ABM Strategy and Execution

An ABM program that tells you which 200 accounts will close.
Before you spend a dollar reaching them.

We build account-based marketing programs for mid-market and private equity companies between $30M and $500M ARR stop spending budget on accounts that were never going to buy by defining the ICP, enriching the list, and mapping the buying committee before outreach begins.

  1. Step 01 Defined ICP
  2. Step 02 Enriched account data
  3. Step 03 Coordinated outreach
  4. Step 04 Scored & visible in your CRM
Credentials
  • 15+ years in B2B GTM
  • Clay + Apollo + LinkedIn
  • HubSpot & Salesforce certified
  • 100+ B2B implementations
  1. Marketing Leadership

    You bought the intent data. Nobody uses it.

    The signals land in a dashboard nobody opens. Sales works the same accounts they were working before. You're paying for intelligence that never reaches the person making the call.

  2. Sales Leadership

    The target account list is a spreadsheet from Q1.

    It hasn't been enriched since. Half the contacts have left. Reps work it in the order they opened it.

  3. RevOps Leadership

    "Personalisation" means a merge field.

    The first name is right. Everything after it is the same email 1,400 accounts received.

  4. C-Suite / Executive

    You can't say which accounts ABM actually moved.

    Engagement is up. Pipeline looks the same. Nobody can draw the line between the two.

Targeting Waste

The list is where the money goes.

  1. L-01 ICP drift -42%
  2. L-02 Stale contact data -28%
  3. L-03 Generic messaging -19%
  4. L-04 No sales handoff -11%
  1. 01 Total Addressable
  2. 02 In-ICP
  3. 03 Reachable
  4. 04 Engaged
  5. 05 Meeting Booked

Every account that doesn't fit, every contact who left, every message that could have been sent to anyone - that's budget spent before the campaign has a chance to work.

Maturity

The four stages of an account-based program.

The Promise

What changes after ABM.

  1. 01

    A defined ICP

    Written down, tiered, and scored in your CRM. Not a slide. A rule your system enforces.

    SCORED IN CRM
  2. 02

    An account list you trust

    Enriched, cross-referenced, verified. Current data, not a Q1 export.

    VERIFIED DATA
  3. 03

    The whole buying committee

    Economic buyer, champion, influencer, blocker - identified per account, messaged by role.

    COMMITTEE MAPPED
  4. 04

    Coordinated channels

    Email, LinkedIn outreach, LinkedIn ads. Sequenced, not simultaneous. No duplicate contact.

    SEQUENCED OUTREACH
  5. 05

    A ranked queue for sales

    Sales opens the CRM and knows who to call. No "who's hot this week" meeting.

    RANKED QUEUE
  6. 06

    Pipeline you can attribute

    Which accounts moved. Which touches moved them. Reportable to the board.

    BOARD-REPORTABLE
6 OF 6 SHIPPED

Every ABM engagement ends with all six in place - documented, running in your CRM, and owned by your team.

Methodology

The DevriX ABM method.

Stage 08 total
Stage 01

ICP Definition and Targeting Strategy

Before we spend a dollar on outreach or advertising, we define who to target. We work through firmographic criteria, technographic signals, and behavioural data to define your Ideal Customer Profile. We map the buying committee - the roles, titles, and decision-making structure that actually approves a purchase. We set target account qualification criteria and prioritise verticals and segments. Without a defined ICP and a mapped buying committee, every downstream activity targets the wrong accounts.

Output

A tiered ICP, a buying-committee map, and qualification criteria that govern every stage that follows. This is the foundation that determines campaign ROI.

Architecture

Data in. Ranked accounts, coordinated outreach and pipeline out.

Data sourcesInputs
HubSpot / Salesforce Closed-won history Pipeline and owners RUNNING
Clay Enrichment waterfall Firmographics, tech stack STANDBY
Apollo Verified contacts Buying committee roles STANDBY
ABM engineClick a stage
FLOW: abm_program
ActivationChannels
Claude AI Per-account research Role-based copy STANDBY
LinkedIn Connection Committee reached In sequence STANDBY
LinkedIn Message Personal follow-up By role STANDBY
LinkedIn Advertising Matched audiences Account-level air cover STANDBY
OutcomesVisible in CRM
Ranked accounts PENDING
Meetings booked PENDING
Pipeline in CRM PENDING
The Stack

The tools, and why these ones.

Our tools are chosen because they enable each step of the workflow - not because they're the best-known platforms in the category.

Layer I

Data Enrichment and Account Intelligence

Apollo handles prospect identification and contact data - surfacing companies and people that match ICP criteria. Clay orchestrates the enrichment layer, cross-referencing multiple data sources so the list is verified before it reaches your sales team, not after.

  • Clay logoClay
  • Apollo logoApollo
Layer II

Outreach and Campaign Execution

LinkedIn runs three coordinated roles: organic connection campaigns targeted at mapped committee members, direct message outreach sequenced against email, and account-matched advertising that reinforces the same message across the buying journey. One channel, three functions, one sequence.

  • LinkedIn Connection logoLinkedIn Connection
  • LinkedIn Message logoLinkedIn Message
  • LinkedIn Advertising logoLinkedIn Advertising
Layer III

AI-Assisted Personalisation

Used for research synthesis at scale and personalisation variant generation. It compresses the research step - reading an account's context faster than a human can - so outreach is grounded in something real. It does not write your emails.

