Mayan GTM brain

Mayan sells Amazon advertising and inventory automation with optional expert management to marketplace sellers and brands.

category

Amazon seller growth automation

market profile

  • text: Amazon sellers must coordinate advertising efficiency with inventory and product economics as their catalogs grow.
  • text: The product spans self-service software and expert-managed advertising, serving both hands-on and outsourced buyers.

personas

  • title: Amazon marketplace or ecommerce director
    pains:
    • Improving ROAS without losing sales growth
    • Coordinating advertising with stock availability across a growing catalog
  • title: Amazon seller founder
    pains:
    • Spending too much time on repetitive campaign and inventory work
    • Lacking specialist PPC expertise to grow profitably
  • title: Amazon PPC manager
    pains:
    • Manually managing bids, targeting, and campaign creation
    • Demonstrating advertising performance against business goals

icp

  • text: Consumer brands and merchants selling through Amazon FBA, from newer sellers to enterprise teams.
  • text: Sellers running Amazon advertising who need campaign automation, inventory alerts, or managed PPC expertise.

message pillars

  • text: Automate campaign work while retaining business focus.
  • text: Combine software with Amazon advertising expertise.
  • text: Connect inventory insights to ad decisions.
  • text: Reduce tedious seller operations with AI.

objections

  • objection: Can software improve my specific ad economics?
    response: Review the account and test against ROAS and sales goals; the site includes seller case studies, though individual results vary.
  • objection: My team needs guidance, not another dashboard.
    response: Mayan offers an expert-managed package alongside its self-service product.
  • objection: What happens when stock runs low?
    response: The inventory offering includes replenishment alerts and ad pausing and enabling.

competitors

  • name: Teikametrics
    why: Marketplace advertising optimization and automation for sellers.
  • name: Perpetua
    why: Algorithmic Amazon advertising management.
  • name: Helium 10
    why: Amazon seller suite with advertising and research tools.

keywords

  • Amazon PPC automation
  • Amazon ad bid optimization
  • Amazon FBA inventory forecasting
  • Amazon advertising management
  • Amazon seller growth software
  • Amazon ROAS optimization

voice

  • Results-oriented
  • Seller-friendly and encouraging
  • Data-driven with human expertise

signals

  • text: A brand is increasing Amazon ad spend but ROAS or ad profitability is slipping.
  • text: A seller is hiring for Amazon marketplace or PPC operations while managing stock across products.

pricing

model: freemium
starting price: Free inventory optimization; Smart Ads Platform $199 monthly

motion

hybrid

channels

  • SEO
  • webinars
  • case studies
  • partners

confidence

high

Founders

  • name: Christopher Compean
    title: Founder
    role: Founder
    bio: I'm an MIT graduate who has worked in several startups as a data-driven impactful employee. The startups have been in the incubator, ed-tech, then video advertising spaces, with all of them based in Boston. Mayan is my first venture, co-founded with two friends from MIT. I live near Las Vegas with my wife and 2-yr old son.
  • name: Javier Garcia
    title: Founder/CTO
    role: CTO
    bio: 4× founder (2× technical COO, 2× technical co-founder). Built and scaled products from 0→1 and 1→n while running all the “everything else” - ops, GTM, fundraising, hiring, and special projects. Thrive in high-ambiguity, high-speed environments. Founder who can operate without ego, integrate quickly, and move the needle fast. I help companies clear bottlenecks, deliver cross-functional initiatives end-to-end, and create the operating systems that keep growth on track.

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