Customer Wins

Customer Wins

RevPilots helps customers win with vetted full time and fractional talent.

Wall of Wins

FULL TIME HIRING 

Helped a Cyber Security startup hire their first sales leader who has brought in $140K in first month

Company type: Cybersecurity startup
Role placed: First Sales Leader
Outcome: $140K in revenue in the first month

A cybersecurity startup needed to make its first real sales hire. This is one of the highest-stakes searches a founder can run. Hire the wrong person and you waste months, burn through runway, and potentially damage early customer relationships. Hire the right person and your whole trajectory changes.

RevPilots found them a first sales leader who understood cybersecurity sales cycles, could operate without a playbook already in place, and had the instincts to close enterprise security deals. The results were immediate. The new hire brought in $140,000 in revenue in their first month on the job.

Cybersecurity is a specialized category and the sales talent required to succeed in it is genuinely different from generalist B2B reps. Buyers are technical, skeptical, and dealing with high-consequence decisions. The sales leader you bring in needs to speak that language credibly. RevPilots focuses exclusively on sales hiring, which means our recruiters understand what that combination of technical fluency and sales skill actually looks like, and how to find it. First sales hires are consequential. This one paid off fast.

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Helped a VC-backed startup hire an AE and CSM in three weeks, given additional roles, including a VP role immediately after (VP and SDR filled)

Company type: VC-backed B2B startup
Roles placed: Account Executive, Customer Success Manager, then VP of Sales and SDR
Timeline: AE and CSM placed in 3 weeks

A VC-backed startup came to RevPilots needing an Account Executive and a Customer Success Manager. They needed both roles filled quickly and with candidates who could operate in an early-stage environment where structure is limited and initiative matters.

RevPilots placed the AE and CSM in three weeks. The search went well enough that the client immediately handed RevPilots additional roles, including a VP of Sales and an SDR. Both were subsequently filled.

This kind of outcome happens regularly with our clients. Companies come in for one search, the experience is good, and RevPilots becomes their default recruiting partner for GTM hiring. It is a reflection of how we work: we move fast, we present candidates who are actually qualified, and we do not waste your time with people who are clearly not a fit just to look busy. If you are a startup building out a sales org and need multiple roles filled, it is more efficient to have one firm that understands your business deeply handle the full slate. That is what we do.

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Helped an Inc 5000 company hire 5 different marketing positions in 4 weeks

Company type: Inc 5000 growth-stage company
Roles placed: 5 marketing positions
Timeline: 4 weeks

An Inc 5000 company needed to build out its marketing team quickly. Five roles, tight timeline, and real growth depending on getting the right people in place. Hiring five people at once is operationally complex, especially when a company is growing fast and leaders do not have time to manage a drawn-out search process for each role.

RevPilots placed all five marketing positions in four weeks. We ran the searches in parallel, moved candidates through efficiently, and made sure the client was only spending time in conversations with people worth their time. Five offers, all accepted, in a month.

Fast-growing companies face a specific problem with hiring: the pace of growth creates headcount needs faster than a typical recruiting process can keep up. Traditional agencies running one search at a time with long timelines are not built for that dynamic. RevPilots is. We have handled multi-role mandates for growth-stage companies before, and the ability to run parallel searches without sacrificing quality is something we are good at. If you are trying to build a team in a hurry, we should talk.

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RevPilots Outcompeted a Major Recruiting Firm on VP of Sales and Multiple AE Roles

Company type: B2B company
Roles placed: VP of Sales, multiple Account Executives
Outcome: RevPilots filled all roles. The competing firm filled zero.

A company ran a competitive recruiting process, bringing in RevPilots alongside a well-known national recruiting firm to search for a VP of Sales and several Account Executive positions simultaneously. Both firms had the same access to the same roles, the same timeline, and the same hiring criteria.

RevPilots filled every role. The competing firm filled zero.

