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What is MEDDPICC?
MEDDPICC is a sales qualification methodology for B2B deals. It stands for Metrics, Economic buyer, Decision criteria, Decision process, Paper process, Identify pain, Champion and Competition. Each letter is something you need to know before you can forecast a deal with confidence. It grew out of MEDDIC, developed at PTC in the 1990s, and adds the paper process and the competition.
The letters aren't steps. You learn them in whatever order the deal gives them to you, and the scorecard shows which ones you're still guessing at.
Metrics
The measurable result the buyer wants, like cutting ramp time from six months to three. It's how they'll judge the purchase, and how you prove it paid off.
Proven:The economic buyer agreed to the number and owns it.
Economic buyer
The person with the final say on the money. They can approve the deal when others object, and stop it when everyone else agrees.
Proven:They agreed to the metrics and the timeline.
Decision criteria
How the buyer will compare options: technical needs, budget, integrations, risk. Whoever shapes the criteria usually wins the deal.
Proven:The criteria are written down, and they favor you.
Decision process
The steps, people and dates between now and a decision. Not the same as the paper process, which starts after the yes.
Proven:Steps and dates are agreed in a shared plan.
Paper process
How a yes becomes a signed contract: legal review, security questionnaires, procurement, signatures. Deals that are won still slip here.
Proven:Paperwork has started, with a date for each step.
Identify pain
The business problem that makes doing nothing expensive. No pain means no urgency, and no reason to buy from anyone.
Proven:It's urgent, and the economic buyer feels it.
Champion
Someone inside the account with influence who wants you to win and sells for you when you're not in the room. A friendly contact isn't a champion until they act.
Proven:They've sold for you when you weren't in the room.
Competition
Every alternative the buyer is weighing: other vendors, building it themselves, or doing nothing. Doing nothing is the one most deals lose to.
Proven:You know why you win against each one.
MEDDPICC questions to ask, by element
Forty discovery questions that move a letter from Unknown to Confirmed. Ask them in your own words, a few per call, never as a checklist read aloud.
Metrics
- “What number are you trying to move, and by how much?”
- “What does the problem cost you today?”
- “How will you measure success, and who reports on it?”
- “By when does that number need to change?”
- “What happens to that number if you do nothing?”
Listen for: a number with a unit and a date. "Faster" or "better" is still Assumed.
Economic buyer
- “Who signs off on a purchase this size?”
- “Who signed the last purchase like this one?”
- “What does that person care about most this year?”
- “Can we get 20 minutes with them before the proposal?”
- “What would make them say no?”
Listen for: one name, not a committee. Then ask to meet them.
Decision criteria
- “How will you compare the options?”
- “What's a must-have, and what's a nice-to-have?”
- “What would rule a vendor out?”
- “Who wrote the criteria?”
- “How did you choose the tool you use today?”
Listen for: criteria that are written down, and who wrote them.
Decision process
- “Walk me through the steps from today to a decision.”
- “Who's involved at each step?”
- “What happened the last time you bought something like this?”
- “What could slow this down?”
- “When do you need a decision, and why then?”
Listen for: how the last similar purchase went. That's the real process.
Paper process
- “Who handles contracts on your side?”
- “Do you need a security review, and how long does it take?”
- “At what deal size does procurement get involved?”
- “Do you have standard terms we should start from?”
- “What's the fastest a contract like this has been signed?”
Listen for: how long legal and security took last time. Plan from that, not from hope.
Identify pain
- “What's not working today?”
- “What does it cost you in time, money or risk?”
- “Who feels it most?”
- “Why fix it now, and not next year?”
- “What have you tried already?”
Listen for: a cost and a person who feels it. Complaints without a cost are still Assumed.
Champion
- “Why does this matter to you personally?”
- “What would you need from me to make the case internally?”
- “Who would push back, and why?”
- “Can you get us in front of the person who signs?”
- “How have you gotten projects like this approved before?”
Listen for: what they do, not what they say. Intros and inside information are the test.
Competition
- “What else are you looking at?”
- “What do you like about them?”
- “Have you thought about building it in-house?”
- “What happens if you do nothing?”
- “Have you worked with a vendor like us before, and how did it go?”
Listen for: doing nothing and building it in-house. Both count as competitors.
MEDDPICC example and template: one deal, scored
A 120-seat deal the rep wanted to call best case. Scored honestly, it's pipeline: the pain is real, but nobody has met the person who signs, and nobody knows how a contract gets signed. Use the scorecard above as your MEDDPICC template: score a deal, then Save PDF for a one-page deal brief.
| Element | Score | What the rep knows | Next step |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metrics | Confirmed | Cut new SDR ramp from 6 months to 3 by Q3. | Get the economic buyer to agree to the number, in writing if you can. |
| Economic buyer | Assumed | Dana Ruiz, VP Sales, signs. Nobody has met her. | Ask your champion for 20 minutes with them. Bring the metric. |
| Decision criteria | Confirmed | Salesforce sync, admin controls, under $60k. | Shape the list toward what you do best. |
| Decision process | Assumed | A pilot, then "leadership decides". | Map every step to a name and a date. |
| Paper process | Unknown | Nothing yet. | Ask who handles contracts and security reviews, and how long each takes. |
| Identify pain | Proven | Missed the Q2 pipeline target. The VP raised it at kickoff. | Keep it in every recap. |
| Champion | Confirmed | The SDR manager shared the org chart and set up the pilot. | Arm them with a one-page business case to take upstairs. |
| Competition | Assumed | Heard they demoed one other vendor. | Find out what they like about the other option. |
Result: 50 out of 100, forecast as pipeline. Two meetings, one with the economic buyer and one with procurement, would do more for this deal than another demo.
