Is your GTM strategy winning in 2026?
Every year, GTM teams promise themselves this will be the year everything clicks. Better alignment. Better execution. Better results. And every year, the list of initiatives grows faster than the clarity behind them.
Here’s the truth that most teams don’t want to hear: GTM doesn’t usually fail because teams lack effort or ideas. It fails because the foundation is fragmented.
If you only fix one thing in your GTM motion this year, make it this: ensure every system agrees on buyer and account identity.
This isn’t a data hygiene issue. It’s a leadership issue.
When your CRM, marketing automation, intent platforms, ABM tools, analytics, and AI models all operate on different versions of who the buyer is, alignment becomes performative. Teams hold meetings. Dashboards get reconciled manually. Decisions get delayed. And confidence erodes quietly over time.
The result is something worse than chaos. It’s motion without momentum.
Most GTM leaders underestimate how expensive this fragmentation is. Sales prioritizes the wrong accounts. Marketing personalizes for partial buying groups. AI produces recommendations that look sophisticated but can’t be trusted. Forecasts become debates instead of instruments.
And no amount of enablement, process tuning, or new tooling fixes that.
This problem is becoming more visible as AI moves from experimentation to execution. AI doesn’t create alignment. It enforces it. Whatever assumptions your data makes about identity, AI will scale instantly (and relentlessly). If those assumptions are wrong or inconsistent, you don’t just get bad outcomes. You get fast, confident, wrong outcomes.
That’s why resolving identities isn’t optional anymore. It’s foundational to your entire GTM infrastructure.
It means every system agrees on which accounts matter, who belongs to them, how they’re connected, and when they’re actually in-market. It means buying groups aren’t inferred differently by every tool. It means enrichment, intent, and engagement reinforce each other instead of competing for attention.
When this foundation is right, something important happens: GTM finally becomes data-driven and decisive. Teams stop arguing about the numbers and start acting on them. AI becomes operational instead of experimental. Alignment stops being a quarterly objective and becomes a daily reality.
The most effective GTM leaders aren’t the ones chasing the latest tactic. They’re the ones who are disciplined about what they build on. They understand that speed comes from clarity, not urgency, and that scale without alignment is just faster dysfunction.
There will always be pressure at the start of the year to add more. More programs. More platforms. More ambition. But leadership is knowing when to subtract first.
If you only fix one thing this year, fix the thing every GTM decision depends on.
Because once your systems agree on who your buyers are and where they belong, everything else (strategy, execution, AI, growth, etc) finally has something solid to stand on.
And that’s what separates busy GTM teams from effective ones.
Contact us to see what identity alignment looks like across your GTM.
