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Full-cycle GTM

A twenty-prompt playlist for owning the commercial engine from ICP through positioning, demand, sales, onboarding, and revenue operations.

20 prompts across 5 chapters. Follow them in order while each decision authorizes the next step. Hold, revisit, reject, and conditional branches take their named return path.

Use this when

Use this when a complete product repository is ready for the commercial cycle: customer, market, story, price, demand, deals, onboarding, retention, and the operating system around them.

Chapter 1

Strategy and market positioning

Name the customer, measure the market, choose the comparison, and set a price the product can defend.

  1. 1.1a icp-v0.1: inferred from codebase
  2. 1.1b Initial ICP market audit
  3. 1.1c Initial ICP market validation sprint
  4. 1.1d icp-v0.2: updated after interviews
  5. 1.1e icp-v0.3: updated after paid pilots
  6. 1.1f icp-v1.0: supported by activation, retention, and economic evidence
  7. 1.2 Positioning and messaging
  8. 1.3 Pricing and packaging

Chapter 2

Marketing and demand generation

Pick reachable channels, design the path to a real commitment, and test those paths without inventing winners.

  1. 2.1 Campaign execution
  2. 2.2 Lead generation and nurturing
  3. 2.3 Channel testing

Chapter 3

Sales execution and closing

Qualify purchasing units, run a truthful deal, and give anyone else the same story the founder would tell.

  1. 3.1 Pipeline management
  2. 3.2 Deal ownership
  3. 3.3 Sales collateral

Chapter 4

Customer onboarding and growth

Get customers to first value, keep them at the product’s cadence, and send only honest input back to product.

  1. 4.1 Implementation and support
  2. 4.2 Retention and expansion
  3. 4.3 Product feedback

Chapter 5

Revenue operations and analytics

Keep a minimum stack, measure what can change a decision, and fix the actual constraint instead of adding ritual.

  1. 5.1 Tech stack ownership
  2. 5.2 Metric tracking
  3. 5.3 Process optimization