Dabble Holdings

Sales

Airbnb

Started running a Airbnb property in the Cold Lake area.

Airbnb Host

Ovation

Account Executive, Southern US

500 Startups batch 24 company

Ovation is a customer experience and engagement platform for multi-unit restaurants, allowing you to engage directly with your customers.

Business Development

Loblaw Companies Limited

Bookkeeper

KUDO Energy Services Inc

Built Weatherford's Maximizer III pumpjacks for CNRL at their Primrose North location

General Laborer

CEDA International

Finished 2018 MEG Energy turnaround ahead of schedule, Worked closely with management to complete various jobs

Austin Verner

I help SaaS and high-growth companies unlock exponential ARR growth by building partner ecosystems, affiliate programs, and GTM systems that scale.

Unlike most leaders who specialize in either sales or partnerships, I bring both:
	•	Closed 7-figure enterprise deals as an AE.
	•	Built partner programs adding $10M–$40M+ ARR.
	•	Designed affiliate systems activating thousands of high-performing partners.

My approach blends direct sales experience with a playbook for recruiting, activating, and scaling partner ecosystems that deliver measurable revenue impact.

Currently applying this GTM playbook inside Instantly.ai, where I’m documenting the journey in real time — frameworks, wins, and lessons that any GTM leader can adapt to scale faster.

What I do best:
	•	Design & scale high-impact partner programs.
	•	Build integrated GTM systems combining affiliates, agencies, integrations, and brand alliances.
	•	Turn real-world results into repeatable, monetizable frameworks.

I also work with select founders, execs, and investors through consulting, advisory, and JV opportunities — helping them structure partnerships that multiply revenue and create leverage.

📌 Core Competencies:
• Partnership & Affiliate Revenue Growth
• GTM Architecture & Execution
• Enterprise Sales & Negotiation
• Strategic Alliances & Integrations
• Business Process Optimization
• Leadership & Coaching High-Growth Teams

If you’re building a partner-sourced GTM function and want to scale faster, let’s connect.

Marc Gaudett

The biggest shift in AI right now isn’t a new model.
It’s what winning products are optimizing for.

We’re watching AI move:

From tools → to agents
From interfaces → to infrastructure
From attention → to execution

And when AI agents start doing real work, one thing becomes obvious fast:

No platform wins in isolation.

Agents don’t care about feature lists.
They care about connectivity.

They need:

Data sources
Execution layers
Automation tools
Systems that talk to each other cleanly

That’s why ecosystems are becoming the strategy — not a side project.

Today, we released the Instantly.ai Integration Marketplace.

This isn’t a “big bang” launch.
It’s intentionally a starting point.
It's a compounding event

A small set of integrations.
More already built.
Many more rolling out in batches.

Because marketplaces aren’t just products, they’re infrastructure.

Some integrations are lightweight connections.
Others are designed to sit much closer to the core workflow — embedded, composable, and invisible to the end user.

In a world where GTM is becoming engineered and AI-driven, the platforms that win won’t be the most closed or the most opinionated.

They’ll be the most connectable.

If you’re building in sales tech, data, automation, or AI — and want to:

Serve customers better
Plug into real GTM workflows
Co-build and co-market instead of competing in silos

This is how we want to do it.

And if you don’t see your name listed yet but already integrate with us:

You’re not late.
You’re early.

The ecosystem is live — and it’s just getting started. 🚀

If you want to build with us — apply to build an integration, explore the marketplace, or get an existing integration that you have created already listed 

— links are in the comments

Leading the Partnerships Team at Instantly | Building $100M+ Partner-Sourced ARR+ Case Study

We just wrapped a global outbound webinar with the team at HubSpot — and the biggest takeaway wasn’t “AI writes better emails.”

It was this:

Cold outreach doesn’t fail because of AI.
It fails because of weak targeting and disconnected systems.

Here’s what actually matters:

1. Targeting > Personalization
Spray-and-pray is dead.
Micro-segmentation, real buying signals, and relevance win.

2. Infrastructure > Volume
If your deliverability is weak, more emails just mean more ignored emails.
1–3% reply rates are normal. Below that? It’s usually ICP, offer, or setup.

3. CRM Connection = Revenue
Outbound gets attention.
Connected systems close deals.

When outreach feeds directly into HubSpot:
• Positive replies create deals
• Closed-lost re-enters nurture
• Buyer intent triggers follow-up
• Nothing falls through the cracks

AI amplifies clarity.
It doesn’t replace strategy.

Big thanks to:
Eoin McGuinness
Hans Dekker
Brandon Charleson
Katey Norris
Fabian Hartmann
Yaroslava Tensina



If you were on the webinar and didn’t grab the special offers from Instantly.ai
 (free month, VIP offer etc.), DM me and I’ll send them over.

What’s your biggest outbound bottleneck right now — targeting, messaging, or pipeline?

Outbound doesn’t scale because of effort.
It scales because of leverage.

Many GTM teams still run outbound like it’s a single channel:

Build a list.
Send emails.
Hope timing works.

That model breaks the moment you try to grow consistently.

What actually scales is a system built around three levers we’re dialing in hard:

Distribution
Distribution isn’t “send more.”
It’s extending reach across email + LinkedIn and other channels, activating partners as force multipliers, and triggering outreach based on real signals — not static lists.
The best distribution removes friction instead of adding work.

Expansion
Outbound isn’t just for net-new pipeline.
Some of the strongest revenue comes from reactivating warm accounts, expanding existing relationships, and acting on engagement or usage signals automatically.
Expansion works when systems adapt — not when people have to manually push every step.

New revenue channels
The biggest shift isn’t better copy or more tools.
It’s using outbound infrastructure to unlock partner-led distribution, multi-channel follow-up, and workflows that respond to behavior in real time.
That’s how teams grow without growing headcount at the same rate.

The real change
The future of outbound isn’t about individual tools.
It’s about infrastructure and connections — systems that react, workflows that adapt, and ecosystems that extend reach and revenue.

That’s the direction we’re building toward at Instantly.ai.

Distribution. Expansion. New channels.
Infrastructure > tactics.

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