James Gilbert 🙏🏻

I am the current VP of Demand Generation at Bloomerang with a background as a 3X CMO. I have with a proven track record of helping companies scale from early stage through late growth, building marketing functions that drive sustainable scale. I thrive at the intersection of brand, demand generation, and AI-driven go-to-market strategy, translating innovation into market momentum.

Start-up stages: Seed to Series D & $1M - $150M
Enterprise experience at Cisco, Verizon, and AGCO

Core expertise includes:
- Building and scaling global marketing and growth organizations
- Harnessing AI as a growth engine, with hands-on experience in agentic AI models, Voice AI, and leading platforms such as Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and more to transform marketing, customer experience, and operational efficiency
- Partnering with CEOs, boards, and investors to guide companies through critical growth inflection points
- Positioning organizations for long-term success through strategic storytelling, brand building, and market leadership

In addition to my executive roles, I serve as an advisor to founders and leadership teams, an investor, and an author on the future marketing, AI and modern go-to-market strategy. These roles keep me deeply connected to emerging technologies and the evolving growth landscape, enriching the perspective I bring to every company I help scale.

I bring a balance of strategic vision and operational rigor, ensuring marketing not only shapes the narrative but also drives measurable business impact in revenue not just pipeline. Today, I am focused on helping organizations harness AI and modern growth strategies to reach their next stage of expansion with clarity, momentum, and scale.

Vice President Demand Generation

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Tim Hillison

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.
⚡ FullStack GTM (MaaS) (25–300M ARR): For VC& 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

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Founder / Chief Marketing Officer

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

What makes a 2026 Lamborghini impressive
is exactly what today’s go-to-market systems struggle with.

People see speed.
Carbon fiber.
Horsepower.
A beautiful object moving fast.

What they miss is control.

Hundreds of sensors.
Constant feedback.
Micro-corrections made before instability shows up.

The car isn’t impressive because it’s powerful.
It’s impressive because it stays stable at speed.

That distinction matters in go-to-market.

We see this when product teams add AI as a bolt-on.
Velocity goes up.
Activity multiplies.
Outputs seem better.
Confidence wanes.

Nothing underneath changes.

Decisions happen faster.
Ownership doesn’t.

In 2025, this pattern repeated.
→ Teams moved quicker with AI in place
→ Predictability dropped
→ Trust across the funnel thinned
→ Alignment weakened
(Forrester, Dec 2025)

When decisions are made faster than accountability can absorb them,
small misalignments stop being small.

At that level of speed, progress depends on precision.
Not force.
Not volume.

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 teams that operate intentionally and play to win. We’ve helped generate $1B+ in revenue.

StartRight is where we pressure-test GTM before speed makes them an expensive rework:
https://lnkd.in/g9awbzi4

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vc: tuesdayleroux

Happy MLK Day.

In SF, work feels more careful now.
Not because people forgot how to do it.

Because the stakes feel more real.

Most teams are back.
And there’s more hesitation in the room.

What I’m noticing isn’t excitement.
It’s caution.

Teams are moving faster than ever.
And then slowing down.

Not because the tools don’t work.
Because getting it wrong shows up immediately.

Most teams have adopted the capability.
Very few have learned how to run it as part of the system.

→ 88% of companies are using AI in at least one function.
→ Only 5–6% see meaningful business value at scale.
(McKinsey, Nov 2025 · Dataiku, Q3 2025)

Decisions appear sooner than we expect.
Before teams know how to interpret them.

People aren’t always sure what their role is anymore.
And it’s never mattered more.

Strong technical skills without GTM fundamentals create friction.
Time pressure exposes it.

This isn’t resistance.
It’s responsibility showing up before operations are ready for it.

When capability moves faster than shared understanding, execution becomes the constraint.

That’s the work this year.

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 teams that operate intentionally and play to win. We’ve helped generate $1B+ in revenue.

Entry Point 1 #gtm #agenticai #gtmarchitecture #gotimmarket

What’s changed in outbound in 2026?

The environment.

Messier data.
Faster role changes.
Imperfect domains.

Most teams are trying to force old structures into new conditions.

