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Turn closed deals into a repeatable edge

You closed 30 deals this year and could not name the one thing the wins share. The pattern in your wins and losses is the edge you are leaving on the table.

[ SALES OPERATOR ]

Turn closed deals into a repeatable edge

G / Groundthe problem that started all of it
RevOps &

You closed 30 deals this year and could not name the one thing the wins share.

The pattern in your wins and losses is the edge you are leaving on the table.

A / Assignthe build, block by block, and who owns each one. Open a step to see it run.
HUMAN + AI, IN THE LOOP
The skills run the work. You stay in the loop on the calls that need judgment.
Salesforce01
Extract the repeatable reason you win.
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Extract the repeatable reason you win.
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Salesforce02
Categorize your losses and name the fix.
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Categorize losses and name the fix.
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Gong03
Turn closed deals into a change, not a post-mortem deck.
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Turn the interviews into a coded pattern.
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Claude04
Find what your wins, losses, and churn share.
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Read wins and losses side by side to find the one thread, then rank the active accounts that match it.
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T / Tie backthe result it drove, and how they know
RESULT · 01

The number-one predictor was not in the model

The win/loss backtest that found the real signal.

OUTPUT · 01

What wins share

OUTPUT · 02

Why losses happen

OUTPUT · 03

A coded pattern

OUTPUT · 04

A change you can ship

The Sales Operator
01 / WHY RUN IT
RUN THIS AND YOU CAN
What wins share
Why losses happen
A coded pattern
A change you can ship
02 / THE RUN, STEP BY STEP

The workflow that solves it, one step at a time.

Each step is the plain question you are already asking. The skills answer them in order, one handing its receipt to the next.

1✓ TESTED
Extract the repeatable reason you win.

Reads your won deals, finds the signals, personas, and motions that repeat, and ranks active lookalikes to work.

YOU GETThe pattern extraction, the win-signal ranking, and the lookalike list.
OPEN THE SKILL →
2✓ TESTED
Categorize your losses and name the fix.

Sorts lost deals into no-decision, price, competitor, timing, or fit, pulls competitive intel, and splits preventable from structural.

YOU GETThe loss taxonomy, the competitive intel pull, and the fix per theme.
OPEN THE SKILL →
3✓ TESTED
Turn closed deals into a change, not a post-mortem deck.

Who to interview, the question guide, how to code themes across deals, and how to turn the pattern into a messaging or product change.

YOU GETThe interview slate, the question guide, and pattern-to-change with an owner.
OPEN THE SKILL →
4✓ TESTED
Find what your wins, losses, and churn share.

Reads closed-won, closed-lost, and churned accounts, then hands back a ranked list of lookalike accounts to work.

YOU GETThe won / lost / churn pattern logic and the lookalike ranking.
OPEN THE SKILL →
WHERE YOU LAND

What wins share, why losses happen, a coded pattern, a change you can ship, and the active accounts that already look like your winners.

EVERY STEP, TESTED AND PASSED
EVAL RESULTPASS4/4 dimensions
HOW WE EVAL →
Skills resolve
Structure + proof
Example chat
Quality judge
  • All 4 chained skills resolve to real, scored skills.
  • Has a problem, an outcome, 2+ steps, and proof from a real build.
  • Ships an example chat showing the play run in Claude.
  • Reads in plain operator voice, grounded in a real build.
Last eval run 2026-09-12
DEEP EVAL · PASS
THE STANDARD →

We did not just check the structure. A judge read this play against the full text of every skill it chains (composition), then ran it on a real scenario end to end (simulated). It passed both. Test scenario: A RevOps manager just closed the quarter and wants to know what the wins actually have in common before the team forgets the specifics.

03 / WHO ELSE HAS TO MOVE

This play runs across the org, not inside sales.

Every function below owns a piece of the play. Skip one and it stalls where most GTM plays stall: in the handoff.

SALES LEADERSHIP
Rep time for interviews and adoption of the shipped change

Without it: The pattern gets found and the floor keeps selling the old way

PRODUCT
Roadmap answers to losses coded as product gaps

Without it: The same gap loses the same deal next quarter

MARKETING
Positioning updates pulled from win language

Without it: Your best sales argument never makes the website

04 / SEE IT RUN

Watch the skills answer in order.

