The guided go-to-market platform for developer-founders

You shipped it.
Nobody came.

The code was never the hard part. What was missing is a process for finding the people who will pay for it — and nobody teaches developers that one.

This is that process, in order, inside a tool that holds your work.

No card. The whole eight-step journey is on the free plan.

  1. 1ProductWhat you built, and the problem it removes
  2. 2ResearchWhat five buyers actually said
  3. 3PositioningOne sentence, in their words
  4. 4PersonaThe one person you are selling to
  5. 5OfferPrice, guarantee, what is included
  6. 6GTM planOne channel, worked properly
  7. 7FunnelWhere people drop off
  8. 8ExecutionWhat you did today

Most founders have done step 1 and step 8. They build, then they post. The six steps between them are what decide whether the posting works, and they are the six nobody was taught.

Every option to fix this was a bad one

An agency

Three to fourteen thousand a month, and they take over your voice. You end up with a brand you cannot maintain once they stop.

A sales cofounder

Equity, for a skill you could learn. And you still have to explain the product to them before they can sell it.

Courses and threads

Good advice in random order. You watch six hours, agree with all of it, and still do not know what to do on Monday.

The fourth option is a system you run yourself, with the order built in and something holding the work between sessions. That is what this is.

On Monday

It tells you the one thing to do, and why that one

The coach reads your product, your positioning, your persona and what you logged last week. It finds the earliest step that is actually blocking you and writes the week against it.

It refuses to recommend outreach before you have an offer. Sending cold email with nothing to sell is how founders conclude that cold email does not work.

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This week

2 of 4 done
  • Post the teardown in r/devopsReddit · playbook · target 1 post
  • Send 10 first-touch emailsCold email · template · target 10
  • Follow up on last week’s 8 opensCold email · follow-up 2 · target 8
  • Add the guarantee to the pricing pageOffer · blocks the funnel fix

Bottleneck: your funnel loses most people between trial and paid. The guarantee is the cheapest thing that moves it, which is why it is on this week rather than more outreach.

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Where they stop

Visitors1000
Signed up180−82%
Activated96−47%
Trial41−57%
Paid7−83%

Trial to paid is the leak. Traffic is not the problem here, and buying more of it would have hidden that for another month.

Or never open the app at all

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Connect it to Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor or Gemini and the agent arrives with your positioning, your personas and your interviews already loaded.

That is the part a general-purpose assistant cannot do. It has no memory of your customers between sessions, and no order to work in.

What this actually looks like

You connect The Mark Platform to the AI tool you already use, and then you ask it things. Six businesses, none of them alike, in the first five minutes.

A CLI that catches bad SQL migrations before they ship

Built for eighteen months. Four hundred GitHub stars. Nobody has ever paid.

Every post reads like release notes, because release notes are the only writing this founder has ever done.

i have no idea who actually buys this. help

mark_diagnose_journeycalled

You have a product and nothing after it. Stars are not demand — they cost nothing. The gap is that nobody has told you which of your users would have paid to avoid a specific bad night. Start with four interviews, not a landing page.

ok. what do i even ask them

mark_generate_interview_guidecalled

Nine questions, none of them about your product. The first one is "tell me about the last migration that went wrong". What they did next is the thing you are selling, and they will describe it better than you can.

Leaves behind: An interview guide, and four interviews logged against the product rather than lost in a notes app.

A two-van intercity taxi service, booked in advance

Runs on WhatsApp. Fully booked some weeks, empty others, and no idea why.

Marketing advice online is written for apps. This founder has no app, no funnel and no interest in acquiring one.

i keep getting told to post on social. post what?

get_weekly_plancalled

Not social, yet. Your buyers are booking a car for a fixed date — that is a search, not a scroll. This week: five calls to the hotels on your two best routes. The plan has who to call and what to open with.

fine. but i do want something to put on instagram

commission_creativecalled

Send me one post you liked and I will build you one in that style. It will show the route drawing itself between two towns, with the fixed price on it. Not a dashboard: you have no screen to show.

Leaves behind: A week of calls with names against them, and an image project that renders on the founder's own machine.

A small-batch hot sauce, sold at markets and from one web page

Sells out in person every weekend. The web page has taken eleven orders all year.

