Go-to-market

Your go-to-market, and how you are set up to sell.

Anchored against the perfrom framework. Strategy + operating model pillars.

When you would commission this

Growth has stalled or the path to the next stage is not clear. Coverage does not match the opportunity. Segments are served the same way regardless of value. The operating model is federated by accident, not by design. The growth plan is not anchored to a credible financial model. A new strategy needs to be designed, or an existing one needs to be made executable.

A structured assessment from scope to decision.

Size the opportunity. Decide how you sell. Choose your routes to market. Set your focus. Design the structure. Set the rhythm. Measure what matters.

Potential

Addressable market, demand signal, segment-level opportunity sizing, propensity modelling.

Engagement model

How we engage and through what motions.

Routes to market

Direct, partner, digital, hybrid. Channel mix and economics.

Footprint and focus

Where we play and where we deliberately do not.

Operating model

Structural set-up for execution. Regions, segments, organisation design, role architecture.

Rhythm of business

Cadences, MBR/QBR, forecast calls, governance forums.

Measurement and management

Leading and lagging KPIs, dashboards, compensation and incentives.

What you get

A clear go-to-market plan the board can stand behind, a team structure built to deliver it, and targets and a rhythm that connect the plan to what people do every day.

What a perform engagement is

A Pillar Engagement is a discrete, scoped transformation engagement against one of the three COMPOSE frameworks. The frameworks are not generic capability areas. They are the proprietary, codified ways we deliver. Each one anchors a different layer of the commercial system, and each one is a real, commissionable service in its own right. Three Pillar Engagements are offered. You can commission one, or sequence two over time. They share a common shape:

Scoped from the diagnostic.

What we work on is calibrated to what the assessment surfaced, not a templated rollout.

Four to six months typical duration.

Focused enough to land, long enough to embed.

Delivered alongside your internal team.

We lead the work. Your team owns the outcome.

Led personally by our team.

No hand-off to junior consultants.

Three PERFORM propositions

Commissioned individually or in combination, depending on what the diagnostic surfaces.

01

GTM strategy
advisory

Designing the go-to-market from the market back. Addressable market sizing and demand modelling, ICP definition, segmentation, value proposition design, propositioning, propensity and opportunity modelling, channel mix and economics, competitive frame, financial planning model that connects strategy to credible targets. The output is a defensible GTM strategy a board can sign behind, a CFO can finance against, and a sales organisation can execute.

02

Operating model and organisation design

Designing the go-to-market from the market back. Addressable market sizing and demand modelling, ICP definition, segmentation, value proposition design, propositioning, propensity and opportunity modelling, channel mix and economics, competitive frame, financial planning model that connects strategy to credible targets. The output is a defensible GTM strategy a board can sign behind, a CFO can finance against, and a sales organisation can execute.

03

Commercial planning and performance design

Designing the go-to-market from the market back. Addressable market sizing and demand modelling, ICP definition, segmentation, value proposition design, propositioning, propensity and opportunity modelling, channel mix and economics, competitive frame, financial planning model that connects strategy to credible targets. The output is a defensible GTM strategy a board can sign behind, a CFO can finance against, and a sales organisation can execute.

Growth plans rarely fail because the strategy was wrong. They fail because the operating model underneath was never built to carry it: the coverage, the routes to market, and an organisation where roles are clear and every part is designed to work as one unit rather than as adjacent teams handing work over. PERFORM works on that layer, so the strategy has something capable of delivering it.

Umar Gill

Managing Partner

Go-to-market

Your go-to-market, and how you are set up to sell.

Anchored against the perfrom framework. Strategy + operating model pillars.

When you would commission this

Growth has stalled or the path to the next stage is not clear. Coverage does not match the opportunity. Segments are served the same way regardless of value. The operating model is federated by accident, not by design. The growth plan is not anchored to a credible financial model. A new strategy needs to be designed, or an existing one needs to be made executable.

What we do

Size the opportunity. Decide how you sell. Choose your routes to market. Set your focus. Design the structure. Set the rhythm. Measure what matters.

Potential

Addressable market, demand signal, segment-level opportunity sizing, propensity modelling.

Engagement model

How we engage and through what motions.

Routes to market

Direct, partner, digital, hybrid. Channel mix and economics.

Footprint and focus

Where we play and where we deliberately do not.

Operating model

Structural set-up for execution. Regions, segments, organisation design, role architecture.

Rhythm of business

Cadences, MBR/QBR, forecast calls, governance forums.

Measurement and management

Leading and lagging KPIs, dashboards, compensation and incentives.

What you get

A clear go-to-market plan the board can stand behind, a team structure built to deliver it, and targets and a rhythm that connect the plan to what people do every day.

Three PERFORM propositions

Commissioned individually or in combination, depending on what the diagnostic surfaces.

01

GTM strategy
advisory

Designing the go-to-market from the market back. Addressable market sizing and demand modelling, ICP definition, segmentation, value proposition design, propositioning, propensity and opportunity modelling, channel mix and economics, competitive frame, financial planning model that connects strategy to credible targets. The output is a defensible GTM strategy a board can sign behind, a CFO can finance against, and a sales organisation can execute.

02

Operating model and organisation design

Designing the go-to-market from the market back. Addressable market sizing and demand modelling, ICP definition, segmentation, value proposition design, propositioning, propensity and opportunity modelling, channel mix and economics, competitive frame, financial planning model that connects strategy to credible targets. The output is a defensible GTM strategy a board can sign behind, a CFO can finance against, and a sales organisation can execute.

03

Commercial planning and performance design

Designing the go-to-market from the market back. Addressable market sizing and demand modelling, ICP definition, segmentation, value proposition design, propositioning, propensity and opportunity modelling, channel mix and economics, competitive frame, financial planning model that connects strategy to credible targets. The output is a defensible GTM strategy a board can sign behind, a CFO can finance against, and a sales organisation can execute.

Where pillar engagements sit in the ladder

Pillar engagements usually follow the Diagnostic and can lead into wider programme work or interim leadership where the work needs to be landed inside the business.

The COMPOSE diagnostic

The evidenced starting point that scopes the pillar engagement.

Transformation programmes

When the issue spans multiple pillars or frameworks.

Interim leadership

When senior accountable capacity is needed to land the work.

Focus the work where it matters.

Start with the diagnostic, then commission the framework engagement that the evidence calls for.