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Preface: GTM Engineering 101

Understand what a GTM engineer does, who the work serves, and how a business problem becomes a useful system. Build a project brief as you learn.

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6 chapters + a capstoneAbout 59 minutesNo coding or paid accounts
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Taylor Kim, GTM engineering learner, inspect pose
Taylor Kim · Operations generalist
Your peer in an example GTM team, not the answer key.

Learn the role by following the work

You will separate facts from assumptions, identify the people affected, map data and decisions, and test a small handoff. Then you will use the same model on a customer-onboarding problem.

GTM engineering includes inbound, outbound, forecasting, customer operations, internal tools, and the systems that connect them. You can come from a technical or commercial background. The aim here is orientation, not mastery of a particular platform.

People
Who needs a better outcome?
System
Which data, decisions, and work connect to it?
Evidence
How will we know whether it helped?

One guide, seven connected chapters

The learning path

  1. 01
    What Is GTM Engineering?

    Explain the role, then separate a reported symptom from evidence of a problem.

    Problem brief

    8 min →
  2. 02
    Meet the Clients of the System

    Connect business ownership, implementation, and daily work to an agreed outcome.

    Clients and outcome

    7 min →
  3. 03
    See the Whole System

    Map a business outcome to inputs, decisions, owned work, and evidence.

    GTM System Map

    8 min →
  4. 04
    Choose the Intervention

    Assign system responsibilities and choose a maintainable solution to the actual problem.

    Architecture and decision note

    9 min →
  5. 05
    Turn Decisions Into Owned Work

    Route requests with explicit evidence, owners, and a recovery path.

    Mini workflow contract

    9 min →
  6. 06
    Measure and Keep Improving

    Choose evidence that answers the business question and identify what it cannot prove.

    Measurement and review plan

    8 min →
  7. 07
    Capstone: Diagnose Before You Build

    Apply the model to a customer-onboarding problem and save a reviewable project brief.

    GTM Engineering Project Brief

    10 min →

Your take-away: a project brief you can explain

The brief connects the problem, clients, data, decisions, owners, measures, and review plan. You can copy it or save a Markdown file. All example records and outcomes belong to the teaching example; nothing in the guide contacts a prospect, updates a CRM, or calls a model.

Need a definition without the walkthrough? Read What is a GTM Engineer? or Anatomy of a GTM system.