Partners
We work well as the independent voice in the room.
Alongside account teams, integrators and in-house platform teams.
Independence is more useful with company. Most of our engagements sit next to somebody else's programme — and the value we add is being the party with no licence margin and no build to protect.
Advantage:
Tangible Outcomes
Agentforce · Data · Salesforce
Ways we work together
Where AFD tends to fit
Different relationships, same role: the independent read on business case, data foundation and consumption.
Salesforce account teams
We are useful where a customer needs an independent business case before committing, or a consumption forecast the account team cannot be expected to produce.
Systems integrators
We take the Agentforce and Data Cloud workstream inside a larger programme, or review a design before it is built at scale.
In-house platform teams
Most of our engagements are alongside an internal team that will own the result. Upskilling them is in the scope, not an afterthought.
Procurement and finance
Independent credit and licence evidence for a renewal, with assumptions visible and every number traceable to a configuration or a volume.
ISVs and data vendors
Integration design and grounding work where a product needs to sit cleanly inside a customer's Salesforce and Data Cloud estate.
Other consultancies
We subcontract in both directions when it serves the client. We would rather bring in a specialist than pretend to be one.
Ground rules
How we behave in a joint engagement
Worth agreeing before the first steering meeting rather than during the third.
- We stay independent inside the partnership
- Working alongside a partner does not change what we report. If the finding is uncomfortable for either of us, it still goes in the pack.
- One team, visible seams
- The client should always know who is accountable for what. We name it explicitly rather than presenting a seamless front that fails under pressure.
- No margin stacking
- We charge for our work. We do not take a cut of licences, credits or another party's software.
- Scope we can actually cover
- We take the Agentforce, Data and Salesforce parts. We will say so plainly when a request falls outside that.
Have a programme that needs an independent workstream?
Tell us where the gap is and who else is involved. hello@agentforcedata.ai