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Pricing management,
built by pricing experts.

Most pricing software automates execution without validating strategy. LevelSetter is different. Built by the same team that designs your pricing architecture.

LevelSetter surfaces what billing systems and CRMs can’t see: which packages buyers are exploring, where sales behavior diverges from buyer behavior, and which assumptions in your licensing, packaging, and pricing models hold up in the field. Continuous validation, not a quarterly dashboard.

Run it alongside your CRM (no rip-and-replace), or consolidate your CPQ, quoting, and deal desk into one pricing-aware platform. Deployed as part of an SPP continuous monetization engagement, year by year and renewable.

$481B+
Transaction data
analyzed.
50+
Exit events with the
architecture intact.
$134.9B
Combined exit
value.
The gap

Most B2B software companies run pricing decisions from spreadsheets, slide decks, and institutional memory while their billing systems and CRM track only what already happened. LevelSetter is the layer in between.

Practice led by
Chris Mele
CEO, Software Pricing Partners · Ranked #1 on OpenView’s list of B2B SaaS pricing experts · You get the senior in the room, not their junior · LevelSetter scales the experts; it doesn’t replace them
The problem

What LevelSetter solves
(and what it can replace).

LevelSetter runs alongside your CRM, and can replace your CPQ, quoting, and deal desk software if you want consolidated pricing operations.

01.A

Spreadsheet
pricing models

Static, unversioned, no simulation. Every decision starts with “let me update the spreadsheet.” LevelSetter replaces the spreadsheet with version-controlled architecture.

01.B

Consultant
slide decks

The engagement ended, the recommendations aged on a shelf, nobody built the infrastructure to operate them. LevelSetter is the infrastructure that turns strategy into a system.

01.C

Ad-hoc
discounting

Every deal negotiated from scratch. Leadership finds out at the quarterly review, not in real time. LevelSetter replaces the discount free-for-all with structured governance.

01.D

Invisible
buyer behavior

Your CRM shows what was sold, not which packages buyers explored before landing. The pre-deal signal is where pricing strategy gets validated. LevelSetter makes it visible.

01.E

Standalone
CPQ tools

CPQ captures what was sold without seeing whether it should have been. LevelSetter can replace your CPQ entirely with a pricing-aware version, or sit alongside one you keep.

01.F

Disconnected
deal desks

Approval workflows disconnected from the pricing architecture. LevelSetter consolidates deal desk and quoting into one platform with the pricing model and assumption health visible at every approval.

The platform

What your team
operates every day.

LevelSetter isn’t a dashboard you check quarterly. It’s the management layer underneath your existing systems, where pricing architecture gets validated, governed, and continuously sculpted.

01 / 03

DEFINE your
pricing architecture.

Iterate on the same cadence your team ships product. Test pricing assumptions against your customer base before they reach a contract.

Every architectural change runs through LevelSetter before it ships. Versioned. Auditable. Stress-tested against the customer base you actually have, not the one your survey said you have. Built from $134.9B in disclosed client exit value across forty-plus years of pricing engagements, exclusively B2B software. Proven. Battle-tested. Continuous. Never be reactive again.

DEFINE — LevelSetter iteration dashboard: pricing-architecture inputs reconciled and ready for simulation FIG 04

This is what runs inside the platform:

02.A

Data
ingestion

Load any data shape. Hundreds of unique input formats, from enterprise SKU complexity to simple subscription billing exports. CRM, ERP, billing, CSV, legacy spreadsheets, all reconciled into one pricing-aware schema.

02.B

Data
transformation

Powerful ETL built in. Extract, identify problematic transactions, iterate with corrected or additional data later. Everything feeds simulation instantly. Be iterative, be fast. Don’t let the data slow you down.

02.C

Packaging
inputs

Customer mix, value drivers, capabilities, customer-group differentiation. Inputs become draft packaging the team can iterate on, with tradeoffs modeled against your real customer base so no group gets alienated by accident. The licensing and packaging layers loaded into the pricing surface for simulation.

02.D

Pricing Surface
Optimization

Millions of scenarios, one best answer. LevelSetter finds the optimal pricing surface for a given revenue target — including how to construct customer-transition gaps and how to structure legacy-customer transitions so existing accounts move forward without breaking. The single best surface for the outcome you want.

