James Gilbert 🙏🏻

Bloomerang

Empowering fundraisers and nonprofits to do what they love and build a world inspired by giving

Vice President Demand Generation

noble

Advisor

CloudSpot

Strategic Advisor

Sendoso

CMO Collaborative

SLC CMO Collaborative Chapter Leader

Flip (formerly RedRoute)

Recruited to bring extreme growth. Structured foundational growth engines. Historical pipeline, MRR, ARR, and retention. Built a team from scratch. Structured a rename, rebrand, and new website within 4 months. Built and ran our podcast, outbound engine, and all growth engines. Led Flip to Pavillion’s category king finalist in 2023. Grew MRR and pipe 12% MoM, 92% retention rate.

Chief Marketing Officer

BUSINESSNEXT

•	Grew from Series A to Series C 
•	Built a demand gen engine which led to a 10x growth in ARR
•	Held a steady CAC ratio of 3:1
•	Decreased sales cycles from 12 to 4 months
•	Developed and led culture
•	Developed our US GTM strategy through partnerships and community.

CRMNEXT

GM North America & CMO

California State University, Long Beach

A focus around Big data. I served as a representation of big data and how it can be leveraged across business units.

Big Data Board Of Advisors

Cisco

- Helped develop a global demand gen process and ABM across multiple products
- Discovered $25M in annual savings from overlapping technology and built a consolidation plan for a single tech stack to be used.
- Continued to lead marketing for CloudCherry post-acquisition
- Helped lead strategy and GTM for the collaboration BU with ABM for APAC, EMEA, North America, and South America. This yielded net new market share, cross-selling opportunities into other BUs, and massive pipe and a 1,110% increase in revenue.

Director RevOps and Insights

Passionate about bringing humanity to business. 

High growth leader, Built teams from scratch from 0-120, 3X CMO with a background in RevOps, Demand Gen, and RevOps. 2 Successful exits. I’m a bit of a data freak but I am super creative and have come up with some insanely fun and engaging campaigns. Enterprise leadership roles at Cisco, Verizon, and AGCO, instrumental in driving massive growth. Strengths are driving a growth engine that can scale while building a solid team that can operate and have fun. $0-$150M and Seed - Series D is what I have done several times now.

The personal side of me: I am a father of 4 with an amazing wife, this is what drives me. I am a sports enthusiast & Utah Jazz fan #takenote. 

I believe the biggest gap in today's world is our lack of being human even when there are differences. Be kind in all that you do, it always pays off.

Tim Hillison

Entry Point 1

We help engineering-led startups and mid-market scaleup accelerate revenue and grow through AI-accelerated GTM, connected plays, and marketing that drives revenue. A few representative engagements:
- Arkose Labs: Competitive positioning and messaging for series C AI fraud security platform/cybersecurity
- Springboard: Go-to-market strategy and ABM implementation for series B artificial intelligence (AI) Retail Predictive Analytics product suite
- Vesta: Target persona and ICP definition, Brand & Product Architecture definition for series C artificial intelligence and big data e-commerce fraud platform
- Icertis: Revenue engine (demand generation, inside sales, and marketing operations) optimization strategy for series E unicorn and Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader in CLM space

Founder / Chief Marketing Officer

Fleak

Fleak simplifies AI workflows for data teams. No infrastructure needed. It integrates with leading cloud data warehouses and vector databases. Build complex multi-model AI workflows in minutes with Fleak's serverless API builder.

fCMO & Strategic Growth Advisor

GTM Partners

Certified Partner enabling go-to-market strategy and implementation within B2B SaaS & Technology go-to-market across startups, scaleups, and Fortune 500 enterprises.

GTM Partners Certified Implementation Partner

ProofAnalytics.ai

ProofAnalytics.ai is an AI-driven platform that helps businesses plan, predict, prove, and pivot their go-to-market investments in real time. It provides advanced analytics capabilities to connect business strategy, operations, and tactics, enabling companies to understand and demonstrate the impact of their marketing and other business initiatives both efficiently and effectively.

