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Go-To-Market Consulting

A go-to-market strategy built for the full customer lifecycle.

Most GTM strategies stop at the closed-won deal. Ours start with who you should serve and continue through onboarding, renewal and expansion, because that is where recurring revenue is won or lost.

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The challenge

Acquisition-only GTM creates retention problems later.

When ICP, positioning and sales motion are designed only to win new logos, Customer Success inherits customers who were never a good fit, promises that were never scoped, and handoffs that lose context. Churn that looks like a CS problem often begins in go-to-market.

We help CEOs, CROs and GTM leaders build an integrated go-to-market system in which Marketing, Sales and Customer Success work from the same customer definition, the same data and the same revenue goals.

Signals that it is time to act

  • Win rates are acceptable but early-life churn is high
  • Sales, Marketing and CS describe the ideal customer differently
  • Pipeline is volatile and forecasts are routinely missed
  • Positioning sounds similar to every competitor
  • Handoffs from Sales to CS lose critical context
  • GTM tools and data are fragmented across teams

Who we work with: Founders & CEOs · Chief Revenue Officers · VPs of Sales · GTM & RevOps Leaders

Bow-tie GTM model

Acquisition and retention, designed as one system.

The left side of the bow-tie wins customers. The right side keeps and grows them. We design both together so the customers you win are the ones you keep. Select a layer to see what gets decided there.

Shared data, definitions and meetings that run the revenue engine.

We decide

  • Revenue definitions and data model
  • Forecast process
  • GTM operating cadence

Indicators

  • Forecast accuracy
  • Data completeness
  • Decision cycle time

Market context

What the benchmarks say.

Winning new revenue has become more expensive, and buyers want to do more of the journey on their own. Both make a lifecycle-wide GTM more valuable. We use benchmarks for context, then measure progress against your own baseline.

Practice areas

11 areas of focus, one connected system.

Engage us for a single area or for an end-to-end program. Every area is designed to connect with the rest so improvements compound rather than compete.

  1. 01GTM Strategy DevelopmentWhere to play, how to win, and how to sustain growth after the sale.
  2. 02Ideal Customer Profile (ICP)An evidence-based ICP that includes retention and expansion potential.
  3. 03Buyer Persona & Customer SegmentationSegments and personas grounded in buying behavior and value drivers.
  4. 04Positioning & MessagingDifferentiated positioning that sales can deliver and the product can keep.
  5. 05Sales StrategySales motion, process and coverage that fit how your buyers buy.
  6. 06Revenue OperationsOne operational backbone across Marketing, Sales and Customer Success.
  7. 07Sales-to-CS AlignmentHandoffs, incentives and shared goals that protect revenue after the sale.
  8. 08Customer Lifecycle StrategyBow-tie revenue thinking: acquisition and retention designed as one system.
  9. 09GTM Execution FrameworkOperating rhythm, governance and accountability for GTM execution.
  10. 10Revenue Growth StrategyGrowth levers prioritized by impact, feasibility and capital efficiency.
  11. 11GTM Technology & AIA coherent GTM stack, with AI applied where it improves productivity and insight.

Practice areas in detail

01

GTM Strategy Development

Where to play, how to win, and how to sustain growth after the sale.

Business problem

Growth plans are built bottom-up from headcount and quota without clear choices about markets, segments and motions. Teams pull in different directions and resources are spread too thin.

Consulting intervention

  • Market and segment attractiveness assessment
  • Choice of motions: sales-led, product-led, partner-led or hybrid
  • Revenue architecture across new business, expansion and retention
  • Translate strategy into targets, investments and a sequenced plan

Deliverables

  • GTM strategy document
  • Segment and motion choices
  • Revenue architecture
  • Annual GTM plan and investment priorities

Expected business outcome

A focused GTM strategy that every revenue team can execute against.

Indicators we move
  • New ARR vs. plan
  • CAC payback
  • Win rate in target segments
02

Ideal Customer Profile (ICP)

An evidence-based ICP that includes retention and expansion potential.

Business problem

The ICP is a broad description based on who bought, not who succeeded. Teams chase deals that close but don't retain.

