Three questions behind every slow quarter
Growth compounds when one plan runs from first touch to signed contract.
Pipeline leaks between the first touch and the first call
Qualification, follow-up and the handoff from marketing to sales all sit between the two teams. When each side gets fixed on its own, nobody owns that gap, and that's where good leads go cold.
A strong first month of leads, and a sales team that spends the next quarter working out who to call first.
Sharp discovery and a clean process, running on too few of the right buyers.
Positioning, funnel and qualification get built together, so the leads coming in are the ones your team knows how to close.
A new campaign brings in more MQLs in a month than the team has ever handled. The last team got 160 MQLs in month one.
Qualification criteria go in, and the 20 or 30 most likely to convert get booked into live discovery.
Everyone else goes into a nurture sequence written in the words buyers used on those calls, and every objection feeds back into the messaging.
Start where you are
Pick the starting point that matches the moment your company is in, or bring us a launch.
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Offer 01
Sales + Marketing Engine
You have real demand, and growth still runs through the founder.
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Offer 02
Sales + Marketing Scale
You have a sales team, and the motion that got you here has stopped keeping up.
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| Who it's for | ||
| Stage | Seed to Series A | Series A and beyond |
| Sales today | Founder closes most deals, maybe a first hire | A sales team and a marketing function in place |
| The moment | Leads come in unevenly and nobody owns the pipeline | Growth has slowed and win rates keep slipping |
| Positioning and demand | ||
| Market audit, with the battles you won't fight named | ✓ | ✓ |
| ICP, buyer interviews and positioning by buyer role | ✓ | ✓ |
| Website messaging, sales deck and one-pagers | ✓ | ✓ |
| Digital funnel, lead capture and nurture sequences | ✓ | ✓ |
| Founder content on LinkedIn * | ✓ | — |
| Sales execution | ||
| Pipeline and deal audit | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pain points and objections from live discovery calls | ✓ | ✓ |
| Qualification criteria and lead routing | ✓ | ✓ |
| Discovery, deal and stakeholder strategy | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pricing, negotiation and closing | ✓ | ✓ |
| Sales motion design | ✓ | ✓ |
| Conversion and win-rate optimization, stage by stage | — | ✓ |
| Sales team training and coaching inside live deals | — | ✓ |
| First SDR, recruited and managed ** | ✓ | — |
| Monthly pipeline review, run together | ✓ | ✓ |
| What stays with you | ||
| A sales motion and playbook your team keeps | ✓ | ✓ |
| Messaging playbook and sales materials library | ✓ | ✓ |
| The engagement | ||
| Length | 8 to 12 months | 8 to 12 months |
| Investment | From $15.5K / month combined Billed separately by SALT and Andrej Persolja, plus 10% of first-year ARR on deals Hannah personally works | Inquire Scoped after a discovery call |
* Built with Andrej's Interviewer Method for LinkedIn. ** Optional, recruited through SALT's recruiting partner, with placement fees and salary paid directly. Software, licences and ad spend are paid directly and never marked up.
Four steps, from audit to handover
Every engagement has exit criteria agreed at the start, so everyone knows what done looks like. When you raise, launch or change how you sell, the cycle can start again.
Book a joint sessionAudit together
Market, competitors, funnel, live pipeline and past deals, including conversations with your engineers and your buyers. One diagnosis, written by both of us, with the ideas you won't compete on named and set aside.
Position
ICP and messaging by buyer role, shaped by the pain points and objections that come up in real discovery calls, and tested with buyers before anything goes live.
Build and run
Funnel, content and sequences go live while the sales motion gets built, optimized and trained into your team inside real deals, with a joint pipeline review every month.
Hand over
Playbooks, materials and the funnel documented and owned by your team, so growth keeps compounding after we leave.
Two specialists, one plan
Closes live deals and builds the sales motion underneath them, grounded in trust and curiosity, never pressure.
- Pipeline and deal audit
- Discovery, qualification and deal strategy
- Pricing, negotiation and closing
- Sales motion design and optimization
- Team training, SDR hiring and coaching

Growth operator for B2B SaaS and AI companies, with 40 growth projects led hands-on and 400+ more advised. Took Aimfox from $0.2M to $3M ARR in 10 months.
- Market and competitive audit
- ICP and positioning by buyer role
- Website messaging and sales materials
- Funnels, lead capture and nurture
- Founder content and AI product launches
Is this for you
This works best for
- B2B SaaS and AI companies with real market demand, from first sales hire to an established team
- Any niche, including the specialist ones nobody else finds exciting
- North American teams, ideally on Eastern or Central time
- Founders who care deeply about the product and are ready to trust the people they bring in
Probably not the right fit
- No market interest in the product yet
- Products so technical that every call needs an engineer, with none available
- Looking for someone to execute a plan that's already decided
- Expecting a guaranteed lead or revenue number
What people ask first
We already have a marketing lead. Does this replace them?
Why start sales and marketing at the same time?
We're launching an AI feature. Is Launch for us?
Can I hire just one of you?
Who do I sign with and who bills me?
Do you work with companies outside North America?
Do you guarantee results?
Not sure where you stand yet? Run the SALT sales motion diagnostic, ten minutes, free.
Bring both sides to the table
Thirty minutes with both of us. We'll tell you straight which offer fits, or whether you need either.