Over the years, we have organically created three different account manager seats that seem to have overlapping roles, causing customer confusion. How do we use the Accountability Chart to audit these seats and consolidate them to show buyers a clean, unified structure?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

Organic growth often leads to accidental structural complexity. As you prepare for an exit, buyers want to see a clean, repeatable, and scalable operational engine. Overlapping roles and customer confusion will devalue your business. To clean this up, you must decouple your people from your seats and redesign your Accountability Chart from scratch. Forget about who currently does what. Start with a blank canvas and ask what the business actually needs to deliver an exceptional customer experience and drive retention. Typically, you only need one or two clearly defined customer-facing seats, such as an Account Manager for relationship growth and a Customer Success Representative for daily support. Define exactly five roles for each seat, ensuring there is zero overlap. Once this clean structure is approved by your Integrator, evaluate your current team members against these new seats using the GWC™ tool. You may find that some of your people are perfect for the relationship-building seat, while others are better suited for technical support. Transition them into their new, clearly defined seats and update your documented processes to match the new structure. This eliminates customer confusion, simplifies your operations, and shows prospective buyers a highly professional, ready-to-scale business.