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Sales & leadership coaching for founders and their teams

See what’s really slowing your sales down.

Simple Lens helps B2B founders and sales teams uncover the blind spots behind stalled deals, improve their sales conversations, and build repeatable systems for growth.

Start salesAccelerate salesScale sales
Walter Roth, founder of Simple Lens
Walter RothFounder, Simple Lens
$9.8Mraised as a founder
Oracletrained seller
HF0sales coach in residence
3 Whyshis methodology
ExpertiseFounder-led salesScaling salesFundraisingProduct-market fitLeadership

Trusted by ambitious B2B teams and high-growth companies.

Luma HealthHiveMQLeapsomeHF0GenerationshipAlchemistX

Your pipeline may not be the problem.

Find what’s holding progress back.

On the surface: what you notice

Deals stall

after a promising first meeting

Cycles stretch

each quarter takes longer to close

The founder closes everything

sales still runs through one person

One rep wins, others don’t

results depend on who owns the deal
Underneath: where is the constraint?
The messageThe strategyThe productA skillA conversation pressure makes hard to have

We work at the level where it lives.

Look at what helps deals move, where they stall, and whether customers get the value they expected.

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Three lenses.
Your advantage.

Your way of seeing is your advantage. Apply all three lenses to the deal or decision in front of you.

Right product. Right customer. Right move. Right time.

YOUR LENS Expertise Experience · Intuition THE SALES LENS Why buy? Why you? Why now? THE LEADERSHIP LENS Open Clear Decisive Your advantage

Diagnose. Coach. Systemize.

Find it. Fix it on live deals. Make it stick.

01

Diagnose

Identify the blind spots across your market, messaging, sales process and team.

The next issue to work on
02

Coach

Work directly through real sales situations and opportunities to improve execution.

A specific action
03

Systemize

Turn successful behaviors into repeatable processes that the wider team can use.

Questions, tools and judgment your team can use

See → Do → Teach

What you see becomes how your company acts. We use what happens next to update your approach and the tools your team uses.

See what matters.

We return to your pipeline, key deals, and customer outcomes to decide where to focus. Together, we separate what you know from what is still missing.

Why buy?Why from you?Why now?

Act with clarity under pressure.

That may mean practicing a difficult question, testing an assumption, or changing a playbook. You leave with a specific action.

  • Practice a difficult question
  • Test an assumption
  • Change a playbook

Turn it into an advantage your team can use.

What you see instinctively and learn from real deals becomes questions, tools, and judgment your team can use.

  • YouPut words to what you see.
  • Your teamTheir strengths. Their own words.
  • Your buyersSee the value. Lead the decision.

In their words.

From founder sales to team growth and fundraising.

Luma Health

Series B · preparing for Series C
“It’s now part of our DNA and approach. It’s not just limited to go-to-market. It’s benefiting other functions.” Adnan Iqbal · CEO, Luma Health

What the team built

Sales templates and a shared way to understand buyers.

Leadership

Adnan could delegate pipeline reviews.

Customer success

Knew when to bring sales back into an expansion conversation.

Within one quarter
2×average deal size
Before
After
50%shorter sales cycle
Before
After

HiveMQ

Before and after Series A

Sales support that grew with the company.

Before Series AWalter helped keep sales moving while the CEO focused on fundraising.
After the roundThe work expanded to support both the EMEA and US VPs of Sales.
“Walter has developed his own methodology based on the 3 Whys, which helps sales become much more efficient at closing bigger deals in less time.” Jens Steinborn · then VP of EMEA, HiveMQ

HF0

Sales coaching for developer-founders
Before6 figures
Demo day7 figures

A six-figure deal became seven figures ahead of demo day. One developer-founder’s result, reported by Dave.

“They go talk to him, and they come back… loving doing sales. Before that, they hated doing sales.” Dave · Founder, HF0 · General Partner, Backend Capital
“The 3Ws really helped me narrow my focus on what ultimately matters most.”
Jenny Podewils · Co-founder, Leapsome
“I used his methodology myself to build the AlchemistX business and then to raise the Generationship fund.”
Rachel Chalmers · Co-founder, Generationship · Former managing director, AlchemistX

Not another sales training.

We start from your pipeline and leave a system behind.

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Typical sales trainingSimple Lens
Where it happensWorkshops and role-playYour live deals
What it targetsMore activityThe underlying cause
What’s left afterA binder nobody opensTools the team uses weekly
Who owns the know-howThe trainer, or one star repYour whole team
Built forEnterprise playbooksFounders and their teams
Walter Roth

Work with Walter Roth.

A clearer move now. Stronger judgment over time.

Walter is a founder who raised $9.8 million for his company, an Oracle-trained seller, and sales coach in residence at HF0. He holds a degree in industrial engineering.

Find the blind spots holding your sales back.

Get a clearer view of what is happening in your sales process, where opportunities are being lost, and what to address next.

  1. 01
    Tell Walter what’s on your mindA deal, decision, or conversation you’d like help with.
  2. 02
    Find where the constraint livesThe message, the strategy, the product, a skill, or a conversation that pressure makes hard to have.
  3. 03
    Leave with a specific actionWe use what happens next to update your approach and the tools your team uses.
Step 1 of 2 · About you~2 min

Who are we talking to?

Tell Walter about a deal, decision, or conversation you’d like help with.

Company size

Where does it hurt?

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