GTM Strategy for AI Scale-Ups with Tom Malesic
From Marketing Pack Leaders by Josh Porter
May 7, 2026 · 23 min · Episode 32
About this episode
Josh Porter and Tom Malesic discuss effective go-to-market strategies for AI scale-ups and the importance of aligning product, marketing, and sales messaging.
Building a great AI product is only half the battle. The harder challenge?Getting customers to actually understand it. Many growth-stage AI companies hit the same wall: product, marketing, and sales all operate with different interpretations of the value story. Messaging becomes overly technical, positioning drifts, and go-to-market execution starts breaking down as the company scales. In this episode of Marketing Pack Leaders, host Josh Porter, founder of Thunderwolf Consulting, sits down with Tom Malesic from EZSolution to unpack what effective go-to-market strategy really looks like for AI scale-ups navigating rapid growth and complex markets. Tom brings experience across product marketing, customer engagement, and GTM strategy, helping organizations simplify technical solutions into clear, customer-centered messaging that drives adoption and measurable business outcomes. This conversation explores how AI companies can move beyond feature-heavy communication and create alignment between product, marketing, and sales around a shared understanding of customer value. What This Episode Is About Josh and Tom dive deep into the realities of building GTM alignment inside AI…
People in this episode
Host: Josh Porter
Guest: Tom Malesic
Topics covered
- go-to-market strategy
- AI scale-ups
- customer engagement
- product marketing
- messaging alignment
Keywords
- AI product
- customer adoption
- technical communication
- marketing alignment
- sales strategy
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: EZSolution, Thunderwolf Consulting
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