Managed & Advisory

CRM expertise on retainer -- we stay long after go-live

Monthly retainers, fractional CRM leadership, team training, and advisory -- all SLA-backed. We become the CRM expertise your team can call on without hiring a full-time head.

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Overview

Why most Managed & Advisory projects fail

Most CRM projects end at go-live. Ours do not. We offer ongoing managed support, fractional CRM leadership, and team training to ensure your CRM continues to perform, evolve, and deliver ROI months and years after implementation. One retainer covers support, enhancements, reporting, and strategic advisory.

30-day

SLA response commitment

Less

Internal CRM admin load

Retain

Ongoing support model

12mo+

Engagement options

Executive decision guide

Questions leaders ask before approving a Managed & Advisory project

Built for CEOs, CROs, COOs, RevOps leaders, CRM directors and marketing operations heads who need to connect technology work to revenue visibility, operational control and adoption.

Why is this a leadership problem, not just a tool problem?

CRM, data and automation issues affect forecasting, customer visibility, sales productivity, marketing ROI and executive confidence. That makes them business operating problems, not only technical tasks.

  • Leadership cannot trust reports
  • Teams create manual workarounds
  • Revenue leakage is hidden inside process and data gaps

What risks should executives look for?

The biggest risks are poor data ownership, unclear process design, weak adoption, disconnected systems and reporting that looks polished but cannot be trusted.

  • Your CRM is live but nobody is maintaining it
  • You need CRM leadership but cannot justify a full-time hire
  • Your team was trained at go-live but that was 18 months ago

When should leadership intervene?

Leadership should intervene when CRM work keeps expanding without a clear operating model, business owner, roadmap or measurable adoption plan.

  • The project has no single process owner
  • Scope is growing but business value is unclear
  • Users are avoiding the system or duplicating work

What should the first 30 days produce?

The first 30 days should produce a clear current-state view, a prioritised issue map and an implementation roadmap tied to commercial outcomes.

  • Audit current systems, reports and workflows
  • Map process, data and ownership gaps
  • Prioritise fixes by revenue impact and delivery effort

How should success be judged?

Success should be judged by cleaner decision-making, better adoption, trusted reporting, reduced manual work and a CRM/data model the business can scale.

  • Fewer spreadsheet-based decisions
  • Cleaner handoffs between teams
  • Reports that leadership uses without manual cleanup

What does Celumai need before recommending a plan?

Celumai needs the business goal, current systems, known pain points, stakeholder ownership and decision timeline.

  • Current CRM, data and automation stack
  • Leadership goals and pain points
  • Timeline, budget stage and internal owners

Use these answers to decide whether this page matches your current CRM problem. If it does, ask Celumai for a focused audit and implementation plan.

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Problems we fix
in this practice

Your CRM is live but nobody is maintaining it
01 — Your CRM is live but nobody is maintaining it

Your CRM is live but nobody is maintaining it

Fields accumulate, workflows break, data degrades. Without an active admin and improvement programme, every CRM slowly becomes a liability.

You need CRM leadership but cannot justify a full-time hire
02 — You need CRM leadership but cannot justify a full-time hire

You need CRM leadership but cannot justify a full-time hire

A full-time CRM Director costs $120,000+ per year. Our fractional model gives you senior CRM leadership for a fraction of that -- with the full depth of our team behind it.

Your team was trained at go-live but that was 18 months ago
03 — Your team was trained at go-live but that was 18 months ago

Your team was trained at go-live but that was 18 months ago

Staff turns over. New features get added. Processes change. Regular training keeps your team using the CRM correctly and getting the most from new capabilities.

Our process

How we deliver Managed & Advisory

Every project follows this process. You have full visibility at every step -- weekly demos, documented decisions, and no surprises at go-live.

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01

Onboarding & handover

We spend the first 2 weeks documenting your CRM setup, understanding your team, and establishing the support and communication processes.

02

Baseline assessment

We run a health check on your CRM and produce a prioritised list of quick wins and strategic improvements for the first 90 days.

03

Monthly support cycle

Each month: support requests addressed within SLA, one enhancement sprint, one reporting package, and a monthly review call.

04

Quarterly business review

Every 90 days we review performance against goals, present a CRM health scorecard, and plan the next quarter's priorities.

05

Annual strategic review

Once a year we reassess the overall architecture, platform roadmap, and team capability -- and update the 12-month CRM strategy.

06

Continuous improvement

As your business evolves, so does your CRM. We proactively recommend improvements and implement them within the retainer scope.

CRM Support SLA Template

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Template SLA for CRM support engagements -- covering response times, escalation paths, change management, and reporting requirements.

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FAQ

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What clients say

From teams who have been through this

The retainer model means we always have senior CRM expertise on call. Issues get fixed within hours, not weeks. It is the most cost-effective CRM investment we make.

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VP Operations

BFSI Client

Having Celumai as our fractional CRM leader means we get the strategic direction of a CRM Director without the overhead of a full-time hire. Exactly what a growing company needs.

C

CEO

Professional Services Firm

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