GTM consultantB2B sales

Your GTM consultant,
from strategy to signed deals.

We build the plan with you, open the doors with our own team, and help yours close.

The plan

“Where can technology create immediate economic value?”

WhoC-suite leadersInnovationOperationsDigital transformation

The pipelineSix months

40qualified opportunities

One dedicated BDR, a different company in every meeting

Real plans and results of four Growth Cab clients, from their campaign dashboards. Each dot is one qualified opportunity.

Pipeline we built for revenue teams like these

WHAT A GTM CONSULTANT DOES

Five decisions.
We make them with you.

A go-to-market plan comes down to five decisions. We make them with your team, write them down, and test each one on live deals.

WishlistExample
  1. Logistics group, 1,200 peopleCIOHead of ITCISO
  2. Consumer goods brand, enterpriseCMOHead of MarketingBrand Manager
  3. Insurance group, 3,000 peopleHR DirectorCHROHead of HR
  4. Cybersecurity vendor, 300 peoplePublic sector sales lead
  5. Digital agency, 12 peopleBelow $50K average contract value

Example wishlist. The buying groups come from our client plans.

“Where can technology create immediate economic value?”
“AI search is replacing traditional SEO as the main visibility layer.”
“Stop reacting to tenders. Start anticipating demand.”
“Your code never leaves your infrastructure.”

Core messages Growth Cab wrote for four client campaigns.

  1. SynetoA free risk report, delivered as a readiness plan32 qualified opportunities with IT and security leaders
  2. CloudsomeA short technical session on the buyer's own setup62 qualified opportunities with technology leaders
  3. Blazar GroupA free analysis of the buyer's own code33 qualified opportunities with IT and engineering leaders
  4. InnovhubA free first consultation on the new EU packaging rules23 qualified opportunities with food and packaging leaders
  5. Business LogA first meeting with the price on the table213 qualified opportunities

First-meeting offers from five client campaigns, with what each one opened.

  • Phone
  • LinkedIn
  • Email
Thu12
Meeting booked10:30, Head of ITLogistics group, 1,200 people

Example meeting. Before launch you see the script and approve the list.

  1. First callBooked by Growth Cab, with notes on the buyer
  2. DiscoveryYour seller, with the call structure we wrote
    Call reviewed
  3. ProposalThe business case before the price
    Call reviewed
  4. SignedTarget: 2 to 3 closed deals in 90 days

Your team runs every stage. We review two of its sales calls every month.

HOW IT WORKS

Our team opens the doors. We help yours close.

Our business developers reach the decision makers on your wishlist by phone, on LinkedIn and by email. Every month we review two of your sales calls and write down the fixes.

Before launch
  • Prospect listApproved by you
  • ScriptApproved by you
At the end, yours
  • Account criteria
  • Messaging
  • Sales process
  • Every opportunity in your CRM
Growth Cab dashboard · Digital360
The Growth Cab outbound pipeline dashboard for Digital360: 98 meetings held with 98 companies in 15+ industries, by 4 BDRs, with meetings by month and by seniority
Call review, every month
Discovery call, 32 minExample
  1. Ask how they run it today, then show the product.

  2. Price came before the business case. Move it after.

  3. End with a date for the next step.

The dashboard is the real Growth Cab dashboard for Digital360. Approvals and review notes are examples.
Ilaria R.
“It means doing the job well from the very first call: if the first call is set up well, on our first meeting we already know how to position everything.”
Ilaria R.Head of Go-To-Market, Vedrai
THE FIRST 90 DAYS

Pipeline from day 32. A pattern by day 90.

Both parts start on day one. This is what happens in the first 90 days, and when.

Open the doorsGTM Consulting
Wishlist and messageOur team reaches out Pipeline starts fillingDay 32 to 47
Close the dealsSales Consulting
2 calls reviewed2 calls reviewed2 calls reviewed
Before launchYou approve the list and the script
Day 90Target: 2 to 3 closed deals
TendersTool$700K+ in pipeline in 90 days, from zero
Mattia B.
“They confirmed their interest and now we need to formalise an offer.”
Mattia B.Co-founder & CRO, Underdogs
RESULTS BY CLIENT

GTM consulting results, client by client.

Every number comes from a client dashboard or a published case study. Each card opens the full story: the plan, the channels and the messages.

