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Commercial Transformation Index · Commercial maturity assessment

Stop guessing where growth is breaking.

CTI is b10’s evidence-led commercial maturity diagnostic. It connects evidence across 10 commercial domains to show where revenue is leaking, which constraints are compounding and what deserves investment first.
CTI maturity profile Live illustration
Positioning
8/25
ICP
9/25
Website
12/25
Marketing
11/25
CRM
7/25
Sales
13/25
Operations
14/25
Automation
6/25
Pricing
10/25
Retention
8/25

Illustrative profile. CTI produces a scored, evidenced view of where commercial capability is weak, disconnected or underdeveloped — and what needs addressed first.

10 connected domains

250-point maturity score

6 maturity bands

Evidence before investment

Commercial maturity assessment

What is the Commercial Transformation Index?

The Commercial Transformation Index (CTI) is b10's evidence-led commercial maturity assessment for B2B organisations. It examines 10 connected commercial domains, combines direct evidence with observable signals, and produces a structured maturity view of the constraints most likely to reduce revenue efficiency.

The point is not to create another score for a dashboard. The point is to give leadership a defensible baseline: what is working, what is disconnected, what should be fixed first and what should not absorb more budget yet.
Diagnose

Find the root constraint.

Separate the most visible symptoms in your commercial engine from the system, process or commercial dependency actually limiting performance.
Prioritise

Know what deserves capital.

Compare competing priorities before committing budget to CRM, marketing, automation, website work, sales headcount or operational change.
Improve

Create a baseline.

Use a structured maturity model to sequence commercial improvement and measure whether the system is becoming stronger over time.

Interactive commercial friction

What feels broken is not always what is broken.

Three anonymous questions can expose whether you are about to invest in the symptom or diagnose the wider commercial system first.

CTI commercial friction

Find where commercial friction may be coming from.

Three questions. No forms. No commitment.

Identify where commercial friction is showing up, what may be causing it, and whether the problem you can see is likely to be the problem you actually need to solve
How long?
Under 60 seconds
How many questions?
3 questions and 16 options
What is the outcome?
A more clear next step
Question 1 of 3

Which problem is most visible to leadership right now?

Choose the closest fit.
Question 2 of 3

Where is the business most likely to spend next?

Question 3 of 3

How large is the organisation?

Directional signal · not a CTI score

Diagnosis should come before another isolated investment.

Your answers suggest the visible problem and the next planned investment may sit inside a wider commercial system. CTI is designed to test the dependencies before capital is committed.

Visible constraint
Planned investment
Organisation size
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The 10 CTI domains

Commercial performance is systemic.

A website problem can begin with positioning. A CRM problem can begin with sales process. Weak retention can begin with the promise made before the sale. CTI examines each domain and the dependencies between them.
01

Website.

Demand capture, conversion architecture, commercial clarity, search performance, and they buyer journey from first visit to meaningful action
02

CRM.

Pipeline architecture, CRM adoption, data quality, workflow control, reporting, and whether the CRM reflects how revenue is actually won.
03

Marketing.

Demand creation, targeting, content, nurture, attribution, and how effectively marketing contributes to commercially relevant pipeline.
04

Sales.

Qualification, stages, follow-up, forecasting, objection handling, and the repeatability of the route from opportunity to commitment.
05

Operations.

Handoffs, fulfilment, workflow design, ownership, and whether delivery protects the commercial promise, margin and customer experience.
06

Automation.

Workflow automation, triggers, integration, AI-enabled execution, and whether technology removes friction without scaling weak processes.
07

ICP.

Buyer definition, segmentation, negative fit, prioritisation, and how consistently the ideal customer profile controls targeting and qualification.
08

Positioning.

Market clarity, value, competitive differentiation, and whether buyers can understand why the organisation is the right choice.
09

Pricing.

Packaging, value capture, margin logic, discount discipline and whether pricing supports the position the business is trying to hold.
10

Retention.

Onboarding, value realisation, retention, expansion, advocacy and how customer outcomes improve future commercial decisions.

How a full CTI audit works

Evidence replaces commercial opinion.

CTI is not designed as a self-scored maturity quiz. The full audit uses structured criteria, direct evidence, observable signals and consultant judgement to build a defensible commercial baseline.

Signal volume can vary by domain. Data-rich areas such as website and CRM can produce more observable evidence than areas such as pricing or positioning. The job of the framework is to turn that uneven evidence into a comparable maturity view.
01

Understand the commercial model.

