Four ways to work together

Every engagement starts with the same question: what is actually constraining growth? The answer determines which of these makes sense — and I'll tell you if none of them do.

GTM Diagnostic Workshop

One 90-minute executive session

For companies experiencing stalled or uneven growth, misalignment across product, marketing, and sales, or too many competing GTM priorities.

You leave with:

  • Your primary GTM constraint identified

  • The executive team aligned on the top three priorities

  • A 90-day roadmap with recommended next actions

This is the fastest way to find out whether we should work together — and how deep the problem runs.

Chart mapping who to market to, how to operate, when to scale and where to expand across three stages of company growth

GTM Planning

Four 90-minute workshops with your leadership team

A leadership engagement that turns commercial ambiguity into a focused 90-day plan. For companies that need executive alignment, clearer priorities, and a real path to execution — not another strategy document.

You leave with:

  • A clear diagnosis of the GTM constraint and why it exists

  • Leadership aligned on the decisions that matter

  • A prioritized 90-day roadmap with named owners

In 90 minutes you can surface the disagreement. You can't resolve it — and in most companies the unresolved disagreement is the constraint.

The diagnostic workshop finds it. GTM Planning is where it gets resolved: which segments you're walking away from, which motion you're funding, who owns what.

Six-part GTM planning process, from diagnostic frameworks through MOVE alignment and the GTM Operating System to a prioritized set of 90-day projects

What a GTM Planning engagement covers — six frameworks applied in sequence, ending in projects your team can start on Monday.

Fractional CMO Leadership

Ongoing engagement, scoped to the business

Senior commercial leadership for companies that need direction and execution without a full-time hire.

I embed with the leadership team — running the operating cadence, owning the plan, and staying accountable for what it produces. You fund a lean execution team; I supply the strategy, the priorities, and the rhythm that keeps them moving.

What this covers:

  • GTM strategy, planning, and prioritization

  • ICP definition and positioning for technical and economic buyers

  • Alignment across leadership, product, sales, marketing, and support

  • Repeatable pipeline creation and commercial execution

  • AI built into the operating model — enrichment, scoring, segmentation, content, and research — so a lean team covers ground that used to take headcount

Michele Hodde, founder of Flow and fractional CMO for industrial technology and engineered-product companies

Fractional CMO engagements are a working relationship, not a deliverable. You get me, not a team you've never met.

Foundational Projects

Single project, defined scope and deliverable

Sometimes you already know what's missing. You don't need a diagnosis — you need the thing built.

These are the pieces a commercial engine runs on, scoped and delivered one at a time:

  • ICP definition and segmentation

  • Positioning and messaging architecture

  • Sales playbook and enablement

  • Core commercial content and website messaging

  • CRM and RevOps foundation

  • Custom AI agents and AI search visibility (AEO/GEO)

These are hands-on builds — I do the work, not a deck about the work. Each has a defined scope and an end date. If what you actually need is bigger than the project, I'll tell you before we start.

Illustration of an engagement broken into project blocks