I'm Phil Ruttens. Every time I walk into a new company, it's the same gap: great product, capable team, no repeatable engine to fill the pipeline. I've fixed it in SaaS start-ups, industrial SMEs, and PE-backed scale-ups across five countries.
25 years. Accenture, EY, Tyk, and 20+ companies. I build the engine, document it, and hand it over so your team runs it without me. That's the whole point.
Senior-only. No juniors, no account managers. I do the work.
I started in strategy consulting — Accenture, EY. Big clients, good frameworks, and an uncomfortable truth: most strategy work never makes it to execution. The gap between "here's the plan" and "here's a pipeline that fills itself" was where most companies bled. I started moving towards the execution side.
Over 25 years I've worked with SaaS start-ups burning runway, industrial companies whose sales teams were drowning in demos that never closed, and scale-ups whose marketing spend had doubled but whose pipeline hadn't. The root cause was almost always the same: no repeatable engine. Great people, no system.
At Tyk — an API management SaaS — I ran GTM across Europe as they scaled internationally. That's where the RUTTENS+ model crystallised: diagnose fast, build only what moves revenue, hand it over documented so the team can run it without you.
I work from Belgium, across Europe. Clients are B2B tech, SaaS, and industrial companies at growth or transformation stages — usually 10–250 people, usually at the point where the founder-led sales motion has stopped scaling.
I don't bring a team of five and sub out the work. I'm the one in your CRM, in your board meeting, on your sales calls. Everything I build is documented as I build it. On the last day, your team runs the system — not a retainer, not a dependency.
I also don't take clients I can't help. The Pipeline Scan exists so we both know what's broken before committing to anything bigger.
Start with the free Pipeline Scan — 2 minutes, on-screen diagnosis, no call required. Then we'll know if it makes sense to talk.