More leads won't fix a broken go-to-market strategy. You need a system that turns market spend into predictable revenue growth. Let's fix it.
Recent Mori Point engagements span solar manufacturing, PE-backed healthcare, and high-net-worth travel — anonymized case studies on the Go-to-Market Strategy page.
The CEO's Problem
Every CEO we talk to has the same story: marketing is spending money, leads are coming in, but revenue isn't following. The instinct is to buy more leads, hire another agency, or fire the marketing team. None of that works because the problem isn't volume — it's the absence of a go-to-market system that connects spend to revenue. Until you fix that, you're just spending faster.
Your team reports on impressions, clicks, and MQLs, but you still can't answer the board's question: what's the return on our marketing investment? You're making budget decisions on intuition, not business intelligence.
Board-ready reporting that ties every dollar of marketing spend by channel and stage to closed deals and recurring revenue. ROI & LTV/CAC you can prove.
The biggest revenue leaks aren't in your lead gen. They're in the conversion gaps between lead and meeting, meeting and proposal, proposal and close. You're told to spend more on leads when the real problem is your funnel.
Revenue becomes predictable and attributable, with funnel conversion leaks identified, sized, and fixed. Now you can invest in growth.
When there's no clear definition of ideal customer profile, a misaligned handoff process, and no shared KPIs, the blame game is inevitable.
Both teams prioritize the same pipeline opportunities with shared responsibility for ROI and LTV/CAC.
If your sales team can't articulate why you're different in the first 30 seconds, you have a positioning problem. Vague messaging and broad targeting mean you compete on price instead of value.
Win rate rises because your positioning is sharp and defensible. You compete on value, not price, with the entire company messaging your core differentiators.
If you're rewriting ad copy, approving creative, managing agencies, and sitting in campaign reviews, your marketing function doesn't have a system, it has a bottleneck. CEOs waste valuable time as CMO.
Marketing is a proven system, not a CEO side project. The revenue machine runs with tight process and focused plans. You drive highest-value decisions.
Agencies execute tactics; they don't build strategy. Without a GTM system that defines your ICP, positioning, channel economics, and sales motion, every agency you hire is guessing.
Agencies execute against a clear strategy and GTM deliverables that demand accountability. KPI-based management that keeps the best, churns the rest.
The Methodology
Every engagement begins with the Go-to-Market Strategy — a structured, six-phase framework where each phase builds on the one before it. Powered by an AI-accelerated workflow, the first phase delivers a full set of execution-ready GTM deliverables in 30 days, not 6 months. The order of phase execution increases the value of every downstream output.
Strategy is where we start. The build is where revenue happens.
Why It Works
You need a very different skill set to build or reboot your marketing organization versus running it long-term. A Fractional CMO brings C-suite strategic leadership and hands-on execution to diagnose what's broken, build what's missing, and hand off a battle-tested system to your permanent team.
A full 360-degree assessment of your GTM function: channel economics, funnel conversion by stage, CRM integrity, attribution logic, agency performance, and team alignment. You get clear visibility into what's working, what's broken, and what to fix first.
Build attribution and full-funnel reporting you can trust. Diagnostic dashboards tied to weekly lead cohorts measuring conversion at each stage by channel, so you can make confident decisions about where to invest and where to cut.
Analytics-based strategy with enough firepower to fully engage executive stakeholders and board members. Player/Coach execution backed by AI to quarterback the day-to-day, including agency oversight, campaign optimization, and process design.
Evaluate agency performance using scorecards: cost per qualified lead, funnel conversion KPIs, ROAS targets, responsiveness, and reporting transparency. Offboard what's not working, consolidate what is, and establish accountability.
A practical operating plan with a core set of foundational GTM deliverables backed by a hiring roadmap for your in-house marketing leader. A multi-year forecast that calculates funnel-stage growth based on the operating plan. Build the system and hand it off.
Leverage agentic AI solutions for lead qualification, customer segmentation, predictive targeting, and lifecycle automation. Generate reporting and create deliverables that normally require a team of 5. Transformation in 30 days, not 6 months.
Your Fractional CMO
I've spent 20+ years solving the exact problem you're facing: marketing is spending money, but the CEO can't connect it to revenue. I've built GTM systems from scratch, turned around underperforming marketing orgs, and delivered measurable revenue growth for founder-led startups to the Fortune 1000.
As CMO of PipeDreams, a PE-backed home-services portfolio, I grew sales appointments 20% and EBITDA 20%. I took Axia, a home-electrification startup, from $0 to $30M+ in three years. Before that I drove $50M–$75M in annual revenue at Sunrun and built marketing engines for Warner Bros., Beachbody, Sony, eBay, Nissan, and HP. Using AI-accelerated delivery, I produce execution-ready GTM deliverables that become the foundation of your marketing, sales, and customer-experience orgs in 30 days, not 6 months. I build the GTM machine, prove it works, then hand you the keys.