This outcome comes up in different ways for clients who have used larger generalist recruiting firms before working with us. RevPilots works exclusively in sales. Every recruiter on the team comes from a sales or sales hiring background. We are not applying a general-purpose recruiting playbook to a specialized problem. We know what good sales talent looks like, we know how to screen for it, and we have the network to find it without spending the first three weeks of your engagement building one from scratch. Size is not the differentiator. Focus is.

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Other Great Client Wins

  • Full Time VP of Sales for hired after intensive 4 week process, beating out 5 other agencies.
  • Full Time SDR hired who is on track to exceed quota
  • Helped a company hire two SDRs that were required to pass a CCAT + Personality Test and interview with four C-Level execs and they had to come into the office 5 days a week in four weeks
  • First Sales Hire – Full Time Account Executive hired after being sourced with hyper-specific client requirements
  • First Sales Hire – Full Time Account Executive hired who needed niche industry experience, client described as “perfect fit” Entire hiring process was designed from scratch, including interview scorecards and skills assessments
  • Hired a VP of Sales in a week for a fast growing PE backed tech business
  • Hired a VP of Sales for VC backed startup, submitting over 30 qualified candidates in three weeks
  • Beat out a handful of other recruiting companies for an SVP of Sales in a competitive process for a role with below market comp
  • Helped a PE-backed company hire a VP of Demand Gen in 3 weeks after they struggled for months on their own
  • Interviewed over 100 candidates in 3 weeks to fill 3 sales roles
  • Fractional Sales Leader designed the interview process from scratch, working with a sales recruiter to source qualified applicants and run an efficient interview process in order to hire top sales talent, saving founder substantial time to work on product, only being brought in until final stages of the process before hiring.
 

FRACTIONAL

Startup Grew From 1 Customer to 10 in Two Months With a Sales Consultant

Company type: B2B startup, mid-market focus

Role placed: Fractional Sales Consultant
Timeline: 2 months
Outcome: Grew from 1 customer to 10

A mid-market focused B2B startup had a product, a vision, and exactly one paying customer. The founders knew how to build. They did not yet know how to sell consistently and repeatably. Hiring a full-time sales leader was not the right move yet, but they needed someone in their corner who had done this before.

RevPilots connected them with a fractional Sales Consultant. Within two months, the startup had grown from one customer to ten. That is ten times the paying customer base in sixty days.

This is the scenario fractional sales talent was made for. Early-stage founders who are strong builders but early in their sales journey benefit enormously from working with someone who has already figured out the playbook. The consultant did not just advise — they worked alongside the founders, helped them identify the right prospects, build a repeatable outreach process, and actually close deals. If you are sitting at one or two customers and need to start building real pipeline, a fractional sales consultant is often the fastest and most cost-effective path forward.

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Underperforming AE More Than Doubled Monthly Revenue After One Month of Fractional Coaching

Company type: B2B company

Role placed:
Fractional Sales Manager

Timeline:
1 month

Outcome:
AE revenue went from $20K to $50K per month

A CEO had an Account Executive closing around $20,000 a month and felt something was off. The rep was not terrible, but they were not performing at the level the role required. The question was whether the issue was the rep, the process, or the coaching — and the CEO did not have enough bandwidth to dig in and figure it out themselves.

RevPilots brought in a Fractional Sales Manager who spent a month reviewing recorded calls, identifying specific patterns in where deals were stalling, and coaching the rep directly on what to change and how. Within one month, the AE went from $20,000 to $50,000 in monthly revenue. The rep did not change. The coaching did.

Most underperforming reps are not unfixable. They are uncoached. A good fractional sales manager can identify exactly where a rep is leaving money on the table and give them the specific tools to fix it. The impact is fast and measurable, and the cost of the engagement is a fraction of what that revenue improvement is worth over time.

