It looks like we don’t have a timestamped history of when each deal entered its successive stages—only current stage, create date, and (for closed deals) close date. Without per-stage entry timestamps, we can’t measure how quickly deals move through the “early stages” and therefore cannot test whether faster early progression correlates with higher close rates.

To proceed, we would need a table that logs each deal’s stage transitions with timestamps (e.g. Deal ID, Stage name, Entry timestamp for that stage). Once that’s available, we can compute the duration from Stage 1 to Stage 3 for each deal, bucket by fast/slow, and compare close-won rates across those buckets. Let me know if you can provide that stage-history data!