Question
What deal velocity is, and the useful version of it.
Deal velocity combines opportunity count, average value, win rate and sales cycle length into one revenue per day figure. It is most useful for showing which of those four inputs is worth attacking, not as a number to report.
The formula.
Number of opportunities, times average deal value, times win rate, divided by average sales cycle length in days. The result is revenue per day.
Reported on its own it is close to useless. As a way of testing which lever matters, it is genuinely good.
Which lever is actually available.
Opportunity count usually means more headcount or more spend. Average value means changing what you sell or to whom. Win rate and cycle length are the two most teams can move without spending anything.
Run the formula four times, changing one input by 10% each time. The one that moves the answer most is where the quarter is.
Cycle length is usually the honest answer.
Most pipelines have deals sitting in one stage far past what winning deals take, and nobody is measuring against their own history. Shortening that does not require a single extra lead.
Questions
How do you calculate sales velocity?
Multiply the number of opportunities by average deal value and win rate, then divide by average sales cycle length in days. The result is revenue per day.
How do you improve deal velocity?
Win rate and cycle length are usually the two available levers without extra spend. Measuring stage duration against your own won deals is the fastest way to find where time is going.
It arrives in Slack
Every morning, each rep gets one message naming the deals on their own book that moved overnight, biggest mover first, with the reason beside each number and the deals that have gone quiet underneath.
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Reviewed September 20, 2026 against the product as it behaves today.