Rizer Academy

Your CRM records why you lost. It almost never records the cause.

A working curriculum on finding the real reasons B2B deals are lost, quantifying what they cost, and deciding which of those deals are still worth winning back.

Written by the Rizer team Updated September 10, 2026

Diagram contrasting two records of the same lost deal. The CRM field reads "No budget", chosen from a dropdown at close in week nine. Below it, separated by eight weeks of evidence, the actual cause: no economic buyer was ever in the room, visible in the notes from week one and never recorded.WHAT THE CRM RECORDS“No budget”One dropdown, chosen at close. Week 9.8 weeks of evidence in betweenWHAT THE RECORD SHOWSNo economic buyer was ever inthe roomPlain in the notes from week 1. Never recorded.

Written from aggregate findings across real HubSpot instances, not from benchmarks.

Anonymized · Real HubSpot data · Jun 2026
41%
of losses driven by pricing, not execution
62%
of competitor losses cluster in two segments
$399K
median recyclable pipeline per instance

Curriculum

Four schools, one for each stage of the work. Lessons stand on their own, so you can read a school in order or take only the one you need.

In development

  • Operate

    HubSpot Revenue Lab

    Properties, reports, workflows, and data cleanup for closed-lost deals in HubSpot.

    Writing now
  • Recycle

    Pipeline Recycling

    Turn closed-lost deals back into revenue by re-engaging the ones that are still winnable.

    Next
  • Fix

    Revenue Engine

    When losing is not a sales problem: pricing, product, positioning, and segment causes.

    Planned
Built for HubSpot

Read the theory, then run it on your own pipeline

Everything in this curriculum describes work Rizer does automatically, against your own HubSpot history — ranked by the revenue behind each cause.

Runs on your full HubSpot history. No setup fees, no contracts. See pricing