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The buyer asks for a proposal. Another meeting goes on the calendar. Your team sees momentum, but what has the buyer actually committed to?
Core Commitments Model© helps your team examine the buyer evidence behind its view of an opportunity. It gives people a shared way to discuss what the buyer has decided or done, where assumptions are filling gaps, and what remains uncertain. That distinction matters when you are choosing the next conversation, reviewing a deal, or explaining a forecast.
A proposal request gives your team something to work on. A follow-up meeting gives you a date to plan around. What do they tell you about the buyer’s readiness to act?
Consider what happens after you send the proposal. Who will review it? What must that review resolve? Has the buyer involved the people who would approve or implement the decision? Those details can reveal how much the opportunity has advanced and where your team is still filling in the story.
Core Commitments Model© helps your team examine that gap. When people can point to buyer action and discuss what it means, they have a clearer basis for deciding what to ask next and how much confidence the opportunity warrants.
“We’re more confident this week.” What happened on the buyer’s side to support that change?
Perhaps the buyer confirmed an approval path, authorized a next step, or assigned someone to take responsibility for implementation. Those actions give your team something specific to examine. If confidence has increased because a meeting felt positive, there may still be questions to resolve.
Core Commitments Model© helps your team bring those differences into the forecast discussion. People can explain the buyer evidence behind their judgment, consider another interpretation, and make uncertainty visible. Evidence gives confidence a basis others can examine. It does not make the deal certain.
Architecting the Deal© brings together three kinds of work. Theory of the Deal© makes the team’s explanation of an opportunity visible. Core Commitments Model© examines the buyer evidence behind that explanation. The Advanced Sales Conversation Model© addresses the judgment needed in the pre-sale conversation.
A productive conversation can give your team a fresh view of an opportunity. What the buyer does next helps you judge whether that view holds up and where to look more closely.
A Core Commitments course, assessment, and certification are in development.
What gives your team confidence that a buyer is committed? Bring us the opportunity reviews and forecast discussions where people read the evidence differently or struggle to explain their confidence. Together, we can examine what the buyer has actually done, where interpretations diverge, and which assumptions need closer attention. We begin with discovery and agree on the scope of work around your team’s needs.
Tell us where opportunity reviews become difficult and what your team needs to judge more carefully.
