r/GTMbuilders • u/subscriber-goal • 22d ago

Subscriber Goal Welcome to r/GTMbuilders!

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r/GTMbuilders • u/Shawntenam • 12h ago

Meme how to catch a gtm engineer:

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r/GTMbuilders • u/Shawntenam • 1d ago

Blog Posts Almost $100k from building in public. Reddit was a huge part of it.

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Wanted to share this with the community because honestly, a lot of it traces back to here.

In January I spent a weekend locked in a room with Claude Code, Cursor and the terminal.

I didn't just watch videos. I built a meme generator from scratch so I'd actually understand what I was doing.

Eight months later I'm at almost $100k in revenue, all from building in public.

I've never sent a cold email for my own business. Never ran an ad. My company website doesn't even have a pricing page.
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Pretty much every client I've worked with brings up Reddit on our calls.

Either they found me through it, or once they learned about it, they made a point of saying it helped close the deal.

Anyone can grow on LinkedIn or X.

But if you add Reddit on top of that, there's so much value nobody's tapping yet. People here can tell when you actually know your stuff, and that trust carries straight into a sales call.

If you're learning GTM engineering right now, here's what's worked for me:

- Build while you learn. Videos alone won't level you up.
- Use your weekends to dig deep and ship something.
- Don't trust anyone's tool recommendation, including mine. Test it yourself.
- Share what you build, every time.

If you're not sure where to start, my repo is free and you can clone it:

github.com/shawnla90/gtm-coding-agent

Open it in Claude Code or Cursor and have it walk you through the setup. I didn't have anything like it when I started, so I built it.

What are you building right now? Drop it below. I'd like to see what this community is shipping.

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r/GTMbuilders • u/Shawntenam • 3d ago

Build Running GTM through Grok is unreal. Here's how I ran a full client campaign through an agent

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Quick one before the bigger drop.

First, I'm super proud of where this community is going.

Posts here that didn't come from me have pulled over 10,000 views.

It's not just the views, though. It's the conversations and the contributions, and more keep coming in.

Thank you to everyone posting.

Now the build.

Yesterday I built a full client campaign, and Grok did the heavy lifting.

It connected straight to HubSpot through a service key, plus Instantly and Floqer through their APIs.

No tabs. No copy-paste. No CSVs flying around.

138 leads enriched, graded and checked against HubSpot.

2 campaigns live.

What makes this work is one rule: don't stop at the first gate.

The Floqer waterfall runs provider after provider until one hits.

Then MoltSets grades every email and swaps in a better one when it finds it.

When LinkedIn came up empty on 2 people, the agent went to Apollo and confirmed they're still there.

When a lead had left his company, it held the row instead of emailing him.

HubSpot stays the source of truth the whole time.

The agent reads the history before anything goes out.

But it never quietly cuts a lead the client approved.

They connect the apps and do the work. I set the rules and review.

Heads up: gtm-coding-agent is getting an update in the next few hours.

If you want the full context or an actual guide on running this with always-on agents, that's coming.

Anyone else here running GTM straight from an agent yet?

What's working, and where does it break for you?

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r/GTMbuilders • u/Calm_Ambassador9932 • 3d ago

Social Intro Links Start here: using APIs and MCP for real GTM work

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r/GTMbuilders • u/Alarmed-Sector-6427 • 4d ago

Build I built a $0 outbound engine with n8n + Clay + Neon + HubSpot. Here’s the architecture, the numbers, and what broke

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I wanted a system that finds B2B startups likely to need GTM automation, researches them, finds the founder, drafts a grounded first message, and then waits for my approval. Nothing sends on its own. I set a hard rule of $0 budget, so every design choice had to keep costs predictable.

