Revenue Academy · Sales · S1

What we actually sell

If you cannot say what a thing does and which records it holds, you are selling a category rather than a product — and the buyer can tell. One sentence each, and the entities behind them.

Read time ~11 min Includes 6 questions and a 3-line script For AEs, solution consultants, partners

01 The shape of it

Six things, in buyer language

The order matters: the hub connects, resolution makes the records mean something, governance makes them defensible, and only then does anything agentic work.

HUB

Data Hub

Connects SAP, cloud apps, legacy systems and files into one governed layer without moving or replacing a source. 187+ connectors, no-code, on-prem and cloud.

Holds: sources, pipelines, schemas
360

Enterprise 360 and entity resolution

Dedups and matches records across systems and survives the best values into a golden record — global parent and local site — then puts a live view on top.

Holds: Customer, Supplier, Legal entity, Item, Employee
GOV

Data Governance

Glossary, quality rules, lineage and policy in one place, so a number can be traced to source and an AI answer can be signed off rather than trusted.

Holds: terms, rules, lineage graph, policies, stewards
DPF

Data Product Factory

Packages data like a product — owned, documented, governed — and ships it as a dashboard, an API or a feed from sources that already exist.

Holds: data products, contracts, consumers
FAB

Data Fabric

Activates data where it already lives rather than demanding a multi-year migration onto one cloud. Vendor-neutral, no-code, business-led.

Holds: the estate as it is, virtualised
AI

Knowledge Graph, Copilot and Agent Factory

The graph gives an agent the relationships between entities; the copilot answers from governed data; the factory builds and runs the agents. Nothing here works on ungoverned inputs.

Holds: entities, relationships, agents, runs

02 Questions

Six things to answer without opening a slide

If any of these needs a deck, it needs practice instead.

  • What does the hub do that an ELT tool does not, in one sentence?
  • Which entities do we resolve, and what does "survivorship" mean to a business audience?
  • What has to be true before an agent can answer a question the business will act on?
  • Where does the customer's existing warehouse sit in our architecture — replaced, fed, or left alone?
  • What does a deployment actually deliver in the first 60 days?
  • Which of the four layers did each published study use, and why does that matter to this buyer?

03 Sequence

How a deployment sequences

Six stages. The reason to know them is that buyers ask what happens after signature, and a vague answer there costs more deals than a feature gap.

0101Scope one domain, not the estate. A domain with a named owner and a number they defend.
0202Connect the sources no-code — the systems that hold the records, not a copy of them.
0303Resolve entities into golden records, with survivorship rules the business agreed.
0404Govern them: glossary, lineage, quality and policy on the same records.
0505Prove the metrics against numbers the business already trusts. This is the stage that wins the next phase.
0606Activate and hand over, so their own team runs the domain after it.

04 Reference

The four layers, and what each one holds

Eight published deployments, the same four layers in different combinations. Buyers recognise their own problem in the middle column faster than in a product name.

LayerWhat it doesThe records it holds
Enterprise 360Resolves entities across systems into governed golden records with a live view on topCustomer, Supplier, Legal entity, Item, Employee
Knowledge GraphHolds the relationships between those entities so questions can traverse them rather than join them by handEntities, relationships, attributes, provenance
AI CopilotAnswers business questions from governed data, with the lineage to show where the answer came fromQuestions, governed metrics, answer provenance
Agent FactoryBuilds and runs agents against those governed records, with policy applied at the point of actionAgents, tools, runs, approvals

05 Language

Say this, not that

The right-hand column is what gets said when the seller is describing a category instead of a product.

Asked what SCIKIQ is
Say this

It connects the systems that hold your records, resolves them into one governed version, and makes every number traceable back to source.

Not that

It is an end-to-end AI-powered data management platform.

Asked about the warehouse they already own
Say this

It stays. The hub connects the sources and governs the definitions; the warehouse keeps doing what it is good at.

Not that

You would migrate off it eventually.

Asked how long it takes
Say this

A live 360 on one domain in about 60 days, which is deliberately one domain rather than the estate.

Not that

It depends entirely on scope.

06 Questions

Frequently asked

Do we replace the customer's existing stack?

Almost never, and saying otherwise loses technical credibility in the first meeting. The hub connects sources without moving or replacing them; the warehouse, the BI tool and the ERP all stay where they are.

What is the honest difference from an integration tool?

An integration tool moves data and stops. The hub governs what the data means once it arrives — resolution, glossary, lineage and policy on the same records — which is the part that decides whether an AI answer can be signed off.

See what the buyer sees

Every claim in this module traces back to a page the customer can read for themselves.

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