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    Go-to-Market Planning

    Go-to-market planning is deciding which channel, sales motion and price take a product to its buyer, and the numbers that say whether it worked.

    Service within Strategy Consulting

    In Growth Strategy: Build Demand

    How we help with Go-to-Market Planning

    A go-to-market plan without a number attached is a wish with a timeline.

    1. Pick the segment to win first

      One buyer, defined tightly enough that the message, the channel and the price can all be built for them.

    2. Choose the motion the economics support

      Self-serve, inside sales or field sales, each with a cost structure that only works at a certain price point. The motion has to match the deal size, not the ambition.

    3. Build the channel plan with numbers attached

      Expected volume, conversion and cost per channel, so the plan can be judged rather than believed.

    4. Instrument it before launch

      The measurement in place from day one, so the first quarter produces a decision rather than an argument.

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    A go-to-market plan without a number attached is a wish with a timeline.

    Where we have done this

    SaaS

    Scaling a SaaS Platform to Series B

    Built the finance basics and the investor story that helped a software company serving one industry raise growth money from large funds.

    3.2x ARR growth in 18 months

    Consumer / D2C

    Building Investor Readiness for a D2C Brand

    Designed unit economics, cohort analytics, and a fundraising data room that anchored the next funding round.

    Closed oversubscribed Series A

    HealthTech

    Embedded CFO Engagement for a HealthTech Scale-up

    Embedded a fractional CFO and finance pod to drive forecasting discipline, board reporting, and capital efficiency.

    Burn reduced by 35%

    FAQ

    Questions founders ask about Go-to-Market Planning

    What is a go-to-market plan?

    The decision about which buyer to sell to, through which channel, with what sales motion and at what price, together with the numbers that say whether it worked.

    How is GTM different from marketing?

    Marketing is one part of it. A go-to-market plan also decides the segment, the sales motion, the pricing and the economics that make those three consistent with each other.

    What is the most common GTM mistake?

    Choosing a sales motion the price cannot support. A field sales team selling a small annual contract loses money on every deal, and no amount of execution fixes that arithmetic.

    How quickly should a GTM plan show results?

    Leading indicators within a quarter, revenue within one to two sales cycles. If neither has moved after two cycles, the problem is usually the segment rather than the execution.

    What our research says about Go-to-Market Planning

    Take your revenue plan and run the equation backwards. Deal size, win rate, qualification rate, deal length. Get to a monthly enquiry target.

    Sriram Chidambaram, in Demand generation: pipeline is built, not found

    Penetration pricing, deliberately low to win share and monetise later, requires network effects, high switching costs, or genuine lock-in to work. Without one of those, it is not a strategy.

    Sriram Chidambaram, in Pricing strategy for Indian startups and MSMEs: the ultimate guide to profitable growth and enterprise value

    The people behind Go-to-Market Planning

    Go-to-Market Planning is run by the studio team: one multidisciplinary team whose pods work in tandem, matched to the sector and the stage the company is in.

    Karthik Beknal

    Strategy Consulting / Labs pod

    Led by Karthik Beknal

    Lead - Strategy Consulting & FP&A. Defines direction and drives it through focused sprints.

    See the pod structure
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