Brainz Companion · The 12-week installation
We don’t sell messaging. We install the operating system.
Seven moves. One senior pod. Automation, not slides.
Receipts · the Method is not theoretical
The same loop Companion installs — run by our founder as an operator inside these companies, before it had a name.
1M+
Monthly rides at 99.9% uptime — Picap, five countries
3×
Average deal size after the rebuilt motion — Fluyenta
2×
Quota attainment, ramp time halved — RunMyProcess
300K+
B2B records Sondea + Nexus run discovery across, before week one
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What Companion is
A 12-week engagement that runs The Brainz Method on your revenue team.
Seven moves, executed by a two-person senior pod that embeds with you. Month-to-month, billed monthly — no annual lock-in, no margin on heads. We leave behind automation, not slides: the workflows, agents, and dashboards stay on after we’re gone.
The same loop runs in client engagements, in our own outbound through Nexus, and inside our product cycles. The Method is what we sell, what we ship, and what we use on ourselves. The Framework page is the point of view; this is the mechanics.
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The Brainz Method
Seven moves. One loop. Every engagement.
Six of these moves are not technical. The model only gets useful at move seven — and only because the first six were done right.
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i. Listen
Discover the buyer’s situation in their own words. The pod runs depth-first interviews, win/loss reviews, and ride-alongs. Sondea + Nexus run breadth-first across 300K+ records to surface signal before week one.
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ii. Quantify
Make the cost of waiting tangible. Apply the ‘so what?’ recursion to every claimed pain until it lands on a measurable number — lost revenue, churn, missed quarters, time-to-market.
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iii. Vision
Co-create the future state with the buyer. Describe what success looks like in their language — what would a leader say on an earnings call or an all-hands.
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iv. Targets
Agree on the measurable outcomes that prove the future state happened. Time-bound. Outcome-oriented. Buyer’s KPIs, not ours.
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v. Map
What capabilities are required to get from Today to the Future state? Phrased in the buyer’s shopping list, not our feature list.
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vi. Build
Execute alongside the team, not from a deck. Shape Up cycles: 6-week appetites, bets, ship dates. The senior pod operates with the client team — no juniors, no subcontracting.
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vii. Automate + Prove
Leave automation behind, not slides. Workflows, agents, dashboards, integrations live on after we leave. Measure against the Targets from Move iv. Document the receipts.
Most consulting engagements end with a binder. Ours ends with infrastructure.
Automation-as-Deliverable · Brainz Companion
III
Why Brainz, defensibly
Two pillars consultants don’t have.
Buyer-centric discovery is a general consulting principle. What makes the Brainz version compounding instead of one-shot is what we’ve added on top.
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i. AI Discovery at scale
Force Management trains seller humans on the loop. We run it programmatically too.
Sondea surfaces signal across 300K+ Colombian B2B records. Nexus drafts the discovery email in the buyer’s likely language, extracts implicit Today and Cost-of-waiting hints from replies, and hands off to a human at the “book a call” threshold. Moves i–iv, running on every signal that fires, every day, in production.
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ii. Automation-as-Deliverable
Most consulting engagements end with a binder. Ours ends with infrastructure.
The 12 weeks produce workflows, agents, dashboards, and integrations that keep running after the pod leaves — bound to the buyer’s measured Targets from Move iv. The receipts compound. We leave behind the system, not the slides.
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The engagement
Twelve weeks. Four phases. The Method, sequenced.
Month-to-month. Fixed-team. Each phase ships a concrete artifact the team uses the next day — not a deliverable they file.
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Wk 1–3
Discover. Moves i–iii — Listen, Quantify, Vision. Buyer interviews × 6, win/loss reviews × 12, ride-alongs × 6. We learn how your buyers actually talk and where deals actually die. By the end of week 3 we have the Today, the Cost of waiting, and a Future state in the buyer’s own words.
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Wk 4–6
Build. Moves iv–v — Targets, Map. Specific measurable Targets, agreed with leadership. Plays for each priority sector, written in the buyer’s language. A requirements map that’s a buyer’s shopping list, not our feature list.
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Wk 7–10
Activate. Move vi — Build. Rep workshops × 2, role-play certification, live deal coaching on the top opportunities in the funnel. Reps don’t ship the new motion in slides; they ship it on a real call inside the engagement.
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Wk 11–12
Embed. Move vii — Automate + Prove. Manager train-the-trainer, the playbook handoff, and the automation: dashboards bound to your Targets, Nexus campaigns wired to your signal sources, the 90-day follow-up. We leave behind a team that runs the loop without us.
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The pod
Senior operators. No subcontracting.
Every engagement is staffed with a 2.1 FTE senior pod. The team that meets you in week one is the team that’s still there in week twelve.
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Practice Lead
0.5 FTE. Senior consultant. Owns Method fidelity, signs off on Plays and Target statements, runs the train-the-trainer in Embed.
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Sr. Strategist
1.0 FTE. Embeds with your revenue team. Runs the discovery interviews, drafts Plays, coaches reps through the first real-deal applications of the Method.
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Enablement Designer
0.4 FTE. Owns workshop design, role-play scripts, and the playback artifact. The Method lands as something your reps can run, not a deck they bookmark.
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Engagement Manager
0.2 FTE. Single point of contact on cadence, scheduling, and the QBR + 90-day follow-up. Keeps the engagement on the rails without taking your time.
VI
The vocabulary
The terms we run on, and what they name.
Companion ships with a shared language. Each term is a step in the loop or a piece of the substrate that powers it.
- Today
- Cost of waiting
- Future state
- Targets
- Capabilities map
- Plays
- Shape Up cycles
- Automation-as-Deliverable
- Sondea
- Nexus
VII
Where the Method plugs in
Signal → offer.
Companion is the enterprise installation. For verticals where Brainz already operates a product, we route the conversation to the product team that wins it — without needing the full engagement. Have the relationships but not the product? Resell it instead.
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Enterprise B2B
Complex revenue motion. Brainz Companion — $20K / $35K per month, month-to-month.
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Law firm
Colombian independent firm. LexPro (portfolio).
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Brand team
Marketing or brand team. Amplifica Studio (portfolio).
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Rails / DO stack
Rails or DigitalOcean detected. Brainz nearshore + AI-leveraged devs.
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AWS / GCP
Cloud detected. Migration to DigitalOcean — ~20% savings.
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Property admin
Property administrator. Propi (concept).
The team that meets you in week one is the team that’s still there in week twelve.
No subcontracting, no juniors · Brainz Companion
Bring us in
A one-line note is enough.
Tell us the sector, the team size, and what’s stuck. We come back with a fit assessment inside two business days. If Companion is right, we send the SOW. If a portfolio product fits better, we say so.
Read the point of view on the Framework page →