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2026 edition · Revised and expanded

How to master your go-to-market strategy

A go-to-market plan is a commitment, not a description of one. Twelve decisions, in order, with the arithmetic that tells you whether the plan is real.

The arithmetic the last edition was missing: coverage, capacity, payback and the month hiring has to start
Five stages of being found, including the new one: whether AI assistants name you before a buyer ever visits
Fourteen engagements from our own work, each with what went wrong, what went right and what we would do differently
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4.5x

The pipeline coverage a 22 percent win rate demands, because coverage is the inverse of the win rate. Most plans are built on 3x. Chapter two.

May

When hiring has to start for a plan that begins in January: five months to ramp plus three to recruit. Chapter nine.

29%

Growth on 15 percent more ad spend, after a group cut five competing brands to three. Engagement 01, from our own work.

What is inside

What you will take away

01

Catch the four failures early

The arithmetic, the unmapped blocker, the unsequenced dependency and the channel that stopped working. Each one can be caught in the room with a calculator.

02

Diagnose what is true

Market, competition, the buying committee and an honest company view, written so that it could be wrong, before anyone decides what to do.

03

Commit to one number

A claim no competitor could sign, one primary measure with the constraint around it, and the economics that say whether the promise is affordable.

04

Design the motion

How you sell, what you sell, where demand comes from now that discovery happens inside an answer, and what a leaky base is costing you.

05

Check the engine

The team you have, the selling motion you train and the marketing handoff, because a plan can be right in all twelve decisions and still fail.

06

Sequence the first hundred days

Diagnose, Design and Mobilize, with the team assessment moved to day one so the hiring gap is known by day twenty.

Who it is for

Written for the team that owns the number

CEOs and founders carrying a growth target, who want to know the plan reconciles before the board asks.

Revenue leaders whose sales and marketing teams are running two plans with two versions of the funnel.

PE sponsors and operating partners who need payback, coverage and the hiring date on one page before they fund a plan.

Does your plan's arithmetic reconcile?

Thirty minutes with a fractional CMO or CRO on your coverage, your capacity and your hiring date, and the two moves worth making first.

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