  • Claude AI logoClaude AI

ICP & Targeting Framework

D-01 / What you get

Tiered ICP definition, CRM-ready scoring criteria, and segment-specific messaging direction.

Enriched Account List

D-02 / What you get

Qualified, verified, multi-source enriched. Buying committee mapped per account.

Live Multi-Channel Campaigns

D-03 / What you get

Email sequences, LinkedIn outreach, LinkedIn ads - sequenced and running, with CRM integration configured.

Scoring & Reporting Infrastructure

D-04 / What you get

Lead scoring configured in-CRM. Account health dashboard. Account-level pipeline attribution.

Marketing Directors & VPs

You're dealing with
  • No visibility into how accounts actually buy
  • Attribution that breaks the moment a deal touches two channels
  • MarTech that nobody technical is supporting
You'll get
  • Buyer journey and buying committee mapped per account
  • ABM and signal data integrated, not sitting in a separate tool
  • Campaign performance tied to pipeline, not to opens

RevOps Managers & Directors

You're dealing with
  • Marketing and sales working off different account lists
  • No standardised taxonomy across enrichment sources
  • Data silos that make unified reporting impossible
You'll get
  • Scoring configured in the CRM your team already administers
  • Account and contact data reconciled across sources
  • Cross-functional alignment on what a qualified account is

Sales Directors & VPs

You're dealing with
  • An undifferentiated list and no sense of priority
  • Manual research eating selling time
  • No account intelligence before the first call
You'll get
  • A ranked account queue with committee mapped
  • Automated outreach and qualification feeding the pipeline
  • Account context in-CRM before the rep picks up the phone

CEOs, COOs, CFOs

You're dealing with
  • Marketing spend you can't connect to pipeline
  • Competing priorities and no clear scaling path
  • Ad hoc analysis instead of a forecastable model
You'll get
  • Account-level pipeline attribution you can take to a board
  • A repeatable acquisition motion, not a campaign
  • Executive dashboards on ABM versus non-ABM performance
Outcomes

Strategic outcomes, measured.

0 %
Higher win rate on ABM-targeted accounts vs. non-ABM
KPI/01
2 .1×
Increase in average contract value on in-ICP accounts
KPI/02
0 %
Reduction in time from target account to first meeting
KPI/03
Case file

Proof, not promise.

CASE FILE · B2B SaaS · ABM Program
We stopped confusing volume with progress. For the first time the account list, the messaging, and the pipeline all pointed at the same thing.
VP, Marketing Series C · Vertical SaaS
0 win-rate lift on ABM-targeted accounts
  1. OBJECTION 01

    We already have Apollo and a HubSpot admin.

    Then you have the ingredients, not the method. ABM fails on sequencing - which accounts, in what order, with what message, through which channel, at what point in their buying cycle. The tools don't decide that. We do, and then we configure the tools to enforce it.

    O-01
  2. OBJECTION 02

    Why not a freelancer or an SDR agency?

    An SDR agency will send volume. A freelancer will run the tool you point them at. Neither will define your ICP, map a buying committee, configure scoring in your CRM, and connect outreach to pipeline reporting. ABM is cross-functional by definition - it breaks at the handoffs, and the handoffs are where a single contractor has no authority.

    O-02
  3. OBJECTION 03

    Why not a big agency?

    They'll deliver a strategy deck and a media plan. We build the system: ICP tiers scored in your CRM, enrichment pipelines, sequenced multi-channel campaigns, and account-level attribution. We come from a GTM background, not an advertising one - and we stay through implementation.

    O-03
We define the ICP before we spend the budget
We configure your CRM, we don't send you a spreadsheet
We connect marketing, sales, and RevOps - not just one of them
We stay through implementation
Get Started

Start with the list. Everything else follows.

A 30-minute call. We'll pressure-test your current ICP definition and show you what the targeting framework would look like for your segment. No deck.

Technical Buyer

Answers for the technical buyer.

The questions RevOps, Marketing, and Sales leaders ask an ABM marketing agency on the first call, answered directly.

01 What's the difference between ABM and outbound?

Outbound optimises for volume of contacts. ABM optimises for depth within a defined set of accounts - mapping the full buying committee, sequencing channels against a single account, and scoring engagement at the account level rather than the lead level. The list is smaller on purpose.

02 How do you define our ICP?

Firmographic criteria, technographic signals, and behavioural data, worked through in a structured engagement stage. The output is tiered - not one profile but several, ranked by fit - with scoring criteria that can be applied directly in your CRM. It's a standalone DevriX service and the first stage of every ABM engagement.

03 Which tools do you use, and do we need to buy them?

Clay and Apollo for enrichment and account identification, LinkedIn for outreach and paid, Claude AI for research synthesis. Licensing is scoped during setup - some clients have existing seats, some don't.

04 Will this work with our existing CRM?

Yes. We configure scoring, account records, and outreach activity inside the CRM your sales team already uses - HubSpot or Salesforce. Scope of scoring configuration depends on your existing data quality, which we assess during setup.

05 How does an ABM marketing agency measure performance?

At the account level, not the campaign level. Accounts engaged, pipeline influenced, deal velocity, and win rate on ABM accounts versus non-ABM accounts - with attribution connecting specific touches to closed revenue.

06 How long before we see pipeline?

First campaign in market at around 90 days. Meaningful pipeline signal typically follows one full sales cycle after that - so the honest answer depends on your cycle length, and we'd rather set that expectation than beat it in a pitch.