Long-Form Articles

Value Engineering & Business Case Articles

In-depth reference pieces, each answering one specific question — how to quantify cybersecurity ROI, what a CFO-ready SaaS case contains, which statistics you can cite. They go deeper than the blog; for playbooks that walk through a live deal, see the guides.

Articles for the people closing the deal

Not theory. Not framework summaries written by someone who's never been on the call when a CFO starts asking where a number came from.

These articles are for the people on the front line of late-stage deals: pre-sales engineers building the model, RevOps leaders trying to fix no-decision losses, sales leaders coaching reps through procurement. Each one unpacks a specific failure mode and what to do about it.

The patterns we see most often:

  • Champions who can't defend the business case once the deal escalates
  • ROI calculators that capture leads but don't survive CFO review
  • Stakeholder-tailored stories that fall apart because they contradict each other
  • Qualified deals that die in procurement without a clear “no”

If you've watched any of those happen, the library below is for you.

What value engineering is and why deals stall without it

Building the business case for a SaaS deal

Building the business case for a security deal

Sourced statistics for your business case

Running value selling across the team

Choosing value selling software