Activity has spiked.
Personalization has grown more elaborate.

But how we build a solid foundation to launch outbound depends on the inputs we choose.

The teams that scale cleanly aren’t fighting reality.
They’re designing for it.

That’s why Icypeas sits at the very front of our outbound motion.

Enrichment has to behave predictably in real conditions, not ideal ones.
It’s also why Apollo evaluated 40 providers and chose Icypeas as the first step in their enrichment waterfall.

Our outbound ecosystem is deliberately ordered:
Icypeas → enrichment and verification
Clay → logic and control
Maildoso → sending infrastructure
Instantly.ai → execution and sequencing
HubSpot → system of record

The visible layers change.
The foundation must evolve.

Execution Beats Theory. Every Time. 

👋 Hi, I’m Tim. I help engineering-led teams build GTM systems that evolve with their environment, not against it.

Shoutout to SaasFluence.

Entry Point 1 #gtm #outbound #marketdevelopment #gotomarket #b2bexecution #systemsthinking

Most of the useful signal is hidden in plain sight.

We naturally lock onto the guy moving down the escalator.
But the real decision maker is a few steps below him, blending in.

Once we notice it, we see it everywhere.

In complex, engineering-led sales, the same pattern shows up.

Teams default to the most visible role.
The title that feels safe to sell to.
The person who looks like they’re in charge.

That’s how role and title drift starts.

Instead, we anchored to JTBD and one year of clear win and loss data. We stayed disciplined about who we were actually building demand around, even when the tools made it easy to broaden the audience.

That’s why we work from Total Relevant Market (TRM), not TAM.

TAM answers who you could sell to if time and money were unlimited.
Very few companies live in that world.

TRM is about who you can realistically sell to right now, under real constraints, with real buying behavior. It forces tradeoffs. It makes priorities explicit.

Our stack isn’t exotic.
Maildoso, Clay, HubSpot, Instantly.ai, Make.

The difference isn’t the tools.
It’s how the system decides who gets attention and who doesn’t.

That only works if the system is strict about data ingestion and even stricter about signal interpretation as volume increases.

Clay is powerful when it’s used to remove theoretical demand and focus on relevance, not to pad lists. When you do that, campaigns stop being about activity and start acting like instrumentation.

Signals matter more than volume.
Sales trusts what reaches them.

This is how a GTM Operator + Engineer approaches outbound heading into 2026.

Strategy doesn’t live in decks.
It shows up in what you choose to ignore.

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 teams that operate intentionally and play to win. We’ve helped generate $1B+ in revenue.

Entry Point 1 #gtm #agenticai #gtmarchitecture #gotimmarket

When your grandparents use Sora to create content,
nothing about signal volume feels surprising anymore.

We are swimming in signals.
Enough that they slow movement.
And trust in them is waning.

Watch how the hummingbird flies.
First, it steadies itself.

Stability enables precision.

Most GTM systems do the opposite.

More has to happen now
for the same outcome to occur.

Signals refresh constantly.
Outreach never really stops.
Decision time elongates.

Not because we’re not smart.
Because system complexity has outpaced judgment.

Teams add activity to compensate.
Longer sequences.
Deeper scoring.
Longer review cycles.

Not to go faster.
To feel safer.

Then it shows up on the buyer side.

Buyers are not overwhelmed.
They’re defensive.

As complexity rises, the cost of being wrong goes up.
So they add constraints.
They slow decisions.

Both sides arrive at the same point.
More motion.
Less conviction.

Confident teams do something different.

They simplify system inputs.
They remove what no longer matters.
Judgment lives at the point of decision.

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 teams that operate intentionally and play to win. We’ve helped generate $1B+ in revenue.

StartRight builds the GTM foundation before scale makes changes expensive.
https://lnkd.in/g9awbzi4

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When we try something new,
we usually talk about the upside.

The quiet feeling in the pit of our stomachs when we realize it’s all on us.
If this goes south, no one is coming to save us.

What I’ve noticed is that this moment shows up right before work actually changes.

Especially in GTM, when the meeting is over and we wonder if everyone shares the same problem definition.

