CRM Consultants & Implementation Partners in Birmingham, AL

Fast Slow Motion is a consulting firm that helps growing businesses get more from three technology platforms: Salesforce, HubSpot and Anthropic's Claude. Founded in 2014, it is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, and maintains offices at various points around the country. Its customers are located in all 50 states as well as Canada, Europe and the Caribbean.

Organizations in the Detroit area would most likely be served through remote collaboration. The firm describes its philosophy as consulting first and configuring second, with a stated purpose of supporting business leaders as they grow.

Services and Platforms

The Salesforce side of the business is organized around five areas of work:

• AI and data strategy, helping clients spot opportunities to apply Salesforce's AI capabilities and their own data
• Strategy and planning, which starts by studying the company and then looks for gaps across departments
• Implementation, delivered as a four-week Quickstart that targets the highest-impact processes and supports user adoption
• Remediation and turnarounds for orgs that are underused or not producing value
• Systems integration by developers and integration specialists who unify a client's technology stack

The consultants also work with a broad range of Salesforce products, including MuleSoft, and the firm maintains a separate HubSpot practice. A newer offering connects Claude to a client's systems, workflows, customer information and accumulated knowledge, so that the AI's output reflects the actual business instead of producing generic responses.

Industry Focus

Dedicated programs exist for financial services, healthcare and manufacturing on both the Salesforce and HubSpot sides. In finance, the firm builds customized CRM environments for investment banks, private equity firms and venture capital investors, arguing that a standard Salesforce setup rarely suits dealmakers. Typical capabilities include:

• Managing prospects, buyers, sellers and investors across the deal cycle
• Keeping diligence, closing documents and tasks organized
• Combining household, account and relationship records
• Automating onboarding and compliance approvals with audit trails
• Linking portfolio and loan origination systems

One published private equity example describes a firm that gained year-over-year opportunity forecasting, a cleaner handoff from business development representatives to directors, and more repeatable processes.

How Engagements Work

A project begins with an hour-long discovery call covering goals, pain points and the client's technology, followed by a technical scoping session in which the client walks the team through its processes and data. Consultants then design an approach internally, drawing on specialists from similar industries, and present it in a solution review that settles scope, budget and timeline. Calls are recorded and followed up in writing.

During delivery, clients can expect:

• A weekly report covering progress, risks and next steps
• Regular weekly meetings, each followed by an internal debrief
• Recorded videos that demonstrate and document configured solutions
• Basecamp as a shared view of project status

Credentials and Team

The firm calls itself a Summit-tier Salesforce partner. It reports more than 750 Salesforce certifications, 11 Salesforce accreditations, 177 HubSpot certifications and five HubSpot accreditations. It also holds Select partner status with Claude and employs 16 Claude Certified Architects.

More than 120 full-time consultants, all located in North America, have completed over 3,000 projects for more than 1,500 clients. Testimonials describe long relationships spanning twenty or more projects and custom dashboards that impressed end customers. Beyond consulting, the company publishes a book on its Scalable Business Framework, produces a podcast and writes a blog about practical uses of AI.