Sales coaching ran on a small number of senior people watching live calls or scheduling review sessions. As the team grew, the model stopped scaling. Some reps got close coaching, others got little. Feedback was subjective and depended on what a manager happened to remember from a call.
CRM updates were a daily drag. Reps spent meaningful time every week typing post-call notes into Salesforce, updating deal fields, and queueing follow-ups. The administrative load came directly out of selling time. Worse, the manual updates introduced errors, which weakened pipeline data and forced leadership to forecast with thin signal.
Coaching coverage and CRM accuracy compounded into a visibility problem. Without scored calls and without clean Salesforce data, the team had no shared, objective view of rep performance, common objections, or which approaches won deals. Decisions ran on assumption.