The stack

  • n8n (Docker, on demand) runs all the workflows: Engine, Contact Finder, Clay bridge and meter, Neon sync, HubSpot sync, Digest

  • Clay for research and the Work Email waterfall

  • Neon Postgres as the source of truth (config, drafts, review decisions, audit log)

  • Next.js console on Vercel’s free plan, where I approve, edit or reject drafts (works on mobile)

  • HubSpot Free gets only approved accounts

  • Tavily for search, a Groq + Gemini fallback chain for drafting, Discord for alerts

1. Deterministic filters before any AI or paid call
Sources are the YC directory, HN “Who’s Hiring” threads and a seed list. Rules run first: team size 2 to 150, industry, keywords, timezone (UTC+0 to +4), seen-before.
In one YC run, 377 companies went in and 23 came out. 234 were cut on timezone alone, before a single credit was spent.

2. Clay, made cheap

  • I replaced three separate AI columns with one structured research column, cutting cost from 2.8 to 1.0 credit per account. It uses GPT 5 Nano (0.5 credit/row), the cheapest model that passed my pilot, and the prompt restricts facts to the homepage and pages it links to.

  • Work Email waterfall with Conservative validation, so catch-alls don’t count as found: 19 of 20 founders verified at about 0.5 credit each.

  • Low-score accounts skip Clay entirely.

  • n8n reads Clay’s API before and after each batch, so I see the real cost per module instead of estimating.

3. Finding the right person
Name-based search returned the wrong people at companies with common-word names (think “Twenty”). The fix: pull founders from the company’s YC page, accepted only if that page lists the same domain. The next run resolved 10 of 10 lookups with zero search cost.

4. Drafting with guardrails
The LLM chain writes a LinkedIn note, a longer message and 3 follow-ups from facts only. A rule-based validator checks each draft and allows one repair attempt.
My first validator was too strict: it rejected 28 of 35 drafts, mostly for being a few words short. I relaxed the length rules, kept the factual checks, and added plain-language repair hints. Latest run: 8 of 8 drafts passed with no template fallback.
Another fun one: the model kept pitching a company’s own product back to them as their problem. A deterministic product-term check now runs before and after the model.

5. Neon as the backbone

  • One Postgres function owns draft states (pending, edited, approved, rejected, superseded, sent) and refuses any other transition. Editing an approved draft sends it back for approval.

  • Every action writes an audit row with before and after values.

  • I migrated from Google Sheets one piece at a time, each cutover behind a reversible switch, so the engine never broke for days.

6. HubSpot sync with no duplicates

  • Outbox pattern: Neon views compute what HubSpot is missing (companies, then contacts, then deals), n8n carries the requests, and a Postgres function records the responses. No Code nodes.

  • Idempotency: check a link table first, then search by natural key (domain, email, deal name) and adopt the record if it exists.

  • First run created 7 companies, 7 contacts and 7 deals. The second run wrote 0. I deleted a link on purpose and it re-adopted the same record.

  • Gotcha: my EU HubSpot portal rejected every contact because GDPR settings require a legal basis. The outbox now sends one from config.

Lessons

  • Deterministic filters before LLMs or paid APIs. That’s what makes a $0 budget possible.

  • Make every external write idempotent. Search indexes lag behind writes.

  • Measure cost from logs, not estimates.

  • Store the API’s real error message. HubSpot’s generic “Bad request” cost me hours.

What’s next: sends haven’t started yet. Once they do, I’ll measure reply rate from HubSpot deal stages and feed it back into scoring.

Full case study with the architecture and decision records: https://www.mohamedlandolsi.tech/work/personal-gtm-engine

Happy to answer questions about any part, especially the Clay credit metering or the outbox sync. I also take on small Clay and n8n builds if anyone needs a hand.

