Embedded Technology Leadership for a Scaling IT Sales Organization

Industry: Professional Services
Year: 2023–Present

End-to-end technology strategy, custom portals, and operational automation — transforming a manual sales operation into a data-driven growth engine

The Challenge

A growing IT sales organization helping managed service providers launch and scale had outgrown its tooling. The sales team relied on disconnected spreadsheets, manual data entry across multiple platforms, and tribal knowledge to manage deals, onboarding, and partner relationships. Leadership had limited visibility into pipeline health, attribution, or financial performance.

The company didn't need a one-time project or a consultant with a slide deck. They needed a technical partner who could own their entire technology strategy, build the systems, lead a team, and evolve the architecture as the business grew — someone who could sit at the leadership table and ship production software, not just advise.

Our Approach

We mapped the full operational lifecycle — lead generation through deal close, onboarding through ongoing partner management, quoting through invoicing and reconciliation — and found that the core problem wasn't any single tool. It was that nothing talked to anything else, and every handoff between systems required a human to manually bridge the gap.

Rather than replacing everything at once, we built an integration-first architecture: connecting the existing CRM with cloud infrastructure, communication tools, accounting software, and prospecting platforms through custom automations. Then we layered purpose-built applications on top.

The Solution

As an embedded technical partner, we built and continue to evolve:

  • Role-Based Portals: Custom Next.js applications giving agents, partners, customers, and internal operations each a tailored experience — deal pipeline views, prospecting tools, user provisioning, approval workflows, and finance operations behind SSO and RBAC.
  • Integration Layer: Python-based automations connecting CRM, cloud workspace, accounting, prospecting, and communication platforms via webhooks with structured logging, retry logic, and alerting.
  • Real-Time Dashboards: Performance KPIs, pipeline health, attribution metrics, and financial reporting with filtered exports and scheduled Slack digests.
  • Automated Financial Workflows: Quote-to-invoice-to-payment pipeline with reconciliation helpers, GL tagging, and A/R tracking.

Beyond building, we manage the development team, run sprint planning, and partner directly with the CEO and sales leadership to continuously align the technology roadmap with business priorities.

Results & Impact

Eliminated manual data entry across five previously disconnected platforms

Real-time pipeline visibility replacing weekly manual reports

Onboarding/offboarding automated end-to-end with audit trails

Geo-routed lead distribution replacing manual assignment

Financial reconciliation time reduced by over 70%

Ongoing partnership with continuous system evolution

Technologies Used

PythonFastAPINext.js / React / TypeScriptPostgreSQLHubSpot APIsGoogle Cloud (Functions, Run, Scheduler, Storage)Google Workspace Admin SDKSlack APIZoho Books APISSO / RBACCI/CD