COO @ SaaS Academy | Helping software founders grow from their first dollar to their next $10M

🎯 Founder & CEO - Precision
🤙 Prev: COO @ SaaS Academy, CEO @ UpLaunch (acq. 2020)
🚒 Fireman turned SaaS Founder

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Things I like talking about:

🪓 WORK

1️⃣ Scorecards, data, and how to use it to grow a business
2️⃣ Leadership principles that actually work (no corporate BS)
3️⃣ How to bring out empathy in hard-charging high achiever types (it's a superpower)
4️⃣ Personal productivity for normal humans

❤️ PERSONAL

1️⃣ How to be the world's okayest weightlifter & endurance athlete
2️⃣ Raising three sons in a crazy world
3️⃣ Building community when you're kinda introverted

Matt Verlaque

I help B2B SaaS companies generate 30% more sales-ready opportunities in 12 weeks — guaranteed, without increasing ad spend.

We’re trusted by SentinelOne, Elastic, Varonis, Collibra, Reltio, Clio, and 150+ other SaaS leaders.

Most CMOs and VPs of Marketing come to us because:

❌ Pipeline is inconsistent
❌ Opp quality is shaky
❌ Sales doesn’t trust Marketing
❌ Ad spend feels wasted

Here’s our Grand Slam Promise: If we don’t deliver the 30% lift in 12 weeks, we keep working until you hit it. Not if — only when.

💡 At typical SaaS ACVs, just 1–2 closed customers cover our fee. Everything after that is compounding margin.

We only onboard 4 new clients each month.

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➡️ DM me “Predictable Growth” to see where your funnel is leaking and how to fix it in the next 90 days.
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We’ve led 150+ demand generation engagements for companies like SentinelOne, Elastic, Varonis, Collibra, Reltio, Clio, and CallRail, turning Marketing from a cost center into a predictable revenue engine. These programs now drive $100M+ in pipeline every year.

🎯 Who we work with:
Mid-market & enterprise SaaS companies that:
• Spend $20K–$200K+/mo on paid media
• Sell $25K–$250K ACV products with 3–18 month cycles
• Run Salesforce or HubSpot
• Need Marketing to deliver revenue, not just leads

❌ Not the right fit if you:
• Only want top-of-funnel leads
• Treat Marketing as projects, not systems
• Resist aligning Marketing with Sales/RevOps
• Want hacks vs. long-term growth
• Prefer generalist agencies or freelancers

💬 What we hear before clients hire us:
“Our agency isn’t strategic — they just take orders.”
“We get reports but no clarity on opps.”
“Sales doesn’t trust the leads.”
“We spend a lot but pipeline isn’t predictable.”
“We need someone who owns the whole funnel, not just channels.”

🤝 What our best clients want instead:
• A true partner, not just executors
• Proactive GTM insight — not lagging reports
• Sales-ready opps in CRM, not MQLs
• CFO + Board visibility they can defend
• A compounding pipeline system they can scale with confidence

🛠 What we do (Predictable Growth™ System):
We own strategy → roadmap → execution → reporting, across: SEO • Paid Media • Content • ABM • Marketing Ops • RevOps

We fix:
✅ Wasted spend
✅ Leaky demo paths
✅ Sales-marketing friction
✅ Attribution Sales doesn’t trust
✅ Pipelines no one owns

We build:
✅ Sales-ready opps Sales accepts
✅ Full-funnel GTM alignment
✅ Trust with Sales & Finance
✅ Growth that compounds and is boardroom-defensible

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If that sounds like your world → let’s talk.
📧 dev@poweredbysearch.com
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Dev Basu

“We’re generating leads, but we aren’t closing deals.”

I hear this often from SaaS businesses, and it’s rarely a simple fix.

- Sometimes you’re attracting the wrong prospects.
- Sometimes sales is dropping the ball on demo calls.
- Sometimes your landing page overpromises.

Most teams jump straight to A/B testing, hoping a new headline or button color will move the needle.

But if you don’t know where prospects are dropping off (or why), most tests don't mean anything.

Audit the entire funnel, step by step.

- Does your targeting match real buyer intent, or just drive unqualified traffic?
- Is your landing page message aligned with your ad, or does it create friction?
- Are your nurture sequences actually moving MQLs to SQLs, or just filling inboxes?
- How fast does sales follow up, and do they have the right resources to close?
- Are you reactivating stalled opportunities, or letting them die in the CRM?
- Does onboarding deliver value fast, or do new customers get lost right after the sale?

When you break down the funnel like this, you find the real friction points and you know exactly what to test next.

Random tweaks rarely move the needle.

Systematic audits and targeted fixes do.

Generating leads but not closing deals? Apply for your free marketing plan to increase your pipeline, add more qualified demos & trials within the next 90 days: https://lnkd.in/gKxQrCdW

B2B SaaS: 30% more opps in 90 days — guaranteed | Trusted by SentinelOne, Elastic, Varonis, Collibra & 150+ other B2B SaaS leaders.

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