We design Incentive Compensation Management (ICM) toolkits and modeling programs — the Excel-based systems that let your team build, test, and run your own incentive plans with confidence, in-house, at your own pace. We design and administer the incentive programs themselves too, but our core offering is the toolkit: built once, configured to your plan, and handed off so your team can run it with ease going forward. Every plan is stress-tested before release, so the projected payout and the actual payout are never a surprise to each other.
I'm Christina Bustos. I've spent seventeen years designing and running sales incentive compensation — at Hollister, Shire, Takeda, and Hospira — and I built Verity Comp because I needed it myself.
That work taught me the same lesson over and over: most companies don't actually have a technology problem, they have a modeling problem. I kept looking for a tool that was rigorous enough to trust and simple enough to actually use, and it never quite existed. So I built it.
This toolkit is the system I wish I'd had in every one of those roles — one that lets you prove your plan is fair and accurate before it ever reaches the field. Trust in the plan isn't a nice-to-have. It's what keeps reps motivated and engaged, and once that trust is gone, it's hard to earn back.
I hold a B.A. in Business Administration and Management from Carthage College, and I've spent my career since inside the room where these decisions actually get made — most recently as Global Manager, Sales Incentives & Data Analytics at Hollister, where I led the rollout of the organization's first global Power BI compensation dashboard. I've also served on the Sales Leaders Council with The Conference Board, benchmarking incentive strategy alongside other industry leaders.
I built this because I want other people in this function to have what I spent years piecing together myself — a clear, trustworthy way to get the plan right the first time. If it helps someone find the right solution a little faster and makes their job a little less chaotic, that's the whole point.
They show up as disengaged reps, quota disputes in Q3, and a finance team that can't explain a payout on demand.
The plan simulator doesn't just calculate payout — it benchmarks the plan across three categories, so alignment to corporate strategy and fairness to reps aren't left to opinion.
Most incentive compensation problems aren't a technology problem. They're a modeling problem wearing a spreadsheet.
Most SPM platforms are expensive and take months — sometimes over a year — to implement, and too often the plan still isn't right afterward, because the real problem was never the system. It was the modeling and methodology underneath it. Excel and Power BI, used well, are more than capable of running a rigorous incentive compensation program. Putting the budget into getting the logic right, instead of a platform migration, is usually the faster path — and a far less stressful one.
Three connected tools carry a plan from design through year-end payout — each one feeding the next.
Simulates the full year's payout scenarios from 24 months of data, recommends threshold and accelerator rates, and stress-tests the plan before it ever reaches the field.
Plan design See the full breakdown →Turns the plan simulator's methodology into fair, accurate monthly quotas by territory — across up to 10 components, 58 territories, and 5 rep types.
Quota setting See the full breakdown →Maps actuals against the plan and the goals to auto-calculate achievement and payout, including proration, eligibility, and recognition programs.
Payout & achievement See the full breakdown →Every toolkit file includes a high-level Scoreboard and Trend view of goal and achievement at the national level, out of the box. Territory-level reporting for the field, and live Power BI dashboards, are available as add-ons once your structure and distribution needs are set.
The model gets the math right. These make sure the field understands it and it looks like it came from your company.
We translate the finalized model into the plan document that actually goes out to the field — payout mechanics, eligibility, thresholds, and accelerators written in plain language, checked line-by-line against the model so what reps read matches what they'll be paid.
Field release $1,500 – $4,000Toolkit files, goal and achievement reports, and Power BI dashboards rebuilt in your colors, logo, and formatting — plus the structural work most templates can't handle out of the box: adding territories or rep types beyond the built-in defaults, configuring additional product components, and adjusting the roster and hierarchy tabs to match how your organization is actually structured.
Reports & toolkit $1,500 – $5,000Most clients start with a strategy call — we scope the engagement to your component and territory count before quoting a fixed fee.
The toolkit itself — ICM Plan Simulator, Goal Allocator, and Performance Tracker files — with setup documentation and a legend for every input cell. Self-serve: you configure it, at your own pace, with email support for setup questions in the first 30 days. Does not include data migration or plan-specific configuration.
Toolkit plus structured onboarding: a kickoff call to scope your components, territories, and rep types, hands-on help mapping your actual data into the files, and a follow-up review once your first payout scenarios run — so you're not troubleshooting formulas alone. Typically completed over 2–3 weeks.
We configure the model to your actual comp structure, help set defensible quotas using the fairness testing built into the tools, and interpret the plan-effectiveness and sensitivity-test outputs alongside your leadership team — including support presenting the plan and its rationale internally. Scope and price scale with your number of components, territories, and rep types; most engagements run through a full plan cycle with periodic check-ins as results come in.
We run the full lifecycle for you each cycle — modeling, goal-setting, and tracking-to-goal — plus Power BI dashboard setup for achievement, tracking, and payout statements with secured, role-based distribution. Includes a dedicated point of contact and ongoing plan-year support, so your team never has to own the mechanics directly.
A 30-minute working session, on us — we'll check whether your projected payout and your target payout actually agree. No toolkit purchase required.
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