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Sales Enablement
Playbook

Pitch decks, qualification frameworks, objection handling, discovery templates, commission structure, and battle cards — everything to close CloudLink deals.

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Plans & Pricing

What You're Selling

Lead with Emergency Rescue for speed-to-close. Push Retainer for LTV.

Free
$0
Platform evaluation
Dashboard access
Community support
Best for: Engineers evaluating before pitching to management
Emergency Rescue
$3,500/incident
One-time P0 rescue
No monthly commitment
15-min CRITICAL response
Best for: Inbound leads with active incident or recent downtime
RECOMMENDED SELL
DevOps Retainer
$3,500/mo
Unlimited emergency rescues
24/7 monitoring + FinOps
AI diagnostics + runbooks
Best for: Series A+ companies with active production workloads
Partner Benefits

Why Agencies Choose CloudLink

Revenue Share
Earn 10–20% recurring revenue per referred client. Paid monthly.
White-Label Ready
Rebrand our dashboard under your brand with custom domains + logos.
Partner Dashboard
Track referrals, commissions, and client health in your dedicated portal.
Sales Enablement
Access pitch decks, email templates, pricing 1-pagers, case studies.
Co-Branded Pages
Get cloudlink.us/partners/your-agency landing page to send leads.
Dedicated Support
Priority Slack channel with our engineering team. Your clients = our clients.
Revenue Calculator

Calculate Your Earnings

Drag to estimate your commission income at different referral volumes.

Revenue Share Calculator
Clients You Refer5
Avg Retainer Value$3,500/mo
Commission Rate10%
$1,750
Monthly Income
$21,000
Annual Income
Leaderboard

Top Partners This Quarter

Our highest-performing agency partners.

#AgencyReferralsRevenue
1PixelForge Design24$86,400
2NovaSpark Agency18$64,800
3CodeCraft Studios12$43,200
4Luminary Digital9$32,400
5TechBridge Co.7$25,200
Deal Qualification

BANT Framework

3+ strong answers = qualified. Ask these on every discovery call.

1
Do you have DevOps/SRE budget or can you use engineering discretionary spend?
2
Has a P0 incident cost you more than $3,500 in engineer hours this year?
3
Are you paying for contractors, MSPs, or redundant headcount?
Objection Handling

Battle Cards

Click any objection to see the proven response.

Discovery Template

30-Min Call Script

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DISCOVERY CALL TEMPLATE (30 min)

[Min 0–5] Introduction
— "Tell me about your team and current infrastructure setup."
— Goal: understand stack (K8s? AWS/GCP? Terraform?), team size, SRE vs shared on-call.

[Min 5–15] Pain Exploration
— "Walk me through your last production incident. How long to resolve? Who was involved?"
— "How many P0s in the last quarter?"
— "What does an hour of downtime cost your business?"

[Min 15–20] Current Process
— "Who's on-call today? Shared or dedicated?"
— "What monitoring stack are you using? (Datadog, PagerDuty, etc.)"
— "Have you tried MSP or contractors before? What happened?"

[Min 20–25] Qualification
— "Do you have budget allocated for DevOps support/tooling?"
— "Who else needs to be in this decision?"
— "Is there a specific timeline — active incident, enterprise deal, board pressure?"

[Min 25–30] Next Step
• Active incident → "We can have a team on this today. Let me send the Emergency Rescue SOW."
• Planning ahead → propose retainer demo + SLA preview
• Not ready → schedule 2-week follow-up, send Emergency Rescue 1-pager
Commission Structure

What You Earn

All commissions paid within 30 days of client payment cleared.

EventPayoutRateTimingNotes
New Emergency Rescue closed$35010%On paymentOne-time per incident
New Retainer MRR signed$350/mo10% MRRRecurring12-month window
Annual Retainer (pre-paid)$4,20010%On payment+2% bonus if >$50K ARR deal
Upgrade Free → Emergency$1755%On paymentSelf-serve conversions
Upgrade Emergency → Retainer$350/mo10% MRRRecurring12 months from conversion
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Cloud Operations Focus
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Scope Before Delivery
Written
Technical Next Steps
Start with a scoped technical conversation. We document the current state, constraints, and next step before recommending work.
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