How the Commercial Health Check Works

Deep research. Calibrated scoring. Expert interpretation. Every assessment answers one question: how well are you executing your commercial strategy?

What This Assessment Is

The Commercial Health Check is a structured evaluation of how effectively a B2B company communicates its value, prices its products, and builds buyer confidence. It's based on deep research across multiple sources — not just a surface-level website review.

Every assessment answers the question: how well are you executing your commercial strategy? The score reflects commercial execution quality. A further engagement (the Value Recapture Plan) evaluates the health of the strategy itself.

The Research Process

Each assessment draws from multiple data sources to build a complete picture of how a company presents itself to the market.

Step 1

Market Intelligence Gathering

Employee sentiment, marketing execution patterns, competitive positioning signals, and customer base indicators — gathered before we visit the website.

Step 2

Website & Pricing Analysis

Systematic evaluation of messaging, positioning, pricing architecture, packaging structure, buyer enablement content, and trust signals across every public-facing page.

Step 3

Review & Reputation Assessment

G2, Capterra, TrustRadius, Gartner Peer Insights, and industry-specific platforms. Exact review counts, ratings, recency, and sentiment themes.

Step 4

Competitive Benchmarking

Top competitors are scored using the same framework, creating a direct comparison that shows where you lead and where you lag on each dimension.

The Scoring Model

Companies are scored across five dimensions that cover the full commercial surface area — everything a prospective buyer encounters when evaluating whether to do business with you.

Messaging & Positioning
Is the story clear, differentiated, and proven?
Pricing & Packaging
Are you capturing the value you create?
Buyer Experience
Can the website convert a visitor into a qualified lead?
Trust & Credibility
Would a skeptical CFO or procurement team approve this?
Competitive Position
Do you own a defensible, quantified position in the market?

Each dimension is broken into specific, observable sub-scores — 28 in total — each scored on a standardized rubric with clear tie-breaker rules. Every score is evidence-based: if we can't observe it, it's a zero.

Calibrated Against Real Companies

Scores aren't graded on a curve or assigned based on gut feel. They're calibrated against a growing database of B2B SaaS company assessments, refined with every new analysis.

100+
Companies assessed
15+
Verticals covered
28
Observable sub-scores
55
Universe average score

Score distribution across our universe:

33%
43%
14%
10%
Market Ready (66+) Approaching (46–65) Needs Attention (30–45) Early (<30)

Most mid-market B2B SaaS companies score between 45 and 65. A score in this range doesn't mean the product is bad — it means the commercial execution isn't keeping up with the product.

What This Assessment Does Not Measure

The Commercial Health Check evaluates commercial execution — how well you communicate, price, and sell. It does not evaluate:

Not measured: product quality, engineering capability, team talent, internal culture, financial performance, or technology architecture. A company can have a world-class product and score poorly because the website doesn't communicate its value, the pricing doesn't capture it, or the proof assets don't support the claims.

That gap between product quality and commercial execution is exactly what this assessment is designed to surface.

Go Deeper with the Value Recapture Plan

The Commercial Health Check shows where your execution gaps are. The Value Recapture Plan answers why they exist and what to do about them — including the strategic questions the Health Check doesn't cover:

▸ Is your pricing architecture capturing the value you deliver?
▸ Is your messaging aligned to what customers actually care about?
▸ Are your people and processes set up to execute the strategy?
▸ Where is the highest-ROI opportunity — and what's the 90-day plan to get there?

Typical value identified: 20–30% in addressable revenue gaps per company.

Who Built This

The methodology was developed by Michael Himmelfarb, who spent 14 years at Nielsen building one of the industry-standard measurement platforms for CPG growth strategies. He then applied that measurement discipline to GTM strategy across 40+ companies as a growth-stage CMO and PE operating partner.

The scoring model is built from hands-on experience with real GTM transformations — not academic frameworks. It's been refined across 100+ assessments and continues to sharpen with every new company in the database.

Every assessment is expert-reviewed before delivery. The methodology is consistent across every company, which means scores are directly comparable — across your portfolio, across time, and against the universe.

For the full methodology white paper, read here.

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