Describe your situation in plain language. The right skill fires on its own and hands its receipt to the next.

EXAMPLE CHATSam, RevOps Manager, running the loop in one sitting
S
We just closed the quarter. Before everyone forgets, what do our wins actually have in common?
S
Step 1· Closed Won Analysis
I read every won deal and pulled the signals, personas, and motions that keep repeating, then ranked the active accounts that look like them. The pattern is pretty clear.
Receipt
3 of your last 4 wins came in through a product trial, all with a VP champion by week 2.
S
And the ones we lost? I want to know if we're losing on price or something we can fix.
S
Step 2· Closed Lost Analysis
I sorted the losses into no-decision, price, competitor, timing, and fit, then split what's preventable from what's structural. Price is not your problem.
no-decisionhalf
price2 of 11
Receipt
Most losses were no-decision, not lost to a competitor.
S
Can we make this a real program so we're not guessing? Who should we actually talk to?
S
Step 3· Win Loss Program
I built the interview slate, a question guide that won't lead the witness, and a way to code themes across deals so the pattern turns into an actual change with an owner.
Receipt
8 interviews queued, 4 won and 4 lost; messaging fix assigned to a named owner.
S
Pull it all together. What do wins and losses share, and who do we go work now?
S
Step 4· Pattern Analyst
I read wins and losses side by side to find the one thread running through both, then handed back a ranked list of active lookalikes to work.
Receipt
Single-threaded deals stall or lose; 12 active accounts match the winning pattern, ranked.
05 / SEE IT IN PRODUCTION

Before you run it, I ran it for real.

This workflow is genericized from a real build. Here is the number it moved, and what I actually did.

THE BUILD · SCORING EVIDENCE
The Win/Loss Backtest
2.67x
win-lift from the strongest behavioral signal
3.56x
that signal stacked with an ICP threshold
16 to 0
won-lost record of every account that reached Hot or Strike
1.13x
the fit score everyone trusted, barely discriminating
WHAT I DID
01
Measure lift, not opinion. For every signal, I compared how often it showed up in won deals versus lost ones. Lift, not vibes. A signal that appears equally in wins and losses is noise, no matter how good it feels.
02
Find the predictors that were not in the model. The strongest discriminators were behavioral, how the buyer actually worked, not the firmographics we had been scoring on. The single best one carried a 2.67x lift and was not weighted at all.
03
Stack the signals that compound. One behavioral signal plus an ICP threshold stacked to a 3.56x lift. The combination beat either alone, which is the whole argument for keeping signals separate so they can compound.

Before you trust a scoring model, backtest it against the deals you actually won and lost. Measure lift per signal. The ones that feel important and the ones that are important are rarely the same list.

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06 / ROLL IT OUT AND INSPECT IT · THE OTHER HALF

The pattern is only as good as the change it ships

The skills hand a RevOps leader what wins share, why losses happen, a coded pattern, and the lookalike accounts; the edge shows up only when one concrete change ships to the floor. Here is how a RevOps leader turns analysis into a shipping habit.

THE FRAMEWORK BEHIND IT
The ship-one-change loop

Every win-loss cycle ends with exactly one change chosen, owned, and dated, and the next cycle opens by reading whether it moved anything. One shipped change per cycle beats ten findings per deck.

  1. 01
    Train the second why

    Win-loss interviews die on the polite first answer. Teach interviewers to hold the silence and ask what was underneath the stated reason before they code anything.

  2. 02
    Set the close-to-review clock

    Every closed deal enters closed-won-analysis or closed-lost-analysis inside a set window while memory is fresh. A deal reviewed a quarter later is fiction.

  3. 03
    Pick one change and name its owner

    The pattern-analyst read will surface several threads. Choose one, give it an owner and a ship date, and hold the rest for the next cycle.

  4. 04
    Retire codes that stopped predicting

    Each quarter, reread the win-loss-program codes against new closes. A code that no longer separates wins from losses is noise wearing a label.

07 / INSTALL THE WHOLE PLAYBOOK

One plugin. 4 skills, bundled.

The whole playbook installs as a single plugin in Claude Code, no copy-pasting 4 times. Or grab any single step above. It runs on what you paste; connect your stack to go live.

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