For B2B sales and marketing leadersBuilt on your ideal customer profile

Free your sales team up from the work of researching, qualifying and ranking prospects.

A good rep can lose the better part of half an hour researching a single company before they even know whether it is worth a conversation, and a CRM that has been running for a few years is usually full of records nobody has opened in months, contacts who moved on long ago, and accounts that were never really a fit, so the people you pay to close end up spending their best hours sorting the list instead of working it.

AlignIQx takes that whole layer of researching, qualifying, ranking and housekeeping and turns it into a system that runs quietly in the background, scoring every account against the ideal customer profile your own team defined, so that your reps open the CRM to a ranked, current and fully researched view and spend their time only on the prospects that are genuinely worth it.

Running inside industrial and B2B sales teams for three years, on more than two million records.

Already running in practice

Validated and refined over more than two million processed records.

AlignIQx has been running inside real sales teams for three years, across industrial and B2B companies from the low tens of millions up to nearly two hundred million dollars in annual revenue, and in that time the system has researched, scored and kept current more than two million of their records, which is the reason everything described on this page is something already working in practice rather than something we are hoping will work.

2M+ records

researched, scored and kept current

Up to 20 minutes

of research per company handed back to your reps as selling time

Fewer real contacts than you think

Bad emails, wrong-fit accounts and people who have moved on most likely plague your CRM.

A pipeline of validated leads

A constant feed of new prospects, researched, qualified and ranked before they reach a rep

The framework

Define

Define is where the rules get built, because a system that scores and prioritises accounts is worthless until there is a clear and agreed definition of what a good customer actually looks like, how one account is ranked against another, and who the real decision makers are, all of which is drawn out of the people on your team who sit in front of customers every day and then written to records so that AI and your team are working from exactly the same picture.

Align

Align is where that definition is applied to everything already in your CRM, so that every account is researched, scored and ranked, every contact is matched to the right buyer persona, the gaps get filled and the records that have gone stale get flagged, and from then on anything new that arrives is held to the same standard before it is ever allowed to clutter the database.

Grow

Grow is where the pipeline is widened beyond the accounts you already hold, with new and validated targets surfaced and researched, the events that create a reason to reach out caught as they happen, and genuinely personal outreach landing with the right people, so that the top of the funnel keeps filling with accounts that arrive already qualified and with a reason for the conversation attached.

Why the CRM needs the ICP

Without the ICP, your CRM is just a contact list.

Your CRM should be the thing that sets your team's priorities, telling them which accounts deserve attention first, which records have gaps worth filling, and which ones are quietly absorbing effort that will never convert, and it can only do that once the ideal customer profile is wired into it as a live scoring framework rather than sitting in a slide deck that nobody opens.

Without that scoring in place there is no reference point for any of it, so outreach runs against a flat list instead of a real definition, and the judgement about where to spend time falls back onto each rep's instinct, which is exactly the manual and inconsistent guesswork the whole system is meant to take away.

Once the profile is activated inside the CRM, the prioritisation is done for the team rather than by them, every account carries a score and a tier from the day it lands, and the database stops being a place where people log what they have already done and becomes something that tells them what to do next.

Why most teams don't have a fully working ICP
01
The ideal customer profile exists, but it is not actually being used, because it was written into a deck and taught verbally, and with no scoring wired into the CRM the people in front of customers are still choosing which accounts to chase on instinct.
02
The profile is out of date, written for a version of the company that has since shifted its markets and changed its product lines, so that it no longer reflects who really closes, and nobody has had the time to rebuild it properly.
03
The profile is only partly defined, with a description and perhaps a few segment names but no weighted criteria and no tiers, which means accounts cannot actually be ranked against it and it goes unused in practice.
04
There is no documented profile at all, only an understanding carried individually by the people in front of customers and passed on in conversation, so that everyone is working from a slightly different version held in their own head.
ICP prioritisation

Not every account deserves the same attention.

Once every account has been scored and tiered against the profile your own team defined, the prioritisation becomes obvious, so that your strongest reps are pointed at the gold accounts where their time genuinely converts, while the accounts that score as coal are quietly held back from outreach rather than being allowed to soak up effort that was never going to pay off.