Strategic Growth Advisor

HYPCCCYCL

HYPCCCYCL empowers top sales and marketing leaders to crack the funnel by looking at the bigger picture through the lens of go-to-market vs. solely marketing or sales.

GTM Community Member

Aptivio

Aptivio's the only end-to-end GTM Automation Platform for your entire Revenue team. It recommends sales-ready opps, interested buyers, warm intros, and other revenue-impacting actions.

Peak Community

- Professional marketing community
- I am an eCMO leadership member, where I mentor marketers, and provide thought leadership

CMO Community Member

Sigma Computing

- Developed partner product marketing strategies including messaging, positioning, and multi-channel demand generation campaigns targeting modern data stack partner ecosystem (Snowflake, Databricks, Fivetran, dbt, etc.) for no code cloud-native analytics platform. Increased attach rate by 48% and partner pipeline by 3x.
- Built pitch deck that decreased sales preparation time by 75% and increased meetings by 30%
- Improved storytelling for sales enablement sessions for Modern Data stack partners, specifically Snowflake and Databricks
- Launched Sigma Computing on Databricks

Interim Head of Partner Product Marketing + GTM

PayPal

- Led development and rollout of PayPal global sales messaging and positioning across the enterprise, partner, inside sales, and mid-market sales groups representing 1400 global sellers
- Launched PayPal Commerce Platform in five regions; QR codes within the United States
- Managed team of 10

Director, Global Sales Enablement

Orbital Insight

- Scaled ARR by 3x; managed team of 5, and 7 agencies
- Developed brand, demand generation, growth marketing, and product marketing reported to CEO
- Category creation through integrated go-to-market and innovative data-driven PR strategy
- Won most Fast Company's Most Innovative Data Science company in 2017 & 2018, and CB Insights Top 100 AI Companies 2018

Vice President, Global Marketing

I scale startups & transform scaleups with connected growth plays across processes, systems, analytics & teams. 3x Global CMO/VP, Ex-Visa, Ex-Microsoft, Ex-Paypal. OG Marketer. Sensemaker.

Revenue is lumpy. Forecasts miss. The board wants predictability.

That’s where I come in.

At Entry Point 1, we don’t run disconnected campaigns. We deliver Fractional GTM leadership, building AI-accelerated systems that smooth revenue and scale pipeline so growth is predictable, defensible, and board-ready.

Most companies treat GTM like a series of campaigns. I don’t.
I believe GTM is an operating system: a set of signals, systems, and plays that either work together or break down.

⚡ StartRight (0–10M ARR): For founders who need investor-ready GTM foundations.
⚡ FlexScale (10–50M ARR): For mid-market scaleups where lumpy revenue stalls growth. This is my bullseye—embedding Fractional GTM leadership plus execution firepower to stabilize the engine.
⚡ MaaS / Full Stack (25–300M ARR): For PE-backed companies where the stakes rise. We act as your embedded GTM partner with strategy, creative, execution, analytics, and board reporting owned end to end.

Execution Beats Theory. Every Time.

📈 $1B+ in revenue generated across startups, scaleups, and enterprises.
📈 28% pipeline growth in 9 months, with shorter cycles and lower CAC.
📈 25+ years across AI, SaaS, fintech, cloud, and digital infrastructure—from startup trenches to Fortune 50 boardrooms.
📈 Partnered in 3 exits and helped raise $200M+ in funding.
🔧 Both a GTM Operator and GTM Engineer. I don’t just design strategy. I build and run the system with you.

AI Crunches Numbers. We Build Relationships.

As a 3x CMO, I’ve seen marketing shrink as sales absorbed more. I’ve closed multimillion-dollar consulting deals, reshaped sales orgs, and led transformations at Visa, Microsoft, PayPal, and venture-backed startups in Silicon Valley and Europe. That’s why I don’t see GTM as “just marketing.” It’s the entire revenue team—Product, Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, RevOps, Enablement -- unified as one team.

