Context stripped at capture
Sales opens a record with an identity and no situation. The form captured who the visitor is and dropped the reason they came.
The model
The model
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Go-to-market as one commercial journey.
GTM is not a department and not a channel. It is the path a company walks from a market that has never heard of it to revenue that repeats, and the intelligence that has to travel along that path. There are 12 stages worth naming, and the joins between them are where most commercial work actually happens.
The commercial journey, in one line
This is the sentence a GTM Intelligence pilot walks along.
- 01Market
- 02ICP
- 03Demand
- 04Accounts
- 05Buyers
- 06Conversations
- 07Opportunities
- 08Revenue
- 09Learning
- Marketing owns one half. Sales owns the other. Which is why nobody owns what happens between them.
- Go-to-market is one system: from a market that has never heard of you, to revenue that repeats.
- The record changes what it is at every step: anonymous visitor, then lead, then MQL, then opportunity, then closed-won.
- So the stages are not where it breaks.
- The joins are: lead capture, lead qualification, MQL to SQL, and opportunity to close. Each one is a decision nobody owns.
What GTM is not
Each of these is a part of go-to-market. Treating any one as the whole is the most common way a company ends up optimising a stage that was never the constraint.
- Marketing
- Sales
- Lead generation
- Outbound
- RevOps
- AI SDRs
The model, compressed to five
Twelve stages is the working map. Five is what fits in a sentence: demand becomes leads, leads become intent, intent becomes opportunity, opportunity becomes revenue.
The twelve stages
Each stage states what it is, what should move forward from it, and where Amoris tends to work. The boundaries shift between businesses. The point of the map is not taxonomy; it is finding where a specific commercial system needs intelligence.
MARKET
The commercial context. Everything before anyone has identified themselves.
01MarketThe set of people or businesses who could plausibly buy, and the conditions they are operating under.
What moves forward. A described segment, not an average.
Where Amoris works. Amoris starts here. A market that is only assumed cannot be prioritized against.
02PositioningThe claim you make about why this offering is the right one for that market.
What moves forward. A claim a buyer can agree or disagree with.
Where Amoris works. Positioning is the connective tissue between market intelligence and commercial hypotheses.
03AwarenessThe market knows you exist and roughly what you are for.
What moves forward. Recognition, and an association.
Where Amoris works. A pilot does not fabricate awareness, but the intelligence built here informs where existing awareness is worth acting on.
04DemandSomeone has a problem and has started looking.
What moves forward. Attention that has not identified itself yet.
Where Amoris works. Signals of live demand feed the account and opportunity view.
LEADS
Attention becomes a record someone could act on.
05AcquisitionThe moment attention becomes a contactable record.
What moves forward. An identity and a channel.
Where Amoris works. The context around acquisition (page, question, comparison) is what a downstream conversation should already know.
06LeadsA name, a way to reach them, and a reason to talk.
What moves forward. A record with a reason attached.
Where Amoris works. A GTM Intelligence pilot works out which leads have the strongest commercial relevance and why.
INTENT
Which of these records is actually in market, and why.
07IntentEvidence that this one is in market now, rather than interested in general.
What moves forward. A signal with a timestamp.
Where Amoris works. Signal intelligence sits here. Funding, hiring, expansion, leadership changes, product launches, partnerships.
08QualificationThe judgement that this is worth a person's time, and the reason why.
What moves forward. A decision, and the evidence behind it.
Where Amoris works. The commercial hypothesis is what makes qualification defensible and repeatable.
OPPORTUNITY
A live deal, and the work of getting it decided.
09OpportunityA live deal with a number and a date attached.
What moves forward. A commitment to evaluate.
Where Amoris works. A Revenue Conversion pilot looks at where opportunities stall between here and close.
10ConversionGetting from evaluation to a decision.
What moves forward. A proposal, and an objection worth recording.
Where Amoris works. Objection patterns, messaging gaps and buyer decision dynamics are the raw material of a leakage analysis.
REVENUE
Money in, and whether anything was learned from it.
11RevenueMoney in, and a record of why it came.
What moves forward. A closed deal and its cause.
Where Amoris works. The outcome is only useful if the reason is captured with it.
12Retention and expansionThe revenue repeats, or it grows.
What moves forward. Evidence about which deals were worth having in the first place.
Where Amoris works. The learning loop. What actually converted feeds the ICP and the priority model.
Where Amoris works in this model
Amoris is designed as an integrated intelligence layer over the whole journey. In practice, pilots concentrate at two specific points on the map.
Revenue leakage in this model
Revenue leakage is demand a business has already paid to create, which then fails to convert for reasons that have nothing to do with the buyer losing interest. Amoris analyzes it as part of the Revenue Conversion & Leakage capability.
Reference definitions. These are the recurring leakage patterns a Revenue Conversion & Leakage pilot looks at. Not the whole framing of what Amoris does; a small part of it.
Slow response
Someone raises their hand and the business answers hours later. Routing depends on a person noticing a queue.
Forgotten demand
A database of leads that were interested once, went quiet and have not been contacted since. The reason each one stalled was recorded, and the thing that would resolve it shipped in product or marketing without those records being joined.
Intent present, not detected
A prospect visits pricing repeatedly and nobody knows. The signal lives in a system that is not joined to the CRM.
Opportunity friction
A qualified prospect waits days for a proposal, and the document that arrives reads like the last one because it is the last one. The objection that eventually kills the deal is never written down.
Decision blindness
Everyone can report what closed. Nobody can say which change caused it, so next quarter funds the same assumptions.