PitchKitchen War Room
Pre-call intelligence dossier · prepared 2026-06-09 · internal / eyes-only

LeapGreat
War Room

LeapGreat owns the strongest risk-reversal in SAP migration ... and buried it under a capability question aimed at nobody's career. Your job in 30 minutes isn't to sell. It's to make Ross feel the gap between the thunderbolt they own and the homepage they shipped.

Contact
Ross Orrett
Co-Founder, "Company Scaling"
ross.orrett@leapgreat.com
The Meeting
20-30 min
"Get acquainted, then figure out next steps"
Brand Signal Score
32/100
Proof 2/10 · booked the call anyway
The Wedge
"Drive your working system with your data the following week, before you sign." Risk-reversal as a product.
⚑ The Tell — read this twice
"I was curious how your assessment would rate us, but I think our problems run deeper."
"I think our problems run deeper" is operator-code, not a request for a re-scored assessment. Ross is a two-time exited founder who sold a company to SAP ... he's already past the 32/100 and is naming a believability and demand-engine problem he can feel but can't frame. Treat the score as the doorbell, not the conversation: he handed you permission to go one level deeper than he did, and the win is agreeing with him fast, then naming where deeper lands (an extraordinary, unprovable claim pointed at the wrong room).
1 Run the room

The game plan for these 30 minutes

You know how to run a meeting. This is the spine for this call. Rough budget: 3 min agree-and-reframe, 10 min let him map his own pain, 8 min name the deeper problems plus one live framework, 5 min the X-Ray close. The one who names the pain owns the deal.

Agree fast, then go one level deeper than he did (first 3 min)

Don't recap the score or walk the rubric. Validate his own words, raise the stakes, and earn permission to be direct. You're confirming his instinct that it runs deeper, then telling him exactly where ... which proves you read past the number to the business.

"Ross, you said your problems run deeper than the assessment. I think you're right, and I want to tell you exactly where, because it's probably not where you'd guess. Can I be direct?"

Lead with the killer insight: your best proof is in the wrong room

Name the insurance-vs-manufacturing mismatch as your opening move, framed as an asset misallocation, not a credibility knock. It signals you see the company, not just the website. Bob's pride is in play, so frame it as "your strongest evidence is pointed at the wrong audience," never "you don't know manufacturing."

"Your deepest, most verifiable credibility is insurance ... Camilion went to SAP, Bob helped found SAP's Industry Business Unit for Insurance. Your offer points at manufacturers and distributors, where you can't name a soul. You're spending your best proof in the one room buyers can't see it."

Let Ross map his own pain with 2-3 pivot questions (10 min, mostly his voice)

The one who names the pain owns the deal. Ask, then shut up. Get him to say out loud where deals actually come from (rolodex vs cold) and where they stall (before or after the test-drive offer). This converts your diagnosis into his self-diagnosis and keeps you from monologuing the frameworks.

"When a deal closes right now, walk me through where it actually came from ... a relationship you already had, a referral, or a stranger who found you cold? What's the honest split?"

Name the deeper problems cleanly, then run ONE framework live (8 min)

Tie it together: the buried risk-reversal, the capability-vs-stakes frame, the believability vacuum on an extraordinary claim. Demonstrate one tool on their actual homepage (the Three Questions Test or the stakes-vs-capability reframe), not a parade of five. Deploy two fear-economics facts, not all of them. Drop the AEO one-liner once.

"Cover your logo, give me your homepage for five seconds. Who's it for, what problem does it kill, what's your point of view? Right now it answers 'is automation possible.' It never answers 'who should panic, and why you.'"

Close on the X-Ray by mirroring their own wedge (last 5 min)

Don't pitch the Sprint. Offer the small paid diagnostic and use the symmetry of their own methodology to close it. They let buyers drive the real system before they sign ... so let Ross drive your thinking on a small paid piece before committing to the rebuild. Book the follow-up before the call ends.

"Here's what I love about your company. You don't ask buyers to trust a promise ... you let them drive the real system before they sign. So let's do business the LeapGreat way. Don't buy my rebuild on faith. Let me run a two-week X-Ray. You drive my thinking, on your real homepage, before you commit to anything bigger. Fair?"
2 The diagnosis

What's actually broken (deeper than the auto-score)

The algorithm gave you 32/100. Here's the expert read underneath it ... the buried treasure first, then the one-sentence diagnosis, then the gaps that matter.