Business model, ICP, growth objectives, constraints, current systems and leadership priorities establish the context for the evidence
02

Inspect the system.

Relevant system access, data, journeys, process evidence and observed signals are assessed across the commercial domains.
03

Score and connect the findings.

Evidence is translated into domain maturity and analysed for dependencies, compounding weaknesses and cross-system commercial risk.
04

Sequence what changes first.

The output prioritises improvement by commercial consequence rather than by the loudest stakeholder, easiest project or, the newest tool.

The commercial maturity model

A score matters on when it changes the next decision.

CTI translates commercial evidence into a 250-point commercial maturity framework and six bands. The band creates a shared baseline; the domain findings and dependencies explain what leadership should do with it.
Critical
0–75
Developing
76–125
Emerging
126–175
Capable
176–212
Advanced
213–237
Optimised
238–250
The score gives you a baseline. The value comes from knowing why the score exists and which connected constrains change it fastest.
Two organisations can hold a similar score for very different reasons. One may have strong demand but weak operational handoffs. Another may have clean systems but weak ICP and positioning. CTI is designed to preserve that difference rather than reduce every commercial problem to one number

Choose the right depth

Start with the amount of evidence the decision requires.

Not every question needs a full audit. CTI creates distinct routes from a low-friction website audit through to a complete cross-domain commercial assessment.
Fastest website analysis point

Free website audit.

User your most public commercial asset to identify visible website, search, AI-readiness and conversion signals before deciding what to correct first and whether deeper analysis is justified.
Website and commercial clarity signals
Search and AI visibility/readiness signals
Low-friction website diagnostic
Route into deeper analysis when required
Deeper digital intelligence

Paid website audit.

For organisations that need more than a top-line website scan: deeper commercial evidence across website performance, commercial clarity, buyer journeys, search and AI visibility.
Deeper website evidence set
Search + AI visibility analysis
Commercial conversion findings
Prioritised website recommendations
Full commercial audit

Full CTI audit.

Assess the complete commercial system across all 10 domains and build the evidence base for commercial transformation, prioritisation, and ongoing improvement
10-domain commercial maturity assessment
250-point maturity score and band position
Domain findings and dependencies
Priorities transformation roadmap

From diagnosis to change

The CTI should not end with a report.

b10 uses the CTI to decided what the commercial system needs next. ACE provides the framework for designing, implementing, managing and improving the commercial engine after the priority is clear.
Category + Delivery

b10.

Commercial Transformation connects strategy, systems, technology, data, and execution across the route from first click to recurring revenue
Audit + Evidence

CTI.

The CTI measures commercial maturity, surfaces commercial constrains and establishes the evidence-led priority for commercial change.
Implement + Manage

ACE.

ACE turns the CTI audit into a connected commercial engine through a structured design, implementation, and management for continuous commercial improvement.

Commercial fit

CTI is for leaders who need to know what is actually constraining scale.

The strongest use case is not "we want a score". It is "we are investing, changing, or growing and we need evidence that we are fixing the right system."

CTI is a strong fit.

Revenue ambition is ahead of commercial system maturity
Several commercial functions appear to be underperforming at the same time
Leadership, the board, or an investor needs an evidence-based view of the real commercial constraints
The business is about to invest materially in CRM, website, sales, marketing, automation or operations.
An investor, accelerator, or portfolio owner needs to understand the commercial maturity of a company, or prospective investment
A baseline is required before transformation, a value-creation programme, growth investment or major strategic change

CTI is not the right starting point.

The business only wants a cheap tactical fix with no interest in the wider commercial system
There is no willingness to provide evidence, data, or access to the people required for meaningful assessment
The objective is simply to obtain a score that validates a decision already made
The problem is genuinely isolated, low-risk and can be resolved without wider commercial consequence
There is no intention, authority, or funding to act on the findings of the CTI audit.
The organisation is too early or pre-demand for there to be enough commercial evidence to assess meaningfully.

Why the Commercial Transformation Index

Build the evidence layer, not another opinion layer.

CTI is designed around commercial provenance: what is observed, where it came from, how it affected the finding and why it changed the priority.
01

Direct evidence.

Relevant systems, pages, workflows, data, and documentation are inspected instead of relying only on stakeholder perception
02

Uneven signal depth.

Domains can draw on different volumes and types of evidence without pretending every commercial function behaves like a dataset.
03

Cross-system analysis.

