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AI Go To Market

Made Crystal Clear

By Christophe Paka · Updated October 25, 2026

A Visual Beginner's Guide to AI Marketing, Sales, SEO, and AI Search

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Who this book is for

In plain words: Go to market is how a product finds its first buyers: who to sell to, at what price, and how they hear about it. AI now does much of the research and first drafts.

  • Founders and solo builders with a product and no customers yet
  • The first marketer or sales hire at a small startup
  • Small business and agency owners who need clients
  • Not for: Not for you if you first need the basics of how AI tools work. Try AI Made Crystal Clear.

Building the product is the easy part; getting it in front of the right buyers is where most founders stall. This visual beginner's guide maps go to market step by step, with AI doing the research and first drafts, and you keeping the judgment. Inside, you will learn to define your ideal customer and find the ones ready to buy; position and price your product with a value metric buyers understand; write content that ranks in Google and earns citations in AI answers; set up SPF, DKIM and DMARC so your email reaches the inbox; run outbound with AI research and drafts, inside spam and consent rules; and launch, measure revenue by source, and work out what each customer costs you. Fifteen chapters, 46 diagrams and 25 step by step recipes. Every idea has a diagram, every recipe is numbered with the result you should see, and every chapter ends with a Try it to check yourself. The words stay plain, and the real terms stay in. Whether you are a technical founder, a solo builder, a first marketing hire or a professional with a product to sell, you need no marketing background.

Pages
201
Level
Beginner to advanced
Updated
October 25, 2026

12 real pages. Click a page to enlarge it.

Page 7: go to market in one map
Page 18: fit and timing
Page 23: the ICP card lists clinics you can score
Page 42: hybrid pricing rose from 27% to 41% of companies while flat fees and seats fell
Page 56: the quality gate for an AI draft
Page 72: rotabird's citations rise from 4 to 6, but the pie doubles, so its share falls from 10% to 7.5%
Page 86: most of the rules in this chapter started in the last three years, and two more dates follow in December...
Page 93: from send to inbox
Page 108: four autonomy levels
Page 127: the self serve path
Page 137: the handoff
Page 152: the consent default runs first, so every Google tag starts denied and changes only when the visitor answers

Inside the book

  1. 01Go To Market in One Map: Where AI Helps and Where It Does Not
  2. 02Find Your Ideal Customer: Fit, Timing, and AI Research Agents
  3. 03Positioning and Messaging You Can Test in a Week
  4. 04Pricing and Packaging: Seats, Usage, Credits, or Outcomes
  5. 05AI Content That Ranks: Google's Rules and a Quality Gate
  6. 06Found by AI Answers: GEO Without the Folklore
  7. 07The Legal Map: Spam, Consent, Privacy, and AI Disclosure
  8. 08Reach the Inbox: Email Deliverability Before the First Send
  9. 09Outbound With AI: Research, Drafts, and the AI SDR Question
  10. 10Launch: Product Hunt, Show HN, and Your Own Audience
  11. 11Product Led Growth: Free Plans, Trials, and Activation
  12. 12Inbound and Sales Assist: AI Agents and the Human Handoff
  13. 13Measurement: From Lead Source to Revenue
  14. 14Your Stack, Your Budget, and the Business Case
  15. 15Your First 30 Days and the Cheat Sheet

You'll leave with

  • Map your go to market on one page and see where AI helps at each step
  • Define your ideal customer by fit and timing with an AI research agent
  • Pick a price and a value metric: seats, usage, credits, or outcomes
Christophe Paka, author of AI Go To Market Made Crystal Clear

About the author

Christophe Paka writes every book on the shelf. He spent years in technical support at Salesforce and Microsoft, where the job was to make complex systems clear to customers who needed them working the same day. He has since built and run software as a founder and lead developer, worked as a Salesforce consultant, and grown a YouTube channel on tech careers past one million views.

This book was last updated on October 25, 2026.

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Every source cited in AI Go To Market Made Crystal Clear. Each number matches the [n] marker next to that link in the book's "Go deeper" lists, so you can trace any claim back to its origin.

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  96. [104]Billing limits and alerts (PostHog docs)
  97. [105]Funnels (PostHog docs)
  98. [106]URL builders: Collect campaign data with custom URLs (Google Analytics Help)

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