MEDDPICC vs MEDDICC vs MEDDIC vs BANT
Same goal, different depth. BANT tells you if a lead deserves a meeting. MEDDIC and MEDDPICC tell you if a deal will close. MEDDICC, with two Cs, is MEDDIC plus competition.
| BANT | MEDDIC | MEDDPICC | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Letters | Budget, Authority, Need, Timeline | Metrics, Economic buyer, Decision criteria, Decision process, Identify pain, Champion | All of MEDDIC, plus Paper process and Competition |
| Answers | Is this lead worth a discovery call? | Can this deal close? | Can it close on time, past legal and procurement, against every alternative? |
| Use it for | Inbound leads and first calls | Deals with a few stakeholders and a short buying process | Larger deals with a committee, a security review and competitors |
| Blind spot | Says nothing about how they buy or who's selling for you | Deals slip in legal and procurement, or to a competitor you didn't track | Eight letters is a lot for a small, fast deal |
Use both: BANT to decide which leads get a meeting, MEDDPICC once it's a real opportunity. The scorecard above switches between them.
What is BANT in sales?
BANT stands for Budget, Authority, Need and Timeline. IBM is widely credited with it, as a way to qualify leads, and it's still the fastest check on whether a lead deserves a rep's time.
Its limit is depth. BANT can tell you a lead is worth a call, not whether a deal will close.
4 proven strategies for sales lead qualificationLead qualification questions that work
Budget
Money set aside for this, or a clear way to find it.
Ask: “How have you paid for projects like this before?”
Authority
Whether you're talking to someone who can sign, or who can get you to them.
Ask: “Who else needs to be part of this decision?”
Need
A problem worth paying to fix. Without it, the other three don't matter.
Ask: “What's not working, and what does it cost you?”
Timeline
When they need it solved, and the event that makes the date real.
Ask: “When does this need to be working, and what happens then?”
How to run MEDDPICC in your sales process
The framework only works if the scores change as the deal does. Rescore before every forecast call, and let each stage confirm the letters it can.
Discovery
Find the pain and what it costs. Start a list of who's involved.
PainMetrics
Evaluation
Test your champion, learn the criteria, meet the economic buyer.
ChampionCriteriaBuyer
Proposal
Agree the decision process and start the paperwork alongside it.
ProcessPaper
Forecast
Rescore every letter. Commit only what's proven, not what you hope.
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MEDDPICC FAQ
What does MEDDPICC stand for?
Metrics, Economic buyer, Decision criteria, Decision process, Paper process, Identify pain, Champion, and Competition. Some teams read the I as Implicate pain, which asks the same thing: what the problem costs.
What's the difference between MEDDIC, MEDDICC and MEDDPICC?
MEDDIC has six letters. MEDDICC adds Competition. MEDDPICC adds Paper process too, because deals that are won on the business case still slip in legal, security review and procurement.
What is MEDDPIC?
MEDDPIC is MEDDPICC without Competition: Metrics, Economic buyer, Decision criteria, Decision process, Paper process, Identify pain and Champion. Most teams now add Competition, because doing nothing is the alternative most deals lose to.
What is the paper process in MEDDPICC?
Everything between a verbal yes and a signed contract: legal redlines, security questionnaires, procurement and signatures. Map it early, with an owner and a timeline for each step.
What's the difference between a champion and a coach?
A coach gives you information. A champion has influence and uses it for you when you're not in the room. Test a champion by asking for something only they can do, like an intro to the economic buyer.
How do you score a deal with MEDDPICC?
Rate each letter on evidence, not feeling. This scorecard uses four levels, Unknown, Assumed, Confirmed and Proven, worth 0 to 3 points each, turned into a score out of 100. The forecast category follows rules, not the score alone: no pain means not qualified, and commit needs every letter confirmed, with the economic buyer, champion, decision process and paper process proven.
Is BANT outdated?
Not for what it was built for: deciding whether a lead deserves a meeting. It's too thin to forecast a complex deal, which is where MEDDPICC takes over.
Who created MEDDIC?
MEDDIC was developed at PTC in the 1990s and is credited to Dick Dunkel and Jack Napoli. MEDDICC and MEDDPICC are later extensions of it.
Is my deal data private?
Yes. The scorecard runs in your browser, and nothing you enter is sent or saved. A copied link carries only the scores, never the deal name or notes. Our analytics record only the forecast category, score ranges and which letter is weakest, never what you type.
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