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ComparingSharkdom vs Crossbeam?

You are losing out big time.

See why 420+ partnership teams switched from Crossbeam to Sharkdom — faster onboarding, deeper attribution, and zero spreadsheet tax. The full breakdown, nothing spun.

The Crossbeam Problem

Challenges teams hitwith legacy partner tools

Crossbeam was built for one thing — account mapping. Partnership teams today need a full operating system for recruiting, activating, tracking and paying partners.

Partner integrations above a task workflow panel with generate action
  • No real activation workflow

    Crossbeam stops at overlap data. You still need four more tools to onboard, certify and enable a partner.

  • Attribution ends at last-touch

    Without multi-touch credit, your co-marketing, MDF and partner plays look like zero-ROI on the spreadsheet.

  • Per-partner pricing that punishes growth

    Every partner you add inflates the bill. Sharkdom is flat — scale to hundreds of partners without a procurement call.

Feature-by-feature
CrossbeamvsSharkdom

Every row benchmarked against the published feature set. Last updated Q2 2026.

Capability14 categories
ChallengerCrossbeam
WinnerSharkdom

AI-driven partner recruiting

Auto-source qualified partners from the open web

Account mapping & overlap

Find shared customers with partners

Partner onboarding workflows

Automated training, certification, tier-ups

Limited
Full LMS included

Multi-touch attribution

Credit every partner touch on every deal

Last-touch only
Multi-touch, every channel

MDF & co-op marketing

Budget, approve and track marketing funds

Per-partner permissions

Fine-grained internal access per partner

Workspace-level
Per partner, per field

Time to first value

~42 days
Under 7 days

Pricing model

Per-partner seat
Flat + unlimited partners

Partner verification & compliance

Automated due diligence and tier readiness

Global partner marketplace

Discover and recruit net-new partners

Deal desk & pipeline hygiene

Structured approvals and shared visibility

Spreadsheet handoffs
Native deal rooms

CRM integrations

Bidirectional sync depth

Strong Salesforce focus
29+ native integrations

Affiliate & referral payouts

Pay partners accurately at scale

Executive reporting

Pipeline and influenced revenue in one view

Mapping-centric reports
Ops + attribution dashboards

Based on public docs & customer interviews · Updated Q2 2026

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Pricing, like-for-like

Compare pricing for a100-partner team

Modeled on the Crossbeam, Partnerstack and Sharkdom published plans. Annual billing, 100 partners, 5 internal users.

Crossbeam

Supernode Plan

$2,400/mo
  • Account mapping
  • Basic integrations
  • No attribution
  • No MDF tooling
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Sharkdom

Pro Plan · flat

$1,290/mo
  • Everything in Crossbeam
  • Multi-touch attribution
  • Partner LMS + MDF
  • Unlimited partners
Partnerstack

Growth Plan

$1,950/mo
  • Partner payouts
  • Affiliate tracking
  • No account mapping
  • Limited LMS
Why Sharkdom

What makes Sharkdom the best place to find industry partnerships?

Six product decisions that make Sharkdom a different category of product from Crossbeam or Partnerstack.

01

7-day go-live

Ship your partner portal, deal desk and LMS in asingle week — not a six-month implementationproject.

02

Multi-touch attribution

See every partner's contribution to every deal —from first touch to closed-won, with no manualtagging.

03

Unlimited partners, flat fee

Scale to 1,000 partners without talking to asales rep. No per-seat gotchas, no growthpenalty.

04

Built-in partner LMS

Ship branded training, tier up partnersautomatically, and certify new reps before theytouch a pipeline.

05

MDF & co-op budgets

Allocate, approve and track marketing fundsper partner — with ROI tied back to sourcedand influenced pipeline.

06

Per-partner permissions

Decide who on your team sees which partner,which deals, which numbers — one matrix, no ITticket.

Founder story

Learn how a founder can use
the power of partnerships.

See how Anya Patel scaled her B2B SaaS from $400K to $6.2M ARR using nothing but partner-led growth — and the exact Sharkdom playbook she ran.

Partner-sourced ARR

$6.2M

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We'll rebuild your partner workspace in Sharkdom from an export — free of charge. Most teams go live in under a week.

  • Free white-glove migration by our CX team
  • All partners, deals & history preserved
  • Side-by-side running for 30 days
  • No data left behind, ever

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