Customer stories
Editorially strong customer narratives shaped through interviews, scripting, consent, approvals, and formats designed for credible reuse.
I’m Anya Gonzales. I lead customer evidence programs from story strategy to go-to-market activation—building the editorial, participation, and measurement systems that make customer proof useful in buying conversations.
Explore selected work ↘Editorially strong customer narratives shaped through interviews, scripting, consent, approvals, and formats designed for credible reuse.
Programs that turn customer relationships into reviews, event participation, references, and deeper advocacy opportunities.
Searchable tools and organized evidence that help GTM teams find the right customer language for a specific buyer need.
Reporting that connects proof usage with opportunities, reveals coverage gaps, and guides the stories the team builds next.
Two ends of the same discipline: shaping a credible customer narrative, then designing how that proof travels through the organization.
I turned a partnership video request into a four-person customer story: proposed a low-lift Vouch production model, designed the interviews by role, built the editorial source material, and guided the narrative through production and release.
I turned the Keller Williams story into buyer-facing and seller-ready proof: a distribution plan, Customers-page and YouTube launch, sales-repository placement, and a three-touch prospecting sequence. Sellers referenced Keller Williams in 584 unique open Q3 deals.
Watch the Keller Williams customer film ↗I architected and built a customer-evidence system that turns review data into searchable proof and qualified story leads. When sellers requested more quotes, I added a separate white-label table for anonymous reviews, preserving source attribution and available reviewer context. I partnered with GTM onboarding and content to place the app in the sales knowledge workflow.
“We reduced planning time and gave distributed teams one source of truth…”
Nominate for story →“The team moved from scattered files to a shared operating model…”
Review original source →“Prototyping became faster while keeping stakeholder feedback visible…”
Nominate for story →Designed a Glean agent that turns closed-win and expansion signals into a qualified story pipeline—giving Customer Marketing the context to act before waiting for a sales nomination.
Built Miro’s first customer-marketing impact dashboard, connecting seller-reported evidence usage with Salesforce opportunity data and introducing new ways to evaluate coverage, pipeline, win-rate patterns, content efficiency, and revenue. I also track proof points used without an official asset—revealing the customer narratives we should consider building next.
Explore the metric definitions, reporting logic, privacy approach, and an interactive week-over-week and quarter-to-date view.
I built a multilingual badge repository, then extended it around a seller’s decision: which badges fit this prospect? The deal finder uses category, company size, region, and language to prioritize relevant badges, with explanations that help reps understand what each recognition means.
I partnered with Competitive Intelligence to turn peer-review data into category analysis, comparison quotes, use-case collateral, and seller guidance. The starting point was a business question: where does our customer evidence support the story—and where do we need stronger proof?
I tracked competitor movement across review categories, mapped overlapping vendors and categories, and surfaced changes in review volume, placement, and customer sentiment for the competitive lead.
Competitor/category tracker · head-to-head review views · positive and negative sentiment from key accounts
I curated competitor-specific quotes and built review-based value assets around priority use cases, including diagramming. I supplied editable evidence for competitive decks and sourced a Talktrack quote the competitive lead confirmed using.
Comparison quote collections · use-case value assets · capability-to-evidence mapping
I led Miro’s 2023 and 2024 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice launches, partnering with Competitive Intelligence and the Head of Analyst Relations. I built the 2024 public landing page and sales enablement guidance, connecting the distinction to customer quotes, report access, and answers sellers could use in buyer conversations.
View the 2024 public landing pageAcross report cycles, I translated peer-review findings into seller FAQs. This example illustrates that approach with internal talking points and vendor figures removed.
Explain the report’s exact designation, evaluation period, and measures. Connect the recognition to the buyer’s question using the approved source.
Compare the rating alongside review sample size, reviewer profiles, and relevant use cases. Use those differences to frame a fair comparison.
Give sellers a clear route to approved public materials and explain the permitted use of report excerpts and customer quotes.
Evidence of utility: The competitive lead described my category analysis as “Exactly what I needed,” requested editable assets for a compete deck, and confirmed selecting a product quote. These are concrete signals that the work addressed a field need.
“Publishing a customer story is only the beginning. The real work is making the right proof useful at the right moment.”
My work sits between customer trust and commercial utility. I care about the quality of the story, the experience of the participant, and whether the organization can responsibly find and use the proof.
Search reviews, customer conversations, seller activity, and deal context for specific experiences and outcomes that could become credible proof.
Secure participation, shape the narrative, and establish clear consent and usage rights.
Map proof to buyer needs and place it in the channels and workflows where it can be useful.
Track utilization and opportunity association without pretending one asset closed a complex enterprise deal.
Use performance and customer language to improve the next audience, story, request, and activation.
I build the mechanisms that let customer insight move between teams—not just the meetings where collaboration is discussed.
The Glean workflow turns revenue context into a story hypothesis and an actionable collaboration request for Customer Marketing, AEs, and CSMs.
Redesigned review generation with Lifecycle and Analytics to test audience receptivity, messaging, conversion, and the quality of customer insight captured.
Partnered with GTM onboarding and content to link the customer-quote app and G2 badge repository from Confluence resources in the sales knowledge workflow, with guidance for when reps should use each.
A customer raises their hand through a review, event, or existing relationship.
Assess the specific story, relevance, readiness, and appropriate next ask.
Set clear expectations for format, time commitment, approvals, and usage.
Prepare the participant, capture their perspective, and protect specificity.
Close the loop with gratitude, thoughtful swag, visibility, and responsible future requests.
“An advocate is a relationship—not an inventory item.”
From customer-led webinars to peer reviews, Vouch videos, event recognition, and thoughtful incentives, I have treated appreciation as part of the program—not an afterthought.
I also built the operational guardrail behind responsible reuse: a searchable permissions tool that turns manually reviewed publicity clauses into clear guidance for name and logo use, press releases, case studies, and reference calls.
Why informed participation, gratitude, consent, advocacy history, and human judgment matter just as much as production volume.
Customer evidence strategy, story development, sales enablement, AI workflows, and impact measurement.
Customer video, review strategy, enterprise proof, and third-party recognition programs.
Built Miro’s first scalable B2B review and direct-mail programs.
Customer-led webinars, product launches, pipeline programs, and direct revenue across Zendrive, Bluewolf, and Jhana.