699 – AI will expose youLook at your last ten projects and ask an uncomfortable question: how many could the platform’s own AI agent do most of within the next two years? For a lot of SaaS partners, the honest answer is most of them, and that is exactly the implementation, configuration, and migration work

698 – SaaS is DeadEvery podcast in our space is telling you AI has killed SaaS, and not one of them can name a client who has actually walked away from their platform. In this episode, I show you why the “AI replaces the platform” story does not hold up right now, and where your

697 – Five Verticals Feels Safe. It’s the Riskiest Thing You Do.The decision that scares you most is the one keeping you stuck, and the fear talking you out of it has a name: eggs in one basket. In this episode, I break down why that fear is a lie for SaaS partners spread thin

696 – Wrong ProblemYou are about to spend months solving a problem you have never actually counted, and the real cost is not the wasted build, it is every move you do not make while you are stuck in it. In this episode, I break down three Slack conversations I had with SaaS partners in

695 – Stop Doing the Delivery Yourself: A Smarter Way to Add Capacity with Jim Marascio Why you should listenJim Marascio runs Equals 11 with roughly 30 direct team members, yet delivers Salesforce work with on-demand access to more than 600 certified engineers. He breaks down the exact staffing partnerships in LATAM and Europe that

694 – The 60% ShiftYou did not get into this business to sell configuration hours, but at some point that became the model anyway. In this episode, I break down the one number from Forrester’s Microsoft modern work partner study that every SaaS partner should sit with: 60 percent of last year’s partner revenue growth

693 – The AI Revenue Play Sitting in Your Closed Lost Pipeline.Still treating your closed lost pipeline as a graveyard, chasing new leads while old quotes gather dust in your CRM? In this episode, I break down two AI revenue plays most SaaS and platform partners are missing completely: winning back business you already quoted

692 – He liked being the one everyone called. That was the problem.If your business is fully booked and still can’t grow, the problem is not capacity and it is not systems. It is that everything still runs through you. In this episode, I share the question I ask every SaaS partner I work with:

691 – Why Going All-In on One Vertical Beat Staying a Generalist with Chris WidmayerWhy you should listenChris Widmayer took Penrod from a generalist Salesforce shop to one of the top five healthcare partners at Salesforce, and lifted gross margins by about 15% (now sitting between 47% and 55%) by committing to a single vertical.Learn

690 – You Quote the Commodity and Give Away the PremiumThe hardest thing you do, you price at zero. The configuration anyone with a certification can deliver gets quoted down to the hour, then the integration thinking the platform was never built for, the architecture, the judgment, you throw in for free because it doesn’t