Lucas the Partner Manager

Meet Lucas, Partner Manager at a growing consulting firm. His job is to make sure the company can always deliver, even when internal skills are not enough. He builds and maintains the network of partners and subcontractors that makes it possible to win and deliver more engagements.

Lucas's challenges before

Key-person dependency

Partner relationships lived in individuals’ heads. When someone left, the contact went with them. Hard to scale and impossible to hand over.

No structured network

Without a structured process for managing and growing the network, it was hard to find the right partner when needed. External skills were sourced reactively, not proactively.

Collaboration moved too slowly

Internal processes for filling skills gaps were sluggish. Communication with partners ran through long email threads and spreadsheets that were always out of date.

Matching took too long

Finding the right external consultant for an engagement was a manual and time-consuming process. Slow responses cost deals.

Requests slipping through

Incoming requests were handled manually and risked falling away. Without structure, it was hard to give fast responses and win the engagements.

With Cinode, Lucas gains

Digitalised and scalable network

Lucas has digitalised the entire partner network in Cinode. Partners and subcontractors update their own information. Key-person dependency is eliminated and the process scales without friction.

Access to thousands of external skills

Via Cinode Network, Lucas gets access to a broad network of freelancers and partners. He can quickly find the right skills for any engagement, no matter how niche.

Shared overview of projects and resources

One shared view across projects, engagements and available resources, internal and external. Lucas searches by skills regardless of employment type, and collaboration flows more smoothly.

Faster responses, more won deals

With AI MailMatch, skills requirements are automatically extracted from incoming requests and matched against the right partners or subcontractors. Lucas responds faster and wins more deals.

Closer partner collaboration

Partners share availability, skills and CVs directly via the platform. Communication speeds up, collaboration gets tighter and trust grows.

How Lucas uses Cinode

The tools that help Lucas build a stronger network and win more deals.

”With Cinode Partner, we have won many more deals”

Love Ekstrand

Head of Digital and Partner Solutions

How does Cinode help Lucas?

Greater delivery capacity

Access to thousands of external skills via Cinode Network means Lucas can say yes to more engagements and deliver them with the right person in place.

More won deals

With faster matching and automated request handling via AI MailMatch, Lucas responds faster and wins more engagements. External skills fill the gaps without delay.

Closer and stronger partner relationships

When partners share availability, skills and CVs directly in the platform, collaboration speeds up and trust grows. Fewer email threads, more results.

Scalable without key-person dependency

The entire partner network is digitalised in Cinode. When someone leaves, the relationships do not go with them. The process lives in the system, not in individuals’ heads.

Loved by
our users.

Anders Franzén

Senior Partner, Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)

Cinode helps XLENT make faster and better business

We chose Cinode many years ago due to our need for a standard tool regarding branding, keeping track and displaying our competencies.

Cinode had and still has a user-friendly user interface that is easy for us to use, which gives us the best tool to make faster and better business.

By using Cinode we, XLENT, can live up to our internal strategies and meet our customer's demands regarding speed and business precision.

Margit Matsson

CEO, Small business (>50 employees)

With Cinode, we meet our customers with the right skills at the right time.

The system contributes to a transparent organization and to a reliable supplier and partner.

Cinode makes us more productive in our business and in our recruitment. We are faster and more efficient.

Jami Sjöblom

Director, Sales and Partnerships Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)

“Cinode is the best solution on the market for consulting companies”

What do you like best about Cinode?

Planner view that's used for staffing planning and customer information management regarding what are the stages of sales processes.

Andreas Wall

Strategic Sales Manager Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)

Strong support in planning with a good visualization of booked and available employees and partners in an easy way.

The combination of easily visualizing the skills of all employees, partners together with a good overview of the deal pipeline and planning is strong. All in one platform.

Furthermore also a strong network of partners that are integrated where we have the ability to efficiently respond to deal requests as well as publish available expertise is strong.

Henrik Brusewitz

Sales Director & Cofounder Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)

By using the resource allocation and resource forecasting modules you get sales statistics like revenue forecast and utilization forecast out of the box, this has proven to be very powerful for us.

Lina Säfström

Staffing manager Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)

"Streamlining our processes regarding matching for customer requests and our utilization"

Cinode is a simple and user-friendly system, which gives us a good overview and an efficient matching process by being able to match with both employees, candidates and partners.

We can share all of our available consultant in different regions and countries all over the company, which can lead to more opportunities for our customers, and thus increase our hitrate and market share.

Hugo Arkstedt

Business Development Manager, Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)

What do you like best about Cinode?

The best part about Cinode is that everything I need is in one place; Creating and downloading (nice looking) resumes, overviewing the sales pipe and other classic CRM features as well as administrating / contacting our subcontractor-consultant network with new assignments.

See how Lucas builds a stronger network with Cinode

Book a demo and see how Cinode helps partner managers match faster, collaborate better and win more deals.

  • Greater delivery capacity
  • More won deals
  • Scalable partner network