The contract started in January. The value landed in June.

Between the signature and the first real result sits a gap nobody owns, and it quietly sets the terms of the renewal conversation.

By Steve 5 min read
Abstract bridge artwork for The contract started in January. The value landed in June.

A customer signs in January. The invoice goes out, the revenue recognition schedule starts, the salesperson’s commission clears, and the account moves from pipeline to book. The customer gets their first genuinely useful outcome from the thing they bought some time in June. Nothing has gone wrong. No escalation was raised, no deadline was formally missed, the implementation was delivered to specification. And yet five months of the relationship have been spent in a state where the customer is paying and not yet benefiting. That period is where a surprising…

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