In 30 days, I turn your marketing, sales, and customer-experience organizations into a revenue engine. I begin with a GTM assessment and CRM data analysis that pinpoint the leaks in your funnel, from lead capture, to sales conversion, through customer-lifetime-value generation. You walk away with a growth attack plan prioritized by opportunity size and level of effort.
The structured, 6-phase GTM Strategy Framework builds a clear picture of where your go-to-market stands today, where it needs to go, and the prioritized sequence for getting there. Within 30 days, not 6 months, it produces a full set of execution-ready deliverables that are the foundation of your marketing, sales, and customer-experience organizations. A GTM Execution Roadmap and Phased Project Plan ensure that all teams move forward in lock-step.
Every engagement builds on the last and moves fast. Using an AI-accelerated delivery model, the Phase 1 Foundation Sprint compresses full discovery, the six-phase strategy, and an execution-ready set of GTM deliverables into 30 days — work that traditionally takes six months. From there the build compounds: the Initial GTM Build completes the first quarter, the Full Build implements the strategy through six months, and ongoing Fractional CMO leadership runs it from there. The models below map how an engagement progresses over time.
| Engagement | Scope | Duration | Ideal For |
|---|---|---|---|
| Phase 1 Foundation Sprint (AI-accelerated) | Full discovery, the six-phase GTM strategy, and an execution-ready set of Phase 1 deliverables — market sizing, ICP, positioning, value proposition, customer-experience design, and the demand/content foundation, launched (not just documented). The core foundational documents for your GTM. | Days 1–30 | The fastest path to a real GTM foundation; the entry point that launches the build and de-risks everything after it |
| GTM Execution — Initial Build | Completes the first full quarter of the build off the Phase 1 foundation — operationalizing the core GTM documents: ICP adoption in the CRM, positioning and messaging rollout, funnel-leak fixes, and the attribution baseline | Days 31–90 | Turning the 30-day foundation into live, working GTM systems within the first quarter |
| GTM Execution — Full Build | End-to-end implementation of the GTM Execution Roadmap — channel optimization, pricing and sales-motion refinement, demand-gen build-out, and measurement — until the key aspects of the GTM strategy rebuild are fully implemented | Days 91–180 | Clients executing the full roadmap with fractional CMO leadership through the six-month mark |
| Fractional CMO | Ongoing fractional CMO leadership once the rebuild is implemented — owns marketing strategy, execution oversight, team leadership, vendor management, and board-level reporting | Month 7 — ongoing | Clients who need senior marketing leadership to run and scale the engine after the build |
| Focused Phase Project Work | Entry at a specific phase of the strategy when earlier-phase work already exists — for example, positioning only (Phase 3) or demand-gen architecture only (Phase 5) | 2–6 weeks per phase | Clients with existing GTM work who need targeted intervention at a specific layer of the strategy |
Proof, Delivered
Every deliverable is execution-ready and built to be used — not a slide deck that gathers dust.
Where the real opportunity is — and which segment to win first.
The precise buyer worth pursuing — and who to disqualify.
The story only you can credibly tell.
The differentiators no competitor can replicate.
The end-to-end journey your buyers actually experience.
The engine that generates and converts demand.
The strategy document and plan that run the build.
20+ execution-ready deliverables, organized in a shared drive — delivered in 30 days.
Proof, Not Theory
The six-phase strategy is the starting point — the value is in what gets built from it. These are recent engagements where the strategy became an executed go-to-market and marketing function. Client names are withheld; the work and outcomes are real.
A structurally differentiated product — domestically manufactured, ultra-low-cost modules — but no market-facing story and no repeatable commercial engine. Ahead of a major capacity expansion and an eventual IPO, the company needed credibility with the financial community and a clear go-to-market foundation across three distinct buyer segments.
A complete Phase 1 GTM foundation across three pillars: credibility & bankability, market & customer definition, and a differentiated story. Three-segment market sizing (TAM/SAM/SOM), an ICP framework and scorecard, competitive positioning, a value-proposition architecture, an end-to-end customer-experience storyboard, and the demand & content foundation — launched, not just documented.
A signed, executed engagement now continuing as an ongoing quarterly build. The full GTM strategy and marketing-organization foundation was delivered in 30 days — not 6 months.
Revenue had gone flat despite steady lead flow, and leadership couldn't see why. Customer data lived in three disconnected systems, so no one could trace marketing spend to revenue — the classic "we're spending, but I can't see the ROI" problem.
We unified three separate CRM and operational data sources into a single 15-month, seven-stage full-funnel view; sized every conversion leak in gross-profit terms; and delivered a prioritized roadmap sequencing the highest-value fixes by size and speed-to-impact.
The business was already acquiring customers profitably (~5.5x LTV:CAC) — the constraint was conversion, not demand. Only ~17% of leads reached care. We sized roughly $2.2M in annual gross-profit opportunity, with the top plays deployable within 60 days: a clear, defensible line from marketing spend to revenue.
A profitable platform with a strong vision but an execution gap — rich first-party data it wasn't using, weak between-trip engagement, and a too-narrow customer profile. No senior marketing leadership, and an investor board targeting a strategic acquisition.
