Know exactly where your partner ecosystem is losing revenue.

AllianceGrade™ is a weighted, 6-pillar assessment that scores the health of your partner program on a 0–100 scale — and tells you precisely what to fix first.

6Weighted Pillars
30Evidence-Based Criteria
3 WeeksDiscovery to Delivery
Sample AllianceGrade Score 72
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The Problem

Most partner programs were built reactively.

A portal here, an agreement template there, a certification course nobody finishes. Leadership knows something isn't working, but nobody can point to exactly what — or prove that fixing it will move revenue.

AllianceGrade replaces that guesswork with a number, a diagnosis, and a plan — built on 15 years of scaling ISV and channel programs at Epicor, Insight Software, and TCP Software.

The Methodology

Six pillars. Thirty criteria. One score.

Every pillar is scored against specific, evidence-based criteria — not gut feel — and weighted by how much it actually drives partner-sourced revenue.

PILLAR 01

Strategic Foundation & Executive Alignment

Is there a real strategy and an engaged executive sponsor behind the program?

Weight: 15%
PILLAR 02

Partner Recruitment & Segmentation

Are the right partners being targeted, tiered, and brought in — deliberately?

Weight: 15%
PILLAR 03

Enablement & Activation

Can partners actually sell and deliver independently once recruited?

Weight: 20%
PILLAR 04

Co-Sell & Pipeline Engine

Is pipeline being jointly generated, registered, and closed — repeatably?

Weight: 20%
PILLAR 05

Program Infrastructure & Economics

Are the contracts, economics, and systems built to scale, not one-off?

Weight: 15%
PILLAR 06

Partner Experience & Retention

Do partners stay, grow, and actively want to keep working the relationship?

Weight: 15%
Process & Timeline

From first call to a finished roadmap in three weeks.

A structured, fast, independent look at your partner program — with a concrete corrective-action plan at the end, not just a diagnosis.

1

Discovery

Stakeholder interviews and a review of existing agreements, pricing, and CRM/deal-registration data.

2

Scoring

All 30 criteria assessed and validated against evidence gathered during discovery.

3

Delivery

A findings readout with your leadership team: the score, the gaps, and a prioritized roadmap.

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About AllianceGrade

Built by someone who's run the program, not just studied it.

I'm Randall Smith. For 15 years I've led strategic alliances and channel partnerships at Epicor, Insight Software, TCP Software, and Biznet Software — driving 25–50% year-over-year revenue growth by building ISV programs, co-sell motions, and partner enablement systems from the ground up. AllianceGrade turns that operating experience into a structured diagnostic any partner organization can use.

15+ Years in Alliances Enterprise SaaS & ERP Dallas-Fort Worth, TX

Let's talk about what your partner ecosystem could look like in 90 days.

Book a short scoping call — no pitch, just a conversation about where your program stands today.