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Plan, position and publish: the jobs and their tools

Four decisions that come first in a GTM year: which motion, which customers, what to say, and what to publish. Each card is one job. It shows what you give, what you get back and where it runs.

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Owned by: Founder, with the CMO and CRO

Which motion do we lead with, and are we ready to scale?

Settle the motion and the readiness questions before you spend on channels.

Should we put more money into paid ads?

What you give and get back
You give
Paid acquisition cost and average ARR, or a customer list, plus your decision lines and optional money inputs.
You get back
Payback, customer staying power or capped lifetime value, with a Scale, Small capped test, Hold or Not enough data yet result for each customer group.

Tool: Scale Paid Check.

How Scale Paid Check works

Start here

Pick the go to market motion to lead with

What you give and get back
You give
Your GTM challenge, stage and industry. Inside an assistant you can add deal size, sales cycle and retention.
You get back
EPIC scores for the four motions, the motion to lead with and a report.

Tool: Free EPIC audit. Tool: EPIC scores. Claude skill: GTM motion picker (EPIC).

See a sample report: Pick the go to market motion to lead with

Check product market fit before you scale

What you give and get back
You give
Your product, target market and metrics such as MRR, churn, NPS, CAC and LTV.
You get back
A product market fit score for each dimension, priority actions and the data gaps to fill. The Claude skill compares your metrics only with your own targets.

Tool: PMF Scorecard. Claude skill: PMF check.

See a sample answer: Check product market fit before you scale

Owned by: Founder and demand generation head

Which customers do we go after, and how big is that market?

Size the market, choose the first segment, then write down who the best customer is.

Find the gaps between your customers and your ICP

What you give and get back
You give
Your current customer base and your ideal customer profile.
You get back
The gaps between them, their likely causes, criteria to add or rule out and a 30 day action plan.

Tool: ICP Gap Analysis. Claude skill: ICP review.

Prepare a guide for your customer interviews

What you give and get back
You give
The interview type, your product and the role you will interview.
You get back
An interview guide, probing questions, a note taking template and a framework to sum up findings.

Tool: Customer Interview Kit. Claude skill: Customer interviews.

Owned by: CMO and marketing team

What do we say, and against which alternatives?

Fix the message before you write a page, a deck or an email.

Start here

Build your positioning statement and message hierarchy

What you give and get back
You give
Your target customer, key benefit and what sets you apart.
You get back
A positioning statement in three lengths, a message hierarchy, versions to test and answers to objections.

Tool: IMPACT: Craft Message. Claude skill: Positioning and messaging (IMPACT).

See a sample answer: Build your positioning statement and message hierarchy

Build a battle card for each competitor

What you give and get back
You give
Your product and competitors, plus any wins, losses or objections.
You get back
A battle card per competitor, objection handlers, a win and loss analysis and a quick reference card. The Claude skill turns any claim it cannot source into a placeholder.

Tool: Competitive Intel. Claude skill: Competitive Intelligence.

Write your bios, positioning and LinkedIn profile from your own facts

What you give and get back
You give
Your own facts, such as your CV and LinkedIn About.
You get back
A positioning statement, short to long bios, a LinkedIn headline and About, content pillars and a post series plan, with a marker wherever a fact is missing.

Claude skill: Personal branding authority.

Owned by: Marketing team and demand generation head

What do we publish, and will buyers and AI search find it?

Turn wins and views into content, check it, and make sure AI assistants can quote it.

Build a newsletter with subject lines to test

What you give and get back
You give
A topic and the action you want readers to take.
You get back
Subject lines to test, opening hooks, the newsletter content, a pre send checklist and send time tips. The Claude skill cites a source link and a checked date for every curated item.

Tool: Newsletter Builder. Claude skill: Newsletter creation and curation.

Score and improve a content draft

What you give and get back
You give
A draft and its content type.
You get back
Scores for clarity, structure, engagement and goal alignment, priority fixes, an edited version and a before and after comparison. The Claude skill audits machine sounding text line by line and rewrites only what it flags.

Tool: CRAFT Content Improver. Claude skill: Handcrafted voice audit.

Fact check every claim before it goes out

What you give and get back
You give
The post, deck or release to check, or a critique of your draft from another reviewer.
You get back
A claims register for every claim, with only what is wrong fixed. For a critique: each point judged on facts, your objectives and tone, and one final version.

Claude skill: Claims fact check. Claude skill: Second opinion review.

Stop getting generic answers from Claude

What you give and get back
You give
The prompt you used.
You get back
The prompt checked against the CRAFT framework, the missing context named, and a rewritten prompt.

Claude skill: Prompt improver (CRAFT).

Find the buyer questions to win in AI search, then track citations

What you give and get back
You give
Your market and the buyer questions you care about.
You get back
25 buyer prompts across six categories, ranked by how likely each is to decide a deal, and weekly AI citation tracking across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude.

Claude skill: Prompt Pack Builder. Claude skill: AEO Tracker.

Get a page cited by AI search and shortlisted by AI agents

What you give and get back
You give
A page address and the buyer questions you care about.
You get back
A FITq score (Findability, Intent match, Trust, Quoteability) with fixes ranked by impact, and a RACE score (Requirements, Actions, Constraints, Evidence) for how well an AI agent can evaluate and shortlist the page.

Claude skill: FITq Audit. Claude skill: RACE Audit.

Write an answer block and an EU trust page that AI can quote

What you give and get back
You give
Your proof points and your answers on data handling.
You get back
A 40 to 60 word Bottom Line Up Front answer block in three lengths, and an EU Trust Centre page that answers the eight EU buyer questions, with placeholders for anything you did not give.

Claude skill: BLUF Writer. Claude skill: EU Trust Centre.

The other four decisions

Pipeline, deals and customers

For demand generation heads, CROs, sellers and Customer Success. The decisions that turn a plan into revenue.

Open pipeline, deals and customersBack to all eight decisionsRead the guides that chain the tools

When a tool is not enough

Bring in Shashwat for the calls a tool cannot make

The tools are free and stay free. When two motions score close, when your leadership team disagrees on the buyer, or when the plan needs someone to run it, Shashwat works with growth stage B2B and ITeS teams as a fractional CMO, and on demand generation, positioning and branding, content marketing, ABM and lead generation.

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