Knows The Drill

For SaaS founders and revenue teams

Virtual assistants for SaaS companies

Give each customer handoff the attention it needs without making the founder its coordinator. Your assistant can organize demos, onboarding inputs and follow-up across sales and customer success. Knows The Drill recruits and prepares them for your SaaS business and agreed responsibilities before handoff.

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The deal is signed. The next team still needs the details.

Sales has the customer's priorities in call notes. Customer success needs the right contacts and an agreed starting point. A product question is waiting in another thread. When no one owns the transfer, the founder becomes the person connecting every conversation.

A dedicated assistant can collect the inputs, keep open requests visible and move questions to the people who can answer them. Define the handoff around your actual sales and onboarding process, with clear owners for customer commitments, technical decisions and exceptions.

The work to hand off

Keep demos, handoffs and onboarding moving.

01

Prepare demos and follow-up

Using your booking rules and CRM fields, an assistant can coordinate demos, confirm attendees and assemble the prospect's stated goals and previous questions. After the call, they can record the next action supplied by your seller and prepare approved follow-up for review or sending.

What you get back: A demo brief and CRM record with an owner for the next step

02

Assemble the sales handoff

Gather the agreed scope, customer contacts, recorded priorities and open questions from the sources your team designates. Your assistant can prepare a handoff brief and highlight missing or conflicting details. Sales and customer success confirm what was agreed and who owns the next conversation.

What you get back: A customer handoff brief with source links and unresolved decisions

03

Coordinate onboarding inputs

Work from your onboarding checklist to request approved inputs, arrange kickoff calls and track responses. Your assistant can follow up with the named customer contact and show which items are ready for review. Configuration, access approvals and implementation questions go to the responsible specialist.

What you get back: An onboarding checklist with received inputs, blockers and owners

04

Route customer questions with context

Collect the customer's description, account reference and information allowed by your support process. An assistant can send approved administrative replies and route the request to the correct queue. Technical questions travel with the relevant conversation so the specialist can review the issue and decide the response.

What you get back: An organized request queue with context and assigned next actions

Illustrative workflow

A handoff that gives customer success somewhere to start

Use this example to connect a signed deal to an informed kickoff, including the details that still need a decision.

Sales confirms the deal

Assistant preparesCollect the approved scope, customer contacts and relevant notes from the designated records.

Your team decidesWhich commitments are agreed and who owns the customer relationship.

The handoff is assembled

Assistant preparesSummarize the customer's stated goals, known constraints and unanswered questions with source links.

Your team decidesHow to resolve missing details or conflicting promises before kickoff.

Onboarding inputs are requested

Assistant preparesSend the approved checklist, log responses and follow up with the named contact.

Your team decidesWhether the inputs are sufficient and any technical review is required.

A specialist is needed

Assistant preparesRoute the question with its context, current owner and requested next step.

Your team decidesConfiguration, integrations, product capabilities and any change to implementation scope.

The kickoff is scheduled

Assistant preparesConfirm attendees and share the reviewed brief, open items and meeting details.

Your team decidesThe onboarding plan, delivery commitments and customer-facing answers.

Illustrative example — not a client record

A sales handoff with an unresolved scope difference

Use this handoff to put the agreed source and the conflicting note next to each other before customer success plans the kickoff.

Customer handoff reference
Example entrySC-011: a new account moving from sales to customer success.
What to provide or checkConnect the brief to the account record and responsible teams.
Agreed source
Example entryThe signed scope lists a one-time contact import.
What to provide or checkIdentify the source the teams use to verify what was agreed.
Conflicting note
Example entryThe sales call notes mention an ongoing data sync, which is absent from the signed scope.
What to provide or checkExpose the difference without treating the note as an approved commitment.
Kickoff dependency
Example entryCustomer success needs the import-versus-sync question resolved before finalizing the onboarding plan.
What to provide or checkExplain which next step depends on clarification.
Decision and handoff owners
Example entryThe sales lead confirms the agreed scope; the customer success lead then approves the kickoff brief.
What to provide or checkAssign the scope question and the receiving team's review.

