AI Revenue Architecture

The future of work is being written now.

We help B2B SaaS companies from $10M to $200M ARR navigate the shift from human to AI-powered revenue work. With systems-dynamics math, not opinion. In days, not quarters.

Results across 50+ B2B SaaS engagements

52%

reduction in CAC for a $75M ARR enterprise SaaS platform through systematic process optimization and AI-powered efficiency

2.8x

improvement in forecast accuracy for a $60M ARR B2B MarTech company after implementing systems dynamics forecasting

35%

increase in net revenue retention through redesigned post-sale motion and expansion trigger architecture

Certified Winning by Design Partner$500M+ ARR Influenced50+ B2B SaaS Engagements20+ Years Revenue Leadership

From founder-led engagements. References and methodology shared during evaluation.

The Revenue System Problem

Your revenue team is working harder every quarter. The numbers aren't improving.

While pipeline grows, NRR stays flat. Teams add tools, headcount, and process layers, but the structural dynamics that produce underperformance remain invisible.

If you lead revenue at a $10M–$200M ARR B2B SaaS company, you've felt at least one of these.

80%+

of AI projects fail, twice the rate of non-AI IT projects

RAND Corporation, 2024

95%

of generative AI pilots stall, delivering little measurable impact

MIT NANDA Initiative, 2025

63%

of organizations cite human factors, not technology, as the primary AI challenge

Prosci Research, 2025

Three patterns that keep revenue systems stuck

These aren't technology problems. They're structural dynamics embedded in how your revenue system operates, and most firms can't see them.

01

The Firefighting Trap

You can't start

Your revenue team is so busy hitting this quarter's number that nobody has time to fix why the system leaks. The irony: the structural fixes would free the capacity you're burning on firefighting, but you can't get to them because you're always behind.

Result: The revenue org that most needs redesign is structurally prevented from ever doing it.

02

The J-Curve Trap

You can't survive the dip

You redesigned a revenue process. Output dipped while the team learned it. Leadership lost nerve and reverted. What they didn't see: that dip was the investment phase: two more weeks and NRR would have started compounding.

Result: Promising redesigns die in the transition, killed by impatience, not by being wrong.

03

The Attribution Trap

You can't try again

"That motion doesn't work for our segment." Actually, the structural dynamics would have broken any motion. But the failed attempt confirmed the bias, and now the real fix is off the table.

Result: One failed attempt becomes permanent evidence against the change the system actually needs.

Recognize any of these? You're not alone. And there's a way out.

Find Your Structural Flaw

How It Works

Four disciplines, one integrated system

AI Revenue Architecture combines diagnostic frameworks, academic research, and AI infrastructure into engagements that produce root cause findings and working systems, not slide decks.

01

Bowtie Revenue Architecture

Winning by Design

We model your full revenue system, from first touch through expansion and advocacy, as a stock-and-flow system, not a stage-based pipeline. The Bowtie reveals where growth is leaking, which stages are structurally underperforming, and where the highest-leverage intervention sits.

02

Dynamic Work Design

MIT · Repenning & Kieffer

We redesign revenue processes at the task level: cognitive demands, information requirements, and feedback loop design. Not workflow diagrams. This is the methodology that diagnoses capability traps: where your team is working harder to stay in place because the process was never designed to improve.

03

Systems Dynamics Modeling

MIT · Sterman & Repenning

Every material claim we make is backed by a parameterized model built from your data. Stock-and-flow models, sensitivity analysis, feedback loop identification. We don't guess which variable matters most; we compute it.

04

Agentic AI Infrastructure

Claude Code + MCP

We build the AI layer that makes the redesign stick. MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers connect AI agents directly to your CRM, CS platform, and BI tools. Custom Claude Skills automate revenue team workflows. The intelligence layer compounds month over month, and you own all of it.

Based on 25 years of MIT system dynamics research (Repenning & Sterman)

What is a capability trap?

A capability trap is a self-reinforcing downward spiral. Under performance pressure, organizations default to "working harder": more hours, more urgency, cutting corners, instead of investing in "working smarter." The short-term results look good, but capability slowly erodes.

As capability declines, more problems emerge, requiring more firefighting, leaving even less time for improvement. The organization gets trapped in permanent reactive mode. And because the erosion is gradual, leadership blames the people instead of the system.

