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We're Launching a Unified API for GTM

The best GTM teams are moving off tools and interfaces onto repos, terminals, and APIs, running full campaigns from a single plain-language instruction. AI agents fail at GTM without context: skills, API keys for 8 to 12 tools, internal SOPs, and past campaign data. The real shift is replacing the operator who stitches tools together with an API that encodes that knowledge once and runs it on demand.

Michel Lieben
Michel Lieben
JUL 7 2026
We're Launching a Unified API for GTM

We're launching a unified API for running go-to-market through Claude Code.

It's the biggest bet of my career, and to go all in, I'm stepping away from the $7M ARR agency I spent the last three years building.

The agency is doing better than ever. ColdIQ has served 275+ B2B clients, sent tens of millions of emails, and generated more than $50M in revenue for the companies we work with.

So why put that down to start something new? Because the way go-to-market gets done is changing faster than the market realizes, and I want to build the layer the next generation of GTM teams will run on.

Here's what I'm seeing, why it pulled me out of a business I love, and what we're building.

1. The Best GTM Teams Already Ditched Their Tools

The best GTM engineers and agencies have already moved off tools and interfaces. They run on GitHub repos, terminals, and APIs instead.

This sounds extreme until you watch one of them work. Instead of clicking through a data platform, then a sequencer, then an enrichment tool, then a CRM, they describe what they want in plain language and let an agent execute it end to end. The interface is a command line. The output is a finished campaign.

Claude Code made this practical for people who aren't engineers. You can hand an agent a task, give it the right context, and it will chain together the steps that used to eat an afternoon. The teams that adopted this early are running the same volume of work with a fraction of the clicks.

The pattern is clear. The interface layer that defined B2B software for a decade is quietly becoming optional.

2. Why AI Agents Still Fail at GTM

Handing an agent a GTM task and expecting good work is the fastest way to be disappointed. The agent isn't the problem. The context around it is.

To make an agent genuinely useful for go-to-market, you have to feed it a lot before it does anything valuable:

→ GTM skills and the frameworks behind them

→ Best practices for list building, messaging, and deliverability

→ API keys for 8 to 12 different tools

→ Internal business context about who you sell to and why

→ Standard operating procedures your team already follows

→ Past campaign data so it learns what worked

Miss any of these and the output is generic. The agent will build a list that ignores your ICP, write copy that sounds like every other cold email, and skip the buying signals that make timing work.

This is the real bottleneck. The intelligence is available and cheap. The context that makes it perform is scattered across a dozen accounts, a few Notion docs, and the heads of your best operators.

3. What Running GTM Through One API Looks Like

Picture giving your system a single instruction:

"Build a list of software CEOs in London, at companies with 25 to 100 people, pick up who's in buying mode, draft 3 angles for messaging, and upload it to my sequencer."

That one sentence hides four separate jobs that normally live in four separate tools. When the context and the connections are already in place, the agent runs all of them without you touching an interface.

The first job is sourcing. Finding software CEOs in a specific city, at a specific company size, used to mean building a search inside a data platform and exporting the results. An agent with the right access does it from the instruction itself.

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The second job is timing. "Who's in buying mode" is where campaigns are won or lost. A list of 500 CEOs is worth far less than the 40 of them showing hiring signals, funding activity, or tech changes that suggest they're actively looking. Layering intent onto the list turns a cold outreach into a relevant one.

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The third job is messaging. "Draft 3 angles" means the agent proposes distinct hooks based on your ICP and what you sell, so you're testing directions instead of staring at a blank page. Good angles come from context the agent already holds, not from generic prompts.

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The fourth job is delivery. Uploading the finished, enriched, angle-ready list into your sequencer is the last click, and even that disappears when the connection is wired in. The full path from idea to live campaign happens in one instruction.

4. The Shift Isn't Replacing Tools

Someone left a comment on my announcement that captured the whole thing better than I did.

The biggest shift isn't replacing GTM tools. It's replacing the person who has to stitch them together.