Beyond systems and numbers, I lead with empathy. I’m tough on problems, kind to people 🤝. My style calls people in, not out. That’s how you build momentum.

🌍 I’ve worked with engineering-led teams in semiconductors, SaaS, geospatial analytics, and AI infrastructure, scaling businesses across the US, EMEA, APAC, and LATAM.

Hi, I’m Tim 👋. I help engineering-led teams build performant GTM systems, unify revenue, and scale with Agentic AI.

Most companies play the game. The best change the rules.
If you’re ready to win, we're ready to help you get there:
🔗 https://lnkd.in/gwMuUbcn

👉 Follow Entry Point 1
 for insights on AI-accelerated GTM and dynamic revenue systems.

Fractional CMO providing product marketing, growth marketing and revenue marketing strategy and execution for emerging global brands and publicly listed companies:
- PayPal: Innovation enablement & communications strategy for Products & Technologies Division of global e-commerce and P2P payments platform - Fortune 500
- Arkose Labs: Competitive positioning and messaging for series C AI fraud security platform/cybersecurity
- Springboard: Go-to-market strategy and ABM implementation for series B artificial intelligence (AI) Retail Predictive Analytics product suite
- Vesta: Target persona and ICP definition, Brand & Product Architecture definition for series C artificial intelligence and big data e-commerce fraud platform
- Icertis: Revenue engine (demand generation, inside sales, and marketing operations) optimization strategy for series E unicorn and Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader in CLM space

Our future doesn’t fail at the finish line.
It fails at the beginning.

Confidence from the crowd.
A slope that guarantees acceleration, not stability.

Here's what the data tells us. 

Almost no layoffs blamed on GenAI (MIT, July 2025).
Executives say the workforce is steady.

Yet more than 120,000 tech workers were cut this year (Layoffs.fyi, Dec 2025).
The economy is tightening.

Hiring for new college graduates dropped by 13 percent (Stanford, Aug 2025).
Entry-level roles are being automated or deprioritized.

People aren't getting pushed out.
They just aren't getting in.

And while this is happening, elite universities race each other to hit a $100,000/year price tag.

We pay more.
First steps require more.
Return is no longer a given.

Here’s what’s hiding in plain sight.
The cost of entry keeps rising.

If children are our future, the question isn't whether college is worth it.
The question is whether the on ramps still exist.

The beginning needs to be rebuilt.
Everything depends on it.

Execution Beats Theory. Every Time.

👋 Hi, I’m Tim. I help engineering-led startups and mid-market scaleups build performant GTM systems, unify revenue, and scale with Agentic AI.

What do you think needs to happen to make the beginning better for the next generation?

Entry Point 1 #gtm #agenticai #marketdevelopment #gotimmarket #b2bexecution #gtmarchitecture #aiexecution

vc: redbull

Outbound in Q4 2025 starts 
the same way every good rally does.

With precision.
And the discipline to make the first move.

One clean touch keeps the ball in motion,
and then a team rises to meet the moment.

Outbound only works smoothly when we build it intentionally.
And in Q4 2025, it’s evolved again.

The days of volume for volume’s sake are gone.
▶️ Cold email reply rates sit at 8.5%.
▶️ Hyperpersonalized messages lift replies by 15–25%.
Placing the right message at the right moment with the right signal is closer than ever.

And personalization only works when the message reaches the inbox.
And precision only matters when the system is strong enough to carry it.

Maildoso is built for this reality.
Last month, we used their self-healing rotation to stabilize a sudden reputation dip across two domains and avoid inbox burns.
1️⃣ Self-healing mailboxes that rotate and rest so no single inbox gets overworked.
2️⃣ Automatic replacement before reputation damage spreads.
3️⃣ Daily reputation checks that keep deliverability above 98%, even with Outlook’s new throttling rules.
4️⃣ Flexible monthly plans so operators can adjust easily.

