Forward Deployed SellingA doctrine for AI-era enterprise sales
Field Manual

Worked examples, teardowns, and essays.

The doctrine in live deals. New essays publish on a weekly cadence after launch.

The Field Manual is where the doctrine meets the field. Each essay is either a worked example — the doctrine applied to a real account, with the artifact reproduced in full — or a teardown of a deal that succeeded or failed in instructive ways, or a comparative essay against an older methodology. A publication, not a feed. Essays are dated, indexed, and cross-linked to the relevant doctrine pages.

Worked example

The Delta thesis: a value provocation generated from public data.

What the doctrine produces, end to end. A one-page thesis on Delta Air Lines built from public financial filings, sourced and labeled, ready to land in the prospect's inbox before the first call.

Worked Example14 min read · 2026-04-13
Essay forthcoming
Worked example

Anthem coaching: how the skill produces a coaching artifact from a single deal review.

The coaching protocol in action. The seller submits one deal review. The agent returns a structured artifact naming movement gaps, missing context layers, and the next three actions.

Worked Example9 min read · 2026-04-22
Essay forthcoming
Comparative

MEDDIC was a checklist. FDS is an operating system.

Why MEDDIC sellers pick up FDS fast — the qualification rigor transfers — and why the discovery model doesn't. The two methodologies do different jobs in different markets.

Comparative · TBD
Essay forthcoming