GTM Wake-Up Call: We’ve Engineered Ourselves Into Delusion

GTM Wake-Up Call: We’ve Engineered Ourselves Into Delusion

Somewhere along the way, we replaced market validation with motion.

We started rewarding noise instead of truth.

And we built an entire SDR/BDR industrial complex that’s now busy solving hypotheticals instead of speaking to real buyers.

More bums in seats.
More dashboards.
More “go-to-market” tech.

But here’s what we lost:
• Actual buying intent
• Commercial signal
• Truth

Let’s set the record straight:

Market validation is the one true source of commercial truth.
Not guesswork. Not discovery theatre. Not ICP fantasy.
What you need is structural reconnaissance.

The Market Validation Process starts here:
Cataloguing the Market

This isn’t “doing discovery.”
This is documenting truth.

Why it works:

• Lowers the barrier to entry
You’re not selling—you’re researching. Gatekeepers relax. Insight flows.

• Validates the wider market
You move from ICP assumptions to field-confirmed patterns.

• Builds rapport
You show up as intelligent and curious—not desperate.

• Finds the recipe to win
Language, timing, decision-makers, and constraints all surface.

• Gives you permission to circle back
You now own the narrative thread. When the moment’s right, you strike clean.

What this gets you:

• Who they’re with (internal, partner, provider)
• What they love (what’s locked in)
• What they’d change (pain + desire)
• What the winning bid must contain
• And most importantly—permission to say:

“Want us to run a ‘grass is greener’ audit on what you’ve got?”

At @Chief revenue School, this is the heart of @Closed Circuit Selling™.

We don’t train reps to send more messages.

We train commercial teams to find the truth, codify it, and return with aligned fire.

No hypotheticals.
No vanity metrics.
No fluff.

Just real, validated market signal.

Time to rebuild GTM around truth—not tools.

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