Revenue Diligence

Standard Diligence Confirms What Already Happened.
We Surface and Solve the Obstacles Standing Between Today and Projected Revenue.

Concivi Growth's Revenue Diligence assessments validate the pipeline, the forecast, and the scalability of the revenue motion — before you invest, after you inherit it, or any time you want a clear-eyed check on your own pipeline.

Revenue Motion Audit · Sample Output Jan 2026 · Confidential
B-
Overall Revenue Motion Rating
High Risk, Moderate Reward
"Pipeline volume appears sufficient for the growth thesis, however, the model suffers from high Hero Risk and founder dependency. Repeatability is not yet established at the core rep level."
Scorecard Dimensions
Data Integrity
Sales Process Discipline
Economic Health
Execution Quality
Scalability
Revenue Diligence by Concivi Growth
The Gap in Standard Diligence

The story was compelling. Six months after close, the pipeline had dried up.

Standard investment diligence is thorough on financials, legal, and technology. It almost never asks the hardest question: is this revenue motion actually repeatable?

The forecast they showed you was built by two reps who are now gone. The inbound channel was heavily founder-led. The CRM was full of stale deals inflating the 90-day number. None of that showed up in the deck.

Revenue execution risk is the most underevaluated category in investment diligence — and the most expensive to discover after the check clears.

Most investors running commercial diligence are asking the right question about the market — is it real, is it growing, can this company win in it? Revenue Diligence asks a different question: can this specific team actually go get the number? Is the pipeline real or padded with deals no one has touched in 60 days? Do the conversion rates hold up under an honest look? Can a new rep learn to sell this, or does every important call depend on the founder? Those questions rarely get answered before the check clears. Revenue Diligence is built to answer them.

81%
of B2B revenue generated by just 17% of reps — an 8.9x performance gap that creates hero dependency and makes the revenue motion nearly impossible to scale. Source: Ebsta analysis, 4.2M opportunities
1
person often holds the account relationships and deal context that never made it into the CRM — invisible until an ownership change (a raise, an acquisition, a buyout) forces someone to go looking for it.
40-
60%
of pipeline in the average B2B CRM is stale — deals with no activity in 30+ days — artificially inflating the forecast investors rely on. Source: Gartner, 2024
What Gets Surfaced

The risks that don't show up in the deck.

The types of issues Revenue Diligence assessments are built to catch — and do.

Hero Risk
82%

of closed revenue attributable to two reps. The sales motion had not been productized for the core team — a risk invisible in the pipeline summary but immediately apparent in quota attainment distribution data.

Revenue Motion Audit · Model Repeatability
ICP Drift
50%

of rep time spent on outside-ICP (Ideal Customer Profile) deals carrying a 12% win rate, versus 38% inside ICP. Significant drift from stated ICP was eroding overall CAC (customer acquisition cost) efficiency and inflating top-of-funnel metrics.

Revenue Motion Audit · ICP Integrity
Forecast Inflation
22%

of open deals with no CRM activity in over 30 days — artificially inflating the 90-day forecast by an estimated 15-20%. The pipeline presented to investors included these stale opportunities at full value.

Pipeline Quality Analysis · Stale Deal Detection
What a Revenue Diligence Assessment Delivers

The commercial diligence your deal is missing.

A Revenue Motion Audit validates the pipeline, the forecast, and the scalability of the revenue motion — before you write the check. Four core outcomes, every engagement.

01
De-Risk Revenue Projections
Confirm whether the pipeline volume, deal sizes, and conversion rates actually support the stated revenue goals — or whether the projections rely on unsupported assumptions.
02
Validate Investment Thesis
Confirm or refute the health of the sales engine. Determine whether future scale is supported by disciplined process, healthy deal economics, and effective execution.
03
Identify Value-Creation Levers
Pinpoint the exact gaps — process, lead quality, discounting — that, if corrected post-investment, will immediately unlock higher conversion rates and velocity.
04
Establish a Management Baseline
Give the investment team a prioritized set of metrics and targets for monitoring sales performance and accelerating growth after the investment is made.
How It Works

Three inputs. One clear picture.

Every assessment combines CRM data analysis and benchmarking against industry standards; the Revenue Motion Audit adds direct interviews to contextualize the findings. Unsupported optimism is stripped away. What remains is the financial and statistical reality of the revenue motion.

01
CRM Data Access
We connect directly to the CRM to perform a rigorous health check — analyzing pipeline coverage, stage velocity, deal aging, win rates, and discounting patterns without relying on what the team reports.
  • Weighted pipeline analysis
  • Historical win rates and stage conversion
  • Velocity, aging, and stale deal identification
02
Personnel Interviews
Included in the Revenue Motion Audit — targeted interviews with sales leadership and select reps to contextualize the data and surface the qualitative red flags that numbers alone don't capture.
  • Forecast methodology review
  • Process adherence check
  • Sales call quality assessment
03
Benchmarking
Current performance is benchmarked against industry standards and against the company's own stated revenue targets — surfacing the gap between where they are today and where they need to be to hit the plan.
  • Coverage ratio: actual vs. required
  • Sales velocity: trend analysis
  • Deal economics: ACV (average contract value) and discounting vs. market
The Scorecard

Five dimensions. One letter grade.