A GTM & revenue-growth engagement engineered as a value-creation bridge to acquisition — every workstream mapped to a buyer's diligence checklist. Three revenue "big rocks": a high-net-worth acquisition engine, AI-enhanced onboarding to drive trip frequency, and a renewal/win-back framework — plus the fractional GTM/CMO leadership layer the company lacked.
An execution plan targeting a 10x revenue lift within 180 days while raising the probability, multiple, and speed of a strategic exit — turning a promising idea into a buyer-grade asset.
20+ years building go-to-market systems that tie marketing spend to measurable revenue growth. From startups to the Fortune 1000, he builds the machine, proves it works, and hands it off to your team.
Your Fractional CMO
I've spent 20+ years solving the exact problem you're facing: marketing is spending money, but the CEO can't connect it to revenue. I've built GTM systems from scratch, turned around underperforming marketing orgs, and delivered measurable revenue growth for founder-led startups to the Fortune 1000.
As CMO of PipeDreams, a PE-backed home-services portfolio, I grew sales appointments 20% and EBITDA 20%. I took Axia, a home-electrification startup, from $0 to $30M+ in three years. Before that I drove $50M–$75M in annual revenue at Sunrun and built marketing engines for Warner Bros., Beachbody, Sony, eBay, Nissan, and HP. Using AI-accelerated delivery, I produce execution-ready GTM deliverables that become the foundation of your marketing, sales, and customer-experience orgs in 30 days, not 6 months. I build the GTM machine, prove it works, then hand you the keys.
Developed go-to-market platform playbook for 8 home services companies across 6 markets. Drove 1,200 daily leads and 200 daily appointments. Increased booking rate from 25% to 30% with agentic AI solutions. Reduced churn 10% through AI-powered lifecycle campaigns.
Co-founded the DTC division from the ground up. Built the entire GTM engine across B2C, B2B, and B2B2C business units. Drove 5,000+ MQLs per month. Doubled lead qualification rate from 15% to 30% by launching CRM, lifecycle journeys, and contact center operations.
Led product, performance, lifecycle, and partner marketing generating 25,000+ MQLs per month and $50M–$75M in incremental annual revenue. Led the PowerThrough campaign that drove 20,000+ leads per month at 30% CAC reduction. Achieved 22% lift in door-to-door sales.
Led customer database marketing, converting DVD customers into app subscribers. Drove approximately $100M in sales from converted subscribers. Achieved 90% renewal target through lifecycle onboarding and engagement programs. 10% increase in eCommerce cross-sell revenue.
Drove innovation in lifecycle marketing across movie tickets, home video, games, and studio tours. Delivered 40% YoY cost savings while increasing database-driven sales 22%. Reduced subscriber churn 30% for WB Digital, DC Comics, and Rotten Tomatoes.
12 years as embedded strategist and regional leader driving double-digit growth for enterprise clients. Strategy engagements with SunTrust Financial, Barclays Global Investors, E*Trade, and embedded marketing leadership for eBay, HP, Sony Entertainment, and Coca-Cola.
Before building go-to-market engines as an operator, Nathan spent 15+ years as an embedded marketing strategist and global accounts leader for Data Axle / Yes Lifecycle Marketing. He was deployed directly inside many of the world's most recognizable brands to build the CRM, lifecycle, and growth strategies behind their results.
Drove a comprehensive buyer-to-seller engagement and conversion strategy that positioned the eBay Sellers division to surpass its annual revenue goal by 200%.
Grew revenue 15% by converting free-trial subscribers to paid memberships through onboarding and personalized cross-sell / upsell — increasing overall LTV / CAC ratios by 20%.
Designed and launched the Nissan Leaf EV online reservation program in collaboration with TBWA/Chiat/Day, converting 30% of online hand-raisers to Leaf buyers.
Drove a 17% YoY increase in holiday traffic through persona-based, personalized lifecycle communications.
Conducted an e-commerce market-sizing analysis for HP Latin America, recommending that 60% of budgets be reallocated to the two countries with the largest revenue opportunity.
Created the GTM evaluation and customer-engagement strategy for the Intel Software Adrenaline program, growing subscriber revenue.
Designed a customer lifecycle strategy to engage and convert basic checking and savings customers into higher-value product portfolios.
Launched the London office as an 18-month market-entry engagement, building the sales, marketing, and client-services teams. Served as EMEA leader for Coca-Cola, Hewlett-Packard, Warner Bros., The Body Shop, and all EMEA clients.
Owned 25% of company revenue on a $20M+ book of business, leading 12-person lifecycle and digital marketing account teams for eBay, PayPal, Macy's, Bloomingdale's, Kodak, Barclays Global Investors, Hotwire, TiVo, and E*Trade.
Senior account leader formulating lifecycle, personalized cross-sell / upsell, and data-integration strategies with C-level leadership at Wells Fargo, Apple, Electronic Arts, Sharper Image, and Tower Records.
If your marketing spend isn't translating to revenue growth, you don't need more leads. You need a different system. Let's talk about what's broken and how to fix it.
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