◆ The buried treasure
The wedge, verbatim from their own site: "It's not a demo. It's not a proof-of-concept. It's your working system with your data. And you get to drive it the following week." That's a risk-reversal built into the product ... a proof machine ... and it sits three scrolls down while the headline asks a capability question. The fix is already in their copy. They just can't see it from inside the bottle.
LeapGreat made the most powerful risk-reversal in SAP migration unbelievable, because they answer "is this possible?" when a manufacturer terrified of becoming the next Lidl or Revlon is asking "why should I bet my company on YOU?" ... with zero public proof to answer it.
Gap 01 · Capability frame, not stakes frame

The homepage answers a question nobody loses sleep over

The headline ("Is it possible to automate SAP ERP implementations? Yes") is a curiosity question that flatters the engineer founders. The buyer's real question is survival: ECC support ends in 2027, the last failed ERP project cost someone their job, and the category has named graveyards. The narrative isn't pointed at the fear that actually drives the purchase. Same words can't answer both ... re-point the gun at the actual target.

Gap 02 · Believability vacuum

An extraordinary claim with zero corroborating proof

Their proof sub-score is 2/10 for a reason: no named customers, no before/after, no number, lowest SAP partner tier (Registered), 16 people, bootstrapped. The more extraordinary the claim, the more proof it demands ... and a "drive it before you sign" promise is hardest to believe when nobody public took the drive and lived to recommend them. The offer and the proof are working against each other.

Gap 03 · ICP / credibility mismatch

Strongest proof is insurance, the offer is manufacturing

The team's most verifiable credibility is insurance (Camilion acquired by SAP, SAP's Industry Business Unit for Insurance). The offer targets manufacturers and distributors, where they have zero public proof. A manufacturing buyer pattern-matches on "have you done MINE," and the evidence that would prove SAP mastery is invisible because it's pointed at the wrong vertical. Bridge it in the narrative, or move the ICP toward where the proof already lives.

Gap 04 · Founder-dependent pipeline

Belief lives in Bob's resume, not in the narrative

16 people, bootstrapped, founded ~2018, still zero public customers ... that pattern means revenue runs on who the founders already know. Bob's 30-year SAP network and Ross's SAP relationships ARE the pipeline. It got them here and it can't get them to the 2026-2027 wave. Ross owns "Company Scaling," so this is literally his mandate. If belief lives in Bob's calendar instead of the story, the company can't grow past Bob.

3 "Our problems run deeper"

Four hypotheses to test live

He handed you the opening. Walk in with four read-outs for what "deeper" probably means, and let him confirm which one bleeds. Lead with the question, not your conclusion, then match what he says to one of these.

Hypothesis A · Most likely

The believability vacuum is the real wound

The whole model rests on a risk-reversal ("drive it before you sign"), but risk-reversal only fires AFTER a buyer believes you can deliver. With zero references, the lowest partner tier, and 16 people, nothing on the page earns that pre-belief. The 2/10 proof score is literally measuring the thing killing top-of-funnel conversion. They're not losing deals at the test drive ... they're losing them before anyone earns the test drive.

Test
"Walk me through the last 5 deals that stalled. At what stage did they go quiet ... before the test-drive offer, or after? I'd bet most never got far enough to be offered the drive."
Hypothesis B · Likely

Founder's-bottle blindness on the message

Bob is a 30-year SAP engineer, Ross owns scaling; the page reads as engineers admiring their own automation. They're so proud of HOW it works that they led with the mechanism, not the stakes. Classic insiders talking to insiders. The good news: the fix is reframing, and the raw material (the buried test-drive line) is already theirs.