That person is real. On a GTM team they're the operator who knows which data source to use for which niche, how to set up the enrichment waterfall, where the buying signals live, and how to move a list from one platform to the next without breaking it. They're valuable and they're a bottleneck, because everything routes through them.

When the stitching becomes an API call, that changes. The knowledge doesn't disappear. It gets encoded once and runs on demand. The operator stops being the bottleneck and starts designing the system that does the stitching at scale.

This is the part that convinced me to leave. The agency taught me exactly what that stitching looks like across 275+ clients. The next step is turning it into infrastructure anyone can run.

5. What We're Launching

I'm building a unified API for running go-to-market through Claude Code. One connection that carries the skills, the tool access, the context, and the SOPs an agent needs to do real GTM work, so you can describe the outcome and let it execute.

It's the same operating system we used to generate $50M+ for clients, rebuilt so a team doesn't need an agency to run it. Early access includes onboarding with our GTM engineers, weekly working sessions, and a private community where you can go straight to the team building it.

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Leaving a business you built to its best year is uncomfortable. It's also the clearest signal I've had that the ground is shifting. The teams moving to repos, terminals, and APIs aren't waiting for permission, and I'd rather build the thing they run on than watch it get built.

If you're running GTM today, which part of your stack would you hand to an agent first?

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Michel Lieben
Michel Lieben
Founder, CEO

Michel Lieben is the Founder & CEO of ColdIQ, a B2B sales prospecting agency trusted by 100+ organizations. He’s launched hundreds of outbound campaigns, mastered tools like Clay and Lemlist, and shares sharp, actionable insights on scaling sales with AI, automation, and strategy.

FAQ

The decision has nothing to do with the agency slowing down. ColdIQ is having its best year, with 275+ B2B clients served and more than $50M in revenue generated for those clients. The reason for leaving is that go-to-market execution is moving off tools and interfaces onto repos, terminals, and APIs, and that shift is a bigger opportunity than continuing to scale an agency. Building the infrastructure that GTM teams run on is a one-time window, and walking away from a healthy business is the clearest way to commit to it fully. The agency work is exactly what makes the next step possible, because three years of stitching tools together across hundreds of clients is the knowledge the new product encodes.

Running GTM through an API means you describe an outcome in plain language and an agent executes the underlying steps, rather than clicking through a data platform, a sequencer, an enrichment tool, and a CRM one at a time. A single instruction like "build a list of software CEOs in London at companies with 25 to 100 people, find who's in buying mode, draft three angles, and upload to my sequencer" hides four separate jobs that normally live in four separate tools. When the context and connections are wired in, the agent runs all of them without you touching an interface. The interface layer that defined B2B software for a decade becomes optional. This is the workflow the most advanced GTM engineers already use through terminals and Claude Code.

AI agents fail at GTM because the intelligence is cheap and available, but the context that makes it perform is scattered and missing. To do useful work, an agent needs GTM skills and frameworks, best practices for list building and messaging, API keys for 8 to 12 different tools, internal business context about your ICP, standard operating procedures, and past campaign data. Skip any of these and the output is generic: a list that ignores your ICP, copy that sounds like every other cold email, and no sense of timing. The bottleneck is never the model. It's the context living across a dozen accounts, a few docs, and the heads of your best operators.

The real shift isn't replacing GTM tools, it's replacing the person who stitches those tools together. On a GTM team that's the operator who knows which data source fits which niche, how to set up enrichment waterfalls, where buying signals live, and how to move a list between platforms without breaking it. They're valuable and they're a bottleneck, because every campaign routes through them. When the stitching becomes an API call, that knowledge gets encoded once and runs on demand, so the operator stops being the constraint and starts designing the system that stitches at scale. The human expertise doesn't disappear, it moves up a level.

The example instruction breaks into four jobs, and free mini-tools mirror each one. People Finder identifies the right decision-makers at target accounts, which covers the sourcing step. Intent Signals surfaces which companies are actively researching solutions right now, which covers timing and buying mode. Campaign Ideation generates messaging angles based on your ICP and content strategy, which covers the drafting step. Finally, the GTM Report shows how your current motion compares to the models the best teams run, so you know where to start before wiring anything together.

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