Every hire is revenue with a start date.
Beacon ties every hire to the revenue it carries and the cash it costs — one journey from the row in the plan to the month it pays back.
Three plans for the same hire. None of them agree.
From a row in the sealed plan to revenue on the board.
One new account executive, signed this month. Beacon prices the whole journey before the offer goes out — and tracks it after, on your real dates.
One new AE, priced in: $265k of revenue a quarter once fully ramped.
On the plan from day one — at 0% of quota, not a hopeful 100%.
Two months into a four-month ramp: worth 40% of a full rep on every chart.
Ramp complete — carrying full quota, $265k a quarter.
The deals land on the forecast — new revenue, in the month Beacon said.
Add one person. Watch every chart already know.
The shaded wedge is the new hire’s revenue — how much, and which month it lands. The dashed line is the plan, up to the target.
Sales always had a number. Now every team does.
Quota made sales capacity easy to count — it’s the standard example for a reason. The same journey runs for the teams that never had a number.
Sales
quota / repThe familiar one. Ramp, selling time and coverage — priced, not assumed.
Customer Success
book / CSMRenewals and expansion per book. Short a CSM, and churn shows up two quarters later.
Support
tickets / agentSustainable pace, not peak pace. An overloaded queue caps growth quietly.
Onboarding & services
go-lives / monthEvery deal waits for a go-live. Slow onboarding is revenue standing in line.
Marketing
pipeline / quarterQualified pipeline is capacity too — the reps you hire eat what marketing feeds them.
Engineering & product
delivery paceRoadmap promises are sold ahead. Delivery capacity decides when they come true.
Same units, same ramp math, same green light — person or Beacon Agent, on any team.
The whole company, in three numbers.
Run that math across every role and every team, and the journey reads at a glance — any morning, off the one sealed forecast.
Capacity vs plan
Today, with sales and customer success short. The hires already in the plan take it back over 100%.
Revenue per head
What each fully-ramped head carries — the first place to look before hiring more.
Runway after the hire
22.0 today. Pulling the eighth AE to October costs $150k of runway — and the 12-month floor holds.
Illustrative · the same numbers on every surface — board, forecast, runway.
No hire ahead of the cash. No plan ahead of the capacity.
The same green light that seals a plan runs for the hire itself — priced, ramped and funded before the offer goes out. Or it waits, and you know why.
Person or agent — the same check prices both. A person makes the call.
Know what a hire is worth before you make it.
Connect billing and your HR tool — every hire priced in the revenue it carries, by lunchtime. Free at any size.
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