Some teams respond by tightening their control.
More check-ins. More escalation paths. More presence, just in case.

What works better is deciding earlier.

The teams that solve and adapt name the boundaries before they’re apparent.
They’re explicit about where intervention helps and where it only adds friction.
You can recognize it later by what doesn’t happen.
Decisions don’t keep reopening.
Deals don’t wait for the right person to jump in.
And the Notion doc closes the feedback loop, instead of reopening it next week.

Leadership feels easier in those systems.
Nothing is technically broken. It just doesn’t work the way it used to.

The opposite usually looks busy.
Busy. Inefficient. A lot of effort covering ground that should have been firm earlier.

That isn’t control.
It’s what latency looks like once everything else speeds up.

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 teams that operate intentionally and play to win. We’ve helped generate $1B+ in revenue.

If you’re ready to win, we’re ready to help you get there: https://lnkd.in/g9awbzi4

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In the last 60 days, something shifted inside GTM teams.

They became faster.
Not smarter.
Or more reliable.

The hand-offs became tighter.
But decision quality stayed flat.

The gap isn’t AI model quality.

It shows up when sequence is learned mid-execution instead of at release.
When teams scale a GTM motion before they agree on sequence.
When speed appears before anyone owns the outcome.

Across engineering-led scaleups, the pattern is consistent:
Tech amplifies the existing structure.
If the system is coherent, output improves.
If untried, confusion accelerates.

You can usually tell which one you’re in by a simple test:
When under pressure, does decision-making become more fluid, or does it fall apart?

The constraint is no longer capability.
It’s trust, governance, and system design that endures at scale.

Avoid this in 2026:
Treating AI as the strategy.
It isn’t.
AI is the fuel.

Systems decide where it goes.

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 $1B+ in revenue.

Pressure-test your GTM before it becomes expensive.
🔗 https://lnkd.in/gGftmrYr

Entry Point 1 #gtm #agenticai #gtmarchitecture #gotimmarket

Outbound usually works fine.
Until it doesn’t behave consistently. 

When that happens, it’s hard to catch.

Deals slow down.
Replies thin out.
No alert tells you why.

It's almost always infrastructure.

Maildoso is the infrastructure we don’t think about.

We’ve launched four outbound campaigns in 2026 so far.

No downtime. No mailbox rebuilds.
Built for cold outbound at scale.
Not repurposed inboxes. Not a workaround.

In practice:
→ 98%+ average inbox placement, including Outlook
→ In-house SMTP with IP rotation
→ Daily inbox placement and mailbox reputation monitoring
→ Self-healing mailboxes that rotate and replace burned inboxes automatically
→ Hundreds of fully authenticated mailboxes created in minutes

We don’t jump hoping things hold together.
We jump because the system was built to handle it.

Maildoso handles delivery.
Clay handles precision.
Instantly.ai controls sequencing.
HubSpot records revenue truth.

If your outbound slows without a clear reason, try looking at the sending layer first. 

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.

Shoutout to SaasFluence.

Entry Point 1 #gtm #agenticai #marketdevelopment #gotomarket #b2bexecution #systemsthinking #futureofwork

It’s not a lack of ambition.
Or dimmed motivation.
And you didn’t suddenly forget how to lead.

What’s draining teams right now is sustained effort without direction.

2025 moved fast.
More getting done. Faster replies. Fewer breaks.

But direction didn’t always sharpen with pace.
Decisions didn’t always get clearer as stakes increased.
Ownership didn’t always keep up.

That gap is exhausting.
Not because the work is hard.
But because it’s unclear whether it’s going anywhere.

This is the moment to lead.
Not by pushing harder.
Not by adding urgency.
By talking to your teams.

Ask what’s working.
What isn’t working.
And where progress is actually happening.

Most people don’t need motivation.
They need orientation.

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 $1B+ in revenue.

Entry Point 1 #gtm #gtmarchitecture #gotimmarket

The dive still lasts just as long.
It’s the entry that changed.

From 2023 to the end of 2025, here’s what moved.

