The Companion Workbook

Thirteen decisions. One tool for each.

The fillable companion to Seed to Series B. It turns the thirteen frameworks from the book into worksheets you fill in for your actual company, at your actual stage.

Companion to Seed to Series B: Marketing Decisions Without the Expensive Mistakes.
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How It Works

A tool for every decision.

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One tool per chapter

Each page maps to a single decision the book walks you through. Read the chapter, then fill in the page.

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Built to be filled in

A fillable PDF. Click any field and type, then save. Or print it and write by hand.

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Accountable to outcomes

Whether your motion is PLG or sales-led, every tool ties marketing to a real outcome, an activated user or a booked meeting, not download volume.

What's Inside

Thirteen worksheets, four parts.

The same sequence as the book. Work through a page after you finish the matching chapter, or use the whole workbook as a standing diagnostic when a marketing decision is in front of you.

Part One

Before You Spend a Dollar

  • 01The Stage Diagnostic Checklist
  • 02The Buying Room Map
  • 03The Market Reality Test
Part Two

The Decisions That Define Your GTM

  • 04The Positioning Stack
  • 05The Channel-ACV Matrix
  • 06The Motion Decision Test
  • 07The SAL Accountability System
Part Three

Building the Team and the Operating System

  • 08The First Hire Decision Matrix
  • 09The Stage Metrics Stack
  • 10The Reverse Budget Method
  • 11The Marketing Operating Cadence
Part Four

Readiness Checkpoints

  • 12The Series A Readiness Scorecard
  • 13The Series B Transition Checklist
The Book

It is the companion to Seed to Series B.

Most founders who fail at marketing do not fail because they chose the wrong tactics. They fail because they made the wrong strategic decisions before the first dollar was spent. Hired before they had positioning. Scaled a channel before they knew if it worked. Spent on campaigns before their foundation could hold the weight.

Seed to Series B: Marketing Decisions Without the Expensive Mistakes is not a tactics book. It is a decision guide for founders navigating the most important marketing choices of their company's early life. Across thirteen chapters, four composite founders work through the decisions that define whether a marketing investment builds a company or burns its runway. This workbook turns those thirteen decisions into worksheets you can fill in.

Who It's For

Founders with a decision in front of them.

This is for Series A and B B2B SaaS founders with a real marketing decision in front of them right now. A hire, a channel, a budget, a number you cannot yet defend.

Fill the pages in as your company actually is today, not where you want it to be. If a worksheet feels uncomfortable to fill in, that discomfort is the signal. It is showing you exactly where the next decision lives.

Work With Tom

You filled in the tools. Now apply them.

If working through the workbook raised questions you want to pressure-test for your specific company, Tom works with a small number of Series A and B B2B SaaS founders as an embedded Portfolio CMO. He takes the engagements where the decisions in the book are the decisions in front of you.

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