Tom Williams
Podcast guest

Tom Williams

Three-time founder. Author of Slightly More Efficient Selling / Slightly More Efficient Buying. 25 years arguing that selling is something you do with buyers, not to them — and 13+ podcast appearances making the case.

CEO → Clari acquisitionAuthor13+ podcast appearances35-country sales ops
The long version

A career spent at the seam between selling and buying.

Tom is the founder and CEO of Supercase, a business-case automation platform for B2B revenue teams. He was previously CEO of DealPoint — a buyer-centric sales tool he ran from founding to acquisition by Clari in 2021 — and then spent nearly four years as Head of Revenue Strategies at Clari, working inside one of the most prominent pipeline-intelligence platforms in B2B.

That stretch shaped Supercase's thesis: pipeline intelligence can tell you which deals are at risk, but it can't fix the reason why. The missing piece isn't more data about the seller's pipeline — it's a credible financial case the buyer can use internally, when the seller isn't in the room.

Before DealPoint, Tom spent eight years as VP of Sales & Marketing at Audio Precision, where he drove record revenues and built direct sales operations across 35 countries. He's the author of Slightly More Efficient Selling / Slightly More Efficient Buying — two books bound as one, meeting in the middle where real purchase decisions get made. It's also the framework behind Supercase.

Tom is an expat Brit from Brighton. Now based in Portland, Oregon where he's a squash player, GTM philosopher, and dad to two teenagers.

What Tom talks about

Five topics he'll go deep on.

Ordered by how often he gets asked. Happy to custom-frame any of them for your audience.

Headline topic

How to build a better business case

The headliner.

Why 61% of B2B deals die to "no decision," what separates a CFO-grade business case from a BS-grade one, and the two questions every CFO is actually asking. Practical for sellers, buyers, and anyone who has to defend a purchase internally.

AI in sales — everyone gets bumped up a level of management

What AI really changes in the funnel.

Not replacement — promotion. AI takes the mechanical work off the SDR so they operate like an AE; off the AE so they operate like a manager; off the manager so they operate like a VP. What that looks like in practice and what to stop doing now.

Mutual Action Plans — what they actually are

Tom wrote the playbook at DealPoint.

The difference between a checklist the seller maintains and a real collaborative artifact the champion uses to run the deal internally. Why most MAPs fail and the small number of design choices that separate the ones that work.

Proactive disqualification

Walking away is a feature.

Why the best reps actively hunt for reasons to kill deals early, how to frame disqualification so the buyer thanks you for it, and why DIY is often the right recommendation.

Buyer-seller collaboration

25 years of the same argument.

Selling is not something you do to a buyer — it's something you do with them. What genuine collaboration looks like on a live deal, and why most "buyer-centric" frameworks stop at the name.

Guest appearances

Selected podcast & media appearances.

Leading DealPoint, Strategic Dynamics, and Clari Align. Roughly chronological.

ShowHostDateSubject
30 Minutes to President's Club (Ep. 242)Nick CegelskiJan 9, 2024POV discovery vs. open discovery
Predictable Revenue PodcastCollin StewartSept 12, 2023Sales collaboration and Clari Align
The Great Sales Leaders KnowStefan Feuersteinc. 2023Buyer-centric selling methods
Selling Power WebinarGerhard GschwandtnerMay 25, 2022The three control levers to success
Sell Better ShowJames Buckley2021 / 2022Prospecting masterclass
Make It Happen Mondays (Ep. 129)John Barrows2021Trademarks of top sales reps
Sales Hacker Podcast (Ep. 110)Sam JacobsMay 19, 2020Mutual action plans and buyer ROI
Find My Catalyst (Ep. 173)Mike SimmonsJan 29, 2020Buyer-centric approach
The ValuePros ShowBruce ScheerMar 4, 2019Buyer-centric sales process
Identifying with BuyersCriteria for SuccessRemote work and transparency

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