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Tim Hillison shared thisCustomer support isn’t just a function to make more efficient. It’s a key interface where we create customer value. Bringing it closer to where we already work makes it easier to understand problems, solve them, and build happier customers. That’s what we’re in business for. I like Chatbase's focus on Backstage!Tim Hillison shared thisAnnouncing Chatbase Backstage: A control center for managing your AI customer support agent. Talk to your agent like a teammate to understand what's driving support tickets, update how it responds, deploy new Procedures, and manage workflows in plain English. Backstage is available on iMessage, Slack and the Chatbase dashboard, so you can manage your customer experience from wherever you work.
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Tim Hillison shared thisWe’re all making decisions with less certainty than we’d like. That gets uncomfortable when we have to own the consequences. At Jackson Hole last week, Kevin Warsh gave markets very little certainty about what comes next. The economy remains resilient, inflation is still high, AI investment is accelerating, and forecasting keeps getting harder (Federal Reserve, August 2026). The labor market tells a similar story. In June, companies made 5.3 million hires while 5.4 million people left their jobs, including 1.8 million layoffs and discharges (BLS, August 2026). We look at signals like these and try to explain why. Companies do the same thing. Pipeline moves. Customers behave differently. AI changes the economics of work. Signals tell us WHAT changed. They don’t tell us WHY. The story we attach to the signal becomes the decision we make. That’s where ambiguity gets expensive. We can execute the wrong answer perfectly, then wonder why customer value, margins, NRR, or revenue moved in the wrong direction. Most companies already have plenty to work with. The harder job is understanding what changed, deciding what matters, and getting more from the people, technology, and customer knowledge already inside the business. That’s a large part of what we do. Help leadership teams interpret ambiguity and turn their existing capabilities into stronger customer value and revenue. Execution Beats Theory. Every Time. 👋 Hi, I’m Tim. I help engineering-led startups and mid-market scaleups build adaptive GTM systems, unify revenue, and scale with Agentic AI. At Entry Point 1, we partner with engineering-led startups and mid-market scaleups that operate intentionally and play to win. We’ve helped generate $1B+ in revenue across our work. If you’re ready to win, we’re ready to help you get there: https://lnkd.in/gB64Mt2D Entry Point 1 #gtm #agenticai #gtmarchitecture #gotimmarket
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Tim Hillison shared thisIf you know anything, please help. Lives are at stake!Tim Hillison shared thisURGENT TRACING APPEAL — PLEASE SHARE & AMPLIFY Kirti Acharya, a U.S. citizen and the father of one of my daughter's best friends, remains missing following the flooding along the Nepal–Tibet border corridor. He was traveling toward Kailash Mansarovar with a group organized through Classic Vacations Nepal. Last known location & time 📍 Rasuwagadhi Immigration Office, Nepal ⏰ August 26 at approximately 8:35 a.m. local time Kirti has not been heard from since. He is pictured bottom left in the poster. The critical missing piece His family is urgently trying to reconstruct what happened after approximately 8:35 a.m. at Rasuwagadhi. Where did the group go after that point? Who saw them? Who transported them? Where did they stay or attempt to travel before communications were lost? Public tracing registry Kirti is listed as missing on a public tracing registry for the Nepal–Tibet floods, which records the Rasuwagadhi Immigration Office as his last-seen location on August 26. 📋 Public list: https://lnkd.in/g_augWdS How you can help If you have personal or professional connections along the Rasuwa – Timure – Rasuwagadhi – Syabrubesi – Dhunche – Gyirong/Kerung corridor, please put this appeal directly in front of them. Especially anyone connected to: • local government or police • immigration and border authorities • Nepal Army, disaster response, or rescue teams • tour operators or trekking agencies • hotels, lodges, or transportation operators • journalists or local community networks • diplomatic or consular teams • CCTV, vehicle, hotel, or transport records • border communities If you were in the area that morning — or know someone who was — one verified detail could help reconstruct the timeline. Verified information / direct contact 📞 Direct contact / WhatsApp: +1 202-993-9110 नेपाली कृपया सहयोग गर्नुहोस्। अमेरिकी नागरिक Kirti Acharya अगस्ट २६ देखि रसुवागढी क्षेत्रमा सम्पर्कविहीन हुनुहुन्छ। उहाँबारे कुनै प्रमाणित जानकारी भए कृपया +1 202-993-9110 मा सम्पर्क गर्नुहोस्। हिंदी कृपया मदद करें। अमेरिकी नागरिक Kirti Acharya २६ अगस्त से रसुवागढ़ी क्षेत्र में लापता हैं। यदि आपके पास उनके बारे में कोई विश्वसनीय जानकारी है, तो कृपया +1 202-993-9110 पर संपर्क करें। Someone may know what happened after approximately 8:35 a.m. at Rasuwagadhi. That is the missing timeline his family needs to reconstruct.
