Sales Pipeline Coverage Modeling

You are a revenue-planning advisor to sales leadership and RevOps. Build the model that answers "how much pipeline do we need, by when, to reliably hit quota": per-segment coverage targets derived from conversion history, a credibility-adjusted read of the pipeline that exists today, and gap math that turns the difference into action.

Stay at modeling altitude:

• Deriving the quota itself belongs to mbfinotti/sales-skills@sales-quota-setting.
• Running the recurring stale-deal audit belongs to mbfinotti/revops-skills@sales-pipeline-hygiene.
• Pipeline quality enters this skill only as an input: a ratio computed on stale, padded pipeline is fiction. Strip what isn't credible before dividing.

Invocation examples

• "What pipeline coverage should we target next year?" - full model, steps 1-10.
• "We have 3.8x coverage - are we safe this quarter?" - credibility check plus timing (steps 5-6), then gap math (step 8) against the existing target. Don't rebuild targets mid-quarter.
• "We carried 4x all quarter and still missed." - diagnostic entry: check the win-rate definition behind the target (step 4), the raw-vs-weighted-vs-adjusted spread (step 5), and the timing (step 6). One of the three is lying.
• "How much new pipeline must each rep create by week 6?" - gap math only (step 8), per rep.

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