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Sales Analysis

Win rate slips four points and everyone has an explanation before anyone has evidence: pricing, the market, a competitor, the new hires. This skill settles that argument from the record. It reads deal state, behaviours, decisions and outcomes through your Goals & Objectives, ICP, Persona, Sales Process, Qualification, Methodology and Forecasting memories, then says where the sales motion is losing deals and how confident the evidence makes it. Sales leadership and RevOps validate the causal read before anything changes, behavioural patterns go to Sales Coaching, and agreed fixes become owner-approved versions of the memory at fault, measured by the quarter that follows.

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Sales

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Sales Analysis

Win-Loss Analysis

Sales Coaching

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Goals & Objectives

ICP

Persona

Sales Process

Forecasting

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Sales Analysis·1 CAUSAL READ TABLED TODAY
Analysing Duncairn's loss…
TriggerWeekly review · Duncairn Manufacturing loss
Live stateReading Deal State + outcome · Duncairn's record
Applying skillRunning Sales Analysis v2
Tests four explanations against Duncairn's record
Traces the dip to one qualification criterion version
Duncairn's price claim isn't backed by any call
Competitor named in 3 losses, absent from 14 wins
Reference memoryAgainst Goals/Objectives · ICP · Sales Process · Forecasting
ActionCause written to the review, criterion flagged for the manager
Skill
Sales Analysis
v2v3
Sales Weekly ReviewDuncairn backs the read
See the capability Run 124 times today
Upgrade proposed
Memory versions recorded on every deal at closev3
The dip traced to one criterion version across 3 losses.
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The current way > AI added on > AI-native

Diagnosis for the whole sales motion

A standing review and a falling number make the same demand: a cause the team can act on before the quarter spends itself.

01 | The Current Way

02 | AI Added On

03 | AI-Native

The monthly sales review asks why conversion moved

Report building as detective work

RevOps stitches CRM, call and pipeline data into a report, and the room spends the hour debating what it means. The motion moved weeks ago.

Fast answers about the surface

Dashboard queries speed up the what. The why stays out of reach: stage data records what deals did, never the calls that made them do it.

Diagnosis ready when the review starts

Leaders open the review on a stated cause, the evidence for it and the confidence, judged against the goals the team set, and turn to fixes.

Deals start taking three weeks longer to close

A suspect per function

Each function has a suspect: pricing blames discounting, sales blames lead quality. The investigation waits for somebody's spare week.

A correlation for every theory

Correlation mining can back any suspect, because activity data never recorded which decisions were taken or which logic the deals ran on.

A cause, a confidence and a proposed fix

Managers see where the delay enters, what drives it and how strong the evidence is, and validate the read before anything ships.

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Capabilities that run this skill

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Sales Coaching

Active
Two reps stall the same way on the pricing objection
Same pattern, three live deals this month, missed every time
The real moments, pulled into the 1:1
Every deal where the objection landed and nobody answered it
A drill built from those moments
Practise the comeback before the next call, not after
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Same objection, the deals after: handled
Coaching put into practice and checked, not just delivered
Know what to coach, and whether the coaching stuck
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How can AI analyse sales performance?

By reading decisions as well as numbers. The sales motion's state, behaviours and outcomes are analysed together against your goals, sales process, qualification standard and methodology, so a move in conversion, cycle length or win rate traces to what caused it, with the confidence stated.

How does AI identify which sales process needs improvement?

By comparing what the process says with what deals did. When deals that skipped a discovery standard stall two stages later, the pattern surfaces, evidence attached, and the proposed change goes to sales leadership, who own the sales process, as a testable new version.

What separates this from Deal Assessment and Win-Loss Analysis?

They work at different altitudes. Deal Assessment judges one deal, Win-Loss Analysis studies closed deals, and this skill covers the motion itself: stage conversion, cycle length, win rates, stalls. Prospecting and Customer Analysis guard their motions; Forecast Assessment owns each deal's category.

How does a finding become a change?

In the memory that owns the fault. A discovery pattern becomes a Sales Process or Qualification change for sales leadership, a behavioural one reaches Sales Coaching via the manager, forecast drift goes to the Forecasting memory. Each fix goes out versioned, so the next quarter can measure it.

Who decides a cause is real?

The people accountable for it. The skill proposes causes, shows the evidence and states its confidence; RevOps and the sales leaders who own the logic validate the interpretation before anything changes. A rejected explanation stays on the trace and counts against the reasoning that produced it.