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Go-to-Market Strategy

Define how you'll reach and convert your first meaningful customer cohort — with a clear channel strategy, a sales motion, and a realistic path from zero to traction.

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What you walk away with

A real document, built from everything you worked through — then critiqued the way a tough reviewer would and polished round by round. Plus a project summary that shows your work.

20 steps in the full journey.

Who this is for

Founders with something built or nearly built, and no concrete plan for how the first hundred customers hear about it.

What you'll actually decide

Which channels you're actually going to run, in what order, and what the sales motion is — plus what you're explicitly not doing, which is the half that makes the plan real.

What first-time founders get wrong here

Listing every channel. A plan naming content, SEO, paid, partnerships, community and outbound is a plan to do none of them properly with one founder's time. The related error is picking the channel you find most comfortable rather than the one your customer is actually in.

The first 10 questions

This is where the conversation starts. Each answer shapes what gets asked next.

  1. 01What are you selling — describe the product, the price point, and who it's for?
  2. 02What traction do you have so far — any paying customers, users, or clear signals of demand?
  3. 03What channels have you tried already, even informally, and what happened?
  4. 04What resources do you have — budget, time, network, and credibility in any specific community?
  5. 05Where does your target customer actually spend time, look for solutions, and trust recommendations?
  6. 06What does the awareness-to-purchase journey look like — how long, how many touchpoints, who else is involved?
  7. 07What's the most plausible channel for your first 10 customers — the one where you have the most unfair advantage?
  8. 08What's your cost of customer acquisition today (rough estimate), and what's a sustainable CAC at your price point?
  9. 09What's the biggest risk in your GTM thinking — the assumption that, if wrong, breaks the plan?
  10. 10Primary channel: which single channel will you focus on first, and why is it right for your stage?

+ 8 more questions across discovery, validation, and the creative brief — each one adapting to what you've already said.

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