Salesforce Consulting for the Agentforce Era

Build the Salesforce foundation your AI agents can trust.

The Lodestone Group helps growing companies clean up, connect, and extend Salesforce so teams and AI agents can work from trusted data, governed workflows, and clear business processes.

Salesforce Command Layer

Agentforce readiness workspace

Agentforce readiness score

82/100
Data quality74
Permission modelReady
Knowledge baseReview
Pipeline health

Stable

Data risks

11

Next best actions

RuleSummarize renewal risk
CaseRoute priority case
TaskDraft next-best action

Implementation roadmap

Map

Map

Arch

Design

Build

Build

Go

Launch

Agent actions mapped

18

High-risk flows

7

Human handoffs

12

Registered Salesforce Consulting Partner
Agentforce Sales
Agentforce Service
Experience Cloud
Agentforce Marketing
Agentforce Commerce
Consumer Goods Cloud
Salesforce Maps
Agentforce Field Service
MuleSoft
Slack
Tableau

The problem

Most Salesforce orgs are not ready for AI agents yet.

Agentforce can reason, act, and collaborate across business workflows, but only if the underlying CRM foundation is trustworthy. Messy data, unclear ownership, brittle automations, technical debt, and disconnected systems create risk before they create leverage.

Data Drift

Dirty Data

Duplicate records, missing fields, inconsistent lifecycle stages, and unreliable reporting limit what humans and agents can safely do.

Process Split

Disconnected Processes

Sales, service, operations, and delivery often work from different versions of the truth.

Flow Debt

Automation Sprawl

Years of flows, validation rules, integrations, and manual workarounds can make Salesforce fragile.

Action Risk

AI Without Governance

Agents need permissions, context, instructions, auditability, and well-defined action boundaries.

The Lodestone solution

From CRM implementation to intelligent business infrastructure.

Lodestone helps companies expose the hidden structure inside Salesforce, organize it, and turn it into governed workflows that can support people and agents.

Data

Architect the Foundation

Assess the org, data model, security, automations, integrations, and reporting layer before scaling AI or automation.

Workflow

Build the Workflows

Design and implement sales, service, marketing, commerce, and operations workflows that reflect how the business actually runs.

Agent Action

Prepare for Agentforce

Define practical agent use cases, required context, permissions, actions, escalation paths, and governance models.

Agentforce readiness

Agentforce readiness starts before the first agent is built.

The best AI agent strategy starts with trusted data, clear process boundaries, and well-designed actions. Lodestone helps teams identify where Agentforce can create value now, and what needs to be cleaned up first.

Readiness checklist

What must be true before agents act

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Data qualityNeeds Review
Record ownershipReady
Sales/service lifecycle clarityNeeds Review
Permission modelReady
Knowledge base readinessHigh Risk
Flow and automation auditNeeds Review
Integration landscapeReady
Reporting and observabilityNeeds Review
Human handoff pathsReady
Agent action boundariesHigh Risk

Services

Salesforce services built around outcomes, not objects.

Cloud expertise matters. The larger value is knowing how each cloud connects into revenue, service, operations, reporting, and the next generation of agentic workflows.

RevOps

Agentforce Sales

Pipeline visibility, lead routing, opportunity lifecycle design, forecasting, quoting support, activity management, and executive dashboards.

Open service track

Support

Agentforce Service

Case management, support workflows, escalation paths, knowledge, entitlement logic, agent assist, and service analytics.

Open service track

Portal

Experience Cloud

Partner, customer, and internal portals that expose the right data and actions to the right users.

Open service track

Journey

Agentforce Marketing

Audience strategy, journey architecture, CRM-connected marketing operations, and campaign reporting.

Open service track

Commerce

Agentforce Commerce

B2B/B2C commerce architecture, Salesforce integration, account-based buying flows, and operational handoffs.

Open service track

Field Ops

Consumer Goods Cloud

Route, store, account, inventory, visit, and territory data organized for better field execution.

Open service track

Territory

Salesforce Maps

Maps, routing, territory planning, account coverage, and location-aware reporting built into Salesforce.

Open service track

Dispatch

Agentforce Field Service

Dispatch, territory, mobile workforce, asset, work order, and customer context designed for field service teams.

Open service track

Systems

MuleSoft

RPA, IDP, Anypoint, Composer, third-party middleware, and custom API patterns that connect Salesforce to operations.

Open service track

Collab

Slack

Salesforce-connected channels, alerts, approvals, handoffs, and agent-assisted updates where work already happens.

Open service track

Insight

Tableau

Executive reporting, operational analytics, trusted metrics, and connected insights for clearer decisions.

Open service track

Service tracks

Quick Starts for focused needs. Custom builds for complex business realities.

Explore packaged Quick Starts for focused Salesforce and Agentforce work, or use the same discovery path to shape a deeper custom implementation. Each track is designed to help you move from a clear business need to an estimate-ready roadmap without weeks of upfront meetings.

Agentforce Sales

Pipeline operating model

Stand up clean lead-to-opportunity motion quickly, then extend into territory logic, forecasting, quoting support, and leadership reporting.

Quick Start: Lifecycle, routing, dashboards

Custom: Revenue architecture and integrations

Start discovery
Agentforce Service

Support command center

Launch practical case management and escalation paths, then connect knowledge, entitlements, agent assist, and service analytics.