Consulting intervention

  • Analyse the customer base by retention, expansion, time-to-value and sales cycle
  • Identify firmographic, technographic and situational attributes of best-fit customers
  • Define fit tiers and disqualification criteria
  • Operationalize ICP scoring in CRM and targeting

Deliverables

  • ICP definition and evidence base
  • Fit-tier model
  • Disqualification criteria
  • ICP scoring specification

Expected business outcome

Pipeline concentrated on customers who buy, adopt, renew and grow.

Indicators we move
  • Pipeline in ICP
  • First-year GRR by ICP fit
  • Win rate: ICP vs. non-ICP
03

Buyer Persona & Customer Segmentation

Segments and personas grounded in buying behavior and value drivers.

Business problem

Personas are demographic sketches that don't help a seller or CSM prepare for a conversation. Segmentation is based only on company size.

Consulting intervention

  • Interview customers, prospects and lost deals
  • Map buying committees, roles, priorities and objections
  • Build needs-based segmentation aligned to product value
  • Connect segments to messaging, sales plays and CS coverage

Deliverables

  • Buying committee maps
  • Persona profiles
  • Needs-based segmentation
  • Segment-to-motion matrix

Expected business outcome

Every customer-facing team understands who it is talking to and what matters to them.

Indicators we move
  • Stage conversion by persona
  • Contacts engaged per deal
  • Message tested with buyers
04

Positioning & Messaging

Differentiated positioning that sales can deliver and the product can keep.

Business problem

Messaging is feature-led and interchangeable with competitors. Promises made in the sales cycle are not matched by the delivered experience.

Consulting intervention

  • Competitive and category landscape review
  • Define positioning: target customer, problem, alternatives, differentiated value
  • Build a message architecture by persona and segment
  • Align value claims with what onboarding and CS can deliver

Deliverables

  • Positioning statement
  • Message architecture
  • Value proposition by persona
  • Sales narrative

Expected business outcome

Clear, credible differentiation and fewer gaps between what is sold and what is delivered.

Indicators we move
  • Competitive win rate
  • Sales cycle length
  • Expectation gaps at handoff
05

Sales Strategy

Sales motion, process and coverage that fit how your buyers buy.

Business problem

The sales process reflects internal stages rather than buyer decisions. Qualification is inconsistent and forecasting relies on rep optimizm.

Consulting intervention

  • Design a buyer-aligned sales process and stage exit criteria
  • Define qualification methodology and deal reviews
  • Territory, coverage and role design (SDR, AE, SE, AM)
  • Sales playbooks by segment and use case

Deliverables

  • Sales process design
  • Qualification framework
  • Coverage and territory model
  • Sales playbooks

Expected business outcome

A repeatable sales motion with cleaner pipeline and more reliable forecasts.

Indicators we move
  • Pipeline coverage
  • Forecast accuracy
  • Sales cycle length
06

Revenue Operations

One operational backbone across Marketing, Sales and Customer Success.

Business problem

Each revenue team runs its own tools, definitions and reports. Data conflicts, leaders debate numbers instead of decisions, and processes break at team boundaries.

Consulting intervention

  • Define the RevOps charter, scope and team structure
  • Harmonize lifecycle stages, definitions and data model across teams
  • Design the revenue reporting suite and forecasting process
  • Establish governance for systems, data quality and process change

Deliverables

  • RevOps charter and org design
  • Unified lifecycle and data definitions
  • Reporting and forecasting design
  • Systems governance model

Expected business outcome

A single source of truth for revenue and faster, better-informed decisions.

Indicators we move
  • Forecast accuracy
  • Key-field completeness
  • Time to board reporting
07

Sales-to-CS Alignment

Handoffs, incentives and shared goals that protect revenue after the sale.

Business problem

Customers repeat their goals to every new team. Deals are closed with unclear scope, and CS discovers expectations it cannot meet.

