IT consulting firm — solid execution, ICP refinement took longer than expected
We provide IT consulting to mid-market companies. Strong technical execution on the campaigns; ICP needed more iteration than the initial discovery suggested.
- IT consulting firm targeting IT directors at mid-market companies.
- Initial ICP was too broad — required two rounds of refinement to land on the right buyer profile.
- By month 3, pipeline was stable and meetings were appropriately qualified.
- Four stars because the ICP work needed more upfront effort that should have been discovery work.
Mid-market IT consulting has many sub-segments — break/fix, managed services, security advisory, cloud migration. Our specific positioning is around hybrid cloud strategy, and the initial outreach went broader than that. Result: meetings with IT generalists who weren’t in our actual target.
The refinement happened over the first two months. By month 3 we’d narrowed the ICP to companies actively migrating to hybrid cloud architectures with specific operational signals (recent cloud spend growth, public engineering team expansion, certain technology stack tells).
Outcome
Stable pipeline of IT director conversations from companies actively in our exact buying window. The work was good once the targeting was right.
Why four stars
The initial ICP discovery should have caught the breadth problem. We were specific in our discovery conversations; the campaign brief read broader than the conversation suggested. Once the issue was identified, the team was responsive and iterated effectively.
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