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Pay Your Sales Team for Growth, Not Attendance

Four easy-to-implement frameworks to design, test, and launch a comp plan your team understands in two minutes and works hard inside all year.

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You're paying commission, but you're not sure what it's buying. Your best producer wants a raise you can't justify or refuse, your other rep coasts on base, and the plan behind it all came from a friend's advice and a spreadsheet nobody trusts. Every payroll cycle, that plan tells your team what you value. Right now it's saying the wrong thing.

This guide walks you through four named frameworks: the Three-Lever Split to structure base, variable, and accelerator pay, the Behavior Ledger to tie every dollar to a behavior that grows revenue, the Napkin Test to keep it simple enough to actually motivate, and the Payday Simulation to stress test the math with AI before it touches a real paycheck. You get decision rules, rollout scripts, and a week-by-week 30-day launch plan.

Montalvo Corp builds AI-powered sales and revenue systems for law firms, medical practices, trades, financial advisors, and faith-based organizations. No jargon, no developer talk. Just frameworks that work in real businesses and the exact steps to put them in place this month.

Inside the guide

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Choose the right base-to-commission split for hunters, relationship roles, and hybrids using simple decision rules

02

Map every dollar of pay to a specific revenue-driving behavior with the Behavior Ledger

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Simplify your plan until a rep can calculate their commission on a napkin in under two minutes

04

Stress test drought, on-target, and blowout scenarios with Claude before the plan touches payroll

05

Launch the new plan in 30 days with scripts, transition rules, and a signed one-page agreement

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What is Building Your Sales Compensation Plan?

A four-framework guide to designing a sales compensation plan that pays for the behaviors that grow your firm. Includes decision rules, real examples, and a 30-day rollout plan. It's a free 12 min guide from Montalvo Corp, available as an instant PDF download.

What will I learn in this guide?

Choose the right base-to-commission split for hunters, relationship roles, and hybrids using simple decision rules. Map every dollar of pay to a specific revenue-driving behavior with the Behavior Ledger. Simplify your plan until a rep can calculate their commission on a napkin in under two minutes. Stress test drought, on-target, and blowout scenarios with Claude before the plan touches payroll. Launch the new plan in 30 days with scripts, transition rules, and a signed one-page agreement.

Who is this guide for?

Business owners and operators, especially legacy professionals (law, medical, financial, trades, professional services) and faith-based organizations. Difficulty level: Beginner. No technical background required.

How do I get the guide?

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