In revenue teams, this is why growth stalls despite more headcount and tools: every dollar goes into running the broken motion harder, none into redesigning it, so the trap deepens. And it's why AI backfires here: automating a trapped process just makes the wrong motion faster. The Revenue System Diagnostic maps exactly which loops are active in your revenue org.

The capability trap: four feedback loops B1 B2 R1 B3 Performance Pressure Work Harder Capability Work Smarter

The system the diagnostic parameterizes from your data.

The four loops

B = balancing loop · R = reinforcing loop

B1

Work Harder

Pressure to increase effort. Fast results. No capability change.

B2

Work Smarter

Invest in improvement. Slow results. Sustainable capability growth.

R1

Reinvestment

Amplifies whichever direction is winning. Virtuous or vicious.

B3

Shortcuts

Under B1 pressure, workers cut B2 investment. Temporarily frees capacity. Erodes capability.

Based on system dynamics research published in the California Management Review and Administrative Science Quarterly.

Why We Exist

Revenue systems are dynamic. Most firms treat them as static.

Every organization we work with has the same pattern: pipeline looks healthy, but NRR is flat. The team is working harder than ever, but the numbers aren't compounding. AI tools were purchased, but nothing changed.

The reason is structural. Revenue systems are dynamic: they have feedback loops, capability traps, and compounding effects that static pipeline reports can't see. Most consultancies treat symptoms. We model the system, find the leverage point, and build the fix. We call this AI Revenue Architecture.

dynamic.work_ exists because the gap between strategy decks and working infrastructure is where revenue growth goes to die. We close that gap with math, process redesign, and AI that actually runs.

DS

Derek Sather

Founder & Managing Partner

Global revenue executive and MIT-educated systems thinker with 20+ years scaling B2B SaaS companies. Former Chief Commercial Officer at Winning by Design, where he scaled the Bowtie revenue methodology across the WbD client portfolio. Currently CRO at Education Perfect and mentor at Mucker Capital. $500M+ ARR influenced across 50+ engagements. He builds revenue systems that produce a predictable, compounding number instead of a quarterly scramble, using Bowtie architecture, systems-dynamics modeling, and AI infrastructure his clients own and run.

MIT Sloan MBA Ex-WbD CCO (6 yrs) CRO, Education Perfect Mucker Capital Mentor AI + RevOps

$500M+

ARR influenced across 50+ B2B SaaS engagements

20+

years building and scaling revenue engines

8–15

business days from kickoff to deliverable

50+

revenue systems diagnosed and rebuilt, $10M–$200M ARR

How we're different

  • Math over opinion: every finding is parameterized from your data, not benchmarked from someone else's
  • Feedback loops over snapshots: we model the dynamic system, not a point-in-time report
  • Infrastructure that runs: we build working AI systems, not recommendations to build AI systems

Questions

What buyers ask us

What is AI Revenue Architecture?

AI Revenue Architecture is the practice of modeling your revenue system as a dynamic system with feedback loops, diagnosing where growth is structurally leaking, and building the AI infrastructure that makes the fix permanent. It combines four disciplines: Winning by Design Bowtie revenue modeling, Nelson Repenning's Dynamic Work Design from MIT, systems dynamics modeling, and Claude Code / MCP agentic infrastructure. The result: you get a parameterized model of your revenue engine, a structural diagnosis, and working AI systems, not a slide deck and a set of recommendations.

What does dynamic.work_ actually do?

We diagnose and redesign the revenue systems of B2B SaaS companies using four integrated disciplines: Winning by Design Bowtie revenue architecture, Nelson Repenning's Dynamic Work Design and capability trap framework, systems dynamics modeling, and Claude Code / MCP agentic infrastructure. Every engagement starts with a structural diagnosis, not a checklist, and produces a root cause finding your team didn't have before.

How is this different from a management consultancy or a RevOps agency?

Management consultancies deliver strategy decks. RevOps agencies configure tools. We sit between: we model your revenue system as a dynamic system with feedback loops, identify the highest-leverage intervention point using math, then build the process redesign and AI infrastructure to fix it. Our deliverables are parameterized systems dynamics models and working AI infrastructure, not slide decks and spreadsheets.

