Process

How a GTM system build runs: brief, scope, build and handover

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A GTM System Build runs in four stages: your brief, a written scope with a fixed price, a 90-day build inside your own CRM and tools, and a handover with the documentation your team or your own hire needs to run it. The system stays in your accounts, not ours.

Send my GTM brief

What happens to the brief I send?

The engineer who would build the system reads it. If something is missing to scope it, we ask. Then a written scope comes back: what will be built, in what order, what it depends on in your stack, and a fixed price for it.

What happens during the 90 days?

  1. The data foundation first: one account and contact model in your CRM, filled once.
  2. Scoring and signals next, written down where your team can read and change them.
  3. Then outbound and routing, each play switched on only once the data under it is right.
  4. AI research and drafting last, with a person approving what goes out.

What do I get at handover?

The system, running in your own accounts, and the documentation for it: every table, workflow, rule and credential owner written down, with a runbook a new GTM engineer can pick up on the first day.

What happens after the build?

Three paths. You run it yourselves from the runbook. Or a monthly GTM Engineering Retainer keeps it running and adds to it. Or, as an Interim GTM Engineer, we keep building until your own hire starts and hand it to them. The pricing page compares each with a hire.

Send us your GTM brief

A short brief about your company, your tools and your goal, read by the engineer who would build it.

Your company

Do you use Clay today?

  • Read by the engineer who would build it
  • Your details go to nobody else
  • No obligation: a written scope comes back

Sources

This site's own datasets, every figure quoted from its source and dated:

  • The median published figure in the GTM Agency Fee Index is 9,200 USD per month across 2 sources' own pages (range 5,500 to 12,900 USD per month; a 25,000 USD build fee is not monthly), read 9 November 2026.
  • For billed monthly, the median published figure in the GTM Stack Price Board is 63 USD across 4 figures from the sources' own pages (range 20 to 99 USD; 16 sources publish a figure), read 9 November 2026.
  1. Clay pricing
  2. Apollo.io pricing
  3. HubSpot pricing
  4. n8n pricing
  5. Sales.co, GTM engineering agencies compared
  6. RevPartners Clay agency
  7. GTMEPulse, GTM Engineering Agency Pricing Guide
  8. Automation Jinn, Hire a GTM engineer
  9. OneGTM, The GTME Data Report Q3 2026
  10. IRS Topic no. 751, Social Security and Medicare withholding rates

Have a pipeline system that needs building?

A short brief about your company, your tools and your goal, read by the engineer who would build it.

Send my GTM brief