Test
"Who wrote the homepage headline, and what were you trying to prove when you wrote it? If the answer is about the technology being doubted, they're defending the machine instead of rescuing the buyer."
Hypothesis C · Watch for

Competing against SAP instead of against inertia

The headline and wedge ("pre-configured processes, go fast") echo claims SAP's own GROW with SAP makes about pre-configured public-cloud rollouts. When you make SAP's pitch louder, you become the riskier-looking version of SAP. The real enemy in the narrative should be a failed 18-36 month project and the 2027 cliff, not SAP ... and the differentiator is the risk-reversal and the mechanism, not speed (speed is now table stakes SAP itself claims).

Test
"When you lose, who do you lose to ... a tier-1 SI, or the buyer just defaulting to RISE/GROW because it feels safer? And does your messaging ever name the thing they're actually afraid of?"
Hypothesis D · Probe gently

Content-as-activity mistaken for demand

Bi-weekly blogs, LinkedIn Lives, webinars ... all about why SAP projects fail. Real effort that feels like marketing but generates awareness, not qualified pipeline, because none of it converts a stranger into a believer (no proof) or routes urgency to a stakes-based offer. Ross may be conflating motion with traction. Reframe it as good fuel pointed at the wrong target, never as wasted work ... he built it.

Test
"Of the people who attend a webinar or read a post, how many become a real opportunity ... and do you actually know that number?"
4 Company intel

Who LeapGreat actually is

Firmographics, founders, the offer mechanics, and the proof gap ... all verified, so nothing in the room surprises you.

CompanyLeapGreat · www.leapgreat.com
Founded~2018
HQAlpharetta, GA (Atlanta metro)
Team size~16 employees; 12-person leadership incl. German SAP veterans (Lang, Förster, Schönfelder)
FundingNo funding on record; appears bootstrapped. (One unverified aggregator shows a $2.1M unattributed figure ... discounted, but don't assert a hard zero if he presses.)
SAP partner tierSAP Registered ... the entry-level PartnerEdge tier, below Silver / Gold / Platinum
FoundersBob Cummings (CEO) ... 30+ yr SAP career (joined 1994, R/2 through S/4HANA), one of the original founders of SAP's Industry Business Unit for Insurance. Ross Orrett (your counterpart, owns Company Scaling) ... ex Chairman/CEO/President of Camilion Solutions (insurance software, acquired by SAP 2013), ex CEO of InSystems (acquired by Standard Register 2002); LinkedIn headline "Serial Scaler of Software Businesses."
The platformThe "LeapGreat Factory" ... a SaaS automation engine for S/4HANA implementations (incl. Public Cloud), built on 100+ pre-configured end-to-end processes and "the LeapGreat Standard" (a clean core built for automation). For manufacturers and distributors, not a consultant body-shop.
The wedge (verbatim)"It's not a demo. It's not a proof-of-concept. It's your working system with your data. And you get to drive it the following week." Risk-reversal as a product.
Homepage headline"Is it possible to automate SAP ERP implementations? Short answer: Yes." (a capability question, not a stakes question)
Tech partnersMicrosoft, SAP, UiPath (RPA)
PricingNot public
Proof / customersZero public customers, case studies, logos, or testimonials (verified absence). This is the 2/10 proof sub-score. Even the UiPath co-marketing names no end customer.
Brand Signal Score32/100 (proof sub-score 2/10). They booked the call AFTER seeing it.
5 Market & timing

The clock that's ticking in their favor

This is your unfair advantage in the room: walk in fluent in their market. The timing isn't neutral ... there's a forced-migration cliff, and a fast, de-risked SAP play is built for exactly this moment. Every number below was adversarially fact-checked (see the source-integrity notes at the bottom before you quote any of them).

⏱ The SAP cliff
SAP ends mainstream maintenance for ECC / Business Suite 7 on December 31, 2027. Optional extended maintenance runs 2028 through 2030 at a 2 percentage-point premium on the maintenance base. After that, systems move to "customer-specific maintenance" with no new patches, legal updates, or security fixes ... effectively the end of the road. With a typical large-enterprise migration running 18-36 months, 2026 is realistically the last window to start. Your buyer has a clock on the wall ... your messaging should be standing next to it.
~35,000
SAP ECC customers (Gartner, via CIO.com)
~21,000
still on legacy ECC ... only ~39% (~14,000) had moved to S/4HANA by end-2024
18-36 mo
typical large-enterprise migration ... so 2026 is the last realistic window to start
95%
of legacy SAP users say building the S/4HANA ROI case is hard (Freeform Dynamics / Rimini Street, 455 orgs, 2025)
only 8%
of S/4HANA transformations finished on schedule; 60% overran by ~30% (Horváth Partners, ~200 execs)
61%
of SAP customers now cite budget as their top challenge (ASUG 2026 Pulse)
>70% by 2027
of recent ERP initiatives will miss their business-case goals, up to 25% catastrophically (Gartner)
The buyer's fear is earned

