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GTM Engineering with Agents: A Field Guide to Automating the Funnel

GTM Engineering with Agents: A Field Guide to Automating the Funnel

Every go-to-market team is really running a handful of pipelines. Leads come in, get cleaned up, get scored, get worked, and either turn into revenue or quietly rot. Most of that work is mechanical, and most of it gets done by hand or by a tangle of point-to-point integrations that break the moment a vendor changes an endpoint. This guide takes the agentic approach the rest of the series is built on and points it straight at the funnel. The idea is simple: wrap every source you care about (your CRM, your enrichment providers, your email, your product analytics) as an MCP tool, then let small agents orchestrate the motions on top of them. Capture, enrichment, scoring, outbound, nurture, hygiene, forecasting, churn signals. One tool surface, many agents, each running on a schedule. It's hands-on. We build each motion as a small agent loop over MCP tools, wire them together with a cron, and put guardrails around the parts that can email a customer or overwrite a record. By the end you'll have a mental model for GTM as a system of agents, plus enough concrete patterns to start replacing the manual busywork on your own stack. It pairs with [MCP from Scratch](/guides/mcp-from-scratch) for the protocol and [Running the Fleet](/guides/running-the-fleet) for orchestration. This one is about pointing all of that at pipeline. _This is a living document and will be updated as the tools and patterns evolve._

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The Agentic Solopreneur

The Agentic Solopreneur

Every piece of good advice about running a business alone used to come back to one constraint: there is one of you, and you have a fixed number of hours. Don't build software that needs support, because questions scale with customers and you can't hire. Sell content instead, because content is finished once you publish it. That advice was right, and it stopped being right. This is a guide to building a small, durable business on your own in 2026, using leverage that didn't exist when most of the advice you've read was written. One person plus a fleet: a handful of narrow, well-guarded agents handling the parts of a company that used to need headcount, run by someone who stays close enough to the customer to notice when it's going wrong. It covers choosing what to build now that the content-versus-software split has been rearranged, what a fleet actually costs in money and attention, the parts of the job you must never delegate, pricing when your marginal cost of delivery approaches zero, and the specific ways this fails. It includes the year I grossed ten thousand dollars, because a version of this genre that skips to the good part is worse than useless. _This is a living document and will be updated as the tools and the economics keep moving._

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