Why we don't have a sales team (and won't)
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Strategy5 min de leitura·2026-06-01

Why we don't have a sales team (and won't)

Enterprise sales-led SaaS is a great business — for the seller. For the buyer, it means 6-month onboarding cycles, custom contracts, and 'request a demo' walls. We chose the harder path: self-serve at any scale.

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Why we don't have a sales team (and won't)

We've turned down 12 enterprise pilots in the last 6 months.

Each came with a sales conversation, a custom contract request, a multi-month implementation timeline, and a price tag 20× our self-serve plan.

We said no every time. Here's why.

The hidden cost of enterprise sales

When a SaaS company adds enterprise sales, they don't just add revenue — they add gravity. Every product decision starts getting filtered through "what would the enterprise customer want?"

Soon:

  • Pricing becomes opaque ("contact sales")
  • Onboarding becomes manual ("our team will help you set up")
  • Product roadmap becomes feature-request-driven by 3 whales
  • Self-serve UX rots because nobody using sales-led ever sees it

What we chose instead

Self-serve, transparent pricing, 47-second deployment. Available to a solopreneur or a 1,000-person company — same UX, same price tier, same speed.

We pay for this by:

  • Not building enterprise features (SAML/SCIM/audit logs are coming on Business — but on our timeline)
  • Not employing 50 reps (we employ 3 engineers and 1 designer)
  • Not running quarterly business reviews

The trade-off

We will never close a €500K ARR deal in Q1 2026. Enterprise sales-led companies will.

But we'll have 50,000 happy paying customers who set themselves up in under a minute. And every one of them will tell their friends. That's the only growth flywheel we trust.

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