Quick Start: Intake, queues, SLAs

Custom: Triage, knowledge, automation

Start discovery
Experience Cloud

Portal experience layer

Give customers, partners, or internal teams the right data and actions without exposing the wrong system complexity.

Quick Start: Authenticated portal shell

Custom: Role-based workflows and integrations

Start discovery
Agentforce Marketing

CRM-connected journeys

Align audiences, lifecycle stages, journeys, and reporting so marketing activity reflects the same customer truth as sales and service.

Quick Start: Audience and campaign basics

Custom: Journey architecture and attribution

Start discovery
Agentforce Commerce

Connected buying flows

Design commerce around accounts, products, pricing, fulfillment, support handoffs, and the reporting leaders actually need.

Quick Start: Catalog and CRM handoff

Custom: B2B/B2C architecture and operations

Start discovery
Integrations

Systems and field signals

Connect Salesforce to ERP, accounting, telephony, inventory, data warehouses, maps, and custom APIs with durable ownership boundaries.

Quick Start: System map and priority sync

Custom: MuleSoft, middleware, APIs, observability

Start discovery
Agentforce

Agent readiness and governed actions

Identify the right first agent, clean up the required context, define action boundaries, and prepare a launch plan your team can trust.

Quick Start: Readiness assessment

Custom: Agent action design and governance

Start discovery

Automated discovery workshop

Collect the right context before anyone writes a statement of work.

Skip the marathon discovery cycle. Our automated workshop asks focused questions about your goals, Salesforce org, data quality, integrations, users, timeline, and risks, then turns your answers into a clearer scope conversation and estimate-ready service path.

Input

Guided intake

Answer focused prompts about your goals, org, clouds, systems, users, and timeline when it is convenient for your team. Work at your own pace and give us the context that makes the first conversation sharper.

Synth

Scope signals

We translate your responses into priorities, risks, unknowns, and likely Quick Start or custom implementation paths.

Estimate

Faster service estimate

Move toward a practical estimate and recommended next steps without stacking hours of repetitive discovery meetings. The goal is a clearer path with less friction.

How we work

Clear delivery from discovery to go-live.

The route from idea to production should be visible. Lodestone keeps the business process, architecture, scope, training, and adoption path connected from day one.

Field Map

Map

Clarify the business process, stakeholders, systems, pain points, and desired outcomes.

Blueprint

Design

Translate discovery into architecture, scope, implementation plan, data model, and user experience.

Build Route

Build

Configure, customize, integrate, automate, test, and iterate in close partnership with your team.

Go Live

Launch

Support deployment, training, adoption, cutover, documentation, and stakeholder alignment.

Tune

Optimize

Review usage, reporting, automation performance, data quality, and roadmap opportunities.

Agentforce use cases

Practical Agentforce use cases start with real operational bottlenecks.

The right first agent is rarely the flashiest. It is the one with trusted context, a narrow action boundary, measurable impact, and a human handoff path.

Follow-Up

Sales Follow-Up Agent

Prioritize leads, summarize account context, suggest next steps, and create follow-up tasks based on lifecycle rules.

Triage

Service Triage Agent

Classify cases, recommend knowledge, identify priority, and route work to the right team.

Briefing

Customer 360 Briefing Agent

Generate account summaries across opportunities, cases, contacts, notes, and recent activity.

Risk Radar

Project Risk Agent

Surface delayed tasks, overdue deliverables, missing approvals, and customer satisfaction risks.

Quote Desk

Quote Preparation Agent

Gather product, pricing, margin, account, and opportunity context to help reps prepare accurate quotes.

Signal

Executive Insight Agent

Convert CRM activity, pipeline, service metrics, and delivery signals into leadership-ready summaries.

Outcome-focused

Built for companies that need Salesforce to work in the real world.

We bled to get here and we've worked with hundreds of companies like yours. Let us show you what we've learned.

Agent-powered lead nurturing
Cleaner pipeline reporting
Faster service handoffs
Better executive visibility
Faster scope and SOW turnaround
Salesforce delivery that survives the real world
Simplified Agent Orchestration

Verified proof markers

5-star

Salesforce AppExchange rating

Top Partner

for SMB customers

Multi-cloud

certified Salesforce expertise

Scope

Blazing fast SOW turnaround

Build

Configured with YOUR context

Adopt

Launch support and tuning

Operating model - Crawl. Walk. Run. Fly.

A Salesforce delivery model built for the messy middle.

Most Salesforce work lives between executive intent and system reality. Lodestone stays in that space with a delivery rhythm that connects discovery, architecture, build decisions, user adoption, and measurable outcomes.

Architecture before automation

Data, permissions, ownership, and integrations are mapped before the build gets momentum.

Fast path to scope

Discovery inputs are structured so estimation can move quickly without guessing.

Build with adoption in mind

Configuration, enablement, reporting, and launch support stay connected.

Room for complexity

Quick Starts stay focused, while custom implementations can handle real operational nuance.

What's Next?

Ready to make Salesforce your AI-ready operating system?

Start with a focused roadmap conversation. We will help identify where Salesforce can create the most leverage, and what needs to be true before Agentforce enters the workflow.