How you choose to work each tier is entirely up to you, because all the system does is sort every account into the right tier and tag it, which leaves the question of how hard to chase each one firmly in your hands.

Tier
Attention from
Gold
These go to your best reps for direct outreach and full account strategy, and they sit at the top of every pipeline review.
Silver
These go to your developing reps on structured outreach sequences, with their progress monitored as the accounts mature.
Bronze / Copper
These are worked through marketing and automated sequences, covering mass campaigns, event invitations and content nurture rather than direct rep time.
Coal
These are held back from outreach and pushed down the CRM views, and archived where it makes sense, so that no selling time is spent on accounts that will never return it.
What's inside

Eight modules that work as one system.

The work is delivered as eight modules that all share a single definition of a good customer, beginning with the one-off foundation that establishes the rules, moving through the modules that bring your existing database into line and keep it there, and finishing with the modules that widen the pipeline, and although they are designed to fit together as one system, you do not have to take all of them at once.

Define

Everything starts here, because none of the modules that follow have anything to score against until the definition exists.

Module 1

ICP and persona definition.

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The definition is captured from your team, not from an algorithm.

The reasons one customer turns out to be gold while another quietly wastes everyone's time live in the people who sit in front of customers every day rather than in any piece of software, which is why the profile is built out of their first-hand knowledge and then checked against what your won and lost deals actually show, instead of being guessed at from the top of the organisation.

What you walk away with
Documented ideal customer profiles for each market segment
A weighted scoring schema for every profile
A buyer persona library covering each profile
Account tiers defined from gold through to coal
Your team aligned on which accounts come first
Always aligned

Your database brought up to standard, and kept there.

An account profile in the CRM showing its ICP score and the contacts matched to buyer personas

Once the profile and the scoring exist, your whole database is brought up to that standard and then held there, so that the state of your CRM stops being something that slowly decays between the occasional clean-up and becomes something you can simply trust on any given morning.

What it means day to day

Your team opens the CRM to a ranked and current view of their accounts, where the score and the tier are already sitting there to tell them where to start and the key decision makers have already been identified, so that the long stretches that used to disappear into researching a company before a single conversation are simply handed back as selling time.

What ends up on the record

Everything needed to place an account against your profile and give it a score is researched and written back, alongside the standard company detail your team relies on, such as revenue, staff numbers and location, and because the fields are matched to the way your sales process actually works, the rest of what your salespeople need to carry a deal forward sits there too, right where they are already working.

Align

With the rules in place, your existing database is brought into line and then held there as new records arrive.

Module 2

CRM refresh

A single thorough pass across your entire existing database researches, qualifies, scores and ranks every account, matches every contact to the right persona, fills the gaps and flags the records that have gone stale or whose people have moved on, and leaves you with an honest picture of how many genuinely qualified and marketable contacts you actually have, which is almost always a smaller and more useful number than anyone expected.

Module 3

Continuous account research

From the refresh onward, every new account that enters your CRM comes back, shortly after it lands, fully qualified and ranked and with its key decision makers identified and attached, so that the database stays accurate and current without anyone on your team having to stop what they are doing and run the research by hand.

Module 4

New-contact screening

A gate sits in front of your CRM and checks the trade-show lists, the purchased data and the inherited spreadsheets against your profiles before any of it is allowed in, so that the obvious non-fits are stripped out at the door and never get the chance to clutter the database in the first place.

Grow

Your pipeline widened with accounts that arrive already qualified.

A new target account researched and scored in the CRM before it reaches a rep

With your database clean and ranked, the system widens the pipeline beyond the accounts you already hold, surfacing new targets that are researched and scored before they ever reach a rep.

Module 5

Targeted list building

You describe the kind of companies you want to reach and a validated, ready-to-use list of matching target accounts is researched and returned, flowing straight into the same qualifying and enrichment work, so that the new names arrive already scored rather than as a raw list that somebody then has to sort through.

