Existing client intelligence

Know when a change in an existing client actually gives you a reason to act.

ProperBizFix reconstructs what has changed inside the client business, what that change actually alters commercially, and what your BDM, account manager or implementation team should verify before spending time on it.

Start with one client. I check fit before you pay. A completed review can still conclude that the change is not relevant to your relationship and no current action is justified.

£99 first Account Review5 working days after inputsURL first no CRM access to start
01
What comes back

A reason to investigate - or a reason not to.

PBX / ACCOUNT 018Reviewed 14 Sep 2026
Investigate
Business change

A second UK facility opened and an operations team is being recruited.

Why it may matter

Delivery is becoming more distributed and management may need a different way to allocate capacity before commitments are made.

Relationship relevance

The existing service touches the operating process affected by that change.

Verify

How is delivery capacity allocated across the two sites before customer commitments are made?

PBX / ACCOUNT 031Reviewed 14 Sep 2026
No current case
Business change

A new Finance Director has been appointed.

Account implication

The wider current-state picture does not show a material reason this change should affect the existing relationship.

No additional commercial attention indicated from the current-state analysis.

The review does not return a list of company-news signals. It returns the business finding, why it may matter to the relationship and what is worth verifying. The answer may concern proposition, delivery, operating model, technology, CRM - or no change at all.

02
Findings

A change is evidence. It is not yet a reason to sell.

The useful output is not the signal itself. It is what the change appears to alter, whether that matters to your existing relationship, and the question that should be verified before anyone acts.

FINDING 01MARKET / PROPOSITION
Observed

Equipment demand had weakened while labour costs were rising.

Possible significance

Customers may find it harder to retain the in-house capability needed to manage the equipment effectively.

Commercial implication

Service may solve a capability problem rather than simply sit around the equipment sale. That changes both proposition and ICP.

Verify

Is the capability gap visible across current customers, and is it stronger in the accounts the business most wants to win?

FINDING 02DELIVERY / CAPACITY
Observed

Demand was not the obvious constraint. Delivery still depended heavily on human effort.

Possible significance

Adding more work may increase operational pressure faster than usable revenue.

Commercial implication

The next growth question moves from pipeline to capacity, automation and work mix.

Verify

Which work consumes scarce delivery capacity, and where does margin deteriorate as volume rises?

FINDING 03SYSTEM / DECISION GAP
Observed

Roles, locations or operating logic changed after the system was implemented.

Possible significance

The client may now be making decisions that the original setup was never designed to support.

Commercial implication

The account conversation should establish which decisions now matter before anyone scopes a system change.

Verify

What information does the decision require, and is the gap in configuration, source data or somewhere outside the CRM?

Adapted, anonymised examples from previous analysis. They show the level of finding, not the underlying research route.

03
Two buying situations

The same client intelligence is useful for two different jobs.

You own the client relationships

You have added commercial capacity. Now it needs better reasons to act.

Use the existing base to decide which clients deserve investigation and to make commercial judgement transferable beyond the founder or long-standing relationship owner.

Especially relevant when the business grew through referrals or repeat relationships and a BDM or account team now has to create growth deliberately.

Grew through referrals, then hired a BDM? →
You implement systems for clients

See where a client has changed enough to reopen discovery.

Compare the business the client is running now with the current setup and identify decisions, information needs or operating conditions worth verifying before anyone proposes a change.

04
Referral-led → managed growth

Referrals did more than bring business. They also carried the context that made the next move feel obvious.

When referrals did the work
WhoThe introduction selected the prospect
WhyContext travelled with the relationship
Why nowThe referral itself created timing
TrustBorrowed from the referrer
When growth must be created deliberately
WhoThe business must choose the account
WhyThe reason has to be evidenced
Why nowThe timing has to be detected
TrustThe team has to build it

Nothing has necessarily gone wrong. When growth becomes deliberate, management has to recreate that context rather than simply add more sales activity.

05
Portfolio analysis

437 accounts do not need 437 conversations.

For a referral-led business, the portfolio can do more than produce a call list. A sample can begin to reconstruct which client conditions actually preceded demand and which judgements used to sit in individual relationships.

Start
437

existing accounts

Screen
  1. 1 Still trading?
  2. 2 Relationship recency
  3. 3 Material business change
  4. 4 Relevance worth testing?
Decide
No current case

Do not spend human time here.

Monitor

Something changed, but its relevance is not established yet.

Pattern

Several clients show the same condition. This may change the ICP, proposition or account question.

Investigate

The combined picture justifies a specific human check.

Portfolio work should improve more than a call list. Verified outcomes build an evidence base for which client conditions actually precede demand in your own market.

06
Input / output

One concrete input. One concrete analytical output.

You send

One client website

  • One line of relationship context
  • Nothing else before the fit check
  • A system snapshot only if it later matters
You receive

An account finding

  • What changed
  • Why it may matter to the relationship
  • What should be verified
  • Investigate, monitor or no current case

Fit is checked before payment. If the account cannot support a reliable current-state assessment, the review does not proceed.

FIRST ACCOUNT REVIEW
£99

Your first paid Account Review.

FURTHER SINGLE-ACCOUNT REVIEWS
£145

Per additional individual account.

DELIVERY
Within 5 working days

After payment and receipt of any inputs requested for that review.

Send one client website

Start with the URL. I will tell you whether I can take it further.

No payment is taken at this stage. Do not send CRM logins or raw customer data through this form.

If yes: I confirm I can proceed, the fee and the inputs needed. Your first Account Review is £99; further single-account reviews are £145 each.

If no: I tell you I cannot build a strong enough current-state picture to justify the review.

Need to look at the whole base rather than one account? See Portfolio Analysis⁠. Implementing CRM or software for clients? See the partner application⁠.