The Revenue Motion Audit scores every engagement across all five dimensions, combined into an overall Revenue Motion Rating (A through D) and a clear investment recommendation. The Pipeline Quality Analysis applies the same scorecard framework, scoped to what CRM data and benchmarking can support.

Data Integrity
CRM field completion — and just as important, whether what's recorded actually reflects real engagement. Identical boilerplate notes across dozens of deals, or one early conversation carrying an outsized weight toward the forecast, are integrity failures even when every field is filled in.
Sales Process Discipline
Consistency in stage transitions and exit criteria — and repeatability: could a new rep learn to sell this from a well-built process, or does closing depend on one person's personal network and improvised discounting.
Economic Health
Pricing consistency, discounting trends, CAC efficiency, and whether deal economics match what the model assumes.
Execution Quality
Discovery depth, stakeholder access, and value-based selling competency — assessed through call reviews and direct observation.
Scalability
Hero rep concentration, founder dependency, and whether the motion is infrastructure-ready for the headcount growth the model requires. A judgment call, not a formula — graded from the evidence, not computed from a metric.
The Assessments

Two standalone assessments. Each built for a different moment in the process.

Both assessments use the same five-dimension methodology and deliver an A-D rating with supporting data and recommendations. Which one fits depends on what you need to do next.

Pipeline Quality Analysis
You need an answer. Is this pipeline real? Is this forecast defensible? Is there enough here to proceed? Delivers a scored assessment, the top 3-5 risks with supporting data, and clear next-step recommendations — fast, focused, and decisive.
  • Pipeline Quality Scorecard — Executive rating (A–D) and Predictability Index
  • Metric Benchmarking Dashboard — Coverage ratio, sales velocity, deal economics vs. targets
  • Executive Summary of Findings — Top 3–5 critical risks and red flags with supporting data
  • Seed and Series A pre-investment diligence
  • Quarterly internal portfolio reviews
  • CEO or revenue leader self-assessment
Fee
$10,000 – $15,000
Flat fee · Price varies by deal volume and team size
Before Kickoff

What we need from you.

No guessing what to send over. Both assessments start from the same data checklist — Revenue Motion Audit builds on everything Pipeline Quality Analysis requires.

Pipeline Quality Analysis
  • CRM/pipeline export, deal-level (not pre-aggregated) — current, won, and lost, trailing 3–5 quartersFoundation for every quantitative metric
  • Revenue goal / target for the forecast periodMost common gap — without it, coverage ratio needs a documented proxy
  • List price / rate card / pricing tiersTests deal values for discounting
  • Stage definitions and exit criteria, if documentedBasis for Sales Process Discipline scoring
  • The actual underlying meeting/call notes, not just a link to themThis is where the highest-value findings often live
  • How leads enter the pipeline — whether they're flagged separately from sales-qualified opportunitiesIf there's no such flag, that's a finding in itself
Revenue Motion Audit — everything in Pipeline Quality Analysis, plus:
  • Access to sales leadership and reps for structured interviews (~30–45 min each)Execution Quality can't be scored from data alone
  • A sample of call recordings, or the recording platform itselfValidates whether the documented process is actually followed
  • Sales process documentation / playbook / onboarding materialsBasis for comparing stated process to observed behavior
  • Org chart and comp plan structure for the GTM teamSurfaces incentive-driven behavior
  • CAC and marketing spend by channel/sourceRequired for lead-generation-sufficiency analysis
  • Lead-source / attribution dataHow each opportunity actually originated
  • Messaging and collateral — website, decks, case studies, outreach templatesICP-fit and positioning assessment
  • Customer list with segmentation dataCustomer-composition and ICP-integrity analysis
  • CRM field configuration / admin accessReveals where phantom pipeline gets created in the first place
Who Uses Revenue Diligence

Built for multiple moments in the deal lifecycle.

The underlying question is always the same: is this revenue motion real, repeatable, and built to scale?

Investors — Pre-Close

Validate the pipeline before you invest. Know the hero risk, ICP integrity, and forecast reliability before you rely on the projections in the model. Particularly useful for PE firms that lack the operational resources to execute this level of diligence in-house.

Companies — Pre-Fundraise

Know what a sophisticated investor's diligence will surface before they do. Fix the gaps that will cost you valuation before they appear in a term sheet negotiation.

Boards and Portfolio Ops

Independent validation of the forecast being presented in the QBR. Useful when the numbers feel optimistic and you need an outside view before committing more capital.

Incoming Revenue Leaders

An honest baseline of what you're walking into before you commit to a number. Know the real pipeline health, team concentration risk, and process gaps from day one.

Ready to know what's actually in the pipeline?

A 30-minute conversation is usually enough to scope the right assessment for your situation.

Sample reports are shared on a call — schedule above and we'll walk you through one.