High-Value Actions: Reverse Mapping The Secret Pattern Behind Pipeline

My Next Gen Model That Turns Anonymous Data Exhaust Into Predictable Pipeline

There’s a quiet revolution happening in B2B marketing.

If cookies were the currency of the performance era, HVAs are the currency of the Signal Era.

They bridge the gap between anonymous behaviour and actionable revenue. They turn marketing from a guessing game into a predictive model of demand.

This quiet revolution is less ‘adtech’, ‘martech’, or analytics dashboards. It’s a data currency

It’s the data trail buyers leave behind - the invisible moments that separate curiosity from commitment. The data unlock that far surpasses GA4, and traditional analytics in order to unlock the connection between accounts + signals + conversions - which transforms noisy data into a scientific way to understand purchase intent and map back to it with your marketing engine.

Most teams never see those moments. They lack the tech stack and data unlocks to make the invisible visible

As a result they chase clicks, other vanity metrics and fill reports with other weak proxy engagement metrics. This isn’t a knowledge or capability gap in these teams, there’s incredibly capable and smart people throughout B2B marketing, the vast majority of whom know these metrics are outdated and carry limited weight - its a technology and data gap. Its gaps like these that compelled me to start FunnelFuel and to get deep into solving these challenges.

There is a set of unlocks which can transform vanity into the scientific reverse engineering (or reverse mapping) of pipeline back to signals.

Cutting out and getting beneath the noise, there’s a smaller set of actions which present as repeating patterns that consistently appear before a deal closes.

TLDR - My Unlock: How I Turn High-Value Actions Into Pipeline

Most B2B marketers talk about High-Value Actions. Here’s how I take them further — connecting them to real pipeline outcomes.

1. Connect HVAs to closed-won deals – work backwards from CRM truth to see exactly what those companies did in the days, weeks, and months before they converted.

2. Map accounts to an Account Knowledge Graph – enrich every domain with firmographic, technographic, and operational context: what they do, where they do it, who they serve, and how big they are.

3. Cluster accounts by region, firmographics, and tech signals – because buying behaviour changes dramatically by market, company size, and industry vertical.

4. Reverse-engineer those clusters into on-site behaviours – use FunnelFuel Analytics to map real companies to their session data and reveal what “active intent” actually looks like across different clusters

5. Use ML/AI to identify the recurring pre-purchase behaviours – surface the patterns that consistently appear before deals close within each cluster.

6. Codify those patterns into HVA account-level buying signals – formalise them as first-party signals that define sales-ready activity.

7. Weight and score each signal by cluster – build intent models that adapt locally and by business type, producing a dynamic, first-party intent score for every account.

8. Pipeline those segments back to media buying – push live intent data into DSPs to adjust bid price, pacing, and creative sequencing toward the finish line.

9. Identify new prospects through early-stage HVA triggers – capture companies showing the earliest buying signals, map them to ICP clusters, and activate them first — owning the signal early to own share of voice early.

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