Customer Value Model

Layer 2: what creates value, for whom, and why — made explicit, never left implicit inside a process.

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Customer Value Model

Layer 2: what creates value, for whom, and why — made explicit, never left implicit inside a process.

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What the data means

The explicit model of what creates value for your customers, for whom, and why. This is the layer that answers "why does our work matter, and to whom" in operational terms — not as a slogan, but as a structure the rest of the business runs from. In an AI-Native organization, this layer is occupied by the Unified Customer View and the Unified Revenue View.

FromLayer 2 is occupied by internal-process models: MQLs, SQLs, BANT, attribution. The frameworks are real and the tools are real, but the shape is internal — about how the business processes the relationship — not about the value the customer is actually receiving. The Customer Value Model is implicit; the internal-process model is explicit. AI optimizes for whatever shape it can see, which is the internal one.

ToLayer 2 is occupied by the Unified Customer View and the Unified Revenue View. The Customer Value Model is named explicitly, mapped to the Value Path stages, and queryable by both humans and AI agents. The model evolves as the business learns — but it evolves deliberately, not by accident.

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