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Your Portco's Next SDR Hire Is Probably a Mistake

AI roles are hockey-sticking. Design is being automated away. And most portfolio companies are still building SDR teams from a playbook written in 2018.

Mar 28, 2026 Read →
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Your Portfolio's GTM Dashboard Was Built for 2019

The metrics operating partners use to evaluate portco GTM health — ARR, LTV:CAC, pipeline coverage, SDR productivity — are systematically misleading for AI-era companies.

Mar 28, 2026 Read →
AI OutboundGTM InfrastructureRevOps

AI Outbound Prospecting Best Practices: Why Most Teams Are Getting It Wrong

Generic AI outbound is dead. Real AI outbound — agent chaining, account-first signal finding, pipeline thinking — is generating pipeline most teams can't touch.

Mar 27, 2026 Read →
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Your GTM Stack Is Running Blind

GTM automation is eating engineering headcount. But it's still being run without any of the observability practices that make engineering work. That's a problem.

Mar 27, 2026 Read →
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How to Build Your First Outbound Program (Without Wasting Six Months)

A step-by-step playbook for standing up AI-native outbound from scratch — account scoring, experimentation, channel selection, and the feedback loops that make it compound.

Mar 25, 2026 Read →
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Your Portfolio's GTM Stack Is Already Obsolete

Most growth equity portfolio companies are running GTM infrastructure built for a world that no longer exists. Here's what's broken and what the gap actually costs.

Mar 24, 2026 Read →