Vector GTM brain

Vector sells a contact-level account-based marketing platform to B2B revenue teams seeking to turn buying signals and advertising into pipeline.

category

Contact-level account-based marketing

market profile

  • text: B2B marketers need to identify individual buyers within accounts and connect ad engagement with revenue.
  • text: Vector competes against established ABM platforms and point solutions for visitor identification and advertising.

personas

  • title: CMO
    pains:
    • Cannot credibly show the board how marketing influenced pipeline
    • Legacy ABM contracts absorb budget without clear contact-level evidence
  • title: Director of demand generation or ABM
    pains:
    • Account-level targeting wastes impressions on people outside the buying group
    • Scattered signals make it hard to time campaigns and prioritize accounts
  • title: Revenue operations leader
    pains:
    • Buying signals are fragmented across ad platforms and CRM
    • Sales needs actionable alerts rather than opaque account scores

icp

  • text: B2B companies with dedicated demand generation or ABM teams, defined target account lists and recurring paid advertising spend.
  • text: Mid-market and enterprise revenue teams with enough site traffic and budget to justify a $36,000 annual platform entry point.

message pillars

  • text: Unify signals, scoring and activation at contact level.
  • text: Give sales interpretable context instead of opaque account scores.
  • text: Show marketing's pipeline contribution to executives.

objections

  • objection: Is the annual contract worth replacing our existing ABM stack?
    response: Compare overlapping tools, implementation effort and measurable contact-level campaign and pipeline results.
  • objection: Can sales actually use the signals?
    response: Pilot alerts against a target account list and assess whether reps can identify a relevant person and reason to engage.
  • objection: Can we control spend as usage grows?
    response: Review monthly site visitors and total ad spend against the published plan thresholds before contracting.

competitors

  • name: 6sense
    why: Enterprise ABM and account intent platform explicitly compared on Vector's site.
  • name: Demandbase
    why: ABM platform competing across account intelligence and advertising.
  • name: Influ2
    why: Contact-level B2B advertising competitor.

keywords

  • contact level advertising
  • account based marketing platform
  • B2B buyer intent signals
  • 6sense alternative
  • website visitor identification
  • ABM attribution
  • B2B ad audience targeting

voice

  • Direct and irreverent
  • Marketer-oriented and conversational
  • Skeptical of legacy ABM claims

signals

  • text: Company is renewing a legacy ABM platform or evaluating a replacement.
  • text: Demand generation team is increasing paid spend while leadership demands pipeline attribution.
  • text: Company hires an ABM or revenue operations leader to coordinate marketing and sales signals.

stack

  • LinkedIn Ads

pricing

model: usage
starting price: $36,000/year

motion

sales_led

channels

  • SEO
  • LinkedIn
  • Webinars
  • Podcast
  • Newsletter
  • Customer case studies

confidence

high

Founders

  • name: Joshua Perk
    title: Founder
    role: Founder
    bio: Hi 👋🏼 I'm Josh. Building, Vector to help founders find, prioritize, and track the accounts they're most likely to turn into their customers! Previously: - Built the SC team @ Drift from Series B - Vista acquisition 🦄 - Exited GrowthStack - A hybrid RevOps agency + SaaS company 🎉 - Exited GoCable - A rapid prototyping SaaS for subsea cables 🐙 - Served as an intel analyst in the USAF ✈️
  • name: Nick Masters
    title: Founder
    role: Founder
    bio: Co-founder and COO of Vector, on a mission to revolutionize how marketing builds a contact based strategy. A US Air Force Veteran and former Instructor Pilot with over 15 years of leadership experience building and training sales teams. Previous to Vector, Co-founder and CEO Josh Perk and I served as executives in charge of Sales Engineering at Drift helping drive a $1.3B acquisition.

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