If the system fails, the rally stops.
And so do the conversations, the trust, and the quarter.

Here’s how we build momentum with intention:
Each message developed with care.
Every signal chosen for its weight.
It’s how we turn the rally into traction.

Execution Beats Theory. Every Time.

👋 Hi, I’m Tim. I help engineering-led startups and mid-market scaleups build performant GTM systems, unify revenue, and scale with Agentic AI.

Check out Maildoso to evolve your Outbound now. 
Shout to SaasFluence
 
Entry Point 1 #gtm #agenticai #marketdevelopment #gotimarket #b2bexecution #gtmarchitecture #aiexecution

It looks effortless.
But it’s not.

Every motion depends on the last.
Every failure ripples through the chain.

That’s outbound at scale.
Most teams treat it like art.
We built it like code.

Maildoso runs self-healing mailboxes that rotate, rest, and replace automatically, keeping deliverability above 98% even to Outlook.

No more late-night inbox checks. 
No campaign downtime. 
Just a system that repairs itself while you sleep.

Clay feeds the signals. 
HubSpot anchors the logic. 
Together, the system runs clean.

Outbound leaders don’t pray for deliverability.
They engineer it.

Execution beats theory. Every time.

👋 Hi, I’m Tim. I help engineering-led startups and mid-market scaleups build performant GTM systems, unify revenue, and scale with Agentic AI.

Shout out to my friends SaasFluence!

Entry Point 1 #gtm #agenticai #marketdevelopment #gotimmarket #b2bexecution #gtmarchitecture #aiexecution

Now the best operators are becoming even more valuable.
AI hasn’t replaced us. It raised the bar.

That is why I’m excited for Metadata's Agentic GTM in 2026 and Beyond, December 3–5.

The lineup is exceptional, and the best part is that it’s free to attend.

Here are some of the sessions I’m looking forward to:
▶️ Liza Adams on evolving from tools to orchestrated systems
▶️ Alina Vandenberghe 🌶️ (Chili Piper) on scaling to $50M with precision
▶️ Sydney Sloan (G2) on brand visibility in an AI-search-first world
▶️ Lisa Sharapata🌟 and the Metadata team on the foundations of agentic GTM
▶️ Amanda Kahlow (1mind) on intelligence that compounds
▶️ Wendy W. (Comply) on trust and full-funnel intelligence
▶️ Matt Hammel (AirOps) on the next battle for AI discovery
And many more across GTM, product, growth, and AI

Across GTM, one pattern is clear:
The real shift isn’t volume or speed. It’s structure.

We’re moving from static workflows to interconnected systems that think with us.

On December 4, I’ll share a session called
Precision Across GTM: Building an Adaptable, Self-Learning Agentic System
12:30 to 1:00 PM ET

The real power of this event is the collective learning.
Three days of frameworks, experiments, and system-level insight from operators who are already building what comes next.

Metadata’s Agentic GTM in 2026 and Beyond
Free virtual event
December 3–5, 2025
Register here: https://bit.ly/4i8t8BM

👋Hi, I’m Tim, I help engineering-led teams build performant GTM systems, unify revenue, and scale with Agentic AI.

Entry Point 1 #gtm #agenticai #marketdevelopment #gotimmarket #b2bexecution #gtmarchitecture #aiexecution

An ICP drives ~70% of our GTM success

Yet most teams spend hours on analysis that becomes useless as soon as the market moves.

Here’s what changes when our ICP updates in real time.

When ICP is static, GTM slows down.

Most teams treat ICP like a slide, a one-time exercise that goes stale fast.
But nothing in GTM stands still: teams reorg, tools evolve, priorities shift, and signals appear in data before anyone says a word.

