Transform How Partners
Win Together
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Partnerships are
no longer optional—
they're mission critical.
Yet most companies stay trapped in surface-level conversations about features and benefits, missing the deeper value that makes partnerships truly indispensable (to the customer).
The result?
Your teams can’t articulate value —> Buyers can’t justify investment
"90% of everything we do is table stakes. It's the 10% that we get all the money for, which is actually
90% of what customers really want."
Today’s Stark Reality of Tomorrow’s Options
The Red Line: Path to Market Irrelevance
Uncontrolled Decline, Driven by Value Dilution + Commoditization
Without a systematic approach to articulating joint value, organizations spiral into:
- Revenue teams avoiding critical partnerships they can’t defend
- Customer Success struggling to deliver on partnership promises
- Product roadmaps overlapping with partner capabilities
- Partner investments failing to drive predictable outcomes
- Your Market position eroding as ecosystem-savvy competitors pull ahead
Time compounds all problems. Every moment that passes without a deep, value-centric market perception, your drift towards market irrelevance is further accelerated; widening the gap between yourself and those on the green line.
The Green Line: Path to Market-Position Certainty
Controlled Growth, Driven by Indispensable Value Perception
When you make your ecosystem story and alignment unmistakably deep, your:
- Complete solution makes competitors look dangerously incomplete
- Premium pricing becomes unquestionable
- Revenue teams embrace partners as strategic assets instead of inconvenient add-ons
- Market position strengthens with each intentional partner story “activated”
- Board conversations shift from defensive tactics to offensive strategy
When executed properly, customers stop evaluating you against alternatives – they start measuring alternatives against you. Your ecosystem becomes an unassailable competitive moat that grows stronger with each partnership activated.
The Three Levels of
Market-Value Perception
1. Transactional
Where market position erodes. This is where most are stuck.
- Partner revenues stay unpredictable and subscale
- Market position weakens as value becomes commoditized
- Ecosystem investments fail to deliver strategic returns
- Teams default to feature comparisons and technical demos
- Partner conversations happen too late in sales cycles
- Customer success struggles to defend fragmented solutions
- Buyers force price-based decisions
- Competition can easily replicate your story
- Partners seek other routes to market
2. Transformational
Where growth accelerates and market leaders begin pulling ahead.
- Partner-attached deals grow predictably larger
- Market position strengthens through joint success stories
- Ecosystem investments drive measurable outcomes
- Teams articulate compelling joint value stories
- Partners get involved early in strategic opportunities
- Customer success drives organic expansion
- Buyers justify premium investments
- Competition struggles to match complete solution
- Partners prioritize your mutual success
3. Indispensable
Where markets are won and category leaders become untouchable.
- Partner ecosystem becomes an unassailable moat
- Market position becomes self-reinforcing
- Ecosystem investments compound in value
- Teams hunt for opportunities to bring in partners
- Partner collaboration becomes second nature
- Customer success leverages ecosystem for growth
- Buyers can’t imagine achieving outcomes without your solution
- Competition becomes irrelevant, rather than inferior
- Partners build their strategies around your success
The gap between each level compounds over time.
Most organizations never progress beyond transactional because they lack a systematic approach to articulating and activating partnership value.
Why Most Partnership Stories Fail in Market
Sales Reality: Teams stay in the “transactional zone,” focusing only on features and benefits
Buyer Impact: Forces price-based decisions as all solutions start to look the same
The Value-Depth Challenge
Sales Reality: Teams can’t articulate value beyond surface-level integration benefits
Buyer Impact: Unable to justify premium pricing or the need for multiple solutions
Sales Reality: Unable to expose the deeper problems customers don’t yet realize they have
Buyer Impact: Nothing compelling them to change from their current state
Sales Reality: Reps jump into product demos and technical explanations too early
Buyer Impact: Tension dissipates once they understand how it works, killing urgency to buy
The Fragmented-Story Dilemma
Sales Reality: Partners tell separate stories that happen to mention each other
Buyer Impact: No clear picture of why they need both solutions working together
Root Causes
We all sell the same two things and they’re the only two things customers want to buy.
- #1 - People want to be made safe
- #2 - People want to succeed
The Power of
Visual Storytelling
"When people hear you say something, they CAN unhear it. When people see something, they CANNOT unsee it. "
Key Facts
About 80% of information comes through the optic nerve
55% of brain’s reflex response is attached to visual input
Only 11% of information comes through auditory channels
Visual Joint Value Stories
"The moment the buyer sees a visual joint-value model, all of the attention shifts from the features and benefits of your offering to the model itself."
Instead of:
- Resistance and cynicism
- Teaching rather than selling
- Head-to-head sales conversations
You create:
- Collaborative exploration
- Joint problem-solving
- Natural tension that drives decisions
Why You Need
Expert Guidance
True market differentiation only comes from depth of thinking
Creating stories that drive partnership success isn't about better slides or marketing materials. It's about deeper thinking.
- Uncovering the paradigm shifts your partnership enables
- Finding tension that makes change inevitable
- Building stories that make competition irrelevant
- Moving from PowerPoint to powerful visual models
- Creating frameworks customers can’t unsee
- Shifting from presentation to conversation
- Building stories that scale across your ecosystem
- Enabling consistent execution across sales teams
- Creating frameworks for future partnership success
The acceptable
mark is not 50%.
It’s 80% and above...
When customers reach an eight out of ten level of satisfaction, their propensity to refer goes up ten times.
Every day without a compelling joint value story, you’re allowing:
- Sales teams to default to feature comparisons
- Competitors to shape the market narrative
- Buyers to make decisions on price alone
- Time to compound against you
Every big idea starts
with a bold vision.
Meet the founders who turned ambition into action, creating a brand that’s redefining partnerships. Their journey isn’t just about success—it’s about crafting solutions that matter.
Meet Simon, our Chief Storyteller
Simon Bowen is the creator of The Genius Model®
which is one of the world’s most well-known frameworks for articulating complex value stories using simple language and visual models. His work is leveraged in over 30 countries, ranging from large naval ship-building operations to small one-to-one professional services organizations.
Simon has incorporated his proprietary processes into the StoriedUp delivery model, introducing scale and depth of value to the joint-storytelling process for B2B partnerships.
Meet Alex, our CTO
Alex Pensotti has
unique experience in
data science and
operationalizing A.I.
Alex is a full-stack engineer with deep roots in data science and a unique ability to intelligently operationalize AI, both in product and for internal delivery efficiency.
Today’s value story can become yesterday’s news as soon as tomorrow.
The value a company delivers to its customers evolves with every new partnership or feature or service added. My responsibility is to ensure every customer’s value story becomes a living, breathing story that intelligently and contextually evolves based on company direction, need, and vision. This empowers GTM teams to competitively adapt to changing market conditions and enter new markets with winning stories that drive results.
Meet Alex, our CEO
Alex Buckles has a
20-year history in
go-to-market execution,
spanning all revenue functions.
He previously founded two B2B partner-centric organizations, Forecastable & PartnerSourced. Through those experiences, he identified a critical market gap around crafting better-together value stories between partners at scale.
Having been a previous customer and student of Simon Bowen’s teachings, Alex knew exactly who to bring into the fold to build this venture and spent nearly two years working with Simon to perfect a non-automated interview-based process, built on top of decades of Simon’s know-how and intellectual property.
Ready to Transform How You Tell Your Partnership Story?
Let’s talk about how we can help you craft a joint value story that:
- Makes price irrelevant
- Creates genuine urgency
- Drives larger deals
- Shortens sales cycles
- Decimates competition