Your pipeline velocity, with and without competitive drag
Enter your numbers. The result updates live.
Benchmark assumptions
Deal Intelligence benchmarks. Adjust to your numbers.
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in annual pipeline velocity is leaking to competitors you cannot see. That is the velocity Deal Intelligence gives back.
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more deals won per cycle by defending contested deals
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days shaved off every contested deal
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of open pipeline is contested right now
Based on your inputs and Deal Intelligence benchmarks. The real number depends on which competitors are actually in your deals.
See the competitors already in your deals
What is pipeline velocity?
Pipeline velocity is how fast revenue moves through your pipeline. It is the product of four inputs: the number of qualified opportunities, your win rate, your average deal value, and the length of your sales cycle. It is expressed as revenue per unit of time.
opportunities × win rate × avg deal value
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sales cycle length
Raise any of the first three, or shorten the last, and revenue moves faster.
How this pipeline velocity calculator works
Most pipeline velocity calculators stop at the four inputs. This one adds the factor that acts on all of them from outside your process: a competitor already working your open deals. It splits your pipeline into contested and clean deals, applies a lower win rate and a longer cycle to the contested share, and shows the gap. That gap is competitive drag, the pipeline velocity you lose to competitors you cannot see. The benchmark assumptions are editable, so you can replace them with your own contested win rate and cycle numbers.
How Deal Intelligence increases your pipeline velocity
You cannot defend a deal you cannot see. Deal Intelligence surfaces a verified event, a named buyer at your account being worked by a named competitor, timestamped and delivered the next day. That single input moves three of the four levers at once. Win rate goes up, because reps defend contested deals early instead of at the loss review. Sales cycle comes down, because a competitor is caught before the deal stalls in bake offs and no decisions. Opportunities go up, because accounts in verified competitive evaluation are in market now, and closed lost deals revive the moment a competitor works them again. That is how we increase pipeline velocity: not more activity, a better input, delivered into Clay, Claude, your CRM, and Slack. See the plays in reviving a closed lost deal and finding accounts evaluating your competitors.