If the ICP doesn’t move, signals disappear, accounts take the wrong paths, workflows trigger at the wrong time, and teams operate from different assumptions.

So we rebuilt around one idea:

The ICP should be dynamic, and the GTM system should react automatically.

GTM velocity = how fast the system adapts to new information.

Clay gives us live ICP signals as they happen.

Replit turns those signals into action routing accounts, updating HubSpot, sending alerts, and letting us ship internal tools in hours.

Basically, this tool unlocks our ability to build internal tools like this one.

This is modern GTM:
Live signals.
Workflows with purpose.
Teams aligned.
A system adapting as the market shifts.

Want the resource with the internal tools teams are building with Replit?

Comment “Vibing”.

Did you convince yourself that AI was the true story…
when the story worth telling has always been about us?

Because somewhere between the model launches,
the late-night meetups,
and the Jobpocalypse…
we all got on the hamster wheel.

We mistook:
Speed for progress.
Output for outcomes.
Motion for meaning.

Machines can win the rally. Neo knew that.
Only humans decide why the game matters.

A future only happens to us
if we let it.

Remember the MIT Nanda Study (July 2025).
$30 to $40 billion invested.
95% seeing no ROI.
It wasn’t a failure.
It was a mirror.
 
Here is what we learned:
1️⃣ AI does not replace teams. It exposes systems never designed to scale.
2️⃣ LLMs do not transform companies. Coherent system design does.
3️⃣ Speed is not the problem. Sequence is.
4️⃣ Tools can’t learn from workflows that break under pressure.
5️⃣ The best companies build extensible systems that tools and agents plug into.

Here’s the mental model that changes everything:
AI is not the strategy.
It is the fuel.
Let’s take back our agency to build the strategy.

Execution Beats Theory. Every Time.

👋 Hi, I’m Tim. I help engineering-led startups and mid-market scaleups build performant GTM systems, unify revenue, and scale with Agentic AI.

At Entry Point 1, we partner with engineering-led startups and mid-market scaleups that operate intentionally and play to win. We've helped generate over $1B in revenue.

If you are ready to build a future you will be proud of, we are ready to help. https://lnkd.in/gGftmrYr

Entry Point 1 #gtm #agenticai #marketdevelopment #gotimmarket #b2bexecution #gtmarchitecture #aiexecution

Fridays don't just make us happy.
They bring out our inner Shakira.

Hips drop
Shoulders loosen
Get on the soul train 🚂

Science agrees:
✅ Dopamine boost: Anticipation fires up reward signaling. (Psychology Today, Oct 2025)
✅ MPFC (medial prefrontal cortex) activation: The brain’s well-being hub lights up. (Frontiers in Psychology, Aug–Oct 2025)
✅ Stress lowers: Anticipation drops stress 18%, and memories drop it by 11%. (NYT Well, Sep 2025)

Be honest. What is the most ridiculous thing you have done in public because you forgot you had noise cancelling headphones on?

👋 Hi, I’m Tim, I help engineering-led teams build performant GTM systems, unify revenue, and scale with Agentic AI.

Entry Point 1 #gtm #agenticai #marketdevelopment #gotimmarket #b2bexecution #gtmarchitecture #aiexecution

Everyone wants control...
until it becomes our responsibility.

That’s where timing decides.
The rhythm of who leads and who follows.

The Jump Rope World Series is about timing.
Miss a beat, you lose.

Most AI strategies fail
for the same reason product launches do:
they chase the wrong market.

Dominant AI consolidates control.
Disruptive AI redefines the game.

➡️ Dominant wins when you control data, infrastructure, or distribution.
It’s precision at scale. NVIDIA, Microsoft, Amazon.
They build moats around ecosystems, not features.

➡️ Disruptive wins when you move first and learn faster.
It’s motion with purpose. Anthropic, AMD, Neuralink.

They build new markets before incumbents see them coming.

Dominant protects power.
Disruptive creates possibility.