ERP failure economics

Lidl walked away from a SAP project after sinking about EUR500 million (roughly $600M) into it. Revlon's botched go-live left it unable to ship about $64 million in net sales and triggered shareholder class actions. MillerCoors sued integrator HCL for more than $100 million over a failed rollout. National Grid spent roughly $585 million just cleaning up. Your buyer isn't wondering whether automation is possible ... they're terrified of becoming the next name on that list. The homepage answers "possible." It doesn't answer "safe."

The competitive set

Who LeapGreat is really up against

Tier-1 SIs (Accenture, Deloitte, IBM, Capgemini, Infosys, TCS) are the slow, time-and-materials incumbents the wedge is aimed at. The harder competitor is SAP's own RISE / GROW with SAP, the bundled default that already claims pre-configured public-cloud rollouts ... so "100+ processes, drive it next week" can read like the riskier version of SAP. Migration-tech players (SNP, Panaya, Syntax) are funded and HAVE references. LeapGreat's true differentiator is risk-reversal-as-product. Differentiate on the mechanism and the risk-reversal, not on speed. Speed is now table stakes SAP itself is claiming.

6 In the room

Questions, proof, objections, landmines

Questions that open him up (ask, then go quiet)
  • "When a deal closes right now, walk me through where it actually came from ... a relationship one of you already had, a referral, a partner intro, or a stranger who found you cold? What's the honest split?"
  • "When a manufacturing CEO hears 'drive your real working system, with your real data, the week after you hand it to us' ... what's the first thing they say back? I'd bet it's 'prove it' or 'who else have you done this for.'"
  • "Your deepest bench is insurance. The offer points at manufacturers. When a manufacturing buyer asks 'have you done this in MY world,' how do you answer that today, and does it cost you the deal?"
  • "ECC support ends end of 2027, migrations run 18-36 months, so the window slams shut in 2026. When that herd finally moves, are they going to find you ... or Accenture and RISE-with-SAP?"
  • "Of the migrations your team has personally run, how many were manufacturing or distribution versus insurance or other industries?"

▸ Proof to drop (in order, don't fire all five)