Findings are connected so downstream problems are not automatically mistaken for root causes.
04

Actionable priority.

The final value is sequence of commercial change: what should move now, what should wait and what should not be funded yet.
The benchmark used by B2B organisations that are serious about commercial performance.
b10 developed the CTI as the measurement layer of the Commercial Transformation Standard — the framework that defines how modern commercial systems should be designed, built, and operated. b10 holds a 5-star Gartner Peer Insights rating, has outranked EY, McKinsey, BCG, and Bain for Commercial Transformation in organic search, and has delivered Commercial Transformation engagements across the UK, Ireland, USA and Australia.

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Commercial Transformation Index FAQs

Questions leaders ask before using CTI.

These are the questions commercial leaders, founders, and operations teams ask most often when evaluating the CTI and what distinguishes it from conventional audits, maturity models, or commercial health checks.
What is the Commercial Transformation Index?

The Commercial Transformation Index (CTI) is b10's evidence-led commercial maturity assessment. It evaluates 10 connected commercial domains to identify constraints, maturity gaps and priorities for improvement before more capital is committed.

What is a commercial maturity assessment?

A commercial maturity assessment examines the systems, processes, data, behaviours and operating discipline behind revenue performance. It goes deeper than headline outputs such as lead volume or revenue by asking whether the commercial engine that produces those outputs is structured, connected and scalable.

What does the CTI measure?

CTI assesses website, CRM, marketing, sales framework, operations, automation, ICP, positioning, pricing, and retention and customer success. It also analyses the dependencies between domains rather than treating each area as an isolated function.

How is the CTI different from a website, CRM, or RevOps audit?

Those audits usually focus on one system or function. CTI is designed to diagnose the wider commercial system first. It can show, for example, that a CRM problem is being caused by an undefined sales process, or that a demand problem begins with ICP and positioning rather than marketing activity.

Does every CTI domain use the same amount of evidence?

No. Observable evidence is naturally uneven. Website and CRM can produce large volumes of structured signals, while pricing, positioning or ICP often require more qualitative and contextual evidence. CTI is designed to preserve that difference and normalise it into a comparable maturity framework.

What is the CTI score?

The CTI maturity framework uses a 250-point score and six bands: Critical, Developing, Emerging, Capable, Advanced and Optimised. The total provides a baseline; the domain findings and dependencies explain what that baseline means and what should change next.

How is the CTI different from a standard business audit?

Most business audits are broad and advisory. The CTI is a structured measurement model — every domain has defined criteria, every criterion has a defined scoring scale, and every score is evidence-based rather than self-reported. The output is a number that places your organisation on a defined maturity curve. That benchmark is what makes prioritisation objective and transformation sequencing defensible, rather than a matter of opinion.

Who is the CTI designed for?

The CTI is designed for B2B organisations — typically founders, commercial directors, or operations leaders — who want a definitive view of how their commercial engine performs structurally. It is most valuable when a business is experiencing growth constraints it cannot clearly diagnose, planning a commercial transformation programme, or preparing to scale and needing a structured baseline before significant investment.

Is the CTI assessment confidential?

Yes. All assessment findings, domain scores, and business data are treated as strictly confidential. b10 operates under a formal data processing agreement for all client engagements. No assessment data is shared, published, or referenced without explicit client consent.

What is a good CTI score?

The CTI uses six maturity bands, so 'good' depends on where you are in your commercial development. Most B2B businesses score between Developing (76–125) and Emerging (126–175) on first assessment. Capable (176–212) represents a functioning commercial operation. Advanced (213–237) and Optimised (238–250) are the bands most associated with structured, scalable commercial performance. The score is a baseline — the value is in understanding the gap and closing it.

Can i start without a full CTI audit?

Yes. The CTI website route provides a lower-friction entry point. A free website scan can surface visible commercial, search and AI-readiness signals, while a deeper paid website audit can provide more detailed digital evidence before a full cross-domain audit is required.

What happens after the CTI assessment?

The output is used to prioritise change. b10 can then implement relevant improvements through Commercial Transformation work or the ACE framework, depending on whether the requirement is a focused module, a broader rebuild or ongoing commercial operation.

Know Where You Stand.
Know What To Fix. Know In What Order.

The Commercial Transformation Index gives you the commercial baseline most businesses never have — a precise, evidence-based view of performance across every domain that drives revenue, retention, and growth.
Stop making commercial decisions without a benchmark. Book your CTI assessment and know exactly where you stand.