Both can win.
But never by accident.

The question is: are we building to own a market or to open one?

Execution Beats Theory. Every Time.

👋 Hi, I’m Tim. I help engineering-led startups and mid-market scaleups build performant GTM systems, unify revenue, and scale with Agentic AI.

Entry Point 1 #gtm #agenticai #systemsthinking #marketdevelopment #b2bexecution #gtmarchitecture

On shifting sands… 
We build trust and confidence.

➡️ 82% of enterprise leaders now use generative AI weekly. (Wharton, Oct 2025)
➡️ 60% of Americans distrust AI to make fair decisions. (Pew Research, Oct 2025)
➡️ 81% of companies remain in the early stages of Responsible AI maturity. (World Economic Forum, 2025)

Here’s the problem.
We move faster every quarter, yet our confidence keeps falling.
This is what happens when adoption outruns understanding.

We’re not teaching systems how to earn trust.
We’re teaching people how to lose it.

Progress is not the absence of caution.
It is confidence built through accountability.

Systems reflect the discipline of those who build them.

The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways - Robert Greene

The question is no longer whether we can automate.
It’s whether we can still learn.

Execution beats theory. Every time.

👋 Hi, I’m Tim. I help engineering-led startups and mid-market scaleups build performant GTM systems, unify revenue, and scale with Agentic AI.

If you’re ready to build confidence into your system: https://lnkd.in/dFRufT4V

Entry Point 1 #gtm #agenticai #marketdevelopment #gotimmarket #b2bexecution #gtmarchitecture #aiexecution

vc: mahuuuuski

Momentum exposes everything
we pretended wasn’t a problem.

Breakneck speed.
Heartbeat at 200.

Speed reveals us.

And every hidden flaw becomes apparent.

In GTM, this is where performance becomes undeniable:
👉 the ICP no one fully aligned on
👉 the handoff everyone assumed was handled
👉 the data debt we “parked for later”
👉 the messaging Product, Sales, and Marketing interpreted three different ways
👉 the plays that looked fine in the presentation but failed at execution

Acceleration doesn’t create chaos.
It exposes architecture.

This descent is the perfect metaphor.
Once he drops in, he can’t pause, reset, or sync.

Every micro-flaw becomes fate.
He doesn’t survive because he’s “aligned.”

He achieves this because his system can handle the velocity.

GTM works the same way.

We don’t rise to the moment.
We fall to the system we built.

Hi, I’m Tim, I help engineering-led startups and mid-market scaleups build performant GTM systems, unify revenue, and scale with Agentic AI.

If you’re ready to win, we’re ready to help you get there: https://lnkd.in/gGftmrYr

Entry Point 1 #gtm #agenticai #marketdevelopment #gotimmarket #b2bexecution #gtmarchitecture #aiexecution

vc: burakns

Momentum feels exciting.
Until it owns us.

We all feel that moment.
Shifting from choice to consequence.
The tilt that becomes motion.
Motion that becomes speed.

Watch the Zorb.
Once the slope takes over, the entry reveals everything.
Startups and scaleups are no different.
They do not fail for lack of ideas.

They fail at the entry point.
A product that starts off balance never takes off.
Entry defines trajectory.

The first move shapes every move that follows.
Markets. Teams. Decisions. Momentum.

Most teams celebrate acceleration.
The best teams study the slope.
Momentum is never the problem.
It's when to drop in.

Execution Beats Theory. Every Time.

👋 Hi, I’m Tim. I help engineering-led startups and mid-market scaleups build performant GTM systems, unify revenue, and scale with Agentic AI.

Entry Point 1 #gtm #agenticai #systemsthinking #marketdevelopment #b2bexecution #gtmarchitecture

vc: zorbrotura

The drop looks easy.
It never is.

He steps in with confidence, commits to the line, and every micro-adjustment matters until the landing is perfect.

That’s outbound today.