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Fractional AE Went From 1 Meeting a Week to 10 for New AI Product Launch

Company type: B2B company launching new AI product
Role placed: Fractional Account Executive
Outcome: 10 meetings booked per week, up from 1

A company launching a new AI product needed someone to own lead-to-close for the new offering. They were booking roughly one meeting a week through their existing efforts — not nearly enough to validate the product’s market potential or build real pipeline momentum.

RevPilots placed a Fractional AE with specific experience in new product sales motions. The rep was booking ten meetings a week shortly after starting — a ten times improvement in qualified pipeline activity, without a full-time hire, and without the lag time of an extensive onboarding period.

New product launches are a particularly good use case for fractional sales talent. You need someone who can operate without a fully built-out playbook, figure out what works, and iterate quickly. A full-time hire in that situation carries risk — if the product does not get traction, you have made a permanent headcount decision based on an experiment. A fractional AE lets you test the market, build pipeline, and gather signal before committing to a full-time role.

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Rewritten Cold Email Copy Led to 200%+ More Meetings Booked

Company type: SMB
Role placed: Fractional SDR Manager
Outcome: 200%+ improvement in meetings booked

An SMB was running outbound email campaigns but the results were flat. Sequences were going out, activity was happening, but meetings were not coming back. Leadership knew something was off but did not have the expertise internally to diagnose and fix the messaging.

RevPilots brought in a Fractional SDR Manager who audited the existing outreach, identified the core problems with the copy, and rewrote the email sequences from scratch. The result was a 200% or greater improvement in meetings booked.

Bad cold email copy is one of the most common and most fixable problems in outbound sales. The issues are almost always the same: too much about the sender, too little relevance to the prospect, a value prop that is either too vague or too feature-heavy, and a call to action that asks for too much too soon. A good SDR manager who has written and tested hundreds of sequences can spot these problems in minutes. This client more than tripled their meeting volume without changing their ICP, their tools, or their team. They changed the copy.

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Pricing Recommendation Led to ~35% Revenue Jump With No Impact on Conversion Rate

Company type: B2B startup
Role placed: Fractional Sales Consultant
Outcome: ~35% immediate revenue increase, zero negative impact on conversion rate

A B2B startup was underpricing its product. They did not know it yet. A RevPilots Sales Consultant came in, listened to customer calls, conducted market research, and identified that the company was leaving significant revenue on the table by pricing below what the market would bear and below the actual value being delivered.

The consultant made specific recommendations to increase pricing. The startup saw an immediate increase in revenue of approximately 35% with zero negative impact on their conversion rate. Customers did not walk away. They kept buying at the new price.

Underpricing is a more common problem than most founders realize. It often comes from building in a vacuum — pricing to what feels safe rather than to what the market actually values. This startup’s revenue grew by a third without adding a single new customer, without changing the product, and without spending more on marketing. They just charged what the work was worth.

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Conference Strategy Generated $250K in Pipeline for Founders Who Were Just Showing Up

Company type: B2B startup
Role placed: Fractional Sales Manager
Outcome: $250K in generated pipeline opportunities

A startup’s founders were attending industry conferences without a plan. They would show up, walk the floor, hope to run into the right people, and come back without much to show for the time and money spent.

A RevPilots Fractional Sales Manager built a real conference strategy: pre-event outreach to prospects already registered, a structured schedule with meetings lined up in advance, and a clear post-event follow-up process. The next time the founders showed up to a conference, they had a full calendar. The strategy generated $250,000 in pipeline opportunities.

The difference between showing up to a conference and working a conference is entirely operational. A fractional sales manager who has run conference strategies before can design the whole thing — from pre-event targeting to the follow-up cadence — in less time than it would take a founder to figure it out independently. The $250K in pipeline came not from a bigger booth or a better product. It came from having a plan.

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Ghosting Problem Reduced by 90% After Call Recording Review

Company type: SMB
Role placed: Fractional Sales Manager
Outcome: 90% reduction in ghosting after demos and calls

An SMB had a ghosting problem. Prospects would go through calls and demos, seem interested, and then disappear. The team was doing the outreach, running the conversations, and getting nowhere after the initial meeting.

