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Prepared for Zamp · September 2026

8 of Zamp's customers are already selling for you. Almost nobody can see them.

Your customers are advocating for Zamp right now, with or without you. We audited the public record: the champions are already there, with a model of what their voices are worth in feeds and AI answers. What it sets up is the decision below: whether to turn this into a channel you actually run.

8 of 10
case studies sampled carry a named executive champion [source]
346K+
modeled impressions / yr from this cohort alone, the floor not the ceiling
22+
published customer stories [source]
On the public record3 / 3
“We didn’t have a good sense of sales tax.”
Sam Bauman [source]VP of Finance, David
“Time is money. Your time is so much better spent doing your job and what you’re great at versus trying to do sales tax.”
Kristine Jacobsen [source]Founder, Hay Chix
“Zamp is exactly what we were looking for. When you pay for something, you expect those people to provide the value they promised—and Zamp goes above and beyond.”
David Wachs [source]CEO and Founder, Handwrytten
On the public recordDavidHay ChixHandwryttenBeeya

Why this audit exists, and what happens when you claim it

You already know the customer's voice wins

Nobody has to sell you on word of mouth. It is the strongest voice in your market, and the people quoted above are proof it is already working for Zamp, with or without you. Belief was never the problem.

The missing piece was a system

Until now there has been no way to manage and amplify customer voice without ruining what makes it credible: assignment platforms turn it into advertising, portals turn it into homework. So at most companies the channel runs itself, by accident. The audit quantifies what that accident is worth at Zamp, champion by champion, with sources.

Kindling is that system

Champions enrolled, speaking on their own terms, measured, and paid fairly. Organic by design: we never assign content or set quotas, because the moment you do, buyers can tell. We build it with you, or you run it on the platform. The audit is step one.

The best finds

What the public record says, and what it leaves on the table

The full audit carries the complete record.

1

Champions already on the record

Named executives are publicly endorsing Zamp, in their own words, on pages anyone can check. They cleared legal, went on record, and would say it again.

What it means: your warmest advocates already exist and are already on record. The expensive part of building this channel is done.
2

A loud brand, a silent customer bench

Zamp's feed is working: launches, press, real attention. But the voice buyers discount least, the customer's, appears in none of it. The advocacy channel is running unowned, growing or stalling by accident.

What it means: nobody at Zamp owns word of mouth today. The first team to systematize it sets the terms.
3

The feed your buyers read, and the answers AI gives them

B2B evaluation now starts in feeds and AI assistants. The Meltwater and LinkedIn study of 9.5 million AI citations shows the cited voices are overwhelmingly people, not brands. Whoever owns the credible customer voice in a category owns the shortlist conversation.

What it means: activating your champions is not a nice-to-have. It is how Zamp gets cited in the answers its buyers read.

So you can

Turn your best marketing channel into something you can measure, predict, and grow.

Your customers become your best salespeople: real users telling their peers, in their own words, why they chose Zamp. That is Advocacy-Led Growth, and it makes your highest quality channel measurable and predictable instead of accidental. Word of mouth always had the credibility. What it never had was infrastructure. Kindling helps you build the system for it.

Start with Zamp's free audit →

Champions already on record

The strongest voices from the full audit.

“We didn’t have a good sense of sales tax. It was really valuable to us to have a trusted partner in Zamp that we could just fully go to and trust for all things sales tax.”
Sam Bauman [source]VP of Finance, David
“Time is money. Your time is so much better spent doing your job and what you’re great at versus trying to do sales tax.”
Kristine Jacobsen [source]Founder, Hay Chix
“Zamp is exactly what we were looking for. When you pay for something, you expect those people to provide the value they promised—and Zamp goes above and beyond.”
David Wachs [source]CEO and Founder, Handwrytten

Why now

Zamp's LinkedIn feed already carries attention from investors, partners, and the brand itself. What is missing is recurring customer voice in that same feed. You already know word of mouth is the best advertising there is. The difference between having it and running it as a channel is a system. Champions activated while the spotlight is on compound every dollar of attention the brand is earning. [source]

What activation looks like

A first ninety days, sized for a lean team

Weeks 1 to 2

Consolidate the scattered proof

Every quote, post, and endorsement pulled into a single champion bench with sources.

Weeks 3 to 6

Enroll the advocates already speaking

A program gives willing customers a cadence, a reason, and recognition. Their words, their feeds.

Weeks 7 to 12

Measure what leadership sees

Reach into the accounts still deciding, tracked per champion and per post, in terms a board trusts.

Claim your full audit

The full audit is not more information. It is the case file for one decision: is this channel worth systematizing at Zamp, and what would that take? Leave your name and work email; we verify the request, then send the PDF. Nothing is auto-delivered.

The complete champion bench, including any not shown on this page
The full public-evidence record and what it signals to buyers
The competitor feed analysis: who posts, who is quoted, who is silent
A first-ninety-days activation map sized for a lean team
The sized case for investing in the channel: what this cohort is worth activated, what it takes to run, and the two ways to do it

Submitting notifies Kindling only. The PDF is released after human verification, never by URL guessing.

A human reads every request. That human is Brian.Founder, Kindling. Prefer to talk first? A 30 minute working conversation, no deck: brian@kindlinghq.com

Learn about Kindling →

If you do nothing else

Ask the customers already on record to tell their networks why they chose Zamp. Their words, their feeds.

It works without us. Kindling exists for what comes after: tracking it, measuring it, and paying advocates fairly at scale.

While the audit is on its way

Sources

  1. Zamp public page reviewed: zamp.com
  2. Customer story inventory: zamp.com/customers
  3. Sam Bauman, VP of Finance, David: zamp.com/customers/david
  4. Kristine Jacobsen, Founder, Hay Chix: zamp.com/customers/hay-chix
  5. David Wachs, CEO and Founder, Handwrytten: zamp.com/customers/handwrytten
  6. Yasmin Nouri, Co-Founder, Beeya: zamp.com/customers/beeya
  7. Hogan DeSpain, VP of Marketing, Gravity Grabber: zamp.com/customers/gravity-grabber
  8. Rose Sprague, Accounting Associate, Annmarie Skin Care: zamp.com/customers/annmarie-skin-care
  9. Mayra Jimenez, Assistant Controller, Kombo Ventures: zamp.com/customers/glamnetic-inh-hair
  10. Tony Ryan, Co-Founder and Chief Financial Officer, FoodSocial: zamp.com/customers/foodsocial
  11. investors: Acrew Capital, Thomson Reuters Ventures, Friends & Family Capital, 20Growth: fintech.global/2026/04/30/zamp-raises-30m-to-build-sales-tax-os-for-accountants/
  12. funding/press article: axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2026/04/28/zamp-sales-tax-ai-accounting