gtm-strategylisted
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# GTM Strategy
Decides *how* the product reaches buyers repeatably — the motion, the channels, and the economics that have to hold for it to work. This is the layer above a launch plan: `launch-plan` runs one release, this decides the machine that runs every release.
**Grounded in:** *Crossing the Chasm* — Geoffrey Moore: pick one beachhead segment and dominate it before widening, because a GTM motion that serves everyone reaches no one. Paired with the SaaS unit-economics discipline (CAC payback and LTV:CAC as constraints, not scorecards) — the motion you can afford is determined by your ACV, and most GTM failures are a motion/ACV mismatch rather than an execution problem.
**The load-bearing idea:** your price point chooses your motion. A $40/year product cannot support a salesperson, and a $200k product will not close itself through a self-serve funnel. Decide the motion the economics permit, then build the channels that feed it.
## When to use this
- Entering a new segment, geography, or market where the existing motion may not carry over.
- CAC payback has stretched and nobody can say which channel is responsible.
- Deciding between self-serve, sales-assisted, and enterprise motions for the same product.
- A launch plan exists but the question "who does this reach, and how, after launch week?" has no answer.
- Before hiring the first salesperson, or before deciding not to.
- When two motions are running at once and quietly competing for the same buyer.
## Before you