→ Total venture dollars stayed high while global deal count fell to one of the lowest levels of the decade (Crunchbase, Q4 2025)

→ A larger share of capital flowed into fewer, larger rounds, with late-stage and AI-heavy deals pulling up averages (PitchBook–NVCA, Q4 2025)

→ Working products and demos became baseline expectations, with differentiation moving to traction, positioning, and durability (HBR, Q4 2025)

The water is less forgiving.

The average prototype is way better than it used to be (thanks, Cursor).
Shipping is faster. Demos look more polished.

What separates teams now is not the prototype itself.

It’s whether there is:
real traction, not just sign-ups
repeatability beyond founder effort
durable GTM infrastructure

Product still matters.
But it doesn’t explain itself.

Scrutiny moved to how value is created and sustained.

That difference shows up immediately.

Some teams pierce the water.
Others miss the clean entry.

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 teams that operate intentionally and play to win. We’ve helped generate $1B+ in revenue.

Get to where you’re going the first time.
https://lnkd.in/g9awbzi4

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Sometimes our stomachs tighten
before our brains catch up.

We feel it as speed increases.
As the margin narrows.
When we’re already in motion and stopping isn’t an option.

Not fear.
Staying with what’s in front of us.

If we panic
while moving this fast,
we’ll lose it.

No one feels steady in that moment.
Someone still has to make the call.

This is high-stakes GTM at scale.

Signals arrive at different times.
Some are incomplete.
Some conflict.
And we still must choose a direction.

We’re often asked to decide in the meeting.
While momentum is already carrying everything forward.

Most days we can.
Risk shows up when the real decision
could’ve been made earlier.

Before speed took over.
When there was no room to change it.

That’s the difference between execution
and reaction.

It’s why some meetings empower our teams
and others create misalignment.

This is where we feel it in our gut.

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 teams that operate intentionally and play to win. We’ve helped generate $1B+ in revenue.

Entry Point 1 #gtm #agenticai #gtmarchitecture #gotimmarket

vd: markymath

Remember “AI won’t take your job”?

What they’re not saying:
AI isn’t infrastructure.
It’s labor.

When we use AI to write outbound, qualify pipeline, or respond to customers, it’s not sitting under the work.
It’s working with us.
And learning how to do it.

That matters.

In January 2026, four things showed up:

OpenAI said ads are coming.
The New York Times lawsuit didn’t go away.
Jonathan Haidt’s work brought Meta’s internal research back into view.
Yann LeCun started a new lab outside the dominant frontier model providers.

Different headlines.
Same incentives.

Here’s what I can’t get out of my head.

Every time we integrate AI into a workflow, we’re encoding how work gets done.

We don’t meet our maker in a sci-fi moment.
We meet it when incentives lock in and turning back becomes impossible.

Doing nothing is always a decision.

Before adding AI to a workflow, ask one thing:
Does this make our system smarter, or commoditize our thinking for everyone else?

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 teams that operate intentionally and play to win. We’ve helped generate $1B+ in revenue.

Entry Point 1 #gtm #agenticai #gtmarchitecture #gotimmarket

Adrenaline peaks
when we stand up.

That moment feels like relief.
We’re in motion now.
But that’s also when optionality wanes.

It’s true for launches, hires, pricing, and autonomous systems.

Before we stand up, time is cheap.
Changes are reversible.
If it’s not this wave, it’s another one.

After we commit, we live it.
Small adjustments turn into workarounds.
Cleanup replaces clarity.

This is where GTM teams lose time.
Not because we moved fast.
Because we entered before uncertainty was understood.

Later, it shows up as surprise.
“Why did this take so long?”
“It felt close when we started.”

The time wasn’t lost at the end.
It was set at the entry point.

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 teams that operate intentionally and play to win. We’ve helped generate $1B+ in revenue.

Entry Point 1 #gtm #agenticai #gtmarchitecture #gotimmarket

I wasn’t asking for excellence.
I wanted him to take the trash out.

He did something unexpected.
And completely missed the point.

I laughed at first.
Then it stuck with me.
Because I have watched the same thing happen inside GTM teams.

