B2B sales above the SMB tier almost always involves multiple stakeholders at the buyer account. A typical mid-market deal touches 4-6 people; enterprise can run 8-15. Each stakeholder has different engagement patterns, different decision authority, different agenda. Tracking individual stakeholder engagement and inferring buying-committee dynamics from the patterns is one of the higher-leverage activities in complex B2B sales.
The pattern: collect engagement signals across every stakeholder communicating about the deal, identify the champion (highest engagement velocity, positive sentiment, multi-open on key documents), identify the blocker (declining engagement, negative or neutral sentiment, opens without follow-through), and use the pattern to inform stakeholder-specific outreach strategy. The rep's job becomes optimising the relationship with the champion and surfacing the blocker's objections directly rather than working around.