ApexIQ™ | The Sales Engineering Operating System

Hold every technical deal to one visible standard

Complex technical deals leak value through uneven discovery, proof drifting from the buyer's criteria, and risk surfacing late. You set one visible standard with ApexIQ, and your team qualifies, proves, and inspects every live deal against it in ApexIQ WinCommand™.

For B2B technology firms with complex, multi-stakeholder technical sales. Where deals close without a technical evaluation, it has little to inspect.

Operating model

An operating model across the technical sale

Four phases, each with one question for your team to answer, and a place in ApexIQ WinCommand where they answer it.

Phase 01

Qualify

Does this opportunity deserve disciplined technical effort?

In WinCommand: WinScore, Bid mode. Decide before effort becomes a sunk cost.

Phase 02

Validate

Is the proof aligned to what the buyer will decide on?

In WinCommand: WinEdge, for the value case and the models you use in live conversations. WinScore, Deal mode, for decision criteria scored on evidence.

Phase 03

Win

Is the deal progressing to standard, and what is blocking it?

In WinCommand: WinEdge, for gate readiness, owned blockers, and gate reviews. WinScore, Deal mode, for a recommendation and a next action.

Phase 04

Transfer

Does delivery inherit the context the sale created?

In WinCommand: WinEdge, whose stages run through to handoff.

Across all four phases: where is your team strong, and what do you fix first? WinIndex answers it, one to four times a year.

The gap no CRM closes

Your pipeline is visible. Your execution is not.

You see pipeline value, stage, and close date in your CRM. You do not see whether the deal has a champion, whether the technical evaluation is structured, whether blockers are owned, or whether your organisation is capable of repeating a win at scale.

That gap is where deals slip, forecasts miss, and post-mortems begin. You see it in ApexIQ WinCommand, while there is still time to act.

No structured review
Your reviews read deal health by instinct, not evidence. By the time a deal looks at risk, it is already late.
No operating rhythm
Active deals drift between standups and CRM updates. Actions go untracked. Blockers go unowned. Momentum stalls.
No maturity baseline
You cannot fix what you cannot measure. Without a readiness benchmark, every quarter starts from scratch.
No shared language
Your Sales Engineers, account teams, and leadership read deal confidence differently. Bid decisions are inconsistent. Resources get misallocated.
The three Win modules

Start with the decision you need to make.

Want to know where execution breaks? Start with WinIndex. Want every live deal run the same way, every week? WinEdge. Want faster, consistent bid and deal decisions? WinScore. All three run inside ApexIQ WinCommand (opens in a new tab), available on a 90-day trial.

1 to 4× per year

WinIndex

Organisational Maturity & Governance

Stop making decisions about your SE team based on gut feel. Assess your organisation against an evidence-based maturity benchmark across people, process, proof artefacts, and governance, then identify what deserves attention first. Run it quarterly or after a significant change to understand where your organisation is strong, where it is exposed, and what to address.

What you get

  • Quantified readiness score across four dimensions
  • Prioritised blocker list with assigned ownership
  • 30/60/90 Day plan ready for board or leadership review
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Daily

WinEdge

Daily Deal Command

Your pipeline is only as strong as the execution behind it. Run every active opportunity the same way, with visible actions, owners, blockers, evidence, and progression standards. The result is a consistent technical operating rhythm across the full pipeline.

What you get

  • Per-deal action log with owner and due date
  • Deal velocity and blocker visibility at a glance
  • Consistent technical operating rhythm across the team
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Per opportunity

WinScore

Bid/No-Bid & MEDDPICC Inspection

Make bid decisions on evidence, not optimism. Apply one standard to bid and live-deal decisions, identify the largest visible risks, and agree the next action and owner. Leave with a confidence-based bid recommendation you can defend.

What you get

  • MEDDPICC-aligned opportunity scoring
  • Bid/no-bid recommendation with supporting rationale
  • Deal-health review with prioritised next actions
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Inside the product

The operating model, running

These are the ApexIQ WinCommand dashboards behind the three modules above. Each one is the surface you read in a review.

Diagnose

The benchmark, and what sits under it

Where your team is strong and where it is exposed, scored by section and by question.

ApexIQ WinIndex in ApexIQ WinCommand.
Install

Every live deal in one list

Every live deal on one screen, each flagged for readiness at its next gate.

ApexIQ WinEdge in ApexIQ WinCommand.
Run

MEDDPICC scored against evidence

One deal scored on evidence, with its priority risk, next action, owner, and date.

ApexIQ WinScore in ApexIQ WinCommand.
The management view

What your leaders read

Some of these depend on your plan. The pricing page (opens in a new tab) sets out which.