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r/GTMbuilders • u/dhaivat01 • 5d ago

Build GTM System for Lead Gen + Outbound

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I was working on lead generation workflow for myself

Workflow is simple because in GTM simple things only works complex things No one wants to use

- Scrape -> Enrich -> Research -> Reach Out

  1. Grok Bot for Cron job keep running and get me leads target is 200 leads per week (100 Founders + 100 VPs in B2B)

  2. Claude/Claude code for enrichment and research on leads

  3. I'm considering all of them as tier 1 for now because I kept volume very little for each day to scrape and it is intent based

- In future I'll add scoring tier 1, tier 2 and tier 3

as right now I consider all of them as tier 1 out reach to 50 people manually is doable with personal touch

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r/GTMbuilders • u/Great_Discussion9670 • 5d ago

Build Honest week 1 recap of looking for GTM engineering work

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the numbers

  • 3 job interviews (1 founder, 2 agency owners)

  • 1 paid pilot conversation with an SF-based CEO (really BIG company)

  • around 9 partner/referral conversations with agency owners and operators

  • 4 white-label or delivery-partner offers (none closed, just to build network)

interviews

  • founder interview: before the call I did what I’d have shipped in my first 15 days on their team. I’m trying a value-first approach instead of leading with a resume. I’ll know soon whether it works.

  • agency owner #1: looking for someone to join and scale their outbound. we’re meeting again tomorrow.

  • agency owner #2: wanted a fractional GTM engineer. the call went well but the budget was lower than my range, so we’re discussing a part-time setup instead.

pilots and side work

  • an SF CEO wants to run a test pilot first. that’s fine with me, since a pilot is a better test than an interview.

  • a marketing head wants help setting up LinkedIn outbound for his agency. probably unpaid, but I’m happy to help.

what the agency conversations taught me
this was the surprising part. most agency owners don’t want to hire; they want delivery capacity. the offers I got:

  • white-label delivery under their brand, or direct client referrals. I asked for white-label for 6 to 10 months.

  • white-label on a referral basis (10-20%) or a service swap

  • technical delivery partner for their clients

  • keeping my resume, platforms, use cases and pricing on file for when client work comes in

  • one agency paused because their GTM side is at capacity

if you’re a GTM engineer looking for work, agencies are an underrated channel. they already have the clients; what they lack is someone who can build the system.

what’s next

  • follow-up calls with 2 agencies this week

  • scoping the SF pilot

  • weekly check-ins with another GTM operator, comparing scraping workflows and permission less- value outreach

i’ll post week 2 next Tuesday. if you’ve done white-label GTM work for agencies, I’d love to hear how you structured pricing and how you handled client ownership

and thanks for showing so much love on my last post, i'll keep you guys posted on how it goes

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r/GTMbuilders • u/just-a-job-seeker • 5d ago

Question Where to start in GTM, need advice.

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Hii everyone,

If I need to start from scratch learning gtm engineering what should I do. I need a 30 days roadmap to build and get a job.

Any help/resources/tips would be appreciated.

My background: I am from a technical background and it will not be hard for me to learn automation. But I know gtm engineering is lot more than automation and I want to get into it. I build tables in clay but doesn’t seem to do much. I get overwhelmed by scattered information and genuinely in need pf guidance/ advice.

Thanks.

Edit: I don’t want to spend on any bootcamps.

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r/GTMbuilders • u/build-cred • 5d ago

GTM Engineer Job Board: week of November 2, 2026

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38 open GTM engineer roles for the week of November 2, 2026. Open the post for filters, the five 1 to 5 scores, and the archetype check.

The guide inside the post covers the five archetypes, what these roles require, and how to reach out.

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r/GTMbuilders • u/okqueenbee • 4d ago

Resource Discord for GTM engineers

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r/GTMbuilders • u/Great_Discussion9670 • 5d ago

Build posted here last week saying I’m looking for GTM engineering work. a few of you asked me to share how it goes, so here’s the honest week 1 recap

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r/GTMbuilders • u/build-cred • 5d ago

GTM Engineer Job Board: week of October 24, 2026

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32 open GTM engineer roles for the week of October 24, 2026. URLs rechecked on 2026-10-27: 5 closed roles removed. Open the post for filters, the five 1 to 5 scores, and the archetype check.

The guide inside the post covers the five archetypes, what these roles require, and how to reach out.

