Know the risk. Develop the leaders. Validate the investment.
Demand Karma runs structured GTM diagnostics that align investors, CEOs, and GTM leadership around the facts. Everyone sees the same issues, the same constraints, and the same priorities. Better clear than clever.
Prepared for the board of Portco Ltd · Series B · $12m ARR
The report your next board meeting is missing.
AI GTM Acceleration Plan
Will your GTM model remain competitive as AI changes how customers buy? The Acceleration Plan diagnoses your current AI GTM maturity across 11 dimensions spanning Market, Engine and Organisation. It identifies the highest-value AI GTM use cases you aren't running and the tooling you need to run them, then hands you the roadmap and the implementation approach, prioritised and sequenced.
Discovery is deliberately lightweight: a structured checklist plus focused conversations with your GTM leaders. No drawn-out engagement before you see value.
Book a call- →An AI GTM maturity assessment across 11 dimensions: Market, Engine and Organisation
- →The highest-value AI GTM use cases you aren't running, prioritised by impact, value and ROI
- →The tooling you need to run them
- →A prioritised roadmap: Now, Next and Later, with the implementation approach
- →Your AI GTM risk exposure, with the evidence behind each finding
A clear AI GTM maturity rating and roadmap for transformation, prioritised use cases and tooling rather than observations, the implementation approach, and a board-ready view of readiness.
AI GTM Leadership Kickstart
Kickstart your leadership team on the new rules of GTM. AI is changing how customers buy, how teams operate and what GTM leadership requires. The Kickstart is a short, structured programme for your go-to-market leadership team as a group: live working sessions combining education on AI-era GTM leadership with practical assignments applied to your own live GTM challenges between sessions.
Book a call- →What changed, what still works, what no longer does, and the traps to avoid
- →The new leadership model, applied to your live GTM challenges
- →Practical assignments between sessions, worked on together and reviewed as a team
A shared AI GTM leadership model across the team, individual and collective capability priorities, clearer decisions on live GTM challenges, and a defined path for ongoing leadership development.
GTM Due Diligence
Know exactly what you are investing in, and what must happen next. Independent, operator-led diligence covering the strategy, engine, economics and leadership behind the growth plan. We created the category in European VC in 2021. Two depths, one standard of honesty.
Premium GTM Due Diligence
A complete assessment of the GTM engine, leadership team, capital allocation and ability to scale. Best for new investments, significant follow-on funding, mid-cycle performance concerns and exit preparation.
Red Flag GTM Audit
A faster, focused review of the specific risks that could undermine an investment decision or growth plan. Best for time-sensitive transactions, testing specific investment assumptions, investigating known areas of concern and deciding whether full diligence is required.
- →A structured data request across the whole revenue engine. Low coverage is itself a finding: it tells you how the company is really run
- →Stakeholder interviews, including the CEO and chair, plus the people who actually touch the funnel
- →Maturity scored across eight functions: strategy, people, execution, process, systems, data, governance, measurement
- →Capital allocation reviewed line by line. Where spend is working, where it isn't, and where it never could
- →The GTM half of the viability question, answered
- →Explicit scope boundary: GTM only. Product roadmap and technical AI risk get a named hand-off, not a fudge
A board-ready findings deck, a scored maturity view, and a prioritised action plan. Including a capital allocation read with teeth: we typically find 10 to 30% of GTM spend that should be somewhere else.
No mystery. Four steps.
Scope and data request
A short call to agree scope, then a structured request for documents and access. The clock starts when the materials arrive, not before. That protects both of us.
Interviews
Leadership, the board where relevant, and the people running the funnel day to day. Anytime someone asks a question, it tells us something isn't clear. We listen for that.
Analysis
Findings scored, spend traced, gaps logged. Missing data doesn't stop the audit. It sharpens it.
Board-ready readout
A findings deck and a live debrief. What's leaking, what to fix first, and who should own it. Acceleration Plans land fast, a Red Flag GTM Audit is paced by its scope, and even the Premium GTM Due Diligence is back within four weeks of documents.
Questions? We have answers
Which diagnostic do I need?
