We are B2B SaaS Pricing Architects.

We are a team of senior experts specialized in pricing & end-to-end commercial transformations of complex recurring revenue businesses who are not willing to settle for small improvements.
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Principles of Engagement

Principles of engagement

Objectives over Deliverables

Our commitment is to achieving our clients’ objectives, not simply completing a set list of deliverables. We tailor the project's direction, methodology, and timeline as needed, working closely with project owners to stay aligned with the desired outcomes.

This approach reflects our belief that no project starts with complete information. By staying adaptable and results-focused, we prioritize creating meaningful impact over merely checking boxes.

Principles of engagement

Price the customer - not the product

We help our client organizations shift their focus to their customers throughout the pricing design process. This approach, which we call "pricing the customer, not the product," emphasizes understanding customer value and alternatives rather than centering on product features.

Principles of engagement

The money is in the structure

With experience in over 150 pricing designs, we’ve found that the key to effective monetization lies in the price structure, not just the price point. Success comes from building robust packaging and pricing architectures—designing models that are easy to sell and operate while aligning with customer budgets and value across different customer types and sizes.

Rather than focusing on optimization or predictive modeling, we prioritize high-impact frameworks and strategies. This focus on structure is a core factor in our success.

Principles of engagement

Commercial model focus

We design pricing and packaging as an integrated part of both sales and service processes because we know that success is driven by the performance of the entire commercial model—not pricing in isolation.

To ensure this, we involve key stakeholders early in the design process and engage teams across the organization during validation and roll-out. This holistic approach aligns pricing with broader business operations, maximizing impact of the new framework.

Principles of engagement

Iteration over prediction

We focus on progress over perfection, recognizing that perfect or even sufficient information is rarely attainable in large-scale pricing redesigns. Instead of modeling complex probabilistic outcomes, we use quantitative analysis to manage risk and work with internal stakeholders to develop new frameworks designed to improve performance.By prioritizing confidence and collaboration, we implement quickly, testing and refining as we go.

This directional approach integrates seamlessly with our clients' business processes, delivering fast and impactful results.

Principles of engagement

Solve for risk

As experienced business leaders, we understand that changing pricing involves risk—particularly in large, complex enterprise deals. Quantitative analysis alone cannot provide the confidence, for example, that a CEO needs to raise prices significantly for a key strategic account.

Our step-by-step method minimizes risk. We begin by involving key stakeholders in the design phase, followed by validating pricing with the broader organization, customers, and channel partners. We then test the pricing with new sales before gradually rolling it out - starting with low-risk customers, then medium-risk ones, and finally, key accounts. This method, refined through dozens of implementations across industries and geographies, delivers impactful results with confidence.

Principles of engagement

Partnership approach

Our unique approach to aligning on objectives prior to engagement and to focus on those objectives over deliverables also mean that we only engage on an all-in fee model of our projects.

This means that we never request our clients for additional payments, upsells, cross-sells or ‘additional scope’. We believe this to be a unique feature of our client relationship, that we are never incentivized to invent additional work, but instead work as efficiently towards the objectives together with our client as possible.

Over 150 redesigns delivered across 6 continents

We’ve redesigned pricing and packaging for over 150 companies across diverse industries, continents, and growth stages—ranging from pre-revenue startups to multi-billion-dollar ARR leaders.
Our expertise spans B2B SaaS, on premise & perpetual, hardware, AI, and service providers, helping businesses accelerate growth and add significant ARR. Whether through focused projects or advisory support, we drive transformative outcomes for companies with $10M to $1B in revenue.
Meet the team

Ulrik Lehrskov-Schmidt

Managing Partner, Founder
A globally recognized authority on pricing strategy and the author of The Pricing Roadmap . With over 20 years of experience, Ulrik has been a trusted advisor to globally recognized SaaS companies navigating complex pricing transformations. He holds a graduate degree in Analytical Philosophy and an MA in Finance from Harvard.
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Christopher W. Truce

Partner, Co-founder
Christopher Truce is a seasoned expert in financial services and SaaS technology products, with a proven track record in product development, commercial strategy, and pricing innovation. With over 18cc years of experience across global markets, Christopher excels in aligning pricing models with complex customer product ecosystems and driving adoption in highly regulated Industries. Chris holds an MA in business management and an EMBA from Stanford University.
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Meet the team

Ulrik Lehrskov-Schmidt

Managing Partner, Founder
A globally recognized authority on pricing strategy and the author of The Pricing Roadmap . With over 20 years of experience, Ulrik has been a trusted advisor to globally recognized SaaS companies navigating complex pricing transformations. He holds a graduate degree in Analytical Philosophy and an MA in Finance from Harvard.
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I founded Willingness to Pay on a simple belief: Every good SaaS product can be a good SaaS business.

A FOUNDING STORY LETTER FROM Ulrik Lehrskov-Schmidt
Too many good products fail to scale—not because of poor technology, but because of poor commercialisation. To me that has always been a fascinating problem to solve
In 2017, after publishing my first book on pricing, I launched Willingness to Pay. Demand followed. First slowly, then quickly. Over the next five years, I became one of the world’s most sought-after pricing consultants based on referrals alone. I’ve had the privilege of working with clients like Microsoft, SAP, Intel, Samsung, and leading PE and VC firms.
In 2023 I published The Pricing Roadmap, my attempt to document what I had learned about B2B SaaS pricing. The book’s success became the beginning of a new chapter: expanding my team to deliver deeper impact and help more SaaS businesses achieve transformation.
Today at Willingness to Pay, we continue to help clients unlock the potential of their businesses by designing pricing models that their customers love and offer real, long term support through commercial transformations.

My internal drive is, and has always been, a real desire to help.  I also have an unexplained and deep enjoyment of solving complex, commercial problems. There is nothing better than sharing the joy with a client when a new model just works.

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