First 100 customers: the playbook index

Written: October 13, 2026. Audience: whoever sells. Status: the index of the internal sales system built from Boardy's GTM advice (items 1–25). Every item ends in a file you can open. Nothing here is sent automatically.

The order to work in

  1. Proof first. marketing/sales/proof-packet.md: the one page with workflow, inputs, outputs, limits and the benchmark against open source. Facts come only from docs/CANONICAL_FACTS.md and marketing/claims/readiness_matrix.md.
  2. Qualify. marketing/sales/qualification-checklist.md (Step 0: workflow, raw-frame access, lens-based setups disqualified, reference standard, the ask of ~20 frames + metadata + 1 reference). Segments by workflow: marketing/icp/segments-by-workflow.md.
  3. Discover. marketing/sales/discovery-script.md: the last struggle, the four roles, cost/delay/risk in their units, objections verbatim.
  4. Offer. marketing/sales/offer-structure.md: free bounded validation, then the Software ($10,000) or Hardware ($25,000) Design Partnership (page 22); acceptance criteria before coding (marketing/sales/acceptance-criteria-template.md).
  5. Run the pipeline. marketing/icp/design-partner-targets.csv (owner, need, evidence, blocker, next_date, rig_access_confirmed) and the weekly review with the kill rule (marketing/sales/weekly-review.md). The scoreboard shows reply, data-submission, successful-run and paid-conversion rates by segment.
  6. Demo on their data. marketing/sales/demo-runbook.md, plus the per-instrument templates in marketing/collateral/per-instrument-templates.md.
  7. Free channels and referrals. Page 18 (paid spend $0 unless approved) and marketing/collateral/referral-ask.md.
  8. Case studies only with written permission: marketing/sales/case-study-template.md.

The rule over all of it

Sell only what the current build supports, and make each promise testable. A benchmark number is similarity on a public dataset, never measurement accuracy. The 3D mesh is a visualization. No timing is quoted unless a committed benchmark file holds it.