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Customer-experience planning software pairing enterprise subscriptions with paid onboarding and consulting.
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Valerie Peck built Sweet CX to help companies understand and improve customer experiences at scale. The platform grew from consulting work: manual journey maps made with sticky notes, butcher paper, and documents became too slow. She says the first code was written in 2013 and the business remains bootstrapped with no debt. Sweet CX serves about 30 enterprise customers. Peck describes average annual software contracts near $26,000, a $10,000 kickstart, proof-of-concept work around $5,000, and some clients paying above $100,000 annually for coaching. She reports about $800,000 SaaS ARR, separate from consulting. Reputation, analyst relationships, professional association work, and customer referrals drive inbound interest. The team has five full-time virtual members and can expand to 18. The transcript reports 20% annual growth in recent years.
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