The buried thunderbolt, read aloud. "Listen to your own line ... you let a buyer drive their working system with their real data the week before they ever sign. That's the best risk-reversal I've seen in enterprise software all year. And it's three scrolls down. That's your headline. That's the whole company."
The vertical fault-line, said plainly. "Your most verifiable proof ... Camilion getting acquired by SAP, Bob helping found the insurance unit ... is insurance. Your offer points at manufacturing, where you can't name a soul. You're spending your best credibility in the one room you can't prove anything."
The fear economics (two, not all). "Lidl walked away from a roughly $600M SAP project. Revlon couldn't ship about $64M in sales and got sued by shareholders. Gartner says by 2027 more than 70% of recent ERP initiatives miss their business-case goals, up to a quarter catastrophically. Your differentiator literally prevents those stories ... and your homepage doesn't put the buyer in that fear for one second."
The timing squeeze, aimed at Ross. "ECC mainstream support ends December 2027. Roughly 21,000 customers still haven't migrated. Migrations run 18 to 36 months, so 2026 is the last clean window and SI capacity is about to get scarce. You have the best risk-reversal in the category at the exact moment demand peaks ... and you're unbelievable to humans and invisible to AI search. That's an expensive 18 months to waste."
The AEO angle, once. "Manufacturing CEOs now ask ChatGPT and Claude who can de-risk an S/4HANA migration before they ever talk to a human. AI can't recommend what it can't parse, and it can't vouch for what has zero corroborating proof on the open web. You're not just unconvincing to people ... you're invisible to the machine doing the shortlisting."
"Our problem isn't messaging, it's that we have no customer references yet."
Agree fast, then flip it. "You're right you can't borrow a logo's credibility. That's exactly why messaging matters MORE for you, not less. Companies with logos get lazy and let the logo talk. You have to win on narrative and risk-reversal ... and you already own the best proof substitute in your market. You let buyers drive their real system before they sign. That's not a claim, it's a demonstration. We just have to put it where a scared buyer sees it in five seconds."
"We can't show customers ... NDAs, enterprise clients won't go public, we're early."
"Almost never as total as it feels. You don't need a logo wall, you need ONE believable artifact: an anonymized before/after ('a $400M distributor, 14-month quoted timeline, working system in week one, signed in 40 days'), one number from one real run, one named person who'll take a reference call under NDA. The risk-reversal itself is proof you can dramatize in a 90-second recorded teardown without naming the client. Absence of a logo is not absence of proof."
"We're engineers, not marketers ... isn't this just making it sound prettier?"
"This isn't lipstick. Take the lipstick off the pig, that's literally my line. Your copy isn't weak, it's aimed at the wrong question. Your real moat is buried under language that sounds exactly like SAP's GROW pitch ... '100+ pre-configured processes' is what SAP says about its own scenarios. Your differentiation isn't soft, it's invisible, because it's described in the category's generic vocabulary. We're naming the mechanism so a non-technical CEO gets it in five seconds."
"The capability question works ... people don't believe automation is possible, so we address the skepticism first."
"That skepticism is real. But notice what you did ... you led with THEIR doubt about your technology instead of THEIR fear about their own project. You can disarm the skepticism in the body. The headline's only job is to make the right person feel seen in five seconds. Right now a terrified VP of Ops reads it and thinks 'cute, not my problem.' Lead with their cliff, then show them you're the rope. The proof of the automation handles the skepticism on its own ... they DRIVE it."
"We're bootstrapped. $13.5K a month for three months is real money against our burn."
Never defend the package. Pivot to the diagnostic. "Then don't buy the big thing. Buy the X-Ray first. Two weeks, fixed fee, I tear apart your narrative the way I'd tear apart a botched implementation ... where your risk-reversal should live, the insurance-to-manufacturing proof bridge, and what ChatGPT says when a buyer asks who automates SAP migrations. You get a prescription you can run yourself even if we never work again. It's a rounding error against one lost six-figure deal."
"The 2027 deadline is doing our urgency for us. The market will push buyers to us."
"The deadline creates urgency, it doesn't create direction. When the stragglers panic-search in 2026, they type 'SAP migration' and find Accenture, Deloitte, and RISE-with-SAP, because those names own the conversation and the results. Urgency without discovery just feeds your competitors faster. The window is the gift. Being the name that shows up when they reach for it is the work."
⚠ Landmines - do not
  • Don't walk Ross through the 32/100 rubric score-by-score. He's a two-time exited operator who sold a company to SAP ... re-litigating your own assessment reads as junior. The score is the doorbell. Let HIM bring it up.
  • Don't condescend on SAP. Bob has 30 years, the German pioneers are real, Ross sold a company TO SAP. Your edge is messaging and the outside buyer's eye, not ERP. Fake SAP depth and the room dies. Stay rigorously in your lane.
  • Don't pitch PK Sprint ($13.5K/mo x3) or Open Kitchen in this call. It's a "get acquainted + next steps" call. Naming a $40.5K package early triggers the budget reflex and ends discovery. The X-Ray is the only offer that should surface.
  • Don't dismiss the proof vacuum as "just a messaging fix." Zero references is a real wound. Acknowledge it as real, then show messaging is how you sell hardest WITHOUT logos.
  • Don't over-name frameworks. NarcScore, Three Questions, Cover-the-Logo, MMF, AI Brand Twin are scalpels, not a slide parade. Drop one or two, demonstrated live on THEIR page. Stacking five in 25 minutes is the exact NarcScore sin you diagnose.
  • Don't do most of the talking. Ross respects diagnosis-by-question. Roughly 3 min agree-and-reframe, 10 min let him map his own pain, 8 min name the problems + one live framework, 5 min the X-Ray close.
  • The insurance-vs-manufacturing point can sting Bob's pride. Frame it as "your strongest proof is in the wrong room" (an asset to redeploy), never "you don't really know manufacturing." If Ross says manufacturing proof exists privately, pivot to "great, then it's an NDA-to-narrative translation job."
  • Don't frame SAP as the enemy to attack. They're an SAP partner and depend on the ecosystem. The enemy is the failed-project fear and the 2027 clock, not SAP.
  • Don't promise to generate leads or get them case studies. You fix what they believe and how it's said so the pipeline they DO generate converts. Overclaiming demand-gen invites the "so you're a lead-gen agency" trap.
7 The path