A RevPilots Fractional Sales Manager reviewed the recorded sales calls, identified two specific root causes in how the team was running conversations, and provided targeted coaching to fix both. Ghosting was reduced by 90%.

Ghosting almost always traces back to something specific that happened — or did not happen — during the sales process. It is rarely about the product and rarely about timing. It is usually about how the call was run: whether the rep established clear next steps, whether they created enough urgency without being pushy, whether they actually understood the prospect’s real buying criteria. A good fractional sales manager can watch a handful of recordings and spot these patterns in hours. This SMB stopped losing deals to silence by learning exactly where their process was breaking down.

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Other Wins

  • Fractional Sales Manager leading GTM team, putting in new processes and coaching for three AEs, resulting in record meetings booked and client described as “stellar performance.”
  • Company didn’t want to hire an agency to implement HubSpot so they hired a Fractional RevOps Manager who mapped out the implementation and executed it ahead of schedule and for significantly less than the agency cost.
  • VC backed startup needed Customer Success process audited and recommendations made to improve current process but didn’t need a VP of CS yet so a Fractional CS Leader overhauled process and helped oversee recommended changes.
  • Startup saved over $25K by eliminating wasteful sales tool spend after a fractional sales leader audited tech stack.
  • Fractional AE helped bootstrapped Founder fill pipeline going from 1 or 2 meetings a week to 8-12, plus helped close new business.
  • Fractional Sales Manager regularly reviewed recorded sales calls and coached Account Executives based on findings resulting in improved closed won rate by 20% because of a better discovery and demo approach.
  • Startup improved cash flow significantly after changing sales process thanks to Sales Consultant recommendations.
  • Fractional Sales Manager reworked sales process after identifying substantial drop off at last step in sales process for SMB. Implemented a new step to present pricing, resulting in an immediate improved conversion rate improvement of 55% in the first month.
  • Fractional SDR was brought in to test a new potential market segment for Series B startup, saving the startup the need to hire full time SDR and allocate internal resources for an experiment.
  • Fractional Sales manager implemented new outbound strategy and process, leading to company regularly booking meetings after failing to do so for months. Company had only booked one outbound meeting in the past 6 months. 
  • Fractional Sales Leader reworked interview process for Startup, helping founders make first sales hire who is on track to exceed quota.
  • Fractional Sales Leader worked with founders to rework the compensation plan for salespeople in order to drive specific behavior.
  • Sales Consultant coached technical Founder on sales best practices, resulting in Founder closing first deals after months of previous failure.
  • Fractional SDR was hired to book meetings when founders were unable to allocate time to prospecting. Startup saw a significant increase in new qualified opportunities created.
  • Public company needed new cold email copy created. Work described as “excellent” by Fractional Sales Talent.
  • Fractional Sales Manager provided regular sales coaching and training to salespeople, resulting in 30% shorter sales cycles and record revenue for the quarter.
  • Fractional Sales Enablement Leader coached a team of technical co-founders who were able to successfully implement an outbound process and confidently run sales cycles from lead to close.
  • Fractional Sales Leader created a sales playbook and other foundational materials to professionalize sales organization and put it in a position to scale.
  • Sale Consultant audited sales approach of struggling account executive. Identified areas of weakness and prescribed a plan of action to fix shortcomings, resulting in an immediate improvement in their close rate going from ~10% to 30%.
  • Fractional Head of Sales built a sales playbook, designed the interview process, and other supporting materials (sales playbook, onboarding materials, etc.) to put the foundation in place to bring on new salespeople.
  • Sales Consultant provided go to market advice to founder resulting in founder building a 700+ company waitlist.
  • Fractional SDR validated outbound process for company to hire full time
  • Fractional SDR built cold outreach process from scratch for a SaaS company, resulting in consistent booking of qualified meetings and new revenue,