02.E

Pricing Surface
Simulation

Compare multiple revenue outcomes side by side, each backed by its own optimized surface. Pick the risk profile your board can live with before the new prices ship — aggressive growth, defensive retention, balanced transition. Same customer base, different surfaces, different outcomes.

02 / 03

DEPLOY your new
pricing architecture.

Deployment fails when the existing customer base is treated as a footnote.

Most consultancies hand off a recommendation and assume your team will figure out the rollout. SPP refuses to ship and walk away. The architecture gets modeled against your real book before it leaves the platform — defensible to your board, survivable for your sales team.

DEPLOY — LevelSetter dashboard with prelim pricing analysis

This is what runs inside the platform:

02.F

Customer transition
modeling

Every active contract mapped against the new system. Expansion, contraction, churn-at-renewal, and custom-transition needs surfaced before deal cycles start. The work that determines whether the change ships at all.

02.G

Competitor
triangulation

What comparable customers paid for comparable products in your competitive set. Triangulated across signals (transaction data, structured dialogue, public filings) so the new model plays out in the field, not just in the deck.

02.H

Self-serve
API

Pricing models accessible via API. Drive in-app self-serve pricing flows, track what prospects explore before they bail or close, and feed those patterns back into the next iteration. The model sharpens with every prospect that touches it.

02.I

Customer
budgeting

For highly variable value metrics: embed LevelSetter directly into your software and admin control panels. Your customers tour the pricing model on their own, forecast next year’s spend, and plan with confidence. Powered by the AWS backbone.

02.J

Integrations

LevelSetter speaks the systems your revenue org already runs on. Native integrations with Salesforce, Zoho, HubSpot, and the major CRMs surface pricing-aware quoting inside the deal flow your reps already know. Plus billing systems, ERPs, and data warehouses — pricing intelligence flows where the deal lives, not in another tab.

03 / 03

DEFEND your
value.

Deploy through Guardrails. Pricing stops being a project and becomes a continuous capability.

The simulation from DEFINE becomes your live baseline. Every closed deal gets measured against the simulated outcome, so trajectory shows up at deal-stage, not at quarter-close — and adjustments fire before the renewal cycle decides for you. Guardrails enforce the governance, Pricing Studio gives sales the fluency, and the pattern library keeps learning from every deal. Value gets defended where it’s earned, sprint by sprint.

DEFEND — LevelSetter Guardrails monitoring deal-level pricing-architecture deviation and assumption staleness FIG 07

This is what runs inside the platform:

02.K

Guardrails

The integrated deal-desk capability inside LevelSetter. Approval policies routed to user pools or named individuals, automated escalation, mobile margin alerts, real-time net-price visibility. Standard deals close fast; only real exceptions escalate. The discount logic Guardrails enforces is margin-calibrated discounting — a continuous surface tied to gross margin, not a tier-step policy table.

02.L

Quoting
system

Ditch the CPQ. LevelSetter’s integrated quoting runs invisibly behind your existing sales motions or surfaces as the deal-tool salespeople actually want to use. Built for fast deployment, not a six-month CPQ rollout.

02.M

Pricing
Studio

The sales-side workspace inside LevelSetter. Walk a prospect through the pricing architecture in real time, spin off options on the fly, compare deal economics side by side, roll back to any version. The dreaded price call becomes a dreamy one — and sales reps build the fluency to talk dollars without spooking themselves or the buyer.

02.N

Monitoring

Pricing-architecture deviation drift, assumption staleness, buyer-behavior shifts, ethically-sourced competitive moves — the pre-deal signals billing systems and CRMs can’t see. Trajectory becomes adjustable in real time.

The sprint

Built for sprint-based
pricing decisions.

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STEP 01 LOAD Transaction data ingested, messy formats handled. STEP 02 SIMULATE Model proposed changes against your customers. STEP 03 DEPLOY Publish with governance. CRM live from day one. STEP 04 VALIDATE Monitor which assumptions hold up in the field. FIG 05
Step 01
LOAD
Transaction data ingested. Handles messy formats and legacy exports without requiring clean inputs.
Step 02
SIMULATE
Model proposed changes against your actual customer base. See impact across Customer Groups before anything goes live.
Step 03
DEPLOY
Publish validated changes with governance guardrails active. Integrates with your CRM, replaces or sits alongside your CPQ.
Step 04
VALIDATE
Monitor which assumptions hold up against real deal flow. Each sprint builds on what the data reveals about buyer and sales behavior.

