February 4, 2026 | Written by Steve Whittington

Podcast Episode S2E03: Is Your Go-To-Market Ready to Scale? Inside the 2025 Go-To-Market Readiness Index

In this episode of Driving Growth, host Steve Whittington is joined by Christie Hewlko, lead researcher behind the 2025 Go-To-Market Readiness Index, to review what’s holding traditional B2B companies back from predictable revenue growth.

Drawing on insights from nearly 50 organizations, they explore common go-to-market gaps around ICP definition, sales process documentation, CRM adoption, metrics, customer retention, and sales discipline. This conversation offers practical, low-effort, high-impact actions CEOs and revenue leaders can take right now to build scalable go-to-market systems and turn growth from guesswork into an engineered process.

Episode Takeaways:

  • Go-to-market maturity is about discipline, not company size. The research shows that companies of all sizes struggle with the same gaps, and the difference between low and high performers is consistent habits, documentation, and follow-through. 
  • Without a defined ICP and buyer committee, growth becomes wasteful. When teams try to sell to everyone, they burn time and resources instead of focusing on the customers who are most profitable and easiest to serve. 
  • Activity without insight creates motion, not progress. Many teams track basic metrics like pipeline and win rates but miss the deeper data that helps them improve efficiency, profitability, and decision-making. 
  • The fastest path forward is small, documented, repeatable improvements. Writing down sales stages, operationalizing them in the CRM, and introducing metrics gradually builds momentum without overwhelming teams. 

Is Your Go-To-Market System Built to Scale? We Help You Find Out. 

Roadmap has launched the $25,000 GTM Acceleration Fund to help B2B teams move from guesswork to growth. We’re selecting 75 companies to participate in a national research initiative on Go-to-Market readiness.

5 companies will be selected to receive up to $5,000 in Roadmap services to build or optimize their Revenue Factory.

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