Chapter 2 of 11
The QBR Trigger
Thursday · 2:00 PM
Diego's QBR with Kevin. Three friendly questions. Three for three.
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#3Diego runs the friendly questions. Kevin opens up
They've covered renewal forecast, marketplace utilization, and the SPIF on Microsoft. Kevin is engaged but tired.
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Diego Castellanos · Account Manager, Southeast
Kevin, before we wrap — how are security sales going for you?
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Kevin Whitaker · Founder & CEO
Painful. Theo writes a beautiful technical assessment, Brent — the new guy — bolts pricing onto it, we walk it into a business owner, and three weeks later their office manager emails us asking for the cheapest option. We've been trying to grow security for eighteen months. It's flat. Maybe down.
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Diego Castellanos · Account Manager, Southeast
Getting any pushback on price?
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Kevin Whitaker · Founder & CEO
Constant. Owners don't see the value. They cut everything down to the cheapest tier and we make nothing.
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Diego Castellanos · Account Manager, Southeast
Net-new leads? Anything coming in the door, or is it the same fifty clients?
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Kevin Whitaker · Founder & CEO
Same fifty. We're farming the same names we've had for years. It's a treadmill.
Three for three. Diego doesn't need to push. He just opens the door.
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#4Diego pivots to TC
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Diego Castellanos · Account Manager, Southeast
There's a platform called ThreatCaptain. It's a sales enablement tool built for exactly this. You hand Theo's findings to the platform and it turns them into a financial impact conversation — what a breach would cost a client in their dollars. Leaders underestimate breach costs by 300 to 500 percent. TC closes that gap and lets your salesperson — Brent — have an executive conversation instead of a technical one. It also does lead identification, so you're not stuck farming the same fifty clients.
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Kevin Whitaker · Founder & CEO
What does it cost?
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Diego Castellanos · Account Manager, Southeast
Base subscription is $1,699 a month, annual contract. First five seats included — covers a team your size. After five seats it's $25 per additional seat per month. Then there's a consumption fee for the AI enrichment. Here's what makes it a no-brainer: closing one new security tier on top of an existing client pays for the whole year. The first deal is the entire subscription. Every deal after that is profit. Want me to set up a thirty-minute demo? Vicky on their team is sharp.
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Kevin Whitaker · Founder & CEO
Set it up.
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