A multibillion-dollar enterprise data and analytics platform, with messaging siloed across teams and a previous positioning nobody adopted. We built one framework the whole go-to-market could stand on ... and validated it live with the sellers who'd have to use it.
Their words were inconsistent and siloed across teams. A previous "Trusted AI" positioning never caught on ... partly because the sales team was never in the room when it was written, so nobody adopted it. Great strategy docs kept getting written and kept getting ignored in the field.
And the market read them wrong. A sprawling, multibillion-dollar platform was being perceived as a single-product company. That's what happens when every team tells its own version of the story.
We built one framework the whole go-to-market could stand on, using an Old Game to New Game spine: Systems of Record to Systems of Intelligence. The villain got a name too: Insight Without Action ... intelligence trapped in dashboards that never triggers a decision.
Crucially, we validated the narrative live, in cross-functional role-plays with about 15 GTM leaders ... the people who'd actually have to use it. That's why it landed in the field instead of dying in a deck.
The rewrite
A wireframe of the shift ... the old game on the left, the new game we built on the right. Real lines from the work.
Thanks, Greg, for the partnership in delivering this critical project.
Pressure-tested the narrative in live, cross-functional role-plays before it ever shipped.
They came back for a second phase to roll the narrative across the sales org.
Straight up: the name stays off this page until they clear it, and the only quote on file came from a private email. No lift metric lives here either ... this was department-level, internal-facing work, and we never relaunched their public brand. What's real: the project ran to a formal close-out, the narrative survived live role-plays with the sellers who'd have to carry it, and then they hired us again to roll it across the sales org. When this page earns a cleared name or a hard number, it goes right here.
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