Attio for everyday sales work
Learn to use Attio to organise relationships and opportunities, record context and prepare the next steps in your sales activity using shared information.
Find your starting point
A good fit when you need to record relationships and opportunities clearly in Attio and resume follow-up without losing context.
Another option to consider
CRM administrationIf you are responsible for designing CRM records, fields, access and conventions, choose the administration programme.- Hours and sessions
- 8 hours live · 4 sessions of 2 h.
- Group size
- Up to 12 participants per trainer as a reference, adjusted to the practice and feedback.
What you will learn
- 01
Find and update people and company records with understandable data.
- 02
Use lists and views to review relationships and opportunities within the agreed process.
- 03
Record notes, tasks and a clear next action so follow-ups can be resumed or handed over with context.
A proposed programme
Pick up a B2B relationship after a first meeting. Find the person and their company, update their follow-up in a prepared list and leave a note and task for another salesperson. The aim is for them to find the context, distinguish confirmed information from open questions and know what to do next.
We adapt the selection and depth of the modules to the group's starting point and goals.
01Understand records
People, companies, attributes and navigation within your team's configuration.
You will work on
- Find the person and company through search and check their relationship before adding another record.
- Update confirmed information in existing editable attributes and leave unknown information unresolved.
- Distinguish record data from attributes describing its follow-up in a list.
- Practice
- Find Lucía Torres and Brisa Demo, check their relationship and review which information belongs to the person, company or sales follow-up.
- How you will check it
- The participant retrieves the correct records and explains where to update each value without duplicating the relationship or changing the schema.
02Track opportunities
Lists, views and information updates aligned with your stages and agreements.
You will work on
- Find Brisa Demo's entry in the prepared list and review its stage and follow-up owner attributes.
- Update the stage to reflect what happened and the follow-up owner to reflect the agreed handover.
- Retrieve the entry through a practice view or filter, distinguishing this from changing data or permissions.
- Practice
- Place Brisa Demo in “First meeting held”, assign follow-up to Diego and find the entry in the view of relationships to pick up.
- How you will check it
- The entry reflects the completed meeting and who continues; person and company data remain in their records, and a filter does not create another entry.
03Prepare the next action
Notes, tasks and criteria that give follow-ups sufficient context.
You will work on
- Write a note on the company record separating needs, agreements and open questions, with a reference to the contact person.
- Create a task linked to the record with a specific objective, assignee and date, checking these separately from the list's follow-up owner.
- Hand follow-up to another person, who will retrieve the note and task to explain the next step.
- Practice
- Prepare Diego's review of priorities with Lucía; exchange the case with another participant and correct the task if its assignee or date is missing.
- How you will check it
- The person receiving the work finds the documented meeting and an outstanding task with its objective, assignee and date checked.
A first meeting another salesperson can pick up
Teaching example
Suggested practice: prepare a follow-up for a customer or collaborator relationship, update a sample record and review what happens when information is missing. We leave context and a next action for another person; the exercise uses the available configuration.
Fictional classroom case. Lucía Torres at Brisa Demo has explained that two teams need to coordinate sales materials. Marina records the first meeting and Diego will continue follow-up. The list and attributes are already prepared; the budget and start date are still unconfirmed.
- Starting point
- The company is in the list, but the note only says “Good meeting”. It does not distinguish what Lucía needs, what remains to be asked or who will prepare the next conversation.
- First attempt
- The first version expands the note and makes Diego the owner of the list entry. It also creates “Pick up the conversation”, but the task has no assignee or date. Changing the list owner does not fill in these task details.
- What we review
- The trainer asks participants to retain budget and start date as open questions and clarify the objective: ask Lucía for the pilot's two priorities. The group links the task to Brisa Demo, checks Diego as its assignee and sets 16 November as the classroom follow-up date.
- Result
- Brisa Demo remains in “First meeting held”, with Diego responsible for follow-up. The note retains needs and questions, and the task “Ask Lucía for the pilot's two priorities” has an assignee and date. Someone else can pick it up without presenting budget or start date as confirmed.
Brisa Demo · after the first meeting
Records
Lucía Torres
Contact person · linked to Brisa Demo
Brisa Demo
Company · the relationship's shared context
List entry
First meeting held
Follow-up stage · budget unconfirmed
Owner · Diego
Continues the relationship · does not automatically assign the task
Note and task
Need and open questions
Coordinate materials · budget and start date unresolved
Ask for the two priorities
Diego · 16 November · linked to Brisa Demo
Teaching illustration of a fictional case; this is not an Attio screenshot. The list, records and task serve different purposes.
Before calling it complete
- Lucía and Brisa Demo are linked, and their data is distinguished from the list's stage and follow-up owner.
- The note retains the need and open questions without turning them into agreements.
- The task is linked to Brisa Demo with its objective, Diego as assignee and classroom date checked.
Four sessions to put it into practice.
Reference edition · 8 h live
Reference edition: 8 live hours across 4 sessions of 2 hours. The case, practice and review take place during the sessions using a prepared configuration. Any additional preparation is agreed before starting.
- Session 12 h
Find the relationship and review its data
Search for the person and company, check their link and distinguish confirmed data, open questions and follow-up attributes.
By the endThe correct records found and updated without duplication.
- Session 22 h
Update follow-up in the list
Work with existing stages and owners and retrieve the same entry through a practice view or filter.
By the endAn entry with a justified stage and follow-up owner.
- Session 32 h
Document the meeting and prepare the task
Separate context, agreements and questions; create a task linked to the record and check its assignee and date.
By the endA useful note and a next action that does not depend on interpreting a vague phrase.
- Session 42 h
Hand over and review the complete case
Exchange follow-up with another participant, identify missing information and correct it using the trainer's feedback.
By the endA relationship someone else can pick up with its context and task checked.
If your team needs to go further
- Designing objects, attributes, lists or permissions and migrating data requires another scope; this edition uses a prepared configuration.
- Connecting email and calendars, automating follow-ups or creating bespoke reports requires separately agreed features, permissions and practice.
Learn with someone who works with sales teams.

Juan Pedro Belmonte
GTM consultant
Over four years of experience developing sales strategies, CRM and lead generation. He has worked with companies across sizes and industries.
Juan Pedro is the planned trainer for this programme. Dates, language and his availability are confirmed when the edition is agreed.
With guidance, practice and support.
Each delivery includes working materials, feedback on practical work and assessment against the agreed objectives.
Materials you can keep
Downloadable, versioned guides, exercises and review criteria for internal use.
To prepare and complete the delivery
A short recommendation, an editable communications kit and a group learning report.
TOF’s own certificate
A certificate of achievement after the agreed assessment. It is not a vendor certification.
A month of email support
On the content covered, up to two accumulated hours for the whole group.
Your team carries out the practice. Implementation services are agreed separately. See the scope →

Attio Expert Partner
As an Attio Expert Partner, we bring experience with CRM objects, fields and views so teams can find and maintain sales context.
Our partner profile ↗The partnership belongs to The Optimal Flow. Learn’s certificate is issued by TOF; it is not a vendor certification.