Elevate launch visual: the Elevate wordmark and symbol on either side of a silhouetted figure reaching out in warm pink and orange mist
Elevate$12.6M+Pipeline generated
  • 40Qualified opportunities opened
  • 23%Average close rate
Andrea M.
“In my view it is a textbook case: in the end we found the right person through you.”
Andrea M.CMO
Read the case study
White Digital360 lettering on the teal-green panelled facade of the group's office building, seen from below, with glass windows at both edges
Digital360$4.6M+Pipeline generated
  • 98Qualified opportunities opened
  • 27%Average close rate
Matteo G.
“If all the calls you book for us were like this one, it would be perfect. That is the prototype of the interest we are looking for.”
Matteo G.Head of Account Intelligence
Read the case study
Hirematic campaign setup on a laptop screen, at the Select channels step, with the Hirematic Partner Network, Indeed, Reed, InfoJobs, CareerBuilder and Talent.com as job ad channels and a row of job board app icons below
Jobtome$1.3M+Pipeline generated
  • 62Qualified opportunities opened
  • 33%Average close rate

The plan“Better candidates at lower cost, without adding complexity.”

Read the case study
Laptop on a white desk next to a coffee mug, showing the TendersTool dashboard with tender cards and bar charts of top award winners and contracting bodies, with the TendersTool logo in the top right corner
TendersTool$700K+Pipeline generated
  • 25Qualified opportunities opened
  • 18%Average close rate

The plan“Stop reacting to tenders. Start anticipating demand.”

Read the case study
Isometric line illustration of a green Cloudsome cloud wired to a server stack, a desktop, a laptop and a tablet, with small figures at work
Cloudsome62Qualified opportunities with technology leaders
  • 41With CTOs and CIOs
  • 55+Companies met
Stefano L.
“We are satisfied with the work, both in commitment and in the quality of the target you reached.”
Stefano L.CEO
Read the case study
Business Log homepage hero with the headline Log Management powered by AI, the promise to automate IT compliance and audit and detect threats in real time, and NIS2, GDPR, ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 badges
Business Log213Qualified opportunities
  • 35With CIOs, CTOs, CISOs and heads of IT
  • 100+Companies met
Luca A.
“The calling and the tailored work on each account is what I am looking for.”
Luca A.CEO
Read the case study
Airbag Studio name in large white type on a crimson background, with an orange and burgundy 3D corridor shape and the tagline Software is the last mile
Airbag Studio70Qualified opportunities with medtech and healthcare leaders
  • 32With CEOs, founders and C-level executives
  • 66Companies met
Omar C.
“The quality of the opportunities exceeded my expectations.”
Omar C.CEO
Read the case study
Stacked white molded-fiber food trays, a row of paper straws and paper sheets on a grey laboratory bench
Innovhub23Qualified opportunities with food and packaging leaders
  • 19With quality, food safety, R&D and packaging leaders
  • 12Opportunities in a single month
Gianmaria G.
“A collaboration built on presence, reliability and care.”
Gianmaria G.Head of Innovation
Read the case study
Syneto HYPER Edge tower and three stacked HYPER Core rack appliances with magenta Syneto logos on their front panels
Syneto32Qualified opportunities with IT and security leaders
  • 31Companies met
  • 18Opportunities in a single month

The plan“How many minutes would your company need to restart?”

Read the case study
Tconsulta homepage headline Mental health is not second-class health, above the For your company and For you buttons
Tconsulta53Qualified opportunities with HR leaders
  • 47With HR directors, CHROs and heads of HR
  • 12Opportunities in a single month

The plan“Many HR directors tell us workplace wellbeing is hard to make concrete. Is it something you are working on?”

Read the case study
ForgeDoc wordmark and the tagline Turn your code into knowledge, with the Blazar Together, Bigger logo, over black and teal smoke
Blazar Group33Qualified opportunities with IT and engineering leaders
  • 9With CTOs and CIOs
  • 15Opportunities in a single month

The plan“Your code never leaves your infrastructure.”

Read the case study

How we count: the B2B Outbound Evidence Standard defines meetings, qualified opportunities, pipeline and revenue, and our study of 1,380 meetings booked by cold calling shows how many actually take place. Every client story is on the case studies page.

WHEN TO HIRE

When to hire a GTM consultant, and when to wait.

The right moment is after product-market fit, when the next customers will not come from the founder's network. Pick the one that sounds like you.

What we do first

The founder still sells every deal

We turn what works on the founder's calls into a motion your team can run: the wishlist, the message and the call structure, written down.

How to transfer a founder sales playbook

The motion, written down
  • Wishlist and buying groups
  • One message per buyer
  • Call structure and next steps
Denis B.
“A great document structure.”Denis B., Sales Director, KFI
What we do first

You are entering a new market

We build the wishlist for the new market and open the first conversations in the buyer's language. TendersTool went from zero to $700K+ in pipeline in 90 days.

