Buyer Reach
& Access

Your strongest channel has slipped from shaping
decisions to filling orders, at best.

In a quick few weeks we test your route to market against the way buyers actually buy today, and redraw the roles so every channel either shapes the decision or earns its place fulfilling it.

The question your reporting cannot answer

Of your last ten lost deals, how many were decided before you ever knew they existed?

Recognize your situation

Is this sprint for you?

The same channels for years

The distributors still call and the trade shows still fill, so the route feels proven. But it was built for how buyers used to buy, and a third of the journey now runs through channels your route never touches.

Deals that arrive late, already shaped

Opportunities reach you as RFQs with the specification already written. By the time you engage, the criteria favor whoever shaped them first, and price is the only lever you have left.

Buyers who research before they call

A growing share of your market does most of its research before contacting any supplier, and many would rather not involve a rep at all. If your route only kicks in once someone asks for a call, it misses the part of the journey where the decision is actually made.

When growth stalls, the reflex is to push the channels that always worked harder

The channels that delivered for years feel proven, so the response to softer results is more effort through the same routes, more reps, more trade shows, more outreach. But buyers have changed how they research, what they weigh, and what sets them off, and the route was built for the old pattern. Pushing harder on a channel the journey has moved past just raises the cost of the same result.

Buyers now run their journey across ten channels, double 2016

Roughly a third of that journey now happens in person, a third remotely, and a third through digital self-serve. A route built mainly for one of them is missing two-thirds of how buyers buy, no matter how strong the relationships inside it.

A €20M company generating €2M in operating profit can leave around €450K in annual contribution unrealized due to missed reach and delayed engagement.

Why it happens

The route was built for a journey that moved

Four structural patterns sit in most mid-market B2B companies and let demand decide where the route cannot reach.

The legacy route

The channels were built for how buyers bought ten-twenty years ago. The journey moved to a multi-channel, pre-contact path, and the route stayed where it was.

The unstaffed stage

The decision now forms early, in the research stage, where no one from your model is present. The channels you do have are busy fulfilling choices the buyer has already made.

The late arrival

Deals reach you as written RFQs, after the criteria are already set. The supplier who got in first shaped the criteria, and you spend the deal trying to turn a decision already tilting their way.

The diluted message

Every channel and intermediary between you and the buyer can strip the value narrative down to specification and price. By the time it lands, the reason to choose you is gone.

How it works

A short, focused engagement with your team owning the result

Diagnose

We map how your buyers actually discover, evaluate, and decide today, per segment. Then we test every channel and partner against that journey, sorting the ones that shape the buyer's decision from the ones that only take and deliver the order.

Build

We rebuild the route where it misses the buyer or dilutes the message, and add a self-serve layer for the parts of the journey buyers prefer to run without a rep. Every route carries a cost and a conversion rate, so design decisions are made with numbers.

Activate

Your team owns a route map scored against how buyers actually buy. It marks where to show up earlier in the journey and the stages your sales process should mirror, so the redesign holds after we leave.

What you walk away with

Working tools your team owns from day one

The journey map

How your buyers actually discover and decide today, mapped per segment rather than assumed from how the route was designed.

The route fit test

Every channel, role, and intermediary tested against that journey, with a self-serve layer for the parts buyers prefer to research without a rep.

The message-carry audit

Whether your value narrative survives end to end, or dilutes into specification and price before it reaches the buyer.

Route economics

Cost and conversion for every route, so you stop paying influence-level margins for fulfillment-level work.

When your route matches how buyers actually buy, you are in the deal at the stage that decides it.

What this sprint fixes

From the old route to how buyers buy now

Buyer Reach and Access tests your route against the way buyers actually buy today and rebuilds the parts that no longer fit.
01
Before

Route designed for how buyers bought twenty years ago.

After

Route tested against how your buyers actually buy today.

02
Before

A channel that once shaped decisions, still paid as if it does.

After

Each channel scored on whether it influences the decision or only fulfills the order.

03
Before

Deals arrive after the criteria are already set.

After

Someone from your side is in the early research, while the buyer's criteria are still forming.

04
Before

The value narrative dilutes into specification and price along the way.

After

A message-carry audit that keeps the narrative intact end to end.

05
Before

Buyers who would rather keep researching on their own have to call to get anywhere.

After

A self-serve path for the parts of the journey buyers prefer to do without a rep.

Seeing patterns you recognise?

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The 2-minute diagnostic maps your company against all twelve sprints and shows where Buyer Precision fits in your priorities.

Results

What Buyer Reach and Access looks like in practice

The companies that redrew the route gained share

Drawn from McKinsey's Global B2B Pulse, roughly 3,800 decision-makers.

Buyers now run their journey across ten channels, split evenly across in-person, remote, and digital self-serve, and the companies that built for all of it pulled ahead. The winners did not abandon their channels. They redrew the roles, deciding which ones influence the decision and which only fulfill the order, and staffed the early stage the old model left empty. The ones that leaned hardest on the traditional model reported the lowest satisfaction with their own sales performance.

72%

of companies selling through seven or more channels grew or held market share.

Gartner
The hybrid route wins
67%

of B2B buyers prefer a rep-free experience, yet fully self-serve buyers report markedly higher purchase regret. The route that wins blends self-serve access with expert guidance where it counts.

Mckinsey Global B2B Pulse
The cost of inconsistency
54%

of decision-makers would switch suppliers after a poor experience across your channels, where information is inconsistent or they can’t get a knowledgeable answer.

What comes next

Now reach the journeys you can't see yet

With the route redrawn around how buyers buy, two sprints take it further.

Ready to discuss where your route stops reaching the buyer?

You've read enough to know whether this fits your situation

The next step is a 30-minute conversation where we assess whether Buyer Reach and Access is the right starting point for your business.

Every quarter the route stays as it was, more of the decision moves to channels it does not cover, and the supplier who shaped the criteria keeps winning before you arrive.