opportunity scoring

"I feel good about this one" is not a score.

Most deal health checks come down to a rep's tone on the last call. Opportunity scoring built on real activity replaces the gut feel with evidence, for every open deal, not just the ones a manager had time to dig into.

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AMD
For a company our size, multiply those time savings across every rep and manager globally - Backstory basically pays for itself before you even count the deals caught earlier.
Reagan Lucas
Reagan Lucas
Sales Process Coach
OpenAI
Red Hat
Visibility into activity, pipeline, and execution fuels better decisions, faster corrections, and more predictable outcomes - without requiring reps to change their workflow.
Andrew Brown
Andrew Brown
Senior Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer
Databricks
Zscaler
Elastic
Cyberark
Cohesity
Five9
With Backstory, we removed the guesswork from our sales process. The data is clean, insights are actionable, and our team finally has a shared view of every deal in pipeline.
Esther Friend
Esther Friend
Former VP of Sales Efficiency and Transformation
Seismic
If reps aren't in a multi-threaded deal, Backstory flags it. That lets us act fast - asking who we need to get in front of before the gap becomes the reason we lost the deal.
Toby Carrington
Toby Carrington
Chief Business Officer
Pluralsight
With Backstory, you see if reps are single-threaded and the quality of their interactions. It's one thing to diagnose a pipeline problem. Backstory helps you actually fix it.
Mitch Beck
Mitch Beck
Head of Digital Sales at Pluralsight
TTEC
We started thinking about automation and deal tracking. We quickly learned Backstory supports the entire revenue cycle. That shift - and that partnership - changed how we sell.
Jonathan Gray
Jonathan Gray
Senior VP at TTEC
Hexagon
With Backstory, we can see what's actually happening in the field - and we know exactly what to work on, whether that's coverage gaps or finding the right people for key roles.
Eric Chapman
Eric Chapman
Vice President Sales Operations and Enablement
Ping Identity
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Spencer Hodson
Spencer Hodson
Vice President of Global Sales Operations and Development
BlueYonder
GAINSytems
Lily.ai
When you step into a new leadership role, you wonder if you can trust the existing data. Because of Backstory, I know I can - and I run my entire sales org confidently off it.
Julian Dimery
Julian Dimery
Sr. Director of Sales
F5 Networks
DominoDataLabs
Motiv
Dataiku
Drata
Palo Alto Networks

Manual review only reaches the deals someone has time for.

A manager can deeply review two or three deals in a busy week. Every other deal gets a status check, if that. The scoring gap isn't an accuracy problem, it's a coverage problem, and it hits the deals nobody had time to look at closely just as hard as the ones that are actually fine.

Confidence and evidence often point different directions

A rep feels good about a relationship the data shows has gone quiet. Both can't be right, and only one of them is checkable.

Stage tells you where a rep put the deal, not where it is

A deal can sit in "negotiation" for weeks with no matching change in engagement. Stage is a field a rep moves. It isn't a fact about the deal.

The deals nobody reviewed are often the riskiest ones

The forecast call has time for a handful of deals. The rest ride on whatever stage and gut feel say, which is exactly where surprises come from.

What actually feeds a reliable score

Age measured against the stage average shows whether a deal is moving on schedule or stuck. Engagement recency and spread of buyer activity keeps confidence honest against the data.

Coverage across one contact or a real buying committee flags single-threaded risk. Trend over the last 30 days beats a single snapshot.

  • Deal age benchmarked against typical time-in-stage
  • Engagement recency and spread across the buying committee
  • Stakeholder coverage, flagging single-threaded deals
  • 30-day trend direction, not a point-in-time read
Why it matters
A score that only looks at where a deal sits today misses whether it's actually moving.

Where scores and reality diverge

A deal in negotiation with zero buyer activity in three weeks. Stage advanced with no matching change in engagement. A rep confident about a relationship the data shows has gone quiet.

A consistent meeting cadence backing up a stage placement, which is what a healthy score should look like.

  • Stage advancement with no engagement to support it
  • Rep confidence contradicted by activity data
  • Meeting cadence that actually matches the deal's stated stage
  • Silence at a stage where activity should be increasing
Why it matters
The divergence between what a rep says and what the data shows is exactly what a good score should surface.

What good scoring includes

Every open opportunity scored, not a sample. Weighted by activity, not stage alone. Updated continuously, not on a weekly manual pass.

Delivered where the review already happens, not in a separate report nobody opens.

  • Covers every open deal, not just the ones flagged for review
  • Weights real activity over self-reported stage
  • Recalculates continuously instead of a scheduled batch
  • Shows up inside the CRM or forecast tool already in use
Why it matters
Coverage across every deal is what turns scoring from a spot check into an actual system.

What changes when your team has the answers.

Visibility into activity, pipeline, and execution fuels better decisions, faster corrections, and more predictable outcomes - without requiring reps to change their workflow.

Andrew Brown
Andrew Brown
Senior Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer

FAQ

Common questions.

How is opportunity scoring different from deal stage?

Stage is set manually by a rep. Opportunity scoring is calculated from real engagement data and updates on its own.

Does every deal get scored, or just flagged ones?

Every open opportunity gets scored on the same criteria, not a sample selected for review.

Can this replace our stage-based forecast process?

It's built to sit alongside stage and validate it, catching the deals where stage and actual engagement have drifted apart.

How often does the score update?

Continuously, as new activity comes in, rather than on a weekly or monthly cadence.

What happens when a rep disagrees with a score?

The scoring shows the underlying activity, so the conversation becomes about the evidence rather than a disagreement over gut feel.

Does this work for both new business and renewal deals?

Yes. The same activity-based scoring applies across new logo and renewal opportunities.

Know which deals are actually healthy.

Backstory scores every open opportunity automatically, based on real engagement, not a manual pass someone had time to run.

Which deals are real?

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