We commit before we know what’s under the surface.
We move fast.
And tiny errors become fate when you scale.

The biggest one?
Starting with bad data.

That’s why we build our workflows with Icypeas.
Because precision at the top of the funnel makes everything downstream cleaner, faster, and less expensive to fix.

Three things changed immediately:
1️⃣ Clean enrichment and verification inside Clay.
2️⃣ Lower bounce rates with true catchall cracking.
3️⃣ Only verified records enter HubSpot.

Outbound isn’t a volume game anymore. It’s a data integrity game.
Clean inputs. Fast enrichment. Perfect landings.

Hi, I’m Tim, I help engineering-led teams build performant GTM systems, unify revenue, and scale with Agentic AI.

Shout to SaasFluence

Entry Point 1 #gtm #agenticai #marketdevelopment #gotimmarket #b2bexecution #gtmarchitecture #aiexecution

vc lucasruffieux

AI or fake.
What's our reflex?
Doubt before understanding.

The swing stops people in their tracks.
But Steve Waltman is a professional golfer.
The driver is real.
The shot is real.
And the skill behind the shot is unreal.

Agentic AI works the same way.
It looks unreal in a demo.
It falls apart inside most companies.
Not because the technology is flawed.
Because the mechanics are missing.

Here we are now:
▶️ 75% worry about trusting AI agent decisions (Dataiku, Oct 2025)
▶️ Over 60% of agentic AI projects aren’t expected to make it to 2027 (Gartner, Jun 2025)
▶️ ~$3T in AI data center spend (NYT, Nov 2025)

The world is making its biggest technological bet in history
with ~$1T financed through opaque debt
on systems leaders don’t trust
with claims no one can easily validate
at a scale we’ve never attempted.

Here’s how you discern what’s real:
F: Feedback Loops
AI agents must learn from outcomes. If not, they aren’t agentic.
O: Orientation to State
AI agents must maintain context across steps. If not, they aren’t agentic.
R: Rules and Boundaries
AI agents must choose the next best action within constraints. If not, they aren’t agentic.
E: Explainability
AI agents must provide decisions we can audit easily. If not, they aren’t agentic.

Most agentic claims fail the FORE test.
No one wants to be hit by a rogue drive on the green. 
If it sounds magical, remember that unicorns 🦄 don’t exist in production. 

Don’t mistake illusion for intelligence.
Understand the mechanics before committing.

Hi, I’m Tim. I help engineering-led teams build performant GTM systems, unify revenue, and scale with Agentic AI.

If you’re ready to win, we’re ready to help you get there: https://lnkd.in/gGftmrYr

Entry Point 1 #gtm #agenticai #marketdevelopment #gotimmarket #b2bexecution #gtmarchitecture #aiexecution

We may see the world differently.
Not agree on everything.
Bring our own experiences and edges.

But when we show up with manners, civility, and curiosity,
the conversation resonates.
We make progress, even if it is not perfect.

I am grateful for this community.

The people who pause.
The people who listen.
The people who show up to understand, not be understood.

You remind me that perspective is a gift.
That thinking grows wider when it walks with others.
Your posts help me learn, reflect, and grow.

Thank you.

Wishing you and your family a meaningful Thanksgiving.

👋 Hi, I’m Tim. I help engineering-led startups and mid-market scaleups build performant GTM systems, unify revenue, and scale with Agentic AI.

Entry Point 1 #gtm #agenticai #marketdevelopment #gotimmarket #b2bexecution #gtmarchitecture #aiexecution

Most of us aren’t struggling with effort.
We’re struggling with complexity.

AI didn’t simplify GTM.
It changed its structure.

And next week at Metadata’s Agentic GTM in 2026 and Beyond, we get to learn from leaders who are already operating in this new reality.

