GrowthCues Blog

Insights, tips, and strategies for product-led growth and customer analytics.

The GTM Engineer: Why Your Lean SaaS Should Build a Function, Not Hire a Role

Inspired by Kyle Poyar's analysis on the GTM Engineer role, we explore why hiring one might be the wrong move for lean B2B SaaS. Learn how to build a GTM engineering capability instead.

As a founder in the B2B SaaS space, you've probably heard the buzz around the "GTM Engineer." It's a role that promises to be the silver bullet for your go-to-...

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Beyond Job Titles and Funnels: How AI Uncovers What Your Users Really Do

Discover how AI can help B2B SaaS founders move beyond job titles and funnels to truly understand user behavior and improve onboarding, retention, and expansion strategies.

As a founder in the B2B SaaS world, it's easy to fall into the trap of thinking we know our users. We look at the job titles they give us during sign-up, maybe...

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Agentic AI Meets Digital Twins: The Dawn of Autonomous Business Operations

How the convergence of Agentic AI and Digital Twin technologies could reshape enterprises, creating autonomously operating business organizations empowered by self-operating AI agents and a supportive ecosystem.

Abstract This article explores the transformative potential of Agentic AI and Digital Twins working in concert to create autonomously operating businesses. A...

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Bootstrapping to $10M ARR: How AI-Native GTM Makes Lean Scaling Possible

Scaling without massive funding requires a different playbook. Learn how an AI-Native GTM acts as a force multiplier, allowing you to grow revenue efficiently with a lean team.

For a bootstrapped or lean-funded B2B SaaS founder, hitting that mythical $10M ARR mark feels like the ultimate goal. But the path there is often clouded by a...

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A Practical Guide to Using MCP to Feed Product Insights into AI Agents

Go from theory to practice. This guide provides a step-by-step example of how to use Model-Context Protocol (MCP) to power an AI agent for proactive churn intervention.

So you've got a system that generates powerful, predictive insights about your customers. It knows which accounts are at risk of churning and even _why_. The p...

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Measuring What Matters: Redefining B2B SaaS Metrics for the AI Era

Stop obsessing over user-level vanity metrics. Learn why the AI era requires a shift to smarter, account-level metrics like Account Stickiness and Predictive Health Scores.

Here’s the bottom line for any B2B SaaS founder: - Most of us are tracking the wrong metrics. We’re obsessed with user-level numbers like Monthly Active Users...

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Automating Your Onboarding Flow: A Playbook for Faster Account Activation

A poor onboarding experience is a silent killer. Use this playbook to define and automate your account activation journey, ensuring new customers reach 'aha!' moments faster.

Here's the bottom line on improving your activation rates: - A confusing or directionless onboarding experience is one of the biggest reasons new accounts chu...

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How to Proactively Identify Expansion Opportunities from Product Signals

Stop waiting for customers to ask for an upgrade. Learn how to identify and act on behavioral product signals that indicate an account is ready for expansion.

BLUF: Here’s how to stop leaving money on the table and start growing your existing customer base. - Your most valuable expansion signals are already hiding i...

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The 30-Minute PLG Audit: A Workflow to Find Your Biggest Growth Levers

Don't have time for deep analysis? Use this focused 30-minute weekly workflow to quickly identify the most important signals and growth levers in your product data.

Here’s the bottom line up front for busy founders: - You're likely drowning in product data but have no time for deep analysis, which means you're missing cri...

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A Founder's Guide to Building Your First GTM Automation with n8n and AI

Get hands-on with GTM automation. This practical guide shows you how to use a tool like n8n and AI APIs to build your first automated workflow for new account onboarding.

Theory is great, but let's get practical. We've discussed the concepts behind a modern, AI-driven growth motion, but the most common question I hear from found...

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What is Model-Context Protocol (MCP)? The Missing Link for Agentic GTM

How do your AI agents get the data they need? Learn about Model-Context Protocol (MCP), the emerging standard for feeding structured, real-time insights into your AI workflows.

You're ready to build an [Agentic GTM](./the-agentic-gtm). You have powerful, predictive insights from your product data. But you quickly run into a practical...

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Beyond ChatGPT: Practical AI Models for Analyzing Product Usage Data

LLMs get the hype, but they're not the only tool. Discover the practical machine learning models (like classification and clustering) that are essential for deep product analytics.

When founders think of "AI," they often jump straight to large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4. While LLMs are incredibly powerful for tasks involving natura...

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Your First Step to AI-Native PLG: Unifying Data with a Customer Data Platform

Great insights require great data. Learn why a solid data foundation with a Customer Data Platform (CDP) is the critical first step to enabling effective automated product analytics.

Before you can leverage the power of AI to predict churn or uncover expansion opportunities, you need to address a more fundamental question: is your data clea...

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From Raw Data to Revenue: The Real Value of Automated Product Analytics

Your product data is an untapped asset. Learn how automated product analytics bridges the gap between raw data in your warehouse and actionable, revenue-driving insights.

You've done the hard work. You meticulously instrumented your product, set up Segment or RudderStack, and now you have clean, structured event data flowing int...

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The Agentic GTM: How AI Agents Are Reshaping Customer Success

Go beyond simple automation. Learn what an Agentic GTM is, how AI agents can handle analytical GTM tasks, and why it's the key to scaling customer success for lean SaaS teams.

As a founder of an AI-native company, you're likely familiar with AI agents and agentic workflows. You might even be building them into your product. But have...

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What is PLG 2.0? Moving from Reactive Insights to Proactive Growth

Explore the evolution from PLG 1.0 to PLG 2.0. Learn how AI and automation are shifting B2B SaaS from reactive data analysis to proactive, predictive growth strategies.

Product-Led Growth (PLG) has been a game-changer for B2B SaaS. It promised a more efficient, scalable go-to-market motion driven by the product itself. But the...

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Beyond the Dashboard: Why Your B2B SaaS Needs an AI-Native GTM

Discover why traditional dashboards are failing AI-native B2B SaaS companies and how an AI-Native GTM can transform your reactive processes into a proactive growth engine.

You've built an incredible, AI-native product. Your customers get the benefit of sophisticated technology, yet your own go-to-market (GTM) and customer success...

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