If the question is how mature your AI GTM really is, and what to do first, start with the AI GTM Acceleration Plan. If the question is whether your leaders are equipped for the transition, that's the Leadership Kickstart. If you're about to deploy capital, follow on, or you're twelve months post-investment and the numbers have gone quiet, that's due diligence: Red Flag depth on the areas in doubt, Premium for the complete picture. Most conversations start with the Acceleration Plan and go from there.
Who actually does the work?
The two founders. No leverage model, no analysts learning on your fees, nobody "from our team". The people on the sales call are the people in the data room. Consultancies can't say that, which is why they don't.
What does the capital allocation read actually cover?
Every full diligence traces GTM spend line by line against the sales motion it's supposed to feed. We routinely find money connected to nothing: the £50k a year on SEO nobody can trace to pipeline, the events budget on autopilot. Typically 10 to 30% of spend should be somewhere else. To be precise: this is about identified reallocation of your existing budget, not a pipeline forecast. Realising it is a management job. We'll tell you exactly where.
Can you really answer "will this company be viable in three to five years?"
We answer the GTM half of it: whether demand creation, conversion and retention survive the shift in buyer behaviour, and whether the team and spend are set up for it. We also identify whether your GTM is asking the right questions of prospects and customers, then capturing those signals and informing the business. The risk of AI disruption shows up in conversations before it shows up in your financials. The other half is product and technology, and we don't pretend to cover it. Half a question answered honestly beats all of it answered badly.
How is this different from a Big Four commercial DD, or our own operating partners?
Commercial DD tells you about the market: size, growth, customer references. It rarely tells you whether the revenue engine itself works, and almost never whether it works for how buyers buy now. Operating partners are excellent and stretched across a portfolio, and few are marketing-native, which is where this disruption lands first. We are two operators who have run the whole engine, doing one thing, GTM, in weeks not months, with findings written to be acted on rather than filed.
Who have you done this for? Can I speak to them?
Yes, and we'd rather you did. Ask on the call and we'll connect you directly with investors and CEOs we've worked with. There are also 100+ recommendations between us on LinkedIn if you want the unchaperoned version.
How do we run this without the CEO feeling investigated?
Commission it with the CEO in the loop, which is how we prefer to work. We audit the engine, not the person. Findings are previewed with whoever commissioned the work, distribution is agreed in the SoW before we start, and we report what we find even when it's awkward for the person who hired us. Everyone knows the rules on day one, which is precisely why it doesn't feel like an ambush.
I'm the CEO. Is this going to be used against me?
Sometimes a board sends us. More often the CEO brings us in first, and that's the stronger position: if the engine has problems, they exist whether or not anyone writes them down, and it's better to be the one holding the report. You see the findings before the board does. Nothing goes upstairs that you haven't read.
How much of the team's time does it take?
A structured document request up front, then a handful of interviews. Figure a few hours per exec across the whole engagement, not weeks. The heavy lifting is ours. And if half the requested documents don't exist, that's not a delay, it's a finding.
You work with several funds. How do you handle conflicts and confidentiality?
Engagement-level confidentiality, always. Nothing crosses between clients, funds or portfolio companies. If a prospective engagement conflicts with existing work, we say so before signing, not after. Fund-side NDAs are fine by us.
Do you implement, or just advise?
We audit, we advise boards, we coach leaders. And through GTM Assurance we stay in the room: working alongside the CEO and the GTM leaders as they deliver the agreed plan, and giving the board independent confidence that the change is holding. We don't become your marketing department, and you should be suspicious of an auditor who wants to. Where the fix needs hands, we'll say what kind, and usually who.
How long does it take? Does it fit a live deal window?
The Acceleration Plan is deliberately lightweight on discovery: a structured checklist and focused conversations with your GTM leaders, fast enough to land before your next board meeting. Premium due diligence runs to around four weeks from the day we receive documents and access, which fits a typical exclusivity period if the data room opens promptly. We don't commit dates before materials arrive, because a deadline built on documents that haven't shown up is a deadline someone else misses on your behalf.
What do the outputs look like?
Slides, built for a board audience, plus a live debrief. A scored maturity view across Market, Engine and Organisation, the prioritised roadmap and implementation approach, the capital allocation read, and a clear action list. Not a gap analysis that sits in a drawer.
How does pricing work?
Fixed fee, quoted per engagement, scoped to the company and the depth you need. We don't publish numbers because no two of these are the same size. Book a call and you'll have a concrete quote within a day.
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