GTMcraft Plays · The Agent Targeting Standard Play

Your AI agent runs on loose targeting; it scales bad-fit volume until you set the standard.

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The 90-second read

Your outbound agent sends at machine speed all day. It runs on whatever targeting you gave it. Most owners never set that standard. So the agent inherits a loose ICP and sprays bad-fit accounts. Reply rates fall and the domain cools. The fix is a targeting standard you own: who it may contact, what signal qualifies them, and who it must never touch.

• The agent scales your targeting standard, so a loose one scales bad-fit volume.
• Firmographics alone are noise; a multi-signal trigger marks a real in-market account.
• A suppression list stops the agent emailing customers, open deals, and competitors.
• The standard lives in a file the agent reads, not a prompt that rots.
• You set the fit bar; the agent never widens it on its own.

Read time: about 5 minutes. First step runnable Monday morning.

The #1 move this week

Write the one-page fit bar your agent may target, straight from your last 20 closed-won deals.

The agent cannot judge fit; it obeys the bar you set. No bar means it treats every account as a target. Pull your recent wins, name the pattern that separates them, and write it down. That page becomes the standard the agent runs on, not a guess it makes.

Start here: export your last 20 closed-won accounts with firmographics, the trigger that opened them, and the buying committee. You need CRM access and one hour.

Ignore this week: prompt wording, sequence copy, and sending volume. Set the fit bar first, then feed the agent.