Where to steer this

LeapGreat reads as founder-led with no demand engine and a real burn. The cleanest entry is a scoped paid diagnostic, the Tech-A-GoGo move ... not OK or Sprint cold. Get paid to diagnose the deeper problem, deliver a prescription, and the bigger engagement follows with evidence instead of a pitch.

◆ Recommended

2-Week Narrative & Risk-Reversal X-Ray

~$6,500, fixed fee

Mirror the Tech-A-GoGo motion. Two weeks, fixed fee, produces a written "Messaging Prescription." Scope it to the believability gap: (1) the one-sentence stakes-narrative that makes the test-drive believable to a scared manufacturing CEO, (2) a proof-asset inventory ... credibility they own and aren't using, deployable without breaking NDAs, (3) the insurance-vs-manufacturing ICP call with a recommendation, (4) a rewritten homepage hero that leads with the 2027 cliff and surfaces the test-drive as the thunderbolt, (5) an AEO snapshot ... what ChatGPT/Claude say when asked who automates S/4HANA for mid-market manufacturers. Low friction, self-usable even if they walk, and it qualifies hard for the Sprint. It mirrors their own wedge: drive my thinking on a small paid piece before you commit. That parallel is the close.

Only if HE pulls for it

PK Sprint ... MMF rebuild

$13,500/mo x 3 months

The full narrative rebuild: the Magnetic Messaging Framework plus AI Brand Twin training. This is the treatment, not the diagnosis. The right answer to the depth Ross suspects, but $40.5K committed on a first call against a bootstrapped burn triggers the price objection. Position it only as "where the X-Ray points if the rebuild is as deep as you think," never as the cold open. Let the diagnostic prove the depth, then walk him in with evidence.

Fallback / taste

Homepage + positioning teardown

Smaller fixed fee

If Ross hesitates on the X-Ray price or wants to test you first, drop to a tightly scoped homepage-and-positioning teardown as a taste: the stakes-vs-capability reframe on the live hero, the Three Questions Test run on their page, and the buried risk-reversal surfaced as the headline. Cheaper, faster, lower-commitment, and it still demonstrates the thinking. Use it as the de-risk step into the full X-Ray, not the destination.

8 Your edge

The five things that win this room

You read past the 32/100 to the thing Ross actually lies awake on ... a category-of-one risk-reversal trapped in a founder-led, rolodex-fed demand engine that can't scale or self-prove. Naming that proves you see the business, not just the website.

The insurance-vs-manufacturing fault line: their hardest-won, most verifiable credibility (Camilion to SAP, the SAP Insurance unit) is pointed at the wrong room, while the room they're chasing sees a 16-person unknown. Nobody else will name this.

You found the buried thunderbolt and can read it back verbatim ... "your working system with your data, drive it the following week, before you sign." Best risk-reversal in enterprise software this year, three scrolls down. The fix is their own copy.

You live in their market: the 2027 cliff math, the ~21,000 holdouts, the 18-36 month window, the Lidl and Revlon graveyards, AND the SAP GROW collision most boutiques miss. You're the calm outside eye on a believability problem they can't see from inside the bottle.

You close by mirroring their own genius back as the offer: they let buyers drive the real system before they sign, so you let Ross drive your thinking on a small paid X-Ray before he commits to the rebuild. The symmetry closes it, and the paid diagnostic screens tire-kickers while sidestepping the budget reflex.

Source integrity — so you don't get caught out

Every stat on this page was adversarially fact-checked. These are the phrasing guardrails.