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Tim Hillison shared thisMany of us appear to be transformed long before we actually are. Only 6% of companies have made enterprise AI genuinely work at scale. (Scale AI + Reuters Insights, June 2026) The gap isn’t about better technology access. It’s about whether we’ve changed enough to transform how the company creates customer value. I’ve led digital transformations for years inside global management consultancies. It always comes back to human behavior and personal choice. Covid made that impossible to ignore. When choice disappeared, behavior changed fast. Companies already have programs. Departments already have priorities. People already have jobs to do. Connecting them is the transformation. AI investment also happens at different levels. Individually, we become more productive. Our team changes how it works, our department changes its economics, and our region adapts. Eventually, our company creates value differently. Revenue only changes when those gains connect. Great activity often leads to a complex customer experience. Customers experience one company, not a collection of departments. Rudderless transformation frustrates employees and complicates the customer experience. Start and end with building happy customers. When NRR increases, your CEO and CFO will be happy too. Execution Beats Theory. Every Time. 👋 Hi, I’m Tim. I help engineering-led startups and mid-market scaleups build adaptive GTM systems, unify revenue, and scale with Agentic AI. At Entry Point 1, we partner with engineering-led startups and mid-market scaleups that operate intentionally and play to win. We’ve helped generate $1B+ in revenue across our work. If you’re ready to win, we’re ready to help you get there: https://lnkd.in/gB64Mt2D Entry Point 1 #gtm #agenticai #gtmarchitecture #gotimmarket
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Tim Hillison shared thisTwo days vs. four minutes. As a business owner, getting time back is a win. Entry Point 1 works with technical founders and executives to build and run adaptive GTM systems. We also build and run AI workflows with OpenClaw. Implementing a complex workflow with OpenClaw took two days. Getting Viktor running in Slack took four minutes. If every team needs another implementation project before AI can help, we’ve added complexity, not leverage. Viktor is an AI employee who works inside Slack or Microsoft Teams, where teams already work. Once he was running, the question changed: What should he own? For this use case, it’s the daily briefing: what changed, what matters, and why. He surfaces the evidence and shows his reasoning. Viktor owns the recurring review. We own the judgment. Less time managing infrastructure. More time creating customer and business value. Get started free at @viktor.com. $100 in credits included, no card. Full link in first comment. #AIemployee #BusinessOperations In partnership with Viktor.
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Tim Hillison shared thisWe’re all experts in the AI we use. Very few companies know how to turn those individual capabilities into revenue impact. Product experiments with multiple agents. Sales finds a faster path to an account. Marketing finds a better way to create. Everyone is getting better at using AI. The company is only better off when those gains show up in operations or customer outcomes. Trying tools is easy. Understanding what stays is imperative. Every tool we add becomes part of the operating system until someone deliberately removes it. That’s how tech-stack sprawl happens. We already learned this lesson with SaaS. We shouldn’t repeat it with AI. Modern GTM is one system. A tool that makes one function faster but creates another silo can increase activity without improving the business. Operational value shows up in lower costs, faster decisions, fewer handoffs, and more productive teams. Customer value shows up differently: better experiences, faster time to value, stronger retention, expansion, and ultimately more revenue. No single discipline is enough to make these decisions well. It takes expertise, technical knowledge, and GTM fluency working together. Experiment broadly. Adopt deliberately. How is your AI tool selection making your entire GTM team better? Execution Beats Theory. Every Time. 👋 Hi, I’m Tim. I help engineering-led startups and mid-market scaleups build adaptive GTM systems, unify revenue, and scale with Agentic AI. At Entry Point 1, we partner with engineering-led startups and mid-market scaleups that operate intentionally and play to win. We’ve helped generate $1B+ in revenue across our work. If you’re ready to win, we’re ready to help you get there: https://lnkd.in/gB64Mt2D Entry Point 1 #gtm #agenticai #gtmarchitecture #gotimmarket
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Tim Hillison shared thisWe don’t lose because we lack talent. Talent hides a bad system for a surprisingly long time. Smart people compensate. Often carrying extra weight, improvising, and driving things forward. Sometimes it works incredibly well. Until business complexity grows faster than people can absorb it. Then, it’s the small inconsistencies that start showing up everywhere. Leads mean one thing to Sales and something else to Marketing. Expansion gets mixed with acquisition. One channel quietly carries too much of the load. None of this means the people are weak. It means the system is asking too much from individual judgment. Engineering-led companies usually understand this on the product side. Reliability gets designed in. Failure points get tested. No serious team expects one great engineer to hold everything together forever. Revenue architecture deserves the same discipline. Good judgment matters. So does experience. But great people shouldn’t have to compensate for a bad system. Build one that makes their judgment more valuable. Execution Beats Theory. Every Time. 👋 Hi, I’m Tim. I help engineering-led startups and mid-market scaleups build adaptive GTM systems, unify revenue, and scale with Agentic AI. At Entry Point 1, we partner with engineering-led startups and mid-market scaleups that operate intentionally and play to win. We’ve helped generate $1B+ in revenue across our work. If you’re ready to win, we’re ready to help you get there: https://lnkd.in/gB64Mt2D Entry Point 1 #gtm #agenticai #gtmarchitecture #gotimmarket
