Go-To-Market vocabulary
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Go-To-Market
The plan for how a company finds customers, sells, and delivers a product so revenue grows.
Ideal Customer Profile
A clear description of the company type most likely to buy and succeed with your product.
GTM Motion
The repeatable way a team sells: who you sell to, how you reach them, and how deals move forward.
Land and Expand
Win a small initial deal, then grow revenue inside the account with more seats, products, or usage.
Pipeline
The set of open sales opportunities, usually valued by stage and expected close date.
Pipeline Quality
How real and well-qualified opportunities are, not just how large the total pipeline looks.
ARR
Annual Recurring Revenue. Normalized yearly revenue from subscriptions or contracts that renew.
Net Revenue Retention
How revenue from existing customers changes over time after expansion, contraction, and churn.
MQL
Marketing Qualified Lead. A lead that meets marketing criteria and is ready for sales follow-up.
SQL
Sales Qualified Lead. A lead sales has accepted as worth active pursuit toward an opportunity.
Win Rate
The share of opportunities that close as won, often measured over a period or segment.
Sales Cycle
The typical time from first serious sales contact to a closed deal for a motion or segment.
Forecasting
Estimating future revenue from pipeline stage, history, and judgment so leaders can plan.
Quota
The revenue or activity target a seller or team is expected to hit in a period.
Pipeline Review
A recurring meeting that inspects deal health, next steps, risks, and forecast impact.
Coverage Model
How accounts, territories, and roles are assigned so the right sellers own the right buyers.
Sales Enablement
Training, content, and tools that help sellers run better discovery, demos, and closes.
Battle Card
A short competitive brief with positioning, objections, and proof points for live sales calls.
Customer Education
Programs and content that teach customers how to adopt and get value from the product.
Technical Success
Customer-facing technical experts who help buyers design, deploy, and prove value in real workflows.
Lead Routing
Rules or systems that send each lead to the right owner based on segment, territory, or skill.
Account Prioritization
Ranking accounts by fit and potential so sellers and agents work the highest-value targets first.
Attribution
Crediting the channels, campaigns, or actions that influenced a lead, opportunity, or closed deal.
Review Queue
A human inbox for AI-drafted GTM actions that need approval, correction, or rejection before send.
Agentic Revenue Workflow
An AI system that reasons over GTM context, proposes or takes actions, and learns from outcomes.
Signal Quality
How trustworthy intent, usage, and engagement data is before systems or sellers act on it.
Human Oversight Loop
The feedback path where people review, correct, and improve AI GTM actions before full autonomy.
Consumption Pricing
Pricing based on usage such as tokens, seats with usage caps, or API calls rather than only flat seats.
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