Articles

Notes from the engine room.

Practical writing on outbound, follow-up and pipeline discipline — from running it every day.

  1. 9 June 2026

    Qualification

    What counts as a qualified appointment? (And why most "leads" aren't)

    Lead, MQL, demo, meeting — the words blur together until you pay for them. Here is the definition we work with, the four criteria behind it, and why anything less gets expensive.

    5 min read

  2. 2 June 2026

    Compliance

    Cold email in France: what's actually allowed for B2B

    France is one of the clearest jurisdictions in Europe for B2B prospecting by email — if you respect a short list of conditions. What CNIL guidance expects, how it compares to the UK, Spain and Germany, and the checklist we run before any campaign.

    6 min read

  3. 26 May 2026

    Pipeline

    Why referral growth stalls — and what a predictable pipeline actually requires

    Referrals built your firm. They're also why revenue is a sawtooth. The structural limits of referral growth, and the four disciplines that make new business plannable.

    5 min read

  4. 19 May 2026

    Follow-up

    The follow-up gap: where B2B deals actually die

    Deals rarely die from a 'no.' They die in silence — in inboxes, between projects, two touches before the yes. What a real follow-up system looks like and why founders almost never sustain one manually.

    5 min read