What works at a stall — letting someone taste it — is the one thing a web page cannot do.

why does nobody buy from the site when they buy at the stall?

audit_marketing_consistencycalled

At the stall you hand them a spoon. The page asks them to trust a photo. It has no heat scale, no "what do I put this on", and the only proof is a five-star badge with no name attached. Those are three different missing spoons.

i have hundreds of people who bought twice. does that help

manage_social_proofcalled

That is the strongest thing you own and it is nowhere on the page. Ask six of them one question: what did you put it on? Their answers are the section the page is missing, written by people who are not you.

Leaves behind: A scored audit with the three fixes ranked, and a place to keep the answers as they come back.

A physiotherapist taking on private clients alongside clinic work

Fully qualified, twelve years in, and completely invisible outside the clinic that employs her.

Selling herself feels like bragging, so every draft comes out so hedged it says nothing.

i hate writing about myself. everything i write sounds fake

get_brand_voicecalled

Then we are not going to write about you. Your voice record says direct, never boastful — so the copy names what a session actually involves and who it is wrong for. Claims about you are what makes it sound fake; specifics do not.

can you check this before i put it up

check_on_brandcalled

Two things. "Transform your recovery" is on your own banned list. And you have hedged the only concrete sentence in it. "May help with" reads as uncertainty about your own work, which is the opposite of what you wanted.

Leaves behind: A recorded voice the next draft is written against, and the reason each line was flagged.

A two-person agency running go-to-market for four client brands

Four accounts, four different stages, and all of it held in one person’s head.

Monday morning goes on reconstructing where each account got to, from memory and a spreadsheet that is always a week behind.

which of my clients is actually falling behind

get_all_product_maturitycalled

Three of them are moving. The fourth has a persona and an offer, and nothing logged since. That is not a strategy problem, it is a stalled account — and it is what Monday is for.

the new hire starts monday. what do i hand her

mark_get_marketing_briefcalled

A brief per client — who it is for, what it claims, what has been tried and what came back. Written from the records rather than remembered, so it reads the same whoever opens it.

Leaves behind: A portable brief for each account, and a maturity score that says which one to spend the week on rather than whichever client emailed last.

A scheduling tool for dental practices, sold on a free trial

Signups are steady. Almost nobody is still there in the second week.

The analytics say where people leave and nothing says why, so every fix is a guess that takes a sprint to disprove.

people sign up and vanish. where am i losing them

analyze_funnel_dropoffcalled

Between signup and the first booking created. Everyone who creates one comes back; almost nobody who does not. So the trial is not too short — the first day has no obvious thing to do in it.

and the site? people bounce off that too

audit_marketing_consistencycalled

Your homepage sells time saved. Your interviews say the fear is a double-booked chair with a patient standing in reception. You are selling the benefit and they are buying the escape from a specific bad afternoon.

Leaves behind: The stage the trial actually breaks at, and a written gap between what the site claims and what buyers said in their own words.

The tools are real — every command here is one you can run. The businesses are illustrative, and deliberately carry no results. What the platform produced for a particular company is a testimonial, and a testimonial has to come from the person who lived it.

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Everything it does

Grouped the way you would reach for them. Every one has its own page explaining the problem it removes and what you end up holding.

Guidance

The 8-step journey

Brand & creative

Distribution

Measurement

270+
MCP tools
120+
Integrations
8
Platform playbooks
10+
Outreach templates
10+
Campaign templates
10+
Lessons

What it costs

The free plan is the whole journey for one product. It is not a trial and it does not expire.

Free

$0

One product. All eight steps, every template, the learning modules. No card.

Pro

$10/mo

Three products, the weekly coach, and MCP access from your editor. Fourteen-day money-back.

Agency

$60/mo

Unlimited products, five seats, and the REST API for client work.

What each plan includes, line by line →

Not ready? Start with a guide

The method is on the blog, in full, for free. The platform is what keeps you doing it.

What is The Mark Platform?

The Mark Platform is a guided go-to-market platform for developer-founders. It walks you through eight ordered steps: product definition, customer research, positioning, buyer persona, offer, GTM plan, funnel and daily execution.

A coach reads the data you enter and writes a weekly plan against it. It works on its own through the dashboard, and it connects to Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Gemini and Cursor through 270+ MCP tools.

A weekly plan built from your own journey data, not a generic checklist.

Your product deserves the second half of the work

Start with one product, on the free plan. Step one takes about ten minutes and everything after it reads from what you write there.

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