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FRACTIONAL CRO

Build tools to steer growth

helyo unlocked new growth drivers, built robust performance tracking tools, and aligned Sales, Customer Success, and Marketing, enabling Explain to generate more leads, make better strategic decisions, and scale faster.

May 2025

Explain

Industry: PublicTech

Business model: B2B SaaS

Fundraising Stage: Seed

Mission Type: Fractional Chief Revenue Officer

Main contact: Guillaume Liegey, CEO

Context & Challenges

Explain provides a SaaS platform that helps companies access public procurement opportunities more easily.

The leadership team wanted to structure their commercial operations to support growth, especially in the context of launching a new high-potential product

Sales processes were inconsistent across business units, sales cycles lacked clear oversight, and the roles between Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success teams were not clearly defined.

Our Solution

A Fractional CRO fully embedded with your teams to cover the following topics:

  • Analysis and mapping of existing sales processes, with concrete and prioritized recommendations
  • Structuring of commercial operations management tools: reporting, CRM, lead handling
  • Solution to boost inbound lead generation through marketing
  • Implementation of performance monitoring dashboards, along with actionable solutions to accelerate lead generation
  • Strategic recommendations to support scaling up (organization, tools, methodology)

3 key outcomes

  • Clear identification of growth drivers to prioritize efforts
  • Implementation of robust activity tracking and performance monitoring
  • Alignment of Sales, Customer Success, and Marketing teams to drive unified execution and a clear roadmap to scale

Client Testimonial

"A méthodical approach, genuine execution quality, and an ability to adapt to current challenges and constraints."
"We've reached a new milestone with helyo".  
Guillaume Liegey, CEO Explain