Forward Deployed SellingA doctrine for AI-era enterprise sales
The Doctrine

Two tiers. Qualify, then work the deal.

The Targeting Foundation answers who. The three-by-three runs how. Both execute on AI.

Two tiers. The Targeting Foundation qualifies who the seller is selling to — ICP, GTM, stakeholders. The three-by-three operational doctrine runs the deal once the target is qualified: buyer movements across the top, sales principles beneath, AI innovations beneath those.

The 3×3 always assumed a qualified target. The two-tier architecture makes that assumption explicit. Every operational protocol — thesis generation, scoring, coaching, disqualification — now verifies the target before it fires.

The three operational layers run in parallel, not sequence. That’s where the compression comes from. Older methodologies put a stage gate at every transition. FDS produces continuous artifact output: theses, value provocations, stakeholder profiles, deal scores. Each artifact moves the account through movements without a meeting to do it.

Foundation tier (qualify the target first)
Foundation tier

The Targeting Foundation

ICP. GTM. Stakeholders. The qualification layer that runs before any operational protocol fires.

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Operational tier (the 3×3 doctrine)