOps

A forecast you can trust and a CRM your team actually uses.

You raised money, you’re hiring reps, and the board wants to know how confident you are in the quarter. Meanwhile the CRM is half-filled, everyone reads the stages differently, and the forecast is a spreadsheet rebuilt every Friday. Joe spent 17+ years at CA Technologies, including as VP Global Sales Operations and VP Global Sales Enablement, and co-led its global Salesforce rollout. Now he brings that to growing B2B companies, a few days a month.

Who it’s for

  • US B2B companies, typically seed to Series C, with a handful to a few dozen sellers
  • Founder-led sales moving to a team, or a new sales leader who needs the operating system underneath
  • No senior RevOps leader yet, or an admin who needs direction

Problems we solve

  • Leadership and the board don’t trust the forecast
  • Dirty CRM data, stages nobody follows, reports nobody reads
  • New reps without territory, quota, comp plan or onboarding
  • HubSpot or Salesforce migrations, and tools nobody owns
  • Sales, marketing and customer success reporting different numbers

What you get

  • RevOps Diagnostic (2 weeks): people, process, technology and content review, CRM and data audit, funnel baseline, and a prioritized 90-day plan you keep either way
  • Fractional RevOps leadership: CRM ownership and stage definitions, forecast cadence and dashboards, territory/quota/comp design, playbook and onboarding, board-ready metrics, tool selection
  • Hand off: a documented operating rhythm, plus help hiring a full-time RevOps person if you want
  • AI agents in your CRM for cleaner data and quicker pipeline reviews.

Remote · Defined deliverables each month, not hours in a bucket · 3-month minimum, then month to month

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AI-powered, human-led.

AI agents take on the research and prep work, so senior time goes into strategy, customers and deals.

More qualified pipeline, sooner.
A leaner team, with senior focus on deals.
A clearer view of the quarter.

What we do

Three practices, one goal: revenue.

What goes into every engagement, whichever offer you start with.

01 · Market Insights

See beyond what is today.

We remove uncertainty through insights that help you win today and lead tomorrow’s markets.

  • Market and competitive analysis
  • Ideal customer profile and segmentation
  • Go-to-market and expansion strategy

02 · Sales Enablement

Scale sales success.

The role of sales enablement changes significantly over a company’s lifecycle, and so does our involvement.

  • Fractional sales operations leadership
  • Sales playbooks, process and methodology
  • CRM design, forecasting and pipeline reviews

03 · Creative Content

Bring stories to life.

Without quality content, demand generation and sales enablement don’t work.

  • Messaging and value propositions
  • Sales collateral and pitch decks
  • Thought leadership and campaign content
“With our People, Process, Technology and Content framework, we help clients assess their existing sales enablement processes and identify and execute high-impact improvement initiatives.”Jochen ‘Joe’ Renz, Co-Founder & Managing Partner
01People

The right roles, hiring profiles, onboarding and coaching.

02Process

An ICP, pipeline stages, forecast cadence and a playbook everyone follows the same way.

03Technology

A CRM and reporting setup your team actually uses.

04Content

Messaging and materials that fit the buyer. For European companies, written for US buyers, not translated.

Our approach

Enablement that matches your stage.

What a startup needs from sales enablement is very different from what an enterprise needs. We scale our involvement to fit.

Startup

Build the motion

Founder-led sales turned into a repeatable process: first playbook, first pipeline stages, first CRM.

Hands-on · fractional
Growth

Hire and ramp

Onboarding, territory and quota design, and content that shortens time-to-first-deal for new reps.

Fractional · project
Scale-up

Operationalize

Forecast discipline, sales and marketing alignment, and the systems that hold up as headcount grows.

Project · advisory
Enterprise

Lead the market

Global enablement programs, new-market entry, and finding the next growth opportunity.

Advisory

How we engage

How it works

Step 1

30-min discovery call

We talk about where you are and what’s in the way. If it’s not a fit, you’ll hear that, with a pointer elsewhere if possible.

Step 2

Start small

A fixed-price US Readiness Sprint or RevOps Diagnostic. A clear picture and a 90-day plan you keep either way.

Step 3

Build, run, hand off

A few days a month as part of your team, with clear deliverables and a monthly review, until a sales operation runs without us: documented, owned by your people, ready for your next hire.

Who we are

Co-founders and Managing Partners.

Jochen Renz

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

  • 17+ years at CA Technologies, including VP Global Sales Operations and VP Global Sales Enablement
  • Led a global Salesforce.com CRM rollout; presented at Dreamforce
  • Built global sales playbook programs; spoke at Forrester’s Sales Enablement conferences
  • Built US commercial operations from zero as Managing Director
  • Today leads US sales for a German software company
  • Born in Stuttgart, based in Chicago. Fluent in German and English
  • Member of the German American Chamber of Commerce of the Midwest since 2014. Co-founder of MobilityIL
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Alex Renz

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

  • Emerging-technology strategist who helps clients see how IoT, data analytics and cloud reshape business models and go-to-market
  • Led IoT business development at SAP; drove strategic initiatives with Bosch, Microsoft and Infor
  • Senior Principal Consultant at Clareo, advising on growth strategy and corporate ventures
  • Co-Founder and CSO of Castanet 5G; international business experience across six countries
LinkedIn →

FAQ

Questions we hear a lot

What does “fractional” mean in practice?

Senior leadership for a set number of days each month instead of a full-time executive, typically one to two days a week. Joining your meetings, owning deliverables, working with your team.

Why not hire a full-time VP of Sales or RevOps?

Sometimes you should, and we’ll help you do it. Fractional lets you build the motion first, so your eventual hire steps into something that works.

Do you work in German?

Yes. Joe is a native German speaker from Stuttgart and works comfortably with Geschäftsführung, boards and teams in either language.

Do you need to be on site?

No. We work remote-first from Chicago. When an in-person visit really matters, such as a key customer meeting, a trade show or a kickoff, we agree on it in advance.

How long is an engagement?

A fixed-price Sprint or Diagnostic first, then a 3-month minimum for ongoing work, then month to month.

Which CRMs do you work with?

Mainly Salesforce and HubSpot. The principles (clean stages, honest forecasts, reports people use) apply to any tool.

Do you use AI?

Yes, for research and preparation work. You and your team stay in charge of decisions and customer relationships.

Contact

Let’s talk.

30 minutes, no pitch deck. Tell us where you are and we’ll tell you honestly whether we can help.

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