Cut POC turnaround from 3 weeks to 4 days for an enterprise prospect
The problem
EDIT ME: This is a placeholder example â replace with your own. A prospectâs technical stakeholders couldnât get hands-on with the product without a live AE-led demo, and scheduling kept slipping the deal timeline by weeks.
My approach
EDIT ME: Ran a discovery call focused on what the technical buyer actually needed to validate (auth flow, data residency, API rate limits) rather than a generic demo script. Identified that a pre-seeded sandbox environment would let them self-serve instead of waiting on calendars.
What I built
EDIT ME: A Dockerized sandbox seeded with realistic mock data via the Salesforce API, plus a Postman collection covering the three integration paths the prospect cared about. Documented setup in a one-page Notion doc so their engineers could spin it up without me.
Outcome
EDIT ME: Replace with your real numbers â turnaround time, deal stage movement, or qualitative signal (e.g. âbecame the reference sandbox other SEs now reuseâ).