(CRM & Salesforce)

A CRM your sales team opens without being chased

CRM development is only half technical. Salesforce configuration, Apex where it earns its place, integrations with marketing and finance — and the data hygiene that decides whether anyone trusts the pipeline number.

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(The real failure mode)

Almost no CRM fails technically. It fails when a rep decides the forecast is wrong, keeps a private spreadsheet, and two quarters later the system holds stale contacts and half the deals. Fields that nobody can justify are the usual first cause, so the design starts by deleting them.

Salesforce suits organisations that need a deep ecosystem and can absorb per-seat licensing. A custom CRM makes sense for unusual sales models or very large user counts where the per-seat bill outgrows the cost of owning the software.

(What we deliver)

What CRM and Salesforce work covers

New implementations, rescues of an org that has drifted, and custom builds where the licence model stops making sense.

  1. Accounts, contacts, opportunities and whatever your business really sells — territories, renewals, projects, sites. Record types, sharing rules and field-level security set so people see what they need, with each field traced to a report or a decision it feeds.

  2. Flows, validation rules, approval processes, page layouts and dynamic forms cover a surprising amount of what gets specified as development. Declarative work is faster to change, survives platform releases and leaves your admin able to adjust things without us.

  3. Apex triggers, batch jobs and Lightning Web Components for the logic Flow cannot express or cannot handle at volume. Written with governor limits in mind, with test coverage that means something, and deployed through Salesforce DX rather than change sets clicked by hand.

  4. Lead capture and campaign attribution from HubSpot, Marketo or Pardot; quotes, invoices and payment status from the ERP or accounting system. One direction of truth per field, agreed in advance, so nobody is debugging a loop where two systems overwrite each other nightly.

  5. Matching and merge rules, required-field discipline, address and email validation, and a scheduled report of records that break the rules. Migration is the moment to enforce this — importing a dirty list is how a new CRM loses its credibility in month one.

  6. Dashboards a sales manager would open on a Monday, mobile layouts that work in a car park, and training built around the deals people are actually working. Usage is measured afterwards, because a CRM nobody updates is an expensive address book.

(What we work with)

(How we work)

How the work runs

Every engagement is scoped in phases, priced per phase, and reviewed with you at the end of each one.

  1. 01

    Discovery

    We map the problem, the systems around it and what a good outcome looks like, then scope the work in phases you can stop after.

  2. 02

    Design

    Flows, architecture and interfaces agreed before anyone writes production code.

  3. 03

    Build

    Two-week increments, a working environment you can open, and a demo at the end of each one.

  4. 04

    Testing

    Functional, performance, security and accessibility checks run through the build, not bolted on at the end.

  5. 05

    Launch

    Deployment, monitoring, documentation and the handover your team needs to run it.

  6. 06

    Support

    Fixes, updates and the next set of features, at an agreed monthly capacity.

(Why Team of Keys)

Why our CRM projects survive the second quarter

A CRM is judged by whether the pipeline report is believed. Everything below exists to protect that.

  1. 01

    Fewer fields, better data

    Every field has to name the report or decision it serves. Anything that cannot is dropped. Reps fill in a short form honestly and a long one carelessly, and the second is worse than no form.

  2. 02

    Declarative until it hurts

    Code is the last resort, not the default. Clients who inherit an org stuffed with custom triggers usually pay more for maintenance than they ever saved at build time.

  3. 03

    One owner per field

    Where CRM, marketing automation and finance all hold a version of the same value, one system owns it and the others read it. That single rule prevents most integration support tickets.

  4. 04

    Source control and sandboxes

    Metadata lives in git, changes move through a sandbox, releases are repeatable. Configuring directly in production is how an org becomes something nobody dares touch.

  5. 05

    Honest about licensing

    Per-seat costs grow with headcount, and some features sit behind a higher edition than expected. Where the licence bill outruns the value, a custom CRM or a lighter platform is worth pricing — and we will price it.

(Related)

More in automation

All automation services

(FAQ)

Questions, answered

Implementation and licensing are separate. A focused Sales Cloud rollout for one team — data model, flows, two integrations, migration and training — is typically six to ten weeks of work. Multi-region orgs with complex approvals and heavy Apex run longer. Salesforce licences are billed per user per year by the vendor and should be modelled for three years, not one.

Configure wherever it is possible. Flows, validation rules and dynamic forms handle most requirements, change in minutes and survive the three annual platform releases. Apex is right for high-volume batch processing, complex rollups and logic Flow cannot express. A useful test: if your admin could maintain it, it should not be code.

Yes, and it is usually where the value lands. Typical links are campaign and lead data from HubSpot, Marketo or Pardot, and quotes, invoices and payment status from the ERP. Each shared field gets one owning system and a direction of flow, agreed before anything is built, with failures alerting rather than silently retrying.

Sometimes. Very large user counts where per-seat pricing dominates, sales models a standard opportunity object cannot represent, or data residency rules a hosted platform will not satisfy. For most companies the ecosystem wins and a custom build is a costly detour, so the comparison is worth doing on real numbers rather than instinct.

Cut the fields, put the CRM where the work already happens — email, calendar, phone — and make the manager reports run from CRM data only, so nobody maintains a parallel spreadsheet. Train on live deals rather than demo records. Then watch logins, records updated and pipeline accuracy for the first two months and fix what people avoid.

(Global presence)

Nine countries, one studio behind them.

Every project is designed, built and shipped from one studio.
Turn the globe, or pick a country to see what we deliver there.

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(Next step)

Tell us what your reps keep in spreadsheets

Send your sales process, the systems around it and the current CRM if there is one. You get a data model sketch and a phased price.

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