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Value Mapping

Value Mapping connects each customer's objective and problem to the product capability, measure, baseline and target that address it, and keeps that record current as discovery, proposal, handover and outcome evidence arrive, so Sales and Customer Success work from one value case instead of rebuilding it at every stage.

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Checking the Petersfield Robotics value map…
TriggerQBR on the calendar - Petersfield Robotics - Wed 10:15 AM
Deploy agentDeploying Value Mapping agent for Petersfield Robotics
Use skillLoading skills - Value Mapping - Discovery Analysis
Reference memoryReading memory - Value - Customer Outcomes - Case Studies & Proof
ReasoningThe cost savings promised at discovery now measure against target, so the value map walks into the QBR already checked against what was promised
ActionUpdate the Value Map → carry into Business Review Preparation
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Surfaces inBusiness Review PreparationviaSlackTeams
QBR PREP: Petersfield Robotics · $340K
Review: Wed 10:15 AM · today · Type: QBR
Value realised vs target
VALUE MAPPING
Objective: cut cost per sourced opportunity 20% by Q3, set at discovery
Realised now: 22%, already ahead of target
Health & adoption
Health: Good, steady since the last review
Risks & stakeholders
No new risks · Lena Vogel, CFO, chairs Wednesday's session
Next priorities
Confirm the next cost target before the renewal conversation
Open QBR DeckReview Value MapConfirm Priorities

Does the value promised in Sales survive the handover to CS?

What changes across the three columns isn't whether someone can describe the customer's value, it's whether that description stays tied to the same objective, capability, measure and target from discovery through renewal, or gets reconstructed from notes and decks every time it's needed.

01 | The Current Way

02 | AI Added On

03 | AI-Native

Discovery, when the objective is first named

Captured once, in notes

The AE notes the customer's objective and pain in a call summary, disconnected from any specific product capability or measurable target.

Summarised, not connected

AI can draft a value proposition from the pains it hears faster, but the objective still isn't tied to a capability, a measure or a target.

Mapped, not noted

The objective and problem are mapped straight to a product capability, a measure and a baseline and target, in the same record from day one.

Building the proposal

Rebuilt from scratch

The value story gets rewritten for the deck, pulled from memory and old notes rather than whatever was actually agreed in discovery.

Confident, not grounded

AI can draft persuasive proposal language fast, but the numbers it asserts aren't tied back to the customer's own baseline or evidence.

The proposal is the map

The proposal is drafted straight from the Value Map, so every claim in it traces back to the mapped objective, capability, measure and target.

Handover from Sales to Customer Success

CS reconstructs the promise

The CSM inherits a slide and a CRM field, and pieces together what was actually promised from old decks and notes.

A tidy summary, still stale

AI can write a clean handover summary the day it's requested, but it's a snapshot that starts going out of date the moment it's sent.

One record, carried over

The same Value Map carries into Customer Success unchanged, objective, capability, measure, baseline and target intact, nothing to rebuild.

The QBR

Assembled from decks and sheets

The QBR narrative gets rebuilt from whatever evidence someone can find, with no explicit baseline to check the outcome against.

Blind to what was promised

AI can summarise usage and adoption data for the QBR, but it has no record of what was promised at discovery to check it against.

Checked against the original ask

The QBR opens on the same Value Map, with realised product and customer evidence now checked against the baseline and target set at discovery.

Renewal, when the promise gets tested

Judged, not measured

Whether the original promise was kept comes down to individual judgement at renewal time, since nothing tracked the target against the outcome.

Risk flagged, promise ignored

AI can flag usage decline as renewal risk, but it can't say whether the value the customer was actually promised showed up or not.

What worked gets remembered

The outcome is checked against the mapped target, with RevOps configuring whether what that teaches about which value hypotheses and proof to trust applies automatically or waits for their approval.

It reads each deal's state and applies your value, product and customer-outcome logic to map the objective to a capability, a measure and a target. The map lands in meeting prep, proposals, handover and QBR, updated as evidence arrives and traceable to its source.

It cuts the preparation and reconstruction behind proposals, handovers and QBRs, and an explicit, evidenced value case lifts conversion and retention while building reusable organisational learning about which value claims actually land.

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Who checks that the numbers in a Value Map are actually true for this customer?

Value Mapping maintains the connections and evidence in the map; it does not assert a customer's baseline, measure or outcome on its own. The AE or CSM validates every customer-specific assumption before it's used in a proposal, handover or QBR, so the map reflects what's actually agreed, not an inferred number.

Does Customer Success just inherit whatever value the AE claimed, unchecked?

Customer Success inherits the same Value Map the AE built, not an unchecked claim: the objective, capability, measure, baseline and target are all visible. The CSM validates that map against the customer's own evidence from handover onward, so nothing carries into a QBR or renewal without being checked.

How does the value case stay accurate without someone rewriting the proposal or the success plan?

The value case stays accurate because Value Mapping ties the objective, capability, measure, baseline and target to the deal and customer's state, and updates the same map when product, adoption or customer evidence changes. The AE or CSM always opens a current record in meeting prep, a proposal or a QBR, never one rebuilt from old notes.

How does Value Mapping know which value claims are worth repeating?

Value Mapping learns from what happens after the deal closes, not from the pitch. When realised product and customer outcomes confirm or contradict a value hypothesis, that pattern updates what the system believes about which use cases and proof actually predict value, and sharpens how future maps get built. RevOps configures each of those changes as either fully automated or human-in-the-loop, owning the governance either way.

How can Sales and Customer Success share the same value case?

Sales and Customer Success share the same value case because Value Mapping ties the customer's objective, the product capability, and the measure, baseline and target to one record, the Value Map, from discovery onward. Handover carries that map into Customer Success unchanged, and CSMs update it with realised evidence at QBR and renewal.

How do you measure value realisation?

Value realisation is measured by checking the customer's actual outcome against the baseline and target set for their objective in the Value Map, using real product, adoption and customer evidence rather than a renewal-time impression. Value Mapping keeps that comparison current from go-live onward, so QBR and renewal conversations show what was promised against what actually happened.