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GTM for DevTools & Developer Platforms

Developer-respecting marketing, PLG funnels, and AI content ops for API companies, observability, dev infrastructure, MLOps, vector databases, and AI coding tools.

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The Problem

The reality you're working against

Developer-led growth needs a completely different playbook — PLG, docs-as-marketing, community. Traditional B2B tactics actively backfire.

Why most GTM fails here

Three traps that keep growth flat

TRAP 01

Engineers hate being marketed to; demand-gen plays repel them.

TRAP 02

Hard to scale past the engineer-founder's network.

TRAP 03

Content velocity and quality suffer when non-technical marketers own it.

The MakeReality Approach

Three pillars, working together

01

Fractional CMO & Positioning

Embedded GTM leadership that sharpens your narrative, ICP, and channel strategy — built around the realities of your category.

02

AI Automation Systems

We design and deploy AI agents and workflows that take low-leverage tasks off your team and compound results across the funnel.

03

Ongoing Execution

Not a deck and a goodbye. We stay embedded, run the systems, train the team, and iterate on what's actually moving pipeline.

What we build

Tangible deliverables

  • Developer marketing strategy and editorial calendar
  • PLG funnel design with activation instrumentation
  • Community + docs-as-marketing system
  • AI ops layer for technical content and signal-based outbound
AI Automation Examples

AI agents we deploy

  • A01Automated docs summarization and reference generation.
  • A02AI-generated technical content at scale, audited by senior engineers.
  • A03GitHub repo signal monitoring for relevant outbound.
  • A04Developer ICP enrichment using package, framework, and stack data.
Who this is for

Best fit profile

$2M–$40M ARR, often venture-backed.

Our Pitch

"We market to developers the way developers want to be marketed to — with substance, code, and zero nonsense. Plus AI agents that handle the boring marketing ops work."

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FAQs

Questions buyers ask about DevTools & Developer Platforms

The objections we hear most often before a discovery call — answered up front.

Our developer marketing leads have shipped code, written docs, and run technical communities. We treat docs and reference content as first-class marketing surfaces, and we never run plays that insult the engineer reading them.

The Manifest.

Field notes from a fractional CMO building real AI inside revenue teams. Sent only when the insights matter, no noise.

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