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Practical thinking on incentive compensation,
sales ops, and AI.

Long-form pieces on plan design, payout administration, quota methodology, the realities of running a sales-comp cycle in mid-market, and how AI is reshaping the operational layer of sales ops. Written by people who do this work, not by content marketers.

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Three threads we keep coming back to.

The blog isn't a content marketing engine. It's a thinking-out-loud platform for the parts of sales-comp work that don't have good public answers yet.

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Plan design + mechanics

Why most plans fail, the pay-mix research no one teaches in B-school, accelerator design that doesn't blow up the budget, and the hidden costs of complexity.

  • Pay-mix benchmarking
  • Accelerator/decelerator design
  • Plan complexity tax
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Operations + automation

What it actually takes to run a comp cycle, how to migrate off Excel, the SPM platform shootout we don't want anyone to have to do twice.

  • Excel-to-SPM migration
  • Month-end close playbooks
  • Plan administration patterns
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AI in sales ops

Where AI actually helps in the comp + sales-ops workflow (and where it's hype). Real case studies, not vendor decks.

  • AI for comp analytics
  • AI plan analysis
  • Practitioner-tested patterns

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