Case study
From the same 30 brands to a ranked list of hundreds.
How Example Football Club turned a stalled prospect list into a scored, researched, ready-to-send pipeline in its first month, without adding a single hire.
Illustrative example. Figures, quotes, and the named contact are placeholders to be replaced with approved details before launch.
Executive summary. Example Football Club was pitching the same handful of brands well and sending everyone else a template. In its first week on GTM Gameplan, the club scored 2,453 brands against its audience, open categories, and current partners, built an analyst-grade dossier on each top target, and sent outreach written for every contact. Over the first month, first meetings rose 5x and the club opened conversations in 11 categories it had never systematically worked. The team did not grow.
The challenge: effort was never the problem, hours were
Good outreach takes real research, and real research takes time. A strong rep needs a few hours to understand a brand well enough to write something a decision-maker will actually answer. With a small team, that math has a hard ceiling.
- Too few at-bats. The team could research and pitch its top 30 brands well. Everyone else got a generic note, so the pipeline was capped by headcount.
- Generic and forgettable. When research does not scale, the fallback is a template, and decision-makers delete templates.
- White space nobody could see. Whole categories the club could have owned were never worked, because no one had hours to map them.
The approach: find, research, write
GTM Gameplan took the mechanical parts of prospecting and ran them at the scale of the whole market, while the judgment stayed with the club's team.
- Find the right brands. The engine scored 2,453 brands on audience overlap, category fit, and spend capacity, and flagged conflicts before any name reached the team.
- Research each one like an analyst. Every top target got an analyst-grade dossier: decision-makers with verified contacts, recent moves, and a clear read on why the club fit.
- Write the outreach. A six-touch sequence per contact, tuned to the club's voice. The team read, approved, and sent. No message left without a human.
The results
Inside the first month, the club booked 5x more first meetings than the prior quarter, opened conversations in 11 new categories, and did it all with the same size team. For the first time, the size of the pipeline was a choice, not a limit set by how many hours the team had.
We used to chase the same handful of brands. GTM Gameplan handed us a ranked shortlist of the whole market, with the outreach already written for each one.

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