Ready to hand over when: Customer success can open both source records, identify the unresolved commitment and see who must clarify it before the kickoff plan is approved.

Download the blank template (CSV)

No email required. The file includes field names and guidance, with blank spaces for your own inputs. Use it to describe the work during matching; keep private client information out of an initial inquiry.

Shape the role around the workload

Do customer handoffs arrive with gaps in the agreed scope?

A useful fit when

  • Demos, customer handoffs and onboarding create recurring coordination across sales and customer success.
  • Each stage has an owner who can confirm commitments while an assistant gathers inputs and tracks the next action.

Discuss the setup first

  • The role needs technical configuration or specialist support skills alongside coordination; define that expertise during matching.
  • Sales and customer success do not yet share a source for the agreed customer scope, so the assistant would receive conflicting instructions.

Managed support provides a dedicated, full-time assistant. Direct-hire responsibilities, hours and employment terms are agreed during matching.

Keep product decisions with the people who own them.

An assistant's role can span teams when routing and approval responsibilities are explicit. Agree which messages they may send, which records they may update and where a specialist needs to take over.

  • Your authorized team owns pricing, contract changes, product claims and roadmap commitments.
  • Engineering and product specialists retain technical diagnosis, configuration decisions and incident response.
  • Customer-data access, support coverage and response expectations are defined for the agreed role.

Bring one customer journey that needs a better handoff.

  • 01Your demo-to-onboarding stages and the points where follow-up loses its owner.
  • 02A sample handoff brief, onboarding checklist and approved customer messages.
  • 03Your CRM, support and project tools, with any required prior experience.
  • 04Coverage hours, access limits and the sales, success and technical escalation contacts.

Recruit. Prepare. Hand over.

Recruited for you. Trained for your industry.

First, we discuss your niche and the work you want your assistant to own. Then we recruit and prepare them in depth for the industry and responsibilities agreed with you before handoff. The matching conversation defines the skills, tools and preparation time your role needs.

We assess English fluency, practical problem-solving and independent judgment, so your assistant can work through the next step and recognize when to bring you in.

Choose the support behind your hire.

Managed assistant

A dedicated, full-time assistant through our service, with ongoing support from our team. One monthly fee.

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Direct hire

We recruit and train an assistant for you to hire directly into your team. You manage the day-to-day. One placement fee.

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The examples on these pages are a starting point. Bring the broader range of work you want covered to the matching call. We agree responsibilities, preparation time, working hours, fees and terms before you start.

Before you bring someone on

Is this role a fit for a SaaS founder or a customer success team?
Either can be a fit when there is a defined body of recurring coordination work. A founder might delegate demo preparation and cross-team follow-up; a customer success lead might focus on onboarding inputs and customer records. We shape the responsibilities, priorities and reporting relationship during matching.
Can an assistant answer customer support questions?
Approved administrative replies and routing can be included in the role. Your team defines which answers the assistant may give and which questions need a specialist. If you need product support experience, describe the exact work during matching so skills, preparation and coverage can be scoped.
Can the assistant use our CRM, help desk and project tools?
Bring the tools and tasks together: updating account records, preparing a handoff or routing a support request each needs different preparation. We recruit and prepare your assistant for the agreed SaaS responsibilities before handoff. Required software experience, permissions and preparation time are discussed with you.
Can an assistant follow up on customer onboarding without managing implementation?
Yes. The role can cover checklist administration, approved requests, scheduling and status summaries while your customer success or technical team owns implementation. A useful setup makes each pending item visible with its owner, the information needed and the person who confirms it is complete.
Can we hire the assistant directly into our company?
Yes. Direct hire covers recruitment and training for a placement fee, after which you hire the assistant into your team and manage the day-to-day. Managed support provides a dedicated, full-time assistant through our service for a monthly fee, with ongoing team support. Scope, price and terms are agreed before you start.

Stop being the person who connects every thread.

Show us the handoffs your team keeps chasing. We will help define the responsibilities and prepare an assistant to keep the information, owners and next steps connected.

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