Module 6

Inbox intelligence

Quiet and continuous attention on your high-volume mailboxes keeps your contact data honest as people change roles and addresses go cold, capturing the moves and the replacements and feeding the useful details back into the CRM, so that the picture does not drift out of date in the gaps between refreshes.

Module 7

Trigger monitoring

An always-on watch for the events that create a genuine reason to reach out, such as a new decision maker arriving, a site expansion or a funding round, surfaces the matching accounts the moment something changes, with the reason for the conversation already attached so that the team is never starting from a cold open.

Module 8

One-to-one outreach

Genuinely personal and lower-volume outreach is sent from your reps' own mailboxes with the follow-ups handled automatically, and every reply is read, sorted and recorded back against the account, so that the outreach supports your salespeople and the relationships they are building rather than trying to replace them with mass email.

The transformation

What your CRM looks like before and after.

This section would look far better with your own data in it.

These are the same accounts you already have, except that each one now carries a complete profile, an ICP tier and every contact matched to the right buyer persona, which is the difference between a list you store and a database your team actually works from.

Company Profile
BeforeAfter
Meridian Industrial Supply
No website on record
WebsiteNot set
IndustryWholesale & Distribution
ICPNot set
ICP ScoreNot set
EmployeesNot set
Annual revenueNot set
Business ModelNot set
Products & ServicesNot set
Key MarketsNot set
E-CommerceNot set
Own BrandsNot set
Distributed BrandsNot set
LinkedInNot set
M
Meridian Industrial Supply
Gold, Tier 1
IndustryIndustrial Distribution
ICP Score97 / 100
Employees240–280
Annual revenue$45M–$60M
Business ModelB2B Distributor
Products & ServicesFasteners, PPE, MRO supplies, Safety equipment
Key Marketsindustrial supply, MRO, safety, fasteners, PPE
E-CommerceYes
Own BrandsMeridian Pro, SafeGuard Series
Distributed Brands3M, Stanley, Honeywell, Brady
B / Target personas at each account
BeforeAfter
Meridian Industrial Supply
David Brennan
CEO / Managing Director
Executive
Unknown
Not on record
Finance
Unknown
Not on record
Sales
Unknown
Not on record
Marketing
Unknown
Not on record
Operations
Unknown
Not on record
Purchasing
Meridian Industrial Supply
David Brennan
CEO / Managing Director
Executive
Rachel Ng
Finance Director
Finance
James Okafor
National Sales Manager
Sales
Priya Sharma
Marketing Manager
Marketing
Ben Walsh
Operations Manager
Operations
Carlos Mendez
Purchasing Manager
Purchasing
C / Contact profile
BeforeAfter
James Okafor
Meridian Industrial Supply
Job titleSales Manager
PersonaNot set
Seniority levelNot set
Email addressNot set
Email deliverabilityNot set
LinkedIn profileNot set
City / RegionNot set
ICP account tierNot set
JO
James Okafor
Meridian Industrial Supply
Job titleNational Sales Manager
Persona
Seniority levelSenior Manager
Email deliverabilityValid
City / RegionSydney, NSW
ICP account tierGold, Tier 1
BioSenior operations professional with 12 years across industrial supply and logistics. Background in procurement and key account management across ANZ and SE Asia.
Proven, not theoretical

Getting automation and AI to deliver consistent results that genuinely drive value for a business is not easily achieved. Our system has been built and refined across three years of real engagements with industrial and B2B companies, most of them turning over at least sixty million dollars a year, and we have taken the essence of the complex systems we still run for those clients and simplified it into something that delivers the same results while being available to many more customers.

Ongoing visibility

A weekly report on the state of your CRM.

Every week a branded report lands that shows you what is improving in your CRM and what is starting to drift, covering marketability, the spread of accounts across the tiers, how well your personas are covered, the quality of the underlying fields and how campaign-ready the database is, so that the movement from one week to the next tells you plainly whether the system is doing its job.

Sample weekly AlignIQx CRM report
Enquire

Tell us about your CRM and any challenges you are having with data and pipeline growth, and we will set up a discovery call and proposal.

Prefer email? Write to Matthew directly at matthew.steele@aligniqx.com.

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