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Platforms & Systems

CRM & Customer Platforms

The case that funds a CRM or customer-platform program on revenue, retention and cost-to-serve, not on "we need Salesforce."
01What it is

A CRM or customer platform, whether Salesforce, Dynamics or another, reshapes how a client sells and serves. The spend is large and visible, so finance wants the return in their own lines: pipeline conversion, churn, cost-to-serve. We build that case.

02When a business case is required
Finance will not sign a seven-figure platform on "digital transformation" language.
Sales, service and marketing data are fragmented and no one has costed the drag.
The client is choosing between platforms, or between build and buy.
A capital committee gate stands in the way.
A licensing or contract renewal forces a decision now.
03What we build into the case
A baseline: current cost-to-serve, conversion leakage, churn, and duplicated systems.
A benefit model in revenue, retention and efficiency, from the client's own funnel and service data.
Option analysis: do nothing, extend current, new platform, against the baseline.
NPV, payback, sensitivity, and adoption-risk weighting.
A named owner in sales or service, not IT.
04What you walk away with

The full roadmap. Phased implementation with gates, the tooling, and the roles to staff each phase, so the client sees exactly what they are getting into and how it gets done. That clarity is what turns a maybe into a yes.

The presentation

A board-ready deck

The case built to present, in your template and under your brand, that carries the number through the committee. We build it, and where it helps we are in the room with you.

The project document

A living project memory

The case written in full and structured to load into Microsoft Copilot. Mid-project, anyone can ask why a decision was made or what a number rests on and get the answer from the case itself. It stops being a document that dies at approval.

05The benefit
Funded, not deferred
The work gets approved this cycle instead of parked another quarter.
Priced fixed
You bid the outcome, not a day rate that races to the bottom.
Higher-value work
You sell the transformation, not the headcount.
CFO buy-in on record
A number the finance function signed off, to point to at every later gate.
The client has a map
They walk in knowing the path, which is what makes them commit.
Delivered as yours
Your brand, your relationship. We never appear as a vendor.
06The cost of not doing it
The ask reads as a licence cost and gets deferred.
The program is scoped by features, not outcomes, and overruns.
Adoption is assumed, not planned, and the benefit never lands.
With no baseline, no one can prove the platform paid back.
The renewal passes and the client re-buys the same problem.
07Proof

Delivered across tier-1 Canadian financial services and insurers.

Client names are confidential and never disclosed. The track record is anonymized for exactly that reason.

See if it fits

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