Find out if your partner program is ready to generate revenue
Most organizations launch partner programs before they are structurally ready. This assessment scores your organization across three dimensions and tells you exactly where your gaps are, before they become sunk costs.
10 questionsTakes about 10 minutesResults delivered immediately
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Commitment
Budget, team tenure, and cross-functional buy-in
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Expectation
Timeline realism, revenue models, and relationship maturity
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Infrastructure
Enablement, pipeline alignment, and tracking systems
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Section 1 of 3
Commitment Readiness
How committed is your organization to running a partner program for the long term?
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Section 1 Max score: 15
Commitment Readiness
Commitment failures are the most common cause of partner program collapse. A company can have the right framework, the right partners, and the right market, and still fail because leadership treats the program as a strategic option rather than an operational commitment.
1Our partner program has a dedicated budget for the next 24 months that is protected from quarterly reforecasting.
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2We have a named internal owner for this program whose primary responsibility is the partner program.
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3Senior leadership across sales, marketing, product, and engineering are fully supportive of the partner program.
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Section 2 Max score: 20
Expectation Readiness
Expectation misalignment kills programs that are otherwise well-built. When leadership expects revenue in 90 days from a motion that realistically takes 18 months to mature, the program gets defunded before it has a chance to work.
4Our leadership team understands that meaningful partner-sourced revenue typically takes 12 to 18 months to materialize, not 90 days.
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5We have defined what success looks like at 6, 12, and 24 months with specific pipeline or revenue targets, not general goals.
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6We have clearly defined what our company brings to a partnership beyond our product, and we can articulate why a partner's sales team would prioritize us over other vendors they represent.
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7We understand our prospective partners' business goals well enough to explain how this partnership helps them grow their own revenue, not just ours.
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Section 3 Max score: 15
Infrastructure Readiness
Infrastructure failures are the most invisible risk in partner program design. A company can be genuinely committed, have realistic expectations, and still fail because there is no operational foundation to track, measure, or support the partner motion.
8We have a plan and budget to train partner sales reps, BDRs, and technical teams on our product and offering before they engage with customers.
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9We can name at least one prospective partner whose existing customer base directly matches our ideal customer profile.
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10We have systems in place today, or a defined plan to build them, to track partner-sourced pipeline and partner rep activity separately from direct sales.
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Your Assessment Results
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Expectation
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Infrastructure
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