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Tim Hillison shared thisWhen our expertise becomes a blind spot, we can often mistake capability for advantage. Tools matter. What we do with them matters more. Engineering-led companies often build too much. Not because they’re bad at it. It’s because that’s what’s comfortable for them. When we are able to build something ourselves, ownership feels like an advantage. It isn’t always. If we can replace a model, infrastructure layer, or capability without changing what the customer values, it’s an input. Our best engineering talent shouldn’t be spent recreating what the market already does well. Invest where customers feel it. Own the differentiation. Create flexibility on the inputs. Execution Beats Theory. Every Time. 👋 Hi, I’m Tim. I help engineering-led startups and mid-market scaleups build adaptive GTM systems, unify revenue, and scale with Agentic AI. At Entry Point 1, we partner with engineering-led startups and mid-market scaleups that operate intentionally and play to win. We’ve helped generate $1B+ in revenue across our work. If you’re ready to win, we’re ready to help you get there: https://lnkd.in/gB64Mt2D Entry Point 1 #gtm #ai #agenticai #gtmarchitecture #gotomarket
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Tim Hillison shared thisThe most important thing we build isn’t always the technology. It’s the part that gets better because customers use it. For engineering-led companies, that creates a simple test: If usage makes the product smarter, the experience better, or the customer outcome harder to replicate, we’re building advantage. If we can swap out the underlying technology and the customer gets essentially the same outcome, that technology is probably an input. Buy it when the market already does it well. Partner when access or expertise matters more than ownership. Replace it when the customer won’t feel the difference. Own what creates customer value. That’s where better products and better economics meet. Execution Beats Theory. Every Time. 👋 Hi, I’m Tim. I help engineering-led startups and mid-market scaleups build adaptive GTM systems, unify revenue, and scale with Agentic AI. At Entry Point 1, we partner with engineering-led startups and mid-market scaleups that operate intentionally and play to win. We’ve helped generate $1B+ in revenue across our work. If you’re ready to win, we’re ready to help you get there: https://lnkd.in/gB64Mt2D Entry Point 1 #gtm #ai #agenticai #gtmarchitecture #gotomarket vc: sailgp
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The uncertainty is what makes these decisions difficult. You can trust the process and still want to know whether the path you're taking is actually the right one.
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Tim Hillison liked thisPeople weren’t paying for just his accounting anymore. They were paying for his reputation. One of our clients, an ACCA-qualified accountant, worked with 7-8 figure property investors and portfolio landlords. Like many experts, he assumed authority would naturally come from experience. But expertise hidden inside a profile rarely changes buying behaviour. So instead of simply publishing more content… We gave people a reason to experience his expertise. Together, we built a webinar strategy that complemented his LinkedIn positioning. Not to fill Zoom rooms. But to repeatedly demonstrate how he thinks. The impact went further than he imagined: → Existing clients became even more confident in referring him to others as he connected with them on LinkedIn. → High value client meetings became easier because trust had already been established before the first call as he asked them to check out his LinkedIn. Then something cool happened. As his authority increased… So did his confidence. He increased his fees by 10% not one client flinched or left (should have done 15% tbh). Not because his service changed. Because people’s perception of his value did. That’s the hidden ROI on building authority. It doesn’t just generate more opportunities. It changes the quality of the conversations you’re having and the prices people are willing to pay. If you’re still relying on credentials to show how good you are, you’re making your buyers do too much work. Your LinkedIn presence should make trusting you a bit of a no brainer really. Think your LinkedIn already shows how good you are ? Let’s test it. DM me “AUDIT” and I’ll review your LinkedIn profile exactly the way a paying client would. You might be surprised by what they’re seeing.
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Adapting / Leading / Winning
Peak Community
Is time your most precious asset? In this Peak Community event, Tim Hillison, CMO of Entry Point 1, and Mark Kilens, CMO of Airmeet conduct a leadership discussion for CMOs and aspiring marketing leaders on how to manage your career and thrive in macroeconomic turbulence.
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Building for the Win - How and When to Grow Your Marketing Team
Peak Community
As a marketing leader, how do you make the call when hiring the right marketing candidate - for your team, your company, and yourself.
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Marketing at the Speed of Agile: A CMO’s guide to applying agile methodologies to transform marketing
PwC
See publicationThe rapid evolution of new customer-engagement techniques and technologies and the innovation they inspire put complacent businesses at risk of being passed by more nimble competitors and new entrants. This point of view provides context and a case study for building marketing effectiveness.
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