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ICP, personas and use cases

Use two rows in "ICP, personas and use cases" to state the practical decision rules.

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Pipeline starts with picking the right accounts and the right people inside them. A Cursor SDR who can't describe the ICP and tailor a message by persona is just dialing at random.

The core profile is startup and mid-market engineering organizations that ship code daily. These teams feel developer-productivity pain directly and can adopt a tool without a year of procurement. Enterprise exists, but the heat is in teams moving fast enough to care about speed today.

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Triggers worth prospecting on

A good outbound reason beats a generic intro every time. Watch for events that make the pain acute.

Scaling headcount

New eng hires posted or recent funding to fund them.

More people to onboard means onboarding speed becomes a budget line.

AI-adoption mandate

Leadership publicly pushing AI across the org.

Someone now owns "get our engineers on AI tools" and needs a standard.

Onboarding load

Fast-growing team, large or unfamiliar codebase.

Codebase context is the ramp-time story for exactly this.

Migrating off another tool

Renewal coming up on Copilot or a contract under review.

A timing window where switching is already on the table.