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FloQast EMEA Doubles BDR Productivity Using HighTempo

FloQast
Industry
B2B Enterprise Software
Company
1,000+ employees, $1B+ valuation
Objective
Refined ICPs, ranked Target Account Lists, and signal-driven outreach across EMEA.
2x
Output per BDR
within one quarter
Refined
ICPs upgraded per region
& product line
Expanded
Account universe grown beyond
existing CRM with net-new & reactivated accounts
Days
From briefing
to delivered list
About FloQast

FloQast is an Accounting Transformation Platform created by accountants for accountants, enabling organizations to automate close management, account reconciliations, accounting operations, and compliance activities. Trusted by 3,500 global accounting teams including TalkTalk, Holland & Barrett, and PageGroup, FloQast is consistently rated #1 across all user review sites. With a valuation exceeding $1B and over 1,000 employees worldwide, FloQast serves enterprise teams at companies like Lyft, Twilio, and Snowflake. Learn more at FloQast.com.

The Challenge: Bringing Precision to EMEA Demand Generation

FloQast EMEA needed their demand generation to keep pace with their high-growth expectations. New products had been launched and new European regions had been opened, but the underlying CRM data was incomplete. Knowledge of where to focus was ad-hoc and distributed across individual sales reps rather than codified at an organizational level.

Time was critical. The fiscal year had started and revenue targets were challenging. FloQast needed to put fresh, accurate Target Account Lists into the hands of their BDR team, Alliances partners, and their Marketing organization. And they needed it fast.

As a company, FloQast had access to multiple AI-powered SaaS tools acquired to address exactly these challenges. But those platforms required significant setup time and only performed well when the underlying CRM data was already strong, which was precisely the gap they were trying to close. Refining the Ideal Customer Profile and rebuilding the foundational target account lists was a crucial first step they could not bypass.

“For us in Sales, the challenge wasn't a lack of tools or ambition. It was that our demand generation engine simply wasn't aligned to the realities of the European market. Our propositions were evolving fast, but our underlying data and ICP definitions hadn't kept pace. Rebuilding our ICPs and target account lists with HighTempo gave us the clarity we were missing. Suddenly we knew exactly which accounts to prioritize, why they mattered, and how to approach them. The impact on pipeline quality and BDR productivity was immediate.”

Nikko Jones
Sales Director, FloQast EMEA

The Engagement: Three Phases to Precision Targeting

FloQast engaged HighTempo to rebuild the foundational targeting engine behind its EMEA demand generation strategy. The engagement was structured into three focused phases, each designed to strengthen the accuracy, relevance, and operational usability of the final Target Account Lists.

Phase 1
ICP Refinement & Signal Definition

Working closely with FloQast's sales and marketing leaders, HighTempo began by defining what a great-fit account actually looks like across each European market and product line. This wasn't about applying a single generic ICP. It was about building multiple, tailored profiles that reflected distinct buying motions across the region.

  • ICP Development: Creating multiple Ideal Customer Profiles aligned to regional and product-level segmentation, each one reflecting the specific characteristics that made an account a strong fit for FloQast's proposition in that market.
  • Signal Definition: Identifying the buying signals that indicate a company is likely to need FloQast, and defining how each signal should be weighted relative to the others.
  • Market Understanding: Mapping the nuances of each European market, including regional compliance requirements, typical tech stacks, and competitive landscape differences that would shape targeting decisions.

This strategic groundwork created the clarity needed before any automation or AI-driven enrichment could be effective. It's a step that many organizations try to skip, often at great cost.

Phase 2
Agent Training & Iterative Refinement

With the ICPs and signal definitions locked in, HighTempo configured and trained its AI-driven agents, teaching them what a high-propensity account actually looks like in practice. Three inputs shaped the training:

  • The refined ICPs & signal definitions: Ingested directly into the agents as the foundational scoring framework: the rules that defined fit, the signals that indicated intent, and the weightings that determined how each factor mattered.
  • Current customers: Analyzed to identify the patterns and attributes that defined FloQast's best-fit accounts, giving the agents a clear picture of what "good" looks like in the real world.
  • Closed-lost & previously engaged accounts: Studied to understand why certain fit-looking accounts didn't convert, helping the agents distinguish between accounts that match the ICP on paper and those that genuinely have buying intent.

Multiple cycles of learning, testing, and adjustment followed. Each iteration was reviewed with the FloQast team, surfacing new patterns and refining the propensity ranking model until the outputs matched both the data and the on-the-ground experience of the sales team.

Once the model was validated, HighTempo delivered a Ranking Methodology Document: a transparent breakdown of exactly how accounts would be scored, including point weightings for each ICP attribute and signal. FloQast could review, tweak, and approve the methodology before a single final list was produced, ensuring complete alignment between the scoring logic and their go-to-market priorities.

Phase 3
Execution & Delivery

With the agents fully trained and the ranking model validated, HighTempo ran the final production pass independently. Rather than working from a single static list, the agents drew from three distinct account sources and ranked them all against each other in a single unified universe:

  • That region's initial target account list: The accounts FloQast was already focused on, now scored against the refined ICP and propensity model so the team could see which of their existing targets were genuinely high-fit and which were not.
  • Closed-lost & previously engaged accounts: Re-evaluated through the new lens to surface high-value re-engagement opportunities. Accounts that were a strong fit but had been lost or gone cold, now with fresh context and timing signals.
  • Agent-discovered accounts: Net-new accounts identified by the agents that matched the refined ICP but had never appeared on FloQast's radar, expanding the addressable market beyond what the team had previously considered.

The result was a single ranked universe where every account, regardless of source, was held to the same standard, backed by transparent, auditable evidence including source URLs and scoring breakdowns. Lists were delivered in the exact formats and structures required by FloQast's BDR and marketing teams for immediate execution. No reformatting, no manual processing required.

“HighTempo helped us fix our foundations quickly, replacing outdated ICPs and inconsistent data with precise, region-specific targeting. Because the cost wasn't prohibitive, we were able to test and learn, build multiple ICP variations, and tailor our approach much more specifically for each market.”

Jason Martin
Senior Director, Marketing EMEA, FloQast

The Results: Doubled BDR Output in One Quarter

The engagement delivered six Target Account Lists, segmented by region and market tier, that plugged directly into FloQast's demand generation engine: immediately actionable, regionally precise, and built for scale. Each list was fully ranked using the new propensity model, enabling FloQast to take a tiered, cost-efficient approach to targeting. High-propensity accounts received deeper investment, while lower-propensity segments were covered with lighter-touch tactics.

Beyond the lists themselves, the integration of timely account-level signals, paired with suggested outreach hypotheses, gave BDRs a powerful new advantage. Every signal was fully verifiable, backed by a direct source link and date, so reps could trust what they were seeing and reference it directly in outreach. Instead of generic messaging, each rep received intelligently crafted prompts aligned to real-world triggers. This shift had a profound effect on both outreach volume and conversion rates.

2x
BDR output per rep
within one quarter
Refined
ICPs upgraded per region
& product line
Expanded
Account universe grown beyond
existing CRM with net-new & reactivated accounts
Days
From briefing to
delivered list

“The result was exceptional. Yes, we now had a set of Target Account Lists that our BDRs and marketing teams could use immediately, with a level of confidence and relevance that transformed our demand generation efforts. But even the refining of the Ideal Customer Profile became a high-value activity in itself. Our subsequent outreaches have been noticeably more effective and, frankly, astonishingly timely. The impact is now being felt across every demand generation channel, but the most immediate and visible change was in BDR performance. We saw something close to a doubling of output per BDR within the first quarter.”

Nikko Jones
Sales Director, FloQast EMEA
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