Fractional CRO · Helsinki

Revenue systems for B2B growth companies that are done pretending the pipeline is fine.

For 1–15M€ B2B SaaS & Tech. RevOps built on data, not gut feeling.

Revenue systems built by an operator, not a coach. Ten-plus years running revenue organisations in SaaS and scale-ups. The output is the system your team runs on Monday.

10+ yrs Operator track
EMEA Top 3 Growth exec, 2018–19
7 Hands-on clients served
Background
Joona Salokangas
Joona Salokangas Fractional CRO · Founder, Yesvest

Why this, by me.

Ten-plus years in commercial leadership: co-CEO at FREE.fi, Regional Director at Meltwater across the Nordics. In those seats, comp plans, hiring, restructuring, and the legal edges that come with them weren't someone else's problem. They were on the desk. That's why the work here covers the full span, not just the sales-process slice.

Over the past 12 months, hands-on with 7 clients. The system works because the day-to-day struggle is not a theory to me.

The span
Comp, hiring, restructuring. Already done it.
The hard conversations that come with commercial leadership aren't new. Been there, handled them, know where they break.
Where it came from
Co-CEO at FREE.fi, Regional Director at Meltwater.
Full commercial ownership in both seats: forecast, comp plan, hiring, and revenue.
How it works
The person you hire is the person doing the work.
Solo operator. No associates, no handoffs, no bench behind the engagement.
Track record

Why these views, by me.

Not advisory work. Roles where the forecast, the plan, and the revenue were personally owned.

MRR growth
€2.7M €3.2M
In five months, as co-CEO at FREE.fi
ARR grown
+$2.6M
Nordic region on $30M base, Meltwater
Teams built and led
0 10+
Sales hires onboarded and scaled
New-org revenue
€0 €1.5M
Greenfield sales organisations scaled
Co-CEO, FREE.fi
Founder-led · turnaround to cash flow crisis
Took MRR from €2.7M to €3.2M in five months. Full commercial ownership over forecast, plan, and revenue.
Regional Director, Meltwater
Nordics
Grew ARR by $2.6M on a $30M base across the Nordic region. Led 10+ people teams across Nordics. Aligning country-level ARR base, churn, and expansion.
Personal quota carried
Individual contributor years
$1M+ in personal sales. Ranked top 3 EMEA growth executive, 2018–2019. The methodology isn't theory. It was built on a pipeline.
A note on fit

If you're looking for a sales coach to do one-hit wonders in a single session, this is not for you.

The work is system-building, not motivational. Shortest engagement is the audit: three weeks, fixed scope. Anything shorter isn't long enough to change the way the team runs on Monday.

The problem

Sales orgs are not under-resourced.
They are under-instrumented.

Forecast misses. Nobody knows why.

Coverage looks healthy every Monday. Half the deals slip by quarter end.

Pipeline reviews turn into excuses, not decisions.

Reps hit quota. Churn eats it back.

Comp plan rewards bookings. Retention, discovery, and deal quality get skipped.

Revenue goes up. Net revenue goes sideways.

CRM is full. Insight is empty.

Data in every field. Nothing that predicts what closes next.

New tool was supposed to fix it. It didn't.

What gets built

A revenue system, not a slide deck.

Five pillars, one running GTM system. Your team doesn't get a strategy document. It gets the data-driven operating model it runs on Monday.

Pipeline
Activity
Compensation
Cadence
Reporting
Who it's for

CEOs and revenue teams seeking clarity.

For leaders who already know the pipeline isn't predictable, and are ready to fix the system underneath.

CEOs & founders

  • Forecast doesn't match reality
  • Quota hit one quarter, missed the next
  • Board needs a revenue system, not a slide
  • Moving past founder-led sales

Revenue & sales leaders

  • CRM full of data, empty of signal
  • Comp rewards activity, not outcomes
  • Cadences became status updates
  • Team can sell. System can't scale.
Engagements

Three ways to work together.

Revenue focus
New business Retention Expansion
Entry point
Revenue audit
10 500 €
Fixed · ~3 weeks
  • Pipeline health & coverage
  • Discovery quality scoring
  • Data gaps & missing KPIs
  • Operational cadence review
  • CRM hygiene
  • Compensation diagnostic
  • Board-ready findings deck
Bespoke
Revenue build
Scoped
Project · 6–12 weeks
  • KAM integration & EBR structure
  • Sales enablement & playbooks
  • Kick-off & team training
  • RevOps tech stack
  • Data & reporting gaps
  • CRM reshape & workflows
  • Sales culture & mindset fit
Current & past clients

Where the work happens.

Evelia
Metroc
Savantiq
Kletta
Smart Symptom Check
Autovex
Datafisher
FREE.fi

This brought clarity, structure and predictability to how we lead sales and customer growth through data.

Joona quickly aligned us on the best tool and configuration that supports execution day-to-day. His approach is grounded in strong and practical knowledge of industry benchmarks.

Rosa Tengvall
CEO, JST Healthcare Solutions

We didn't have to figure everything out ourselves. We were able to scale the team much faster than would have been possible without this model.

Through Joona, we immediately had access to real experience in leading the project, building the actions, training the team, and creating the structures.

Sebastian Frick
CEO, Autovex

Sales and customer success could focus on execution, not on inventing structures on the fly. Through Joona, we got immediate access to real experience in building sales teams, weekly cadence rollout, KPI design, and operationalising growth.

Pavlos Ylinen
CEO, Datafisher
Point of view

Most companies hold their sales team to a 90% forecast accuracy, weekly deal reviews, and multithreaded opportunities. Then they let CS run renewals out of an Excel sheet and wonder why retention is the problem.

The system isn't broken. It was never built.

Joona Salokangas
What you'll read about on LinkedIn
Pipeline realism Forecast discipline Comp drives behaviour CRM as symptom RevOps vs GTM Discovery quality Cost of doing nothing
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Start with the audit.

Three weeks, fixed scope, board-ready output. If the audit doesn't surface something the team will act on within 30 days, there's no reason to continue.

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