Which service should we start with?

If growth has stalled and you do not know why, start with the Revenue System Diagnostic ($24,000, 10 days). If you are about to invest in AI, start with the AI Revenue Readiness Audit ($18,000, 8 days). If you want a low-commitment first step, the Executive Briefing ($3,500, half day) is built for a single decision-maker and credits against any engagement within 90 days.

What is a capability trap?

A capability trap is a self-reinforcing organizational pattern identified by MIT's Nelson Repenning. Under pressure, teams default to "working harder" instead of investing in improvement. Short-term results look fine, but capability erodes. More problems emerge, requiring more firefighting, leaving less time for improvement. In revenue teams, this means heroic individual performance masks systemic design failure, and AI automation accelerates the wrong motion. The capability-trap module of our Revenue System Diagnostic maps these dynamics specifically.

What size companies do you work with?

Primarily B2B SaaS companies between $10M and $200M ARR. Our productized sprints serve the $10M–$80M range. Retainer engagements (Signal through Enterprise tier) extend to $200M. The common thread: revenue system complexity that has outpaced the tools and processes managing it.

What's the difference between a sprint and a retainer?

Sprints are fixed-scope, fixed-price diagnostic and build engagements: 8 to 15 business days, $18,000 to $55,000, with the Executive Briefing at $3,500. They produce a specific deliverable and a clear recommendation. Retainers are ongoing ($8,500–$65,000/month) and provide continuous Bowtie monitoring, systems dynamics model maintenance, AI infrastructure builds, and strategic advisory. Most retainer clients start with a fixed-scope engagement first.

What does the AI infrastructure include?

We build Claude Code + MCP server infrastructure connected to your CRM, CS platform, and BI tools. This includes custom Claude Skills for your revenue team (deal review, pipeline health, expansion signals), automated Bowtie reporting, and agentic process automation. You own all the infrastructure: it runs on your accounts, documented in runbooks your team can maintain.

Can you really build a parameterized forecast model in 12 days?

Yes, if you have 8+ quarters of clean pipeline data. The Forecast Architecture Build replaces stage-weighted pipeline guesswork with a systems dynamics model parameterized from your actual conversion rates, deal velocity distributions, and segment data. It produces P50/P75/P90 probabilistic forecasts. Data quality determines start date; if your data needs cleaning first, we'll tell you and may redirect to the Agentic RevOps Layer.

How is this different from Winning by Design?

Winning by Design created the Bowtie framework, and we build on it. What we add: parameterized systems dynamics models built from your data (not benchmarks), Dynamic Work Design methodology for task-level process redesign, and agentic AI infrastructure (Claude Code + MCP servers) that automates the ongoing monitoring. Think of WbD as the architectural blueprint and dynamic.work_ as the structural engineering and automation layer. Many of our clients have done WbD training; we extend that foundation into a running system.

Can we speak with a reference client?

Yes. During the evaluation process, we will connect you with a reference at a similar ARR range and challenge profile. We do not publish case studies with client names (our diagnostic findings are confidential by nature), but we will make a direct introduction so you can ask whatever you need to ask.

What if the diagnostic does not find anything actionable?

In every engagement to date, the diagnostic has identified at minimum one structural root cause with a quantified impact estimate. If the Revenue System Diagnostic fails to identify a structural finding with a quantified revenue impact, we will tell you within the first 3 days and scope the engagement down accordingly. We do not run out the clock on an engagement that is not producing value.

How much of our team's time does this require?

For diagnostic sprints: 3-5 hours of leadership time (kickoff + readout) plus 4-6 hours of stakeholder interviews spread across the team. For build sprints: 6-10 hours total, mostly in 2-3 working sessions. We do the heavy lifting: the modeling, analysis, and infrastructure build. Your team provides data access, context, and decision-making authority.

AI Revenue Architecture

Every engagement starts with a conversation about your revenue system.

Tell us the symptom. We'll tell you if it's structural, and which sprint is the right starting point.

We work with B2B SaaS executives and PE operating partners, $10M to $200M ARR. Engagements from $3,500. Retainers from $8,500/month.

Every diagnostic produces a quantified structural finding, or we tell you within the first 3 days and scope the engagement down.