The pipeline a sales-led founder can actually run — without hiring a CMO.
Built for $5k–$50k ACV B2B SaaS where you, the founder, still take the demos.
Three problems you actually have — not three a generic playbook assumes.
Content cadence slipped because there's no one running it. You don't know whether to hire, double down on outbound, or wait — the playbook tells you in week one.
Generic templates and ICPs that are too wide. We re-cut your list to 50 named accounts and rebuild the message around the wedge a CRO will forward internally.
31% demo-to-close means the product works. The 90-day plan rebuilds the path before the demo — narrative, proof, and one channel that pays back under 12 months.
The B2B SaaS · sales-led shape
Three phases. Each one assumes the previous one worked. No "test five channels in week two" generic scaffolding.
Lock the 50-account list and the one-line wedge before any outbound.
Multi-thread sequences, the anchor case study, the security/ROI pack.
Coverage targets, win-rate review, documented ABM rhythm.
What actually works here.
- Founder-led LinkedIn3 posts/wk, 30 min/day in replies — your buyer reads LinkedIn before they reply to email.
- Named-account outbound50 accounts, hand-written opens, multi-thread when a reply comes in.
- Operator-only Slacks (RevGenius, Pavilion)Be the person who gets named when a CMO asks for a vendor.
- Anchor case study + a single POV pieceThe two assets a champion needs to sell internally.
- Webinar with one friendly analyst or peer40 ICP registrants beats 4,000 unqualified pageviews.
Things we cut on day one.
- ✕No DTC creative-testing loop on Meta/TikTok
- ✕No 'launch on Product Hunt' as the demand plan
- ✕No SDR hiring before the founder has run outbound personally for 90 days
- ✕Programmatic SEO at $5k ACV before the wedge is locked
- ✕LinkedIn paid spend before you know CAC payback
- ✕Full-time SDR hire before founder-led outbound shows signal
Four priorities, in order.
This is the actual shape of your first week — not a feature tour.
- 1Rewrite the homepage H1 around the wedgeOutbound and content both bounce off a feature-tour page.
- 2Run 5 closed-won + 3 closed-lost interviewsThe messaging doc Phase 2 depends on — and it has to come from real verbatim, not founder intuition.
- 3Cut the LinkedIn ad spend until payback is provenAffordability flag: runway < 12 months + CAC payback unknown = burning cash for signal you don't have yet.
- 4Ship 4 LinkedIn posts off the new POV pieceCompounds the wedge in the channel where your reply rates are already 2× industry.
Instead of: DTC creative-testing rhythms, Product Hunt launches as a demand plan, or generic 'startup marketing' playbooks built for a $39/mo PLG product.
If that's actually your motion — pick the right vertical below. Generic plans cost more than wrong ones.
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