Great cyber startups
stay invisible.

A hands-on session for seed–Series A cyber founders. Build a positioning canvas for your own company, watch it become a pitch live, and leave with three fixes you can ship this week.

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Sound familiar?
My website isn't getting enough demos
No one's responding to my outbound
Demo calls aren't converting to pipeline
All of the above?

The root cause is almost always upstream.
Not the SDRs, not the leads, not the market.

2-hour live online workshop

Why most positioning falls short

Research that barely scratches
the surface

Most companies do some version of buyer research — a few customer calls, a competitor scan, a workshop. Partial research with surface-level inputs produce surface-level positioning.

A category where nobody stands out

Every category now has 10+ players claiming to be AI-powered, developer-first, and enterprise-grade. The words have stopped meaning anything. When your positioning doesn't claim territory that's genuinely yours, buyers can't tell you apart.

Built for everyone, chosen by no one

The most common instinct after raising a Series A is to go broad — more personas, more use cases, more verticals. But positioning that tries to speak to everyone resonates with no one.

Two hours, five moves,
one canvas you build live.

This isn't a webinar you half-watch. You work on your own company the whole way through — and walk out holding the result.

The problem & the canvas
Parts 1–3 · 65 min

From blank box to a drafted canvas

We name why buyers can't tell you apart, show what "done right" looks like in cyber, then put you heads-down on the 5-question canvas for your own company while we coach the room.

The positioning stack — why most founders fix the wrong layer
The 4 founder traps and the 6-symptom self-check
Three teardowns of cyber homepages that get it right
The 7 positioning types — the landscape of options
The 5-question canvas, drafted live for your company
Hot-seat coaching on real founder canvases
From positioning to pitch
Part 4 · 35 min

Watch your canvas become a pitch

We take a real canvas and rebuild the sales pitch live — open with the buyer's problem, name the alternative, lead with what only you can do. Then we score sites against the 7 dimensions.

Live pitch restructure from a volunteer's canvas
The 7 dimensions of strong positioning, applied live
The swap test — if your name swaps out and nothing breaks, you have a problem
The 4 misconceptions that keep founders stuck
Your action plan
Part 5 · 10 min

Three fixes you can ship this week

You leave with committed next steps — not frameworks to think about. Run them on your own site the same week, and we follow up with specific notes on your canvas.

The logo-swap test on your homepage
The competitive-alternative interview with your last 3 customers
The we/you ratio audit on your own copy
A 48-hour follow-up with notes on your canvas
Eligibility for a free positioning audit

What you
walk out with

Not frameworks to think about — real work on your own company, yours to keep.

Your positioning
canvas

A drafted 5-question canvas for your company — the core deliverable.

Your positioning
type

Clarity on which of the 7 positioning types actually fits you.

Your homepage,
scored

A live read on your site against the 7 dimensions of strong positioning.

Three fixes for
this week

Logo-swap test, customer-alternative interview, and the we/you ratio audit.

You'll find out exactly
where your positioning
is falling short

You'll score your own homepage against the same 7 dimensions a buyer uses to size you up in their first 30 seconds — and walk away knowing the exact gaps costing you demos, replies, and deals.

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Positioning Audit
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Scoring Dimensions
Category Clarity
3
Proof & Evidence
4
Competitive Framing
4
Value Differentiation
5
Buyer Targeting
7
Value Proposition
4
Messaging Consistency
6
Key Finding
Category is invisible above the fold
A first-time visitor can't place you in under 3 seconds. Governance, GRC, AI security — not mentioned in hero.
Your headline describes the technology layer, not the business risk it eliminates. Buyers scanning your homepage leave without a clear frame of reference for what problem you own.
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Positioning Landscape
← Assists Autonomous → Platform → Overlay → FOLLOWER LEADER NICHE CHALLENGER
You
White Space Opportunity
Governance-as-risk-ownership is unclaimed across 9 of 10 competitors. No one is anchoring on board-level exposure.
Your angle: eliminate the gap between CISO reporting and executive risk appetite — no competitor owns this frame.

The Marketing and Sales
who actually liked each other.

We built GTM together at Zesty, and grew revenueARR from $1M to $25M in 2 years.
Innit Labs is that same partnership, now available to your team.

Zesty Radiant Pelanor Lusha
ControlMonkey Attribute Dataloop Spot
Alex Waiman

Alex Waiman

GTM Lead

Alex has built revenue engines at four startups — from first SDR to 8-figure ARR. He's the person who finds out on the first sales call whether your positioning actually holds up.

  • Director of Sales at Lusha
  • VP Sales at Zesty
  • VP Sales at Pelanor
  • VP Sales at Dataloop
Ido Assaf

Ido Assaf

Positioning Lead

Ido spent a decade as an engineer before shifting to product marketing. He's built positioning for over a dozen cyber and cloud startups — and he's never shipped a message he wouldn't bet his own pipeline on.

  • Head of Product Marketing at Spot by NetApp
  • VP Marketing at Zesty
  • Fractional CMO: ControlMonkey
  • Fractional CMO: Radiant Security

Frequently asked questions.

Seats are limited to keep it hands-on.

Bring your homepage URL and leave with a sharper story.

Stop sounding like
everyone else.

Two hours, live, hands-on.
Bring your homepage URL and leave with a sharper story.

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