A decision came out at the end of the Zoom.
No one pushed back.
Or asked for clarification.

Someone said, “We’re good.”
A few heads nodded.

Time ran out.
Leadership made the call.

The meeting ended. 
We all went back to our day.
That’s when interpretation split.

By the next morning, work was already underway.

Product shifted priorities mid-sprint.
Marketing rewrote messaging late, trying to give shape to an idea they hadn’t fully named yet.
Sales answered questions with careful phrasing.
RevOps adjusted fields so nothing broke outright.

Nothing stopped.
Everyone was doing what made sense from where they sat.

The gap between decisions and execution shrunk.

A week later, in the standup, it was obvious the pieces didn’t line up.

Nothing was broken.
It just didn’t add up.

Execution isn’t the constraint.
Interpretation is.

The trash is still by the door.

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 teams that operate intentionally and play to win. We’ve helped generate $1B+ in revenue.

This is the kind of execution teams reach through FlexScale: https://lnkd.in/gw7h54QP 

Entry Point 1 #gtm #agenticai #gtmarchitecture #gotimmarket

We’ve realized what’s happened.
And it’s not slowing down.

The way we work must change.

→ 148% YoY increase in AI spending.
→ 1.1M layoffs in the U.S. in 2025.

Trust hasn’t caught up.
We’re not surprised.

We saw this earlier because we operate inside these systems.

In 2025, we saw how many teams bolted AI onto their products.
They hoped it would stick.

Hope isn’t a strategy.

Most teams are still trying to go faster downhill.
Same direction.
Better tools.

The teams that are winning changed direction.

They’re building workflows that can actually ship.
End-to-end.

Agents matter when they help work move uphill, not just faster downhill.

There might not be executive trust yet.
But there will be.

Execution Beats Theory. Every Time.

👋 Hi, I’m Tim. I help engineering-led founders build GTM systems that ship before scale forces bad decisions.

StartRight is for founders who want to get it right the first time.

Build your solid GTM foundation:
https://lnkd.in/g9awbzi4

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vc: taillo

Ambition builds partner programs.
Competence makes them work.

Partner programs create ambiguity by default.

Who owns the deal.
Who sets expectations.
Who takes responsibility when things go sideways.

Someone always pays for it.

When partner systems work:
46 percent faster conversion.
53 percent higher close rates.
(Partner2B, January 2026).

AI removes the buffer.

Work no longer moves person to person.
It moves agent to agent (A2A).

Agents advance deals inside partner workflows.
Ownership only consolidates at forecast or close.

Not scale.
Not reach.
But whether judgment and ownership are explicitly designed into A2A systems.

That is the difference between ambition
and competitive differentiation.

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 teams that operate intentionally and play to win. We’ve helped generate $1B+ in revenue.

Modern partner-led growth is a design problem. Here’s the entry point:
https://lnkd.in/gw7h54QP 

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The meeting was expensive.
Everyone still walked away with a different meaning.

Did the meeting actually change anything?

Everyone said the right things.
The call ended on time.
Next steps were clear enough.

The work didn’t change.

That’s the signal I’ve learned to trust.
Because a lot of GTM problems don’t start with disagreement.

They start when capable people walk away with different interpretations.

Sales heard urgency.
Product heard scope.
Marketing heard positioning.

All reasonable.
All different.
Work continues. Deals progress.

By the time we realize the results don’t line up, the workaround is already big.
Not in execution.
In interpretation.

The teams that adapt slow down earlier.
They prevent it from snowballing.

When they don’t, everything feels more difficult than it should.

Nothing is technically broken.
It just isn’t working the way it felt in the room.

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 teams that operate intentionally and play to win. We’ve helped generate $1B+ in revenue.

Entry Point 1 #gtm #agenticai #gtmarchitecture #gotimmarket

When did it stop feeling like we were behind
and start feeling like we were being watched?

Not overwhelmed.
Just adjusting.

We see it across GTM teams.
Replies get shorter. Decisions get quieter.

You can feel the hesitation before someone finally says - Yeah, let’s go!

It shows up physically.
Legs bouncing.
Hands moving.
People bracing for how the decision will be judged, not whether it’s right.