Here are some of the voices shaping the conversation:
▶️ Alina Vandenberghe 🌶️ on scaling to $50M with precision
▶️ Maura Rivera on modern CMO leadership
▶️ Wendy W. on trust and full-funnel intelligence
▶️ Brooke Cunningham on GTM readiness inside large systems
▶️ Matt Hammel on the new era of AI discovery
▶️ Sydney Sloan on brand visibility in an LLM-first world
▶️ Liza Adams and Lisa Sharapata🌟 on how GTM evolves into orchestrated systems

Across the work, one pattern is clear:
Winning GTM is becoming an architecture problem.

Not more motion.
Intentional motion.
Motion connected by design.

On December 4, I’ll share a session called
Precision Across GTM: Building an Adaptable, Self-Learning Agentic System
12:30 to 1:00 PM ET

The real power of this event is our collective learning.
Three days of frameworks, experiments, and system-level insight from operators who are already building what comes next.

Metadata’s Agentic GTM in 2026 and Beyond
Free virtual event
December 3–5, 2025

Register: https://lnkd.in/gvvRgJzk 

👋 Hi, I’m Tim, I help engineering-led teams build performant GTM systems, unify revenue, and scale with Agentic AI.

Entry Point 1 #gtm #agenticai #marketdevelopment #gotimmarket #b2bexecution #gtmarchitecture #aiexecution

When we finally put the pieces of the puzzle together…
do we lose our isht?

Because here’s the big reveal.
On the 84th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, four signals line up in a way that’s hard to ignore.

1. Character AI restricts under 18 use
because it was never just chat.
It became emotional reinforcement and relationship simulation with minors.
One company moving without oversight.

2. OpenAI calling Code Red
shows the frontier race is tightening.
Performance isn’t enough. Reliability decides who leads.
The next stage is here.

3. Humanoid robots entering the workforce
isn’t innovation for innovation’s sake.
It’s AI stepping into our space across factories, warehouses, hospitals.
Real shifts in human employment.

4. Nearly $3T in AI data center buildout
with $1T financed through opaque debt.
Acceleration without maturity sends our stomachs into our throats.
Concentrated capital with concentrated risk.

Not dystopia or utopia.
Just real.

Character AI looks like the early version of stories in Companion.
OpenAI’s shift shows leadership is focus, not expansion.
Companies like Amazon are already reshaping labor.
And data centers will shape every region.

Taking our agency back starts with four actions:
➡️ Developing a heightened consciousness.
➡️ Identifying possible futures early.
➡️ Building checks and balances.
➡️ Treating every capability as a responsibility.

And like they say in Sweden, there are always consequences 😉

Execution Beats Theory. Every Time.

👋 Hi, I’m Tim. I help engineering-led teams build performant GTM systems, unify revenue, and scale with Agentic AI.

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The future didn’t ask us for permission.
It just arrived.

➡️ 90% use AI agents already (TTMS, Sept 2025).
➡️ 79% expect autonomous systems within three years (Landbase, Sept 2025).
The shift is here.

Watch this.
A ghost warehouse.
No lights.
No watercooler.
No humans.
Just machines.
Nonstop.

This is what happens when agentic AI reaches the edge.
🤖 Robots adapt to unpredictable motion in real time (CMU, Nov 2025).
🤖 Agents self-optimize routes on live floors (Amazon Robotics, Nov 2025).

Industrial inspection is next.
Robots that sense.
Robots that adapt.
Robots that work in noncooperative environments.

The warehouse floor becomes the real-time feedback loop.
This is the new frontier.

Not faster robots.
Smarter ones.

Systems with the consistency we design for but rarely see.

Engineering edge is the new growth curve.

Execution Beats Theory. Every Time.

👋 Hi, I’m Tim. I help engineering-led startups and mid-market scaleups build performant GTM systems, unify revenue, and scale with Agentic AI.

Entry Point 1 #gtm #agenticai #marketdevelopment #b2bexecution #gtmarchitecture #aiexecution #robotics #industry40

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