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Hire, Promote, or Wait
Six questions, one verdict: hire, promote from inside, or wait. The verdict changes as you click, and a wait points at exactly what flips it, because the most expensive recurring founder mistake is hiring a rep to discover a motion only the founder can discover.
Deals you have personally closed, start to finish
Could you write down the pitch that closed the last three?
Your ideal customer is
Where do leads come from today?
Is base plus OTE committed in writing?
Is someone inside already selling-adjacent and hungry for it?
Hire, Promote, or Wait · rule-based, reproducible
Deals: not yetPitch: yesCustomer: not yetBudget: not yet
Wait. Hiring now outsources work only you can do.
Decided by your answers, not by a quota for us. We tell plenty of people to wait.
- 2 founder-closed deals is not yet a sellable motion; a hire would be paying someone to discover your pitch for you.
- A fuzzy ideal customer means the hire spends their ramp doing your market research at full OTE.
- No committed comp budget: the offer stage is where that surfaces, at the worst possible moment.
Exactly what flips it
Work the flips above; most founders clear them in one focused quarter. The review is free whenever the seat is real.
Keep it and the result gets a link you can forward. No email needed to see it.
No rush from us. Work the flips, and the review is here when the seat is real.Post the role when the seat is real →