Consulting intervention

  • Design the Sales-to-CS handoff: required data, timing, ownership and quality checks
  • Introduce CS involvement in late-stage deals for strategic accounts
  • Align incentives on retention-quality bookings and expansion
  • Define shared metrics and joint account governance

Deliverables

  • Handoff process and template
  • Pre-sale CS engagement model
  • Incentive alignment recommendations
  • Shared revenue metrics

Expected business outcome

Customers experience one continuous relationship, and early-life churn caused by misaligned expectations falls.

Indicators we move
  • Handoff completion
  • Early-life churn
  • Signature to kickoff
08

Customer Lifecycle Strategy

Bow-tie revenue thinking: acquisition and retention designed as one system.

Business problem

Marketing optimizes for leads, Sales for bookings, CS for renewals. No one owns the full lifecycle economics.

Consulting intervention

  • Model the full customer lifecycle from awareness to advocacy
  • Identify conversion and value points across pre- and post-sale stages
  • Define lifecycle ownership and cross-functional metrics
  • Design lifecycle marketing and advocacy programs

Deliverables

  • Lifecycle model
  • Conversion-point metrics
  • Ownership model
  • Advocacy program design

Expected business outcome

Growth investments balanced across acquisition, retention and expansion.

Indicators we move
  • Expansion share of new ARR
  • Blended CAC ratio
  • Net revenue retention
09

GTM Execution Framework

Operating rhythm, governance and accountability for GTM execution.

Business problem

Strategies are approved but execution drifts. Priorities change weekly and there is no forum to resolve cross-team trade-offs.

Consulting intervention

  • Design the GTM operating rhythm: weekly, monthly and quarterly forums
  • Set OKRs and accountability across revenue teams
  • Create decision rights and escalation paths
  • Build launch and initiative management processes

Deliverables

  • GTM operating cadence
  • OKR framework
  • Decision-rights model
  • Launch playbook

Expected business outcome

Faster execution and fewer stalled initiatives.

Indicators we move
  • Initiatives on schedule
  • Decision cycle time
  • Shared OKR attainment
10

Revenue Growth Strategy

Growth levers prioritized by impact, feasibility and capital efficiency.

Business problem

Leadership debates growth options without a common model of where revenue will come from or what each lever costs.

Consulting intervention

  • Build a revenue driver tree covering new logos, expansion, pricing and retention
  • Size and prioritize growth levers
  • Assess pricing and packaging implications
  • Translate priorities into resourcing and targets

Deliverables

  • Revenue driver tree
  • Growth lever prioritization
  • Pricing and packaging observations
  • Growth plan

Expected business outcome

Capital-efficient growth choices that leadership and the board can defend.

Indicators we move
  • New CAC ratio
  • Burn multiple
  • Growth vs. plan
11

GTM Technology & AI

A coherent GTM stack, with AI applied where it improves productivity and insight.

Business problem

The GTM stack has grown tool by tool. Overlapping systems, low adoption and poor data quality limit the value of every new AI feature.

Consulting intervention

  • Audit the GTM stack, integrations and data flows
  • Rationalize tools and define the target architecture
  • Identify AI use cases across prospecting, deal support, forecasting and account intelligence
  • Set governance for data quality, privacy and AI usage

Deliverables

  • GTM stack audit
  • Target architecture
  • AI use-case roadmap
  • Data and AI governance guidelines

Expected business outcome

A leaner, better-integrated stack and AI capabilities that teams actually use.

Indicators we move
  • Tool adoption
  • Seller time spent selling
  • Stack cost per rep

What changes

How the business runs differently afterwards.

The work is judged by what your teams do differently on a normal Tuesday, not by the documents we hand over.

Before and after the engagement
Beforechanges toAfter
ICP defined by who closes fastestICP defined by who closes, adopts, renews and expands
Sales hands off a contract and moves onSales hands off success criteria the customer agreed to
Marketing, Sales and CS report different numbersOne revenue model with shared definitions
The growth plan is more pipelineThe growth plan weighs new logos, expansion and retention by cost per dollar
Buyers sit through calls to learn the basicsSelf-serve education, with sellers where buyers want help

How we measure

Leading signals first, revenue results after.

Revenue outcomes take renewal cycles to show. Leading indicators move within weeks, so we agree both up front and report against your baseline.

