Business challenges
Why Managed CRM Support projects fail
01
CRM changes queue for months without a resource to make them
A sales process changes. The CRM needs updating. There is no internal resource to action it. The change sits in a backlog for months. The team works around the system while the backlog grows.
02
Nobody proactively monitors CRM health
Automations break silently. Data quality drifts week on week. Integrations throw errors that accumulate undetected. Problems are only discovered when they cause visible business impact — weeks after the root cause first appeared.
03
A full-time CRM admin is not justified at your current scale
The CRM needs 1 to 2 days of expert attention per week — not 5. A full-time hire is over-resourced and expensive. But having no dedicated resource means the CRM degrades continuously.
04
Institutional knowledge walks out when the admin leaves
The CRM admin who designed and built the current configuration leaves the business. Nobody else understands how the automations work or why specific decisions were made. The new hire spends 6 months reverse-engineering rather than improving.
What is included
Everything in this service
Break-Fix Support
Reactive support for CRM issues — broken automations, configuration errors, integration failures, data anomalies, and user problems — responded to within 4 business hours and resolved within 2 business days for non-critical issues.
Deliverables
How it works
Our delivery process
Onboarding
Full audit of the current CRM configuration, documentation of existing automations and integrations, and setup of monitoring tools and communication processes. Typically 2 weeks.
Monthly rhythm
Sprint planning at the start of each month, weekly status updates, reactive support throughout, and a monthly health report delivered at month-end.
Quarterly reviews
Quarterly strategic review covering CRM performance trends, roadmap priorities for the next quarter, and team feedback on the retainer.
Knowledge management
Ongoing documentation maintained and updated with every change made to the CRM during the retainer.
Off-boarding
If the retainer ends, a full handover package is delivered so your internal team or next provider can continue without disruption.
Success stories
Client results
We had spent 8 months trying to hire a Salesforce admin. The Celumai retainer gave us better coverage than a single hire at lower cost — and with a full team behind it rather than a single point of failure. We have not renewed the hiring effort.
The monthly enhancement sprint has delivered more CRM improvement in 6 months than 2 years of ad-hoc project work. Having a predictable monthly delivery cadence and a team who understand our configuration deeply has changed the trajectory of our CRM maturity.
Platforms we use for this service
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