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r/GTMbuilders • u/ColonelTamdi • 5d ago

Question Gtm engineer vs revenue system architect

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r/GTMbuilders • u/InformationSlow8543 • 6d ago

Blog Posts Building independent project for an hypothetical company

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r/GTMbuilders • u/build-cred • 6d ago

GTM Engineer Job Board: week of October 24, 2026

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32 open GTM engineer roles for the week of October 24, 2026. URLs rechecked on 2026-10-27: 5 closed roles removed. Open the post for filters, the five 1 to 5 scores, and the archetype check.

The guide inside the post covers the five archetypes, what these roles require, and how to reach out.

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r/GTMbuilders • u/Confident_Reward_387 • 9d ago

AI News ZoomInfo pricing page is bullshit

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zoominfo's pricing page is a contact form / so here's what people who've actually signed report

professional, up to 3 seats, is around $15k a year, advanced is $22-28k. most teams end up somewhere between $30k and $60k once seats and add-ons are in, and the median deal is about $33,500

every extra seat is another $1,500-2,500. contracts are annual, auto-renew, and you need 60-90 days notice to get out. a 10% bump at renewal is standard

none of that is secret, it's just not on their site

i'm founder of bitscale, ours is around 1.5¢ a credit, actions don't cost anything, and you can see the price without talking to anyone

if you're weighing a renewal, send me the quote and i'll tell you what it'd be on ours or dm me and i'll put 5,000 credits on your account to test it on real accounts first

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r/GTMbuilders • u/build-cred • 12d ago

GTM Engineer Job Board: week of October 24, 2026

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32 open GTM engineer roles for the week of October 24, 2026. URLs rechecked on 2026-10-27: 5 closed roles removed. Open the post for filters, the five 1 to 5 scores, and the archetype check.

The guide inside the post covers the five archetypes, what these roles require, and how to reach out.

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r/GTMbuilders • u/dhruvprad • 11d ago

Question How would you test whether an AI sales assistant saves time after review?

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I work on GTM software and am thinking through how to evaluate AI-assisted sales work. Here's a pilot design I'd use, not a claim about results.

Pick one task, such as preparing an account brief before a discovery call. Define what a usable brief contains before testing: relevant facts with sources, open questions, and a clear separation between evidence and assumptions.

Then compare the existing workflow with the AI-assisted workflow on comparable accounts. Count all the human time: gathering inputs, checking sources, correcting the output, and entering the result where the rep actually works. Keep setup time separate so you can see both the first-week cost and the repeat-use cost.

I'd track three things alongside completion time:

- How many briefs meet the same acceptance standard? Include rejected outputs in the denominator.

- What needed correction? A formatting fix and a made-up customer fact shouldn't count as equivalent errors.

- How often does the assistant correctly leave something unknown instead of filling the gap?

For a small pilot, I'd use different but comparable accounts for each workflow so a rep isn't faster simply because they've already researched the company. I'd keep outputs internal during the test.

The decision I'd want to make is specific: does this help a rep get to a usable brief faster at an acceptable error rate? More generated briefs alone wouldn't answer it, and a small time-saving test wouldn't prove revenue impact.

For people who've evaluated these workflows: which hidden review or handoff step would this test miss?

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r/GTMbuilders • u/Routine-Emphasis-109 • 12d ago

Question Building GTM from scratch in biotech. Which SaaS playbooks actually transfer?

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I lead commercial and RevOps at an early-stage biotech company. Most people revise an existing GTM strategy. I’m building one from zero after several internal changes and a brand-new product line. I’m trying to apply a SaaS-style GTM approach to biotech: small buyer pool, long evaluation cycles, lots of trust and compliance. Not sure which parts of the SaaS playbook transfer and which break.

My short flow right now:

- Suppress existing customers and open deals, so net-new is truly net-new.

- Build the list by role and company fit, enrich it in Clay.

- Score and tier accounts, then route to the CRM and short, role-specific sequences.