Read the TendersTool case study · US market entry, for European companies

What we do first

You raised a round and the target moved

The revenue target moved faster than the sales team. Our team opens the doors while you hire, and everything we build stays with your team.

See the first 90 days

What we do first

Meetings happen, but deals stall

We review two of your sales calls every month and fix what costs you deals: call structure, pricing, tools and team.

How the call reviews work

2 sales calls reviewed every month
  • Call structure
  • Pricing
  • Tools
  • Team
When we say no. Below $50K average contract value, or before product-market fit, a high-touch motion does not pay back. We tell you on the first call.
COMPARE

GTM consultant vs agency,
fractional VP or in-house hire.

Four options for four different problems. Choose by what you need to exist when the engagement ends.

Question
GTM consultantGrowth Cab
Outbound agency
Fractional VP of Sales
In-house hire
Who does the work
Designs the motion with your team, and the good ones prove it on live deals
Runs outreach for you and hands over meetings
Manages your sales team part time
A full-time employee learns your market from scratch
What you keep
Account criteria, messaging and a sales process your team can run
Meetings, while the contract runs
Management habits, if the team keeps them
Everything, after a long ramp
Best when
You are past product-market fit and need a repeatable way to win the next customers
The motion already works and you only need more volume
You have sellers who need a leader, and the playbook exists
You already know what works and need someone to own it for years

If outbound volume is the only gap, an outbound agency may be enough. Our guide on how to choose a GTM agency covers that decision in detail.

FAQ

GTM consultant
FAQ

Short answers to the questions B2B founders ask before they hire. The first call covers the rest.

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What does a GTM consultant do?

A GTM consultant decides which accounts to go after, what to say to them, what to offer first, which channels to use and how the sales team runs each deal, then builds the system that repeats it. At Growth Cab that also means our business developers open conversations with your target decision makers by phone, on LinkedIn and by email, and we review 2 of your sales calls every month.

How much does a GTM consultant cost?

Most GTM consultants charge a monthly retainer. Ours is sized on the markets we cover and the volume of qualified conversations you want, and we send a proposal after the first call. If the numbers do not work for you, we say so.

What does GTM mean?

GTM stands for go-to-market: the plan and the system a company uses to reach its buyers and win them, from which accounts to target to how each deal gets closed. In analytics, GTM is also the short name of Google Tag Manager. On this page GTM means go-to-market.

What is the difference between a GTM consultant and a fractional VP of Sales?

A fractional VP of Sales runs your team day to day. A GTM consultant designs the motion, proves it works on real accounts and hands your team something it can keep running. We do the second, with our own people proving it on live pipeline.

When should you hire a GTM consultant?

When you are past product-market fit and the next customers will not come from the founder's network: a new market or segment, a product launch, a funding round that raises the revenue target, or a pipeline that has stalled.

How long before a GTM consultant produces pipeline?

With Growth Cab, pipeline typically starts filling between day 32 and day 47. By day 90 the first meetings should have turned into a repeatable pattern. Anyone promising meetings in week one is selling you a list.

Will I see the prospect list and the script?

Yes. You see the script and approve the prospect list before launch, and you follow every GTM KPI on a live dashboard, by channel and by business developer.

What will my team own at the end?

The account criteria, the messaging, the sales process and every opportunity logged in your CRM, written down and yours to keep.

Can I see results by client, with numbers?

Yes. Pipeline, qualified opportunities and close rate by client are on this page, each linked to its case study, with the numbers from the campaign dashboards.

Do you work with companies below $50K average contract value?

No. The motion we run is high touch, and under $50K the economics do not hold. We tell you on the first call.

Where does Growth Cab work?

Growth Cab is a GTM and sales advisory firm founded in 2022 by Federico Donatone and Lorenzo Asnaghi, based in New York. We work with B2B companies across the US and Europe: see how we work with tech companies in New York and, for European companies selling in America, US market entry consulting. More on the About page.

Which tools does a GTM consultant use?

The account list and the message come first, and the stack under them has to be solid: data, enrichment, outreach and deliverability. Our current recommendations, with prices and test data, are on the GTM Tools page.

Book a callWith the founders

Close deals with the companies
on your wishlist.

Book a 30-minute call about the companies you want to win. We look at your target accounts and your sales goals, and tell you whether Growth Cab is the right fit.

Based in New York · Calls in English, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese or French · success@growthcab.com

Federico Donatone and Lorenzo Asnaghi, Growth Cab founders, in the New York office
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