Who it's for

Account research for observability sales

Account research for observability sales should tell you which accounts to call this week, who to talk to and why now, with a source you can check for every point. Repclose does that for sellers of monitoring, logging, tracing, error tracking or incident tools: upload your accounts, and it ranks them and writes a plan for each.

Start with 5 free plans See a sample brief

What Repclose checks at observability accounts

Repclose reads public sources for every account when you run it. These matter most in observability deals:

  • Status page incidents. A run of recent incidents is a dated reason to talk about reliability.
  • Monitoring tools in the website's code. Scripts for tools such as Datadog, New Relic, Sentry or Grafana show what is installed today, so you know whether you are replacing, adding or starting fresh.
  • Job posts. A first SRE or platform hire, or on-call in a job description, shows who owns reliability and that the team is growing.
  • Engineering blog. Postmortems and migration write-ups name the problem in the team's own words.

It also reads the company's own pages and recent news. Each finding links to its source, with the publication date where one exists, and anything inferred is marked as a guess.

Who to talk to

In observability deals the people who matter are often SRE and platform engineering leads, the engineers on call, and whoever approves tooling spend. Repclose lists about 10 relevant people at each top account, checks the top 5 still hold their roles, and writes a short "why they care" note for each.

What you get for each account

  • Whether the account fits who you sell to, and how strongly.
  • Why now: the dated changes behind the timing.
  • The people to call and what matters to each.
  • Next steps and questions to ask, with the sources behind every point.

Upload up to 1,000 accounts in one run. Watched accounts are rechecked every week, so the plan shows what changed.

Doing it by hand

If you'd rather research accounts yourself, start with which buying signals hold up and how to find a company's tools.