Leading indicators

Move within weeks

Pipeline in ICP
Share of qualified pipeline from accounts that match the ICP.
Stage conversion
Conversion between defined sales stages, by segment and source.
Handoff completeness
Closed deals handed over with success criteria, stakeholders and commitments recorded.
Sales cycle length
Days from qualified opportunity to close, by segment.

Lagging indicators

Confirm the result over renewal cycles

New CAC ratio
Sales and marketing spend per dollar of new-customer ARR.
CAC payback
Months of gross-margin-adjusted revenue needed to recover acquisition cost.
Win rate
Closed-won as a share of qualified opportunities.
First-year GRR
Revenue retained from customers at their first renewal.

Common mistakes

What we usually find, and fix.

  1. Optimizing for bookings alone

    Deals that close fast and churn in year one look like growth until the first renewal. We judge ICP and compensation on retained revenue too.

  2. Positioning the product can't keep

    Over-selling wins the deal and loses the customer. We test messaging against what onboarding can actually deliver.

  3. RevOps as a reporting desk

    When RevOps only builds dashboards, definitions drift and teams argue about numbers. We give it ownership of the revenue data model.

  4. Copying another company's motion

    Product-led or enterprise-led works for companies whose buyers fit it. We choose the motion from how your buyers buy.

What you receive

Working tools, not shelfware.

Deliverables are built to be used every week by your team. These previews show the format; every version is built from your data and calibrated to your business.

  • ICP segment matrixCORE ICPFIX POST-SALE MODELNURTUREDEPRIORITIZEABCDEFAcquisition fit →Retention & expansion →
    Sample deliverable · illustrativeICP segment matrixSegments scored on acquisition fit and on retention and expansion potential.
  • Sales-to-CS handoff RACIAESECSMOnb.RevOpsSuccess criteria capturedACRIIScope & commitmentsARCCIHandoff meetingRCARIKickoff & planICARIData quality checkCICIAR Responsible · A Accountable · C Consulted · I Informed
    Sample deliverable · illustrativeSales-to-CS handoff RACIWho is responsible and accountable at each step from close to kickoff.
  • GTM operating rhythmWeeklyPipeline reviewRisk reviewMonthlyForecast callHandoff qualityChurn reviewQuarterlyBusiness reviewICP refreshEach forum: owner · inputs · decisions · outputs
    Sample deliverable · illustrativeGTM operating rhythmThe weekly, monthly and quarterly forums that keep execution on track.

Engagement process

How an engagement runs.

A structured path from diagnosis to sustained results. Durations are indicative and scoped to your situation during the first conversation.

  1. 01

    Diagnose

    2–4 weeks

    Analyze pipeline, win/loss, retention and customer data alongside interviews across Marketing, Sales and CS.

  2. 02

    Design

    3–6 weeks

    Define ICP, segments, positioning, motions and the revenue architecture with your leadership team.

  3. 03

    Align

    1–2 weeks

    Bring Marketing, Sales, CS, Product and Finance to agreement on choices, targets and ownership.

  4. 04

    Implement

    Ongoing

    Operationalize in CRM, playbooks, enablement and the GTM operating rhythm.

  5. 05

    Optimize

    Quarterly

    Review leading indicators, refine plays and adjust investments based on evidence.

FAQs

Questions leaders ask us.

Something else on your mind? Ask us directly

How is your GTM consulting different from a sales consultancy?

We design go-to-market across the full customer lifecycle. ICP, positioning and sales motion are evaluated against retention and expansion outcomes, not just bookings, so the strategy produces durable recurring revenue.

Do you work with product-led growth companies?

Yes. We help PLG companies design the transition points between self-serve, sales-assisted and customer success motions, including product-qualified signals and handoffs.

Can you help us prepare a GTM plan for a new market or segment?

Yes. Segment entry work typically covers market assessment, ICP and persona definition, positioning, motion design, and the post-sale model required to retain those customers.

Do you implement CRM changes?

We define requirements, data models and processes, and we work alongside your RevOps team or implementation partner to make sure the configuration reflects the design.

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