The Basic Idea

Most companies train their business partners by telling them what the vendor wants said. Partner-Craft POV does the opposite: it starts by understanding the partner first, and builds everything around their business.

That matters because no two partners are the same. A company selling to banks needs a completely different approach from one working with technology teams. Everything is shaped around the partner's actual customers, not some imaginary average one.


How It Works

01

Understanding the Partner

Before anything is built, the work starts by learning about the partner. How do they sell? Who are their customers? What does a good result look like for their business? The answers to those questions shape everything that follows.

02

Building the Approach

With that understanding in hand, all the materials are built to fit the partner's real customer conversations: sessions, worksheets, guides, report templates. If there are gaps in what the vendor provides, those get flagged and fixed.

03

Getting Better Over Time

The partner goes to market with something they helped build. As they use it, what works and what does not gets fed back in, and the whole approach keeps improving.


Why It's Different

The Normal Way Partner-Craft POV
Built around what the vendor wants to sayBuilt around how the partner actually sells
One approach fits all partnersTailored to each partner's specific business
The partner adapts to the systemThe system adapts to the partner
The vendor decides what mattersThe partner's customers decide what matters
Result: partners who have been trainedResult: partners who can actually close deals

What You Get


What the Vendor Gets Out of It

Partners who actually close deals

Partners who have been given something built around their own business perform far better than ones who just sat through a training day and were sent off with a folder of slides.

Actually knowing what customers think

Each engagement surfaces how customers in that market actually think and talk about the problem. Do that across enough partners and you end up genuinely knowing the market, which no amount of internal reporting can give you.

Finding out what is missing before it costs a deal

Because everything is built around what the partner actually needs, the gaps in what the vendor provides get spotted early: missing technical documents, unclear explanations, materials that do not make sense to the partner's customers.

Partners who feel valued

Partners notice when a vendor actually builds something that fits their business instead of handing them a generic pack. That effort builds real loyalty, the kind that no bonus scheme reliably produces.


How It Is Structured

Engagements are scoped as projects. Scope, deliverables, and fee are agreed before any work begins. In situations where the commercial structure itself needs designing (multiple parties, non-standard funding), that is part of the scoping conversation. Nothing is billed until the picture is clear.


Build it around the partner's business. Then make the vendor prove they deserve to be part of it.


The Documents

All the documents he uses are here.

Eight documents that cover every step of a Partner-Craft POV: the initial discovery questions, the kickoff presentation, the facilitation guide, the client worksheet, the gap tracker, the status tracker, the report template, and the cover sheet system. Each one works on its own or as part of the full set. No signup. No email needed.

4 × DOCX 1 × PPTX 2 × XLSX 6 types of engagement
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