Find what larger buyers fail to trust before they meet you.

Before a serious buyer speaks with your team, they inspect the company, the CEO and the evidence around both. If they cannot understand why your company is credible, relevant and safe to trust, the first meeting starts from doubt. For €2,500, the Audit shows what buyers can verify today, where confidence breaks down and what should change first.

The first meeting should advance the deal, not establish basic credibility.

Larger buyers inspect you before they speak to you. The strongest companies still lose ground when the buyer cannot see enough of their value, leadership judgement or strategic relevance beforehand.

  • You explain the company well in person, but buyers do not see the same value beforehand.
  • Warm referrals work, but cold strategic accounts move slowly.
  • Sales reaches operational contacts but struggles to reach the economic buyer.
  • The company is compared as a vendor when it should be part of a strategic conversation.
  • The CEO still carries too much of the trust-building burden personally.
You may not have a lead problem first. You may have a trust-before-meeting gap.

When buyers cannot verify enough, large deals start from the wrong position.

These are commercial risks, not content metrics.

01

Sales stays too low

The conversation remains with people who understand the offer but cannot approve the deal.

02

The company looks like a vendor

Buyers compare capability and price instead of considering the company as a strategic partner.

03

The meeting starts from doubt

Time that should advance the decision is used to establish basic credibility and context.

The buyer’s complete pre-meeting view.

HMG reviews the public and company-provided evidence through the three conditions required to support a large deal.

01

Thought leadership

Can a serious buyer understand how the CEO and executive team think, what they stand for and why their judgement should be trusted?

02

A reason to meet

Is there a credible, commercially relevant reason for the potential buyer to get into the same room as the CEO?

03

Relationship intelligence

Can the commercial team capture and use what is learned from senior relationships to move the opportunity forward?

Across all three, HMG reviews company proof, narrative clarity, third-party signals, senior relationship paths and commercial readiness.

A €2,500 Audit for companies where one serious deal matters.

The Audit is for European B2B companies pursuing larger strategic accounts, partnerships or buyer categories where a single opportunity can be worth approximately €250,000 or more.

EvidencePublic and company-provided material

No CEO interview is required before the presentation.

DeliveryFive days

Diagnosis, report and prioritised roadmap.

PresentationCEO joins the live presentation

The CFO and CMO are welcome to join.

Investment€2,500 excluding VAT

The report and roadmap stand alone.

An in-depth report, prioritised roadmap and private presentation.

  • Buyer-view analysis of the CEO, executive team and company
  • Thought-leadership and leadership-judgement diagnosis
  • Company proof and narrative-clarity review
  • Senior-buyer trust-gap map
  • Assessment of the reason for senior interaction
  • Relationship-intelligence and commercial hand-off assessment
  • Recommendations, sequence and owners
  • The right next route
Roadmap outputIllustrative
P1

Thought leadership

Make CEO and executive judgement inspectable.

P2

Company evidence

Consolidate proof around the strategic choice.

P3

Reason to meet

Create a credible reason for senior interaction.

P4

Relationship intelligence

Route context into qualification and follow-up.

Where buyers must make assumptions and what needs to change first.

The result is not a vanity score. It identifies where trust is strong, where confidence breaks down and which change deserves priority.

Illustrative buyer-view finding

Observed

The company presents strong capability evidence, but little of the CEO’s strategic judgement is inspectable.

Buyer inference

Leadership credibility must be established in the meeting or through a trusted referrer.

Trust gap

Company substance and leadership judgement are not connected in one verifiable record.

First priority

Publish one evidence-backed CEO point of view tied to the consequential buyer decision.

Confidential, bounded and decision-oriented.

  1. Audit fit call
  2. Audit commissioned
  3. Evidence reviewed
  4. Findings and roadmap prepared
  5. Private presentation

The fit call is a qualification step, not a free version of the Audit.

Complete four-stage Commercial Authority Audit process
The complete Audit process, from commission through measurement and diagnosis to presentation.

The roadmap decides what happens next.

HMG may recommend an internal fix, a focused Sprint or the full Programme. It may also show that HMG is not the next step.

01

Internal action

The company can close the priority gap with its own team. The Audit and roadmap stand alone.

02

Authority Sprint

One diagnosed thought-leadership, proof, relationship or Commercial Integration constraint needs a bounded build.

03

Full Programme

All three conditions are weak enough to justify the complete HMG system.

Who the Audit is for.

The commercial problem must be real and the company must be able to act on the findings.

Likely fit

  • Established European B2B company
  • Complex or high-value offer
  • A named deal or account category worth approximately €250,000 or more
  • CEO and executive credibility affect buyer confidence
  • The CEO will attend the private presentation
  • A commercial owner can act on the roadmap

Not the right starting point

  • Generic visibility, followers or personal branding
  • Guaranteed leads, introductions or meetings
  • An offer that is not commercially ready
  • No named buyer, account or partner category
  • No CEO attendance at the presentation
  • No commercial owner to act on the findings

Before you book.

Is the fit call a free diagnosis?

No. The 30-minute fit call establishes whether the paid Audit is justified.

Does the CEO need to be interviewed?

No CEO interview is required before the presentation. The CEO attends the private presentation; the CFO and CMO are welcome to join.

Does the Audit guarantee a commercial result?

No. HMG diagnoses the evidence, relationship and commercial conditions around the opportunity. The client owns qualification, proposals, pricing, follow-up and conversion.

Can we use the roadmap without HMG?

Yes. The report and roadmap stand alone.

Is the work confidential?

Yes. Findings are not published without explicit written permission.

If one serious deal matters, find out what larger buyers see before they meet you.

Bring one consequential commercial situation. We will establish whether the paid Audit is the right next step.

Book an Audit fit call