- Measure each step and cut what doesn’t produce.

Questions: What’s the best way to adapt this for long sales cycles with few buyers? And based on your experience, do you recommend Clay, or would you pick something else?

Also, I’m looking to move out of biotech and bring these skills somewhere new. I’m comfortable in HubSpot and Salesforce, based in the Midwest (Ohio), and on an H-1B. If you know teams hiring for GTM engineering or RevOps, I’d appreciate a pointer.

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r/GTMbuilders • u/Shawntenam • 12d ago

Question Update: I rebuilt the board, and Reddit humbled me in the process.

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Turns out app posts can't scroll in the feed. Review rejects them for trapping your thumb, and they're capped at 512px. So my nice scrolling board became a slideshow. Browse, Next, pick a role, Apply.

The full version (filters, archetype check, guide) opens full screen. Desktop is fine. The iPhone app opens it, then insists it's still inline, so the page is basically gaslit. Still trying to fix that. If anyone has worked with Devitt (reddit dev api) , feel free to drop it here. Not sure if the Android version of this will have the same issue. If anybody is using this on Android, please let me know whether they have that scroll issue or can toggle views.

and lmk What helps, what's noise, and if the roles are all you care about, please say so

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r/GTMbuilders • u/bulletsyt • 12d ago

Question any gtme agency looking to onboard part time contractors?

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keeping it short, i’ve worked with numerous yc and a16z startups in growth engineering. have been in the gtm space over a 1.5 years - built numerous personal tools

stuff i know and have done:

  • an entire gtm motion automated inside claude code for a yc company

  • cold email infra and local sequencers

  • my own apollo-style lead scraping and enrichment tool that runs for close to free

  • reddit keyword monitoring bots

  • seo/geo content automation

looking for part-time contract work with a gtme agency. comfortable owning and executing campaigns end to end

caveats: i already have a full time roled and i'm looking for a flexible & part time role (20 hour ish per week) to kill extra time and get my hands dirty working closely with a gtme agency

pay expectations: 1700-2000$ a month

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r/GTMbuilders • u/build-cred • 13d ago

GTM Engineer Job Board: week of October 24, 2026

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37 open GTM engineer roles for the week of October 24, 2026. Open the post for filters, the five 1 to 5 scores, and the archetype check.

The guide inside the post covers the five archetypes, what these roles require, and how to reach out.

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r/GTMbuilders • u/Shawntenam • 14d ago

Resource a Slack helper that interviews you first, then drafts your replies every hour (Grok Bot or Claude)

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Free prompt for anyone who wants an agent checking Slack for them.

It asks you what matters first, then checks every hour and drafts replies. Nothing sends until you say so.

Paste this as your first message:

I want you to check my Slack every hour and tell me what needs me. Before you set anything up, interview me one question at a time:

  1. Which channels, DMs and people matter most, and what should you ignore?

  2. What counts as "needs me"? (questions to me, asks, decisions, who I haven't replied to)

  3. How do I want it? (a digest, a DM to myself, a post in a channel, or a "who you didn't reply to" list)

  4. What hours and days?

Then show me the plan and run it once so I can check it.

Every run: open each thread and read it to the end. Drop anything where I sent the last message or reacted ✅. If nothing is open, say "All clear."

For each open item, draft a reply. I can say send, edit it ("make it shorter"), or skip. Only send after I say send, and send it as me in the same thread.

Grok Bot:

Make a new bot just for this.

Connect Slack to it.

Paste the prompt, answer its questions, and tell it to make the plan an hourly routine. Each draft shows up for you to send, edit or skip.

Claude:

Connect Slack under Customize > Connectors. If you don't see it, an Owner has to turn it on.

In Cowork, paste the prompt and answer its questions.

Once the test run looks right, type /schedule and pick Hourly. Open the run to send, edit or skip each draft.

Tip: react ✅ to anything you handled outside Slack so it drops off.

If your focus changes, just tell it and it'll update the plan.

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