Agile Operator

Go-to-Market Advisory for an Evolving Buying Environment

We help B2B leadership teams refine outdated GTM strategies, align around a single coherent playbook, and stay engaged through execution as markets and buyer behavior continue to evolve.

Strategy doesn’t fail all at once. It erodes as reality intervenes.

An outside-in evaluation of your GTM strategy against today’s competitive reality.

Why Go-to-Market Strategies Struggle to Hold Up Today

The issue isn’t effort. It’s strategic coherence under constant change.

Evolving buyer behavior Increased competitive noise Faster decay of legacy GTM assumptions Strategy fragmentation during execution

  • Evolving buyer behavior

  • Increased competitive noise

  • Faster decay of legacy GTM assumptions

  • Strategy fragmentation during execution

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Elite advisors. Steady under fire. Obsessed with results.

What We Mean by Go-to-Market Advisory

Our work sits between strategy and execution — where most GTM breakdowns actually occur.

We don’t deliver static strategy decks and walk away.

We don’t operate as outside consultants disconnected from execution.

And we don’t offer abstract coaching divorced from real GTM decisions.

Go-to-market advisory means partnering with leadership teams to refine strategy for today’s market, align the organization around a single playbook, and stay engaged as execution tests the plan.

Our Methodology: Strategy That Holds Up as the Market Moves

Our advisory work is grounded in the Agile Operator System — a practical operating discipline designed to keep GTM strategy coherent while conditions keep changing. Agility here isn’t about speed for its own sake. It’s about reducing the cost of being wrong, shortening feedback loops, and adjusting course without thrash or fragmentation.

Pressure-Test and Refine GTM Strategy
Executive Membership
Memorialize a Single GTM Playbook
Monthly Meetings
Stay Embedded Through Execution
Individual Development

Operator-Led Advisory, Delivered Peer-to-Peer

Our advisors are experienced GTM operators — former CMOs, CROs, founders, and revenue leaders who have sat in the same seats and carried the same targets.

We match clients with advisors who understand the role-specific pressures they’re navigating now. This is peer-level advisory grounded in pattern recognition, judgment, and lived experience — not theory or hindsight.

This operator-led model allows our go-to-market advisory to stay grounded in real execution tradeoffs, not theoretical best practices.

Seasoned operators who've sat in your seat.

You’ll work directly with growth leaders who’ve driven results under PE pressure—not advisors reading from a playbook.

Jeff Lortz
CEO/COO
Jeff Lortz
  • Former CEO/COO of PE-backed SaaS firms
  • Scaled growth & exit readiness across multiple carve-outs
  • Founder of Agile Operator Growth Advisors
Steve Kielen
CRO
Steve Keilen
  • Dynatrace $25M → $250M+ under Thoma Bravo (IPO prep)
  • Rebuilt Acoustic's global sales org post-IBM carveout ($22M → $70M ARR)
  • Scaled InsightSquared/Addigy with 30%+ YoY growth
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CMO
Norman Guadagno
  • Former CMO: Mimecast, Acoustic, Carbonite
  • Led enterprise brand + demand transformations
  • Deep M&A integration and repositioning experience

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Start with a GTM Strategy Assessment

The GTM Strategy Assessment provides an initial, outside-in evaluation of your go-to-market strategy. It combines structured inputs from your team with competitive and market research, and a scan of your company’s messaging.

The goal is to surface where assumptions may be outdated, where strategy and execution risk diverging, and whether your current GTM approach reflects today’s buying environment.

Instant GTM Health Score

Get a clear assessment of where you stand

Gap Analysis and Next Steps

Know exactly what needs fixing and how to start

Personalized Recommendations

From seasoned operators who've been in your seat

What you get:

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: What is the GTM Strategy Assessment?

A: It’s an initial evaluation of your go-to-market strategy using structured inputs, market research, and messaging analysis to identify alignment and execution risks.

Q: Is this strategy or execution support?

A: Both. We refine GTM strategy for today’s environment and stay engaged to ensure it holds up through execution.

Q: How is this different from consulting?

A: Traditional consulting delivers recommendations. We remain accountable as those recommendations meet reality.

Q: Is this coaching?

A: Our work includes coaching, but it’s delivered by experienced operators inside live GTM execution — not as abstract development work.

Q: Is this group-based or 1:1?

A: Advisory is peer-led and role-specific, not generic group programming.

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