Forecast

Pipeline risk by quarter

The deals most likely to slip and the value at risk, while there is still time to act.

Reports

Organised for your next meeting

Deal qualification, the most frequent blockers, MEDDPICC across the team, contributors, teams, and maturity.

Trend

How well your team wins the technical evaluation

One 0 to 100 read, compared with your team's own history, with a trend and the signals behind it. It is a prompt for coaching, not a target.

MEDDPICC for Sales Engineering

This is not generic MEDDPICC adoption

Keep MEDDPICC. Your team runs it on every deal, every week, instead of discussing it in reviews.

Qualification quality, proof discipline, stakeholder alignment, technical risk, and procurement readiness are built into how the work is run, not left as talking points in deal reviews.

What changes

  • You link metrics to execution
  • You shape proof to the decision criteria
  • You see technical blockers earlier
  • You build champions deliberately
  • You design handoff readiness in
Commercial value

Where this leaves you

With every technical deal run and scored to one standard, you answer for the technical side of the forecast with evidence, without being in every deal or leaning on your strongest people.

Any commercial impact depends on starting maturity, implementation quality, deal mix, and adoption discipline. The benchmark and reports behind the fifth come with a paid plan.

  1. You open the review on the right deals

    The weekly review starts with the deals not ready for their next gate, and every blocker leaves with an owner and a date.

  2. You answer for the forecast

    You say which deals are backed by evidence and which are only claimed, dimension by dimension.

  3. You decline a weak bid early

    Your pursuit decision rests on a score and a reason, before the bid takes Sales Engineering time.

  4. You hand over with context intact

    Delivery inherits the decisions, risks, and commitments your team made in the sale.

  5. You show where to invest

    A benchmark, your most frequent blockers, and a 30/60/90 day plan show whether the answer is headcount or how the work is run.

Who WinCommand is for

Built for leaders accountable for the technical win.

This is for you if

  • You lead Sales Engineers on complex, multi-stakeholder technology deals
  • Your deal reviews lean on opinion, and you want them to rest on evidence your team has gathered
  • You qualify with MEDDPICC, or want to, the same way on every deal
  • You decide which bids deserve Sales Engineering effort

It is not for you if

Your deals close without a technical evaluation.

90-day trial

Find technical deal risk in 90 days.

The WinCommand trial is deliberately focused. Load a small number of real opportunities, score deal health, qualify bids, and see where technical execution is strong, weak, risky, or over-consuming Sales Engineering capacity.

Sign up with your work email. The first person becomes your workspace administrator and invites up to four colleagues. A trial never turns into a paid plan on its own.

Trial includes

  • 90 days
  • Up to 5 seats
  • 5 WinEdge active deals
  • 6 WinScore Deal™ records
  • 2 WinScore Bid™ records
  • No credit card required

Trial does not include

  • WinIndex assessments
  • Manual CSV and PDF exports
  • Executive forecast risk views
  • Manager reports

A trial shows each headline result; the breakdown behind it comes with a paid plan.

Pricing

Simple plans, published in full.

Three plans, and one of them is the free 90-day trial. You pay an annual platform fee with seats for your team included, and one price for each seat beyond them. Prices and what each plan includes are published on the ApexIQ WinCommand pricing page (opens in a new tab). Subscriptions are annual, and every one starts with the trial: sign up without a credit card, run real opportunities, then subscribe from inside your workspace, by card or by invoice.

Start here

Trial

Testing WinCommand on live opportunities before committing.

Every deal

Standard

A Sales Engineering team running and scoring every deal and bid the same way.

Leadership

Premium

Leaders who need team reporting and forecast risk views across the whole function.

Common questions

Questions about ApexIQ and WinCommand

CRM

Is ApexIQ WinCommand a CRM replacement?

No. CRM stays the system of record for pipeline, opportunity data, and commercial history. WinCommand is where Sales Engineering runs technical execution, scores deal and bid health, and assesses maturity. CRM shows the opportunity. WinCommand shows whether the Technical Win is under control.

Pricing

Where is pricing published?

On the ApexIQ WinCommand pricing page (opens in a new tab), which sets out the price of every plan and what it includes. This page describes who each plan is for and links there instead of repeating prices.

Free tool

How is WinCommand different from WinScore Preview?

WinScore Preview is a free public scoring tool with no sign-up: a MEDDPICC score, the top two risks, and the next two moves in two minutes. ApexIQ WinCommand is the full SaaS workspace for live deal control, scoring, maturity assessment, and operating rhythm.

Put ApexIQ to work

Test the operating system on live work

Start a free trial and run a few of your real opportunities through ApexIQ.