Design Partner Cohort

Reps leave.
The context stays.

Known helps growing revenue teams preserve customer context across reps, handoffs, and accounts.

When someone leaves, changes roles, or hands off an account, the next owner should not have to rebuild the relationship from old emails, call recordings, CRM notes, and Slack threads. Known turns that scattered history into a living account record your team can trust.

Private cohort for SMB and mid-market teams. 20-minute fit call.

NorthStar Systems · Account Context
Live
Mar 14 · Email
CFO confirmed Q2 budget. Promised pricing lock through renewal.
Apr 02 · Call
VP Eng flagged integration concern. Open thread, needs follow-up.
Apr 18 · CRM
Champion changed roles. New decision-maker: Director of Ops.
Rep Transition · S. Chen → M. Reyes · Context preserved
May 06 · Brief
Reyes inherited the account fully briefed. No re-introduction needed.
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The Problem

Your customers remember what they told you. Your company often has to go find it.

Customer context gets scattered across emails, calls, Slack threads, support tickets, and CRM notes. That works until something changes:

Trigger 01

A rep leaves or territories shift.

Trigger 02

A closed-won deal moves from Sales to Customer Success.

Trigger 03

A customer escalates or a key renewal gets close.

Impact
The customer repeats themselves.
Impact
Follow-up gets missed.
Impact
Trust takes a hit.
CRM Positioning

Your CRM tracks the account milestones. Known remembers the relationship context.

We aren't competing with your CRM. We are completing it.

What We're Building

Shared account memory for growing revenue teams.

Known connects to the tools your team already uses and creates a living account record around every customer.

Feature 01

Automated Capture

Gathers context from emails, call recordings, meeting notes, Slack threads, CRM updates, support tickets, and rep debriefs without relying on perfect manual entry.

Feature 02

Handoffs With History

Organizes scattered interactions into a trusted relationship timeline so new owners understand what happened, what matters, and what needs attention.

Feature 03

Risk Alerts

Flags the things your team should not miss, like an account going quiet, an unaddressed commitment, negative sentiment, a new decision-maker, or an incomplete handoff.

Who We're Looking For

We are looking for a small group of SMB and mid-market revenue teams as foundational design partners.

This is a match if your team has:

Signal 01

$25k+ Account Values

You manage high-touch accounts where relationship context carries real revenue weight.

Signal 02

Dedicated Account Ownership

Reps or CSMs manage named customer books, not purely high-volume transactional sales.

Signal 03

Active Transitions

Growth, territory changes, Sales-to-CS handoffs, or rep movement create account context risk.

Signal 04

Context Blindness

Managers spend too much time reconstructing account reality before pipeline reviews, renewals, escalations, or customer calls.

You do not need pristine data or a perfect workflow.

If your CRM hygiene is imperfect and important handoffs happen in messy Slack threads, you are exactly who we are building this for.

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Design Partners

What Design Partners Get

  • Direct input into the product roadmap
  • Hands-on collaboration with the founding team
  • White-glove setup around your current workflow
  • Early access to living account records and risk alerts
  • Locked-in launch pricing
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We are selecting a small number of teams for hands-on product input and early access.

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Apply for Design Partner Access

Private cohort for SMB and mid-market revenue teams. 20-minute fit conversation.

No purchase required. We're looking for teams with real account continuity pain.

Built by Operators

Built by Operators Who Have Lived the Problem

Known is being built by operators with firsthand experience across sales, product, GTM, and enterprise software.

Patrick Phillips is an 18+ year sales and product leader who has built across SMB, mid-market, and enterprise workflows at CareerBuilder, Upwork, Hootsuite, and EverTesting AI.

We've seen how easily customer context gets trapped in tools, handoffs, and employee memory. Known exists to make that context belong to the company.

Track Record
18+ years across sales & productCareerBuilderUpworkHootsuiteSMB → Enterprise workflows
Help Shape Known

Help build the customer memory layer for growing revenue teams.

We are selecting a small number of SMB and mid-market revenue teams as foundational design partners. If rep transitions, customer handoffs, missing context, or account risk are real problems for your team, we'd like to compare notes.

Apply for Design Partner Access →

Private cohort · 20-minute fit conversation