Engine 04 · Targeting & ICP

Find the job titles your content actually fits.

Agents built from your buyers’ own reviews, posts and calls read your content and tell you who it lands with. You get a ranked title list, the sub-markets you are missing, and what to change.

Ranked by resonance, sourced to real buyer evidence.
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Audience Discovery interface
Runs against
Any URL, PDF, or copy
Finds
Sub-markets that fit
You get
A ranked title pool
Ground Reality

You don’t write the personas. Your buyers already did.

Before they meet you: review sites, community threads, competitor complaints, and how all of it shifted over 18 months. After they meet you: call recordings, CRM notes, win/loss reasons.

Most tools get one half. A persona doc gets neither. How Ground Reality works

The process

Content in, titles out.

From one asset to a ranked, tested list of who to target.

01

Extract capability

Reads your content. Keeps the signal, drops the fluff.

02

Scan sub-markets

Finds where real fit exists. Not where titles match.

03

Build the buyers

Specific titles like “Quant Developer,” not “Head of Data.”

04

Test and rank

A sceptical version of each one reads it. The list gets ranked.

Why it breaks

Why the targeting misses.

All three show up the same way: rising cost per acquisition.

Failure 01

The title is a guess

“Head of Security” at a bank and at a FinTech share a title and nothing else.

Titles crossed with industry, each with a resonance score.
Failure 02

They decide before they click

On G2, Reddit and Slack. None of it shows up in your analytics.

Our agents are built from those threads, so they arrive already informed.
Failure 03

The best fit stays hidden

The sub-markets that love your content surface after months of spend, if ever.

We find them first, often at lower CPMs.
What you get

The Ranked Title Pool, and everything around it.

Weeks of manual ICP research. Replaced by a validated list.

targeting export
Ranked title pool
PACS Administrator92
Imaging IT Lead84
Quant Developer 79
VP Engineering48
Quant Developer = hidden champion. High fit, lower CPM, off your current list.

Ranked Title Pool

Specific titles with resonance scores.

LinkedIn hooks

The language that lands, per title.

Hidden champions

Sub-markets that out-resonate your ICP.

Negative keywords

SEM exclusions to cut low-intent traffic.

Signal Quality Gate

A coaching report when content is too thin.

Who it is for

Built for whoever picks the targeting.

Audience Discovery

Demand gen

Know which titles to target before turning on spend.

Heads of paid

Justify expansion with data. Cut CAC.

Product marketing

Confirm the asset matches who responds.

GTM leaders

Cross-vertical evidence before a TAM bet.

The targeting matrix

The buyers you are missing hold the budget.

Thirty of 140 candidate titles cleared, placed by subvertical and reader. Of the ones that scored too low to target, 17 were economic buyers and 2 were guardians — the two roles that stop deals. The page spoke fluently to end users and champions, and not at all to the people who sign.

A targeting matrix of verified job titles by subvertical and committee role.
An audience discovery run across 32 subverticals. Every cell opens the title behind it. Anonymised.

Read the full report this came from →

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Find the audience before you buy the impressions.

Send us one content asset. You get the ranked title list back.