Traditional engagements run 6 to 12 months and deliver a report. LevelSetter sprints deliver validated changes every 1–3 weeks.

The results

What changes when
the platform is running.

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OSISoft

Acquired by AVEVA (Schneider Electric) for $5B. Pricing architecture survived PE-level due diligence five years post-engagement.

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BeyondTrust

Acquired by Francisco Partners for $5.4B. Largest cybersecurity PE deal of 2023. Pricing governance built for enterprise deal complexity.

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BambooHR

Stalled at $22M ARR before SPP. North of $180M ARR not long thereafter. Restructured licensing, packaging, and pricing that held as deal complexity scaled.

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Real-world data

Your data doesn’t
need to be clean.

Most companies hesitate because their data is messy. LevelSetter was built for real-world data, not textbook data.

04.A

SKU
complexity

Complicated SKU structures, inconsistent formats, on-prem and cloud SKUs side-by-side, exports from systems that no longer exist. LevelSetter’s data transformation normalizes the mess automatically.

04.B

Missing
fields

Incomplete records, gaps in deal history, no solid pricebook versioning. LevelSetter infers structure from what exists rather than requiring clean inputs.

04.C

Pricebook
reconstruction

LevelSetter reverse-engineers your pricebook and reconstructs the time-series view of how deals have actually been forged across every customer, every package, every year. Even when no clean pricebook history exists, the platform delivers the full audit trail.

Frequently asked questions

Both, but the engagement comes first. LevelSetter is deployed as part of an SPP pricing engagement. The strategy is designed by our experts, validated through LevelSetter’s simulation engine, then operated by your team alongside our experts as part of a continuous monetization engagement, year by year and renewable. You’re getting a pricing architecture built by experts, with SPP’s Continuous Monetization Platform that makes it operational.
Standalone pricing platforms automate execution but can’t validate whether the underlying strategy is right. If your packaging model is wrong or your value metric doesn’t reflect customer value, pricing software optimizes the wrong answer faster. LevelSetter is built by the same team that designs the strategy. Strategy and infrastructure from the same source, neither handed off to the other.
It depends what you want. LevelSetter doesn’t replace your CRM. It runs alongside, even completely behind the scenes if you want, surfacing the patterns billing and deal mechanics can’t see. It can replace your CPQ, quoting solution, and deal desk software with a consolidated pricing-aware platform if you want fewer vendors and tighter pricing operations. Most clients run hybrid: LevelSetter alongside the CRM, replacing the CPQ/quoting/deal-desk layer.
Each sprint is 2 to 4 weeks. First sprint: transaction data loaded, initial simulation models built. Subsequent sprints test packaging configurations, price points, and migration scenarios, each validated against your real customer base. Most companies complete 2 to 3 sprints in the Define phase before deployment, then continue iterating through the engagement term.
Guardrails are configured from your actual transaction data. When a deal exceeds the configured threshold, it routes automatically to the right approver. Mobile alerts notify leadership when deals approach margin boundaries. Standard deals close fast; only real exceptions require escalation. This is how continuous validation reduces strategic pricing risk.
LevelSetter was built under the direction of Chris Mele, CEO of SPP. Chris is an early web pioneer who helped build the first credit card system on Netscape for Bank of America at Ernst & Young, later founded an angel-funded B2B software company, and ranked #1 on OpenView’s list of B2B SaaS pricing experts. LevelSetter isn’t a consultant’s side tool. It’s software built by a team that’s been shipping production systems at enterprise scale since the early web.

Strategy and infrastructure from the same team.

Strategy without infrastructure ages on a shelf. Infrastructure without strategy automates the wrong answer. LevelSetter is both. Designed by pricing experts, deployed as the management layer your team operates every day. Run alongside your CRM, or consolidate CPQ, quoting, and deal desk into one pricing-aware platform.