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Free Live Training · The Foundation System · 45 Minutes + Q&A

The Revenue
Leak

Deals don’t die in the close. They die in eight quiet places you stopped looking at. In 45 minutes: the leak map, the three cheapest fixes in sales word for word, and the pipeline math that shows you exactly where to work. No AI required. No software to buy. Just the craft.

Live with Daniel Shand. Free. Register once and you're in for the next session, replay included.

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  • ✓The eight-stage leak map
  • ✓Three fixes, word for word
  • ✓The pipeline math that finds your leak

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Why this training exists

Everybody works on closing. Almost nobody leaks there.

When the number misses, everyone reaches for closing techniques, because the close is where the pain shows up. But the close is the emergency room, not the accident. The accident happened upstream: the wrong list, the cold open with no reason, the discovery that never found a number, the follow-up that went silent on day four.

THE MATH

10% leaks compound

Leak a modest 10% at each of eight stages and more than half your revenue never comes out the bottom of the pipe. No single stage looks broken. That's why it hides.

THE FLIP

Small fixes compound too

Improve two stages by 20% each and that's a 44% lift, multiplied, not added. You don't need to be twice as good. You need to leak less.

THE RULE

Fix one stage, not eight

The numbers point to your leak. You fix that stage, then the next. One a month. That's the whole discipline, and it works without heroics.

What we cover

The leak map, and the three cheapest fixes in sales.

01The eight-stage leak mapTargeting to follow-up. Every deal passes through all eight, named or not.
02TargetingTen right-fit prospects beat forty warm bodies. And the trigger events that decide timing.
03First ContactThe opener, word for word. The six words that doubled meetings in 90,000 analyzed calls.
04DiscoveryFive layers, three deep, and the money question everyone skips. No number, no deal.
05The OfferTheir number next to your price, same day. Proposal lag is deal decay.
06Follow-UpThe ten-day weave: four channels, one thread, zero "just checking in."
07Your pipeline mathThree numbers a day, twenty minutes a week. The leak stops hiding.
Who it's for

Built for the person carrying the number.

Founders & owners

You never got trained

You're great at the work and improvising the selling. The system replaces improvisation with a map, and you have no bad habits to unlearn.

Sales leaders

You inherit every leak

Each rep leaks somewhere different, and the team number pays for all of it. One map, one language, one fix at a time.

Sellers & AEs

You want the craft

Not hacks, not scripts-of-the-week. The actual moves, in order, with the words written down. Sales is a craft. Crafts are taught.

Who's teaching

A seller who still sells.

Daniel Shand, founder of THE FOUNDATION

Daniel Shand teaches the exact system he runs on his own deals, and coaches live twice a week with sellers running it on theirs. Nothing in this training is nostalgia.

20+ yearsSelling B2B, cold call to closed contract.
$100M+In career sales, carrying the bag the whole way.
$0 to $1M+Dozens of pipelines built from zero.
2x weeklyLive coaching sessions, every week.
Is this a sales pitch in disguise?

The teaching is complete on its own: the map, the three fixes word for word, the pipeline math. At the end, Daniel spends five minutes on The Foundation OS for people who want the whole system installed with coaching. No countdown timers, no fake scarcity, and the free Blueprint course is always the no-cost way in.

What if I can't make it live?

Register anyway. Everyone registered gets the replay, and you'll be first to hear when the next live session opens.

Is this about AI tools?

No. This is the craft itself: the moves, the words, the math. The Foundation does have a full AI track (see the Sell With Claude session), but this training requires nothing but a notebook.

I'm a founder, not a salesperson.

Perfect. The system was built for people who never got formal sales training. You have no bad habits to unlearn, and the map works at any scale, including a pipeline of five deals.

Will I actually get the scripts?

Yes. The opener, the five-layer question ladder, and the ten-day follow-up weave are shown word for word on screen, built to be screenshotted. Not theory, the actual words.

Find the leak. Fix one stage.
Let the math compound.

45 minutes, free, live. Bring the pipeline you have. Leave knowing exactly where it leaks.

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