If selling feels like the worst part of building your company, you're not alone.
Most science-led founders are brilliant at the research, the product, the data, the detail. Selling is the part that trips them up — not because they can't do it, but because they have never received any training.
The Quiet Seller fixes that.
Built for people who'd rather let the work speak for itself — but know that's not enough. Taught in a way that turns even the most reluctant founder into a confident seller.
The numbers tell the same story
39%
of a buyer's decision comes down to the salesperson — not the product.
Salesforce Research
90%
of startups fail — and the #1 cause isn't a bad product.
CB Insights
35%
higher success rate when founders have sales skills alongside tech.
Startup Genome
This is for you if
You're a founder selling complex technical products or services — and sales isn't what you signed up for.
You know your product is good — you just don't know how to get it in front of the right people.
You've been told to "sell the vision" but you'd rather sell the evidence.
You want a repeatable process, not a personality transplant.
You'd rather have 12 conversations that go somewhere than 50 that go nowhere.
Four sessions. Practical tools. Yours to use.
Every session gives you something you can use the same week.
01
Opening doors
How to find and get in front of the investors, partners, and buyers who matter — and stop waiting for them to come to you. Together we work on the different ways to target, reach out, and position yourself so the right people want to talk. You leave with a clear plan and the confidence to open doors.
02
Conversations that count
Learn how to share the right information with the right people — and get the information you need back. Ask better questions, listen for what matters, and stop pitching at people who haven't told you what they actually need. You leave with a conversation structure you can use on your next call.
03
Value, pricing, and the hard questions
How to explain your value in the buyer's language, say your price without flinching, and handle objections without getting defensive — because objections aren't rejections, they're the buyer telling you what they need to hear next. You leave with a value statement that lands, a price you can say out loud, and the ability to turn pushback into progress.
04
Momentum
Most deals don't die in the meeting — they die in the follow-up. Learn how to stay on people's radar, keep things moving, and build a sales rhythm that survives the rest of your week. Plus how to build a simple AI stack that saves you time, speeds up your outreach, and helps you do in hours what used to take days.
What's included
Not just the course. Everything you need to actually use it.
Live Training Sessions
With Katie
4 × 90-minute small-group sessions on Teams. Interactive, not lectures. Plus a personalised action plan after every session.
1:1 Coaching
Your business, your buyers
2 × 60-minute one-to-one sessions with Katie on your own deals, pitches and conversations — scheduled around what you're actually working on.
Ada — Your Unfair Advantage
Personal AI sales coach
Access to Ada, who has been built around everything we cover in the course. Practise your pitches and sales conversations before every real meeting — always on, always ready.
Workbooks
Built for the way you work now
Not filler worksheets. Practical templates you apply straight to your business — and feed into AI tools as we go, so everything we build keeps working after the course ends.
Meet your trainer
Hi, I'm Katie Healy. I've spent 20 years in commercial roles across science-led organisations — finding the opportunities, sitting in the meetings, working through the objections, and navigating the complex, multi-stakeholder buying journeys that come with selling science. I've built sales teams, go-to-market strategies, and helped businesses grow from pre-revenue to scale. Then I did what a lot of my clients are doing now — I left corporate life to build my own business.
Since starting Opendoor Scientific, every conversation starts in the same place. Founders frustrated with agencies and consultancies that cost a fortune and leave them with strategies, slide decks, and intangible results. No process they can own. No confidence they can do it themselves. Just a bill and lots of documents they'll never use again.
AI has changed that equation. It can now do a lot of what those agencies charge for — the strategy, the planning, the outreach. But it can't get you in the room. It can't speak for you when you're there. It can't read the room, handle the silence, or understand the human behaviour behind selling. This course works alongside AI to make you faster, more efficient, and more independent — but it teaches the one thing AI can't do for you: the soft skills that create opportunities and close deals.
Nearly every new client says the same thing to me: "I'm not a salesperson. That's why I'm speaking to you." So I built The Quiet Seller.
Pick your time zone.
6 seats per cohort. After you reserve, you'll get course details by email — plus a short questionnaire two weeks before we start, so every session and 1:1 is tailored to your business.
All sessions run live on Teams. If you miss one, you'll get a full recap and your personalised action plan — but the interactive nature of the sessions means you'll get the most value by being there.
This course is for anyone who needs to sell B2B complex products or services and has little to no sales training.
No — this is exactly when to do it. You'll leave with a target list, a conversation structure, and the confidence to get in front of investors, early customers, and partners before you think you're ready.
Plan for the 90-minute training session, plus time to work through your personalised action plan and practise with Ada. Designed to fit around the rest of your founder workload.
Come to Session 1. If it's not a fit, let me know within 48 hours and I'll refund you in full. No questions asked.
Unfortunately not — each place comes with personalisation tailored to that individual. We do however offer different versions of the course for groups, either virtually or in person. Get in touch for pricing.
There are currently three cohorts running this year: Spring, Summer, and Autumn. Pick the one that works for your schedule.
Ada is your personal AI sales practice partner, built around everything we cover in the course. Use her to practise pitches, rehearse conversations, and prepare before every real meeting. She's always on and always ready.
None. Most people on this course have never had any sales training.
Stop hiding. Start selling.
6 seats per cohort. Small groups. Real work on your business. Pick a cohort and stop putting it off.