Commercial Organization
The Commercial Organization owns how FlowFuse turns product capability into realized customer value — from the first commercial conversation through adoption, expansion, and long-term success. It is more than a revenue function: it is a unified commercial team responsible for building customer relationships, accelerating adoption, and scaling the business through trusted partnerships.
This page is the entry point to the section. It covers what we do, how we are organized, and where to find the detail for each function.
What we do
Our scope spans five functions, each accountable for a phase of the customer lifecycle:
- Sales — Identify, qualify, and convert opportunities into customers; own the commercial process through close and expansion.
- Solution Engineering — Serve as technical advisors across the lifecycle: discovery, tailored demos, proof-of-value evaluations, onboarding, and architecture guidance.
- Customer Success — Own onboarding, adoption, renewals, and expansion; measured by customer outcomes, not just retention.
- Professional Services — Deliver scoped, high-impact engagements that accelerate implementation and time-to-value.
- Sales Partnerships — Extend FlowFuse's reach through resellers, referrers, and system integrators.
Together these teams form a single commercial engine aligned around one goal: helping customers succeed while scaling FlowFuse's business responsibly and sustainably.
Team
| Role | Contributors |
|---|---|
| VP of Sales | Michael Davis @MichaelBDavis |
| AE | Dan Parry @dgparry32 |
| AE | Kasheef Mohammed @Kasheef |
| CSM | Esmé Wieringa @Esmewieringa |
Organizational structure
The Commercial Organization is led by the VP of Sales, who oversees the five functions. Each function has distinct responsibilities, but we operate as a single, collaborative department aligned around customer value and commercial growth, with strong cross-functional collaboration across Product, Marketing, and Engineering.
Each function is accountable for a specific phase of the customer journey:
| Function | Primary focus |
|---|---|
| Sales | New business, opportunity qualification, demos, proposals, closing new and expansion ARR |
| Solution Engineering | Technical discovery, demos, proofs of value, onboarding, architecture and expansion advisory |
| Customer Success | Onboarding, adoption, renewals, advocacy, and driving account health and growth |
| Sales Partnerships | Reseller, referrer, and system-integrator motions; partner enablement |
| Professional Services | Scoped implementation, integration, and enablement services |
Regional coverage
We manage commercial activity across three regions — Americas; EMEA; and Oceania
- East, South, and Southeast Asia — each supported by AEs, CSMs, and SEs. See Sales Regions for territory assignments and multi-region deal rules.
How we work
- Commercial Team Operating Principles — individual conduct standards
- Working Norms — meeting cadence and escalation routing
- Customer Journey Alignment — lifecycle stages and ownership
- Systems & Tools — the commercial tech stack
- Onboarding & Development — ramping and growing the team
- Processes — the process and methodology index
- Sales Meetings — Discovery, Demo, PoC
- Engagements & Pricing
- Forecast Review
- Sales Deck and Pricing Decks
- HubSpot — CRM lifecycle stages and conventions
- Legal and Sales Compensation Plan
- Deal Board
- Sales playbook (internal)
- SPICED Sales Framework
- Ideal Customer Profile
- Customer Licenses (internal)
The full commercial tech stack — CRM, enrichment, communication, and demo environments — is documented on the Systems & Tools page.
Contact us
Questions can be asked in #dept-sales.