We’ve had weeks where replies fell off
even though nothing upstream changed.

It just feels like there’s less room to miss.
Nothing rattles us more.

We must commit to the jump.
Take the spins.
Land cleanly and ride out.

That’s expertise.
Not speed. Trust in the foundation underneath.
That’s how we think about outbound now.

When everything feels zero-sum, trying to be perfect makes things worse.
What helps is removing one variable you don’t want to worry about.

That’s why I chose Maildoso.
We run their Google Workspace mailboxes with SMTP because inboxing stopped being a discussion after that.
It’s ~$1.90 per mailbox, and we don’t revisit the decision.

Maildoso handles delivery.
Clay handles precision.
Instantly.ai controls sequencing.
HubSpot records revenue truth.

Different tools. Clear roles.
One foundation we don’t second-guess.

When the base is solid, something changes.
We stop compensating.

We execute with more confidence.
That’s what confidence feels like with a strong foundation.

Execution beats theory. Every time.

👋 Hi, I’m Tim. I help engineering-led startups and mid-market scaleups build GTM systems that hold up under real pressure.

Shout out to SaasFluence

Entry Point 1 #gtm #marketdevelopment #b2bexecution #systemsthinking #futureofwork

Most of us aren’t overwhelmed by work.
We hesitate to decide before the week takes over.

We feel the unrelenting surge of the current before our day begins.
The moment we open our laptops on Monday morning.

This isn’t because we’re behind.

It’s because the pace changed.
→ AI capability is moving into core workflows, not side tools. (Enterprise tooling survey, Dec 2025)
→ Decisions inside GTM teams are happening earlier in the week. (GTM leadership pulse, Jan 2026)
→ Small experiments are becoming defaults faster than teams expect. (Product ops benchmark, Nov 2025)
→ Tool adoption is outpacing shared operating agreement. (CIO roundtable summary, Dec 2025)
→ Buyers notice inconsistency before teams do. (Buyer trust study, Jan 2026)

Data captures activity.
It doesn’t capture the moment an inflection becomes hard to reverse.

That’s where judgment matters now.

Slack observations and dashboards don’t carry the weight anymore.
Judgment shows up in decisions that deliberately guide the GTM team’s operating cadence.

This is where advantage develops. 

Not by moving faster than everyone else.
But by deciding earlier what becomes part of the system and what does not.

Teams that manage this moment well don’t just stay upright,
They earn buyer trust while others lose 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.

At Entry Point 1, we partner with engineering-led teams that operate intentionally and play to win. We’ve helped generate $1B+ in revenue.

Entry Point 1 #gtm #agenticai #gtmarchitecture #gotimmarket

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SF is the center of the AI world.

You notice it on the street, in cafes, and back at the office.

Sometimes you see it hanging off the side of the Golden Gate Bridge.

People climb it.
Repair it.
Maintain the connector everyone else just drives across.

That’s San Francisco.
What gets built here, the world uses.

Builders keep the system running while the rest of the world debates possible outcomes.

We live here.
We’ve worked with companies here for decades.

What’s different right now is how quickly early decisions show their consequences.

Most early GTM mistakes don’t look harmful.
They might even seem reasonable.
Then they quietly cost you and your team months you can’t win back.

By the time your metrics catch it, the damage is already done.
Once velocity increases, small mistakes turn into roadblocks.

That’s why Lydia Flocchini and I are hosting a small, in-person SF session for founders who are fighting in the arena.

GTM operators + engineers who have built companies, now run our own, and advise under real constraints.

Whether you’re seeking funding or have just achieved it and are staffing up, you’re making decisions while time flies.

A working session on making the right GTM decisions.
Where to invest, and where not to, as the pace accelerates.
What you can build once and reuse instead of reinventing every quarter.

We’re keeping the room small on purpose.

Details and registration here:
https://luma.com/6lq3rd9k

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 teams that operate intentionally and play to win. We’ve helped generate $1B+ in revenue.

Entry Point 1 #gtm #agenticai #gtmarchitecture #gotimmarket

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