GTM economics: How curious revenue leaders decrease marginal expenses

December 11, 2025

Aditya Khargonekar

A few years ago when a CRO wanted to understand why deals were stalling, it meant asking an analyst to sift through Salesforce, marketing data, call recordings, and email threads to assemble a narrative that felt complete. The hurdle to intelligence was human labor.

When GPT arrived, analysis got faster but insight did not. Teams still had to manually assemble context from CRMs, calls, emails, and Slack before asking meaningful questions. Or if they tried to build a semi-automated GPT knowledge base, they ran into The Prototype Gap. Until context is shared, models like GPT or Claude remain powerful but impractical for asking consistent GTM questions.

With Endgame, the analysis happens in minutes. The shift is not just speed. It’s a change in the economics of how revenue teams learn, decide, and operate. The hurdles disappear entirely.

Prior, every new question asked by executives incurred more operating expenses. Therefore, we had to carefully prioritize which questions were worth asking, given the compounding financial liability. And even after choosing, we faced a hidden tax on these types of questions:

  • "Which discovery motions correlate with faster deal cycles?"

  • "How do top performers handle qualification differently?"

  • "Where exactly in our enterprise process do deals slow down?"

That hidden tax was coordination across teams, political capital to get help, long queues of requests, and answers that arrived too late to influence the moment that mattered.

As a result, revenue leaders learned to ration their questions. Ask only the biggest ones. Ask them monthly at best. And accept that many would never be answered at all. This is because every question we asked incurred additional operating expenses. The economics have now flipped.

The curious leader's fleeting scarcity mindset

Economies of scale lectures pervade undergraduate business schools globally. As a company produces more units of a product, the average cost of producing each unit falls. Fixed costs at factories, equipment, and logistics are spread across more output, driving marginal cost down.

Until recently, this logic did not apply to asking complex, messy GTM questions. Each new question required incremental human effort. Analysts pulled data, stitched together context, built decks, and wrote summaries. More questions meant more labor, more coordination, and more cost. Curiosity had no economies of scale.

Endgame changes that. By investing once in an AI-native GTM system, teams create a fixed-cost foundation for insight. The first question has a cost. As question volume increases, the cost per question collapses. For the first time, strategic curiosity behaves like a scalable product.

This shift unlocks something special for the curious executive. Historically, the best leaders learned to restrain their curiosity. They learned which questions were “worth it” and which ones to leave unasked. Now, when the marginal cost of a question approaches zero, curiosity no longer has to be filtered through budget or bandwidth.

Executives can explore, iterate, and pressure-test ideas freely. Unlimited answers are not just a productivity gain; they fundamentally change how leaders think, learn, and lead.

So let’s look at a few examples of questions revenue leaders want to ask, but historically had to hold their tongue (while they wait for the last analysis to be returned).

Example 1: “Why have our deals been stalling?”

A sales leader asks:

Where have deals been stalling over the past quarter and how should we improve our process?

Before GPT, an analyst spent days stitching together Salesforce data, calls, emails, and notes to produce a partial answer that arrived too late to matter. With GPT, the analysis was faster, but someone still had to export CRM data, gather Gong calls, pull email threads, and upload everything. The reasoning improved, but the context bottleneck stayed the same.

With Endgame, the CRO simply asks the question.

Endgame responds instantly with deals are stalling due to poor execution around legal or security review, ignoring budget timing in deal strategy, waiting on economic buyer engagement until far too late, and weak compete objection handling. It highlights specific examples and recommends targeted fixes.

No exports. No uploads. No prep. Endgame already unifies Salesforce, Gong, Slack, email, and documentation.

You don’t just get an answer. You get intelligence that operationalizes itself. And that compounding loop shows up everywhere in the revenue organization.

Example 2: “How can we improve our discovery process?”

A sales manager asks:

How are my reps performing in discovery, and how should we improve our coaching rubric?

Before GPT, reviewing calls meant pulling recordings, taking manual notes, and scoring each rep by hand. Any improvements to the rubric came from anecdotal patterns or whatever the manager had time to find.

With Endgame, the manager just asks the question.

Endgame analyzes every discovery call using the company’s specific application of MEDDPICC, enriched by what it already understands from Google Drive or Confluence. It identifies clear strengths (e.g. “reps surface buyer pains well and position differentiation effectively) but flags several consistent gaps (e.g. “weak qualification around budget and approval path” or “a tendency to jump into technical deep dives before quantifying business impact”).

Endgame then recommends strengthening the rubric to address these gaps. It highlights the need for tighter budget mapping, explicit approval sequencing, measurable pilot exit criteria, and earlier business impact framing.

The manager updates the rubric with these requirements, and Endgame immediately applies the new standard to future discovery reviews and prep workflows.

You don’t just get an answer. You get a coaching system that improves itself, driven by live calls and real patterns across the book.

Example 3: “Where do we have room for expansion across all enterprise accounts?”

A CS leader asks:

What use cases are we delivering across enterprise customers and where do we have whitespace for expansion?

Before GPT, this meant pulling decks, notes, renewal docs, and CSM updates to manually assemble a rough list of use cases. It was slow, incomplete, and outdated almost immediately.

With Endgame, the CS leader just asks the question.

Endgame highlights whitespace: forecasting and inspection for sales leaders, automated QBRs and renewal briefs for CS, prospecting scaffolds for SDRs, methodology enforcement, stakeholder mapping, centralized enablement knowledge, and automated executive reporting. Endgame ties each opportunity to real signals in the data and proven patterns from similar accounts, without exposing any customer’s proprietary information.

CSMs can now open any account and instantly see vetted expansion opportunities with concrete proof points. Pipeline generation becomes repeatable, structured, and easier to quantify across the book.

No manual aggregation. No scattered notes. No quarterly reinvention of the same analysis. Endgame keeps the library fresh across every vertical with almost no additional effort.

You don’t just get an answer. You get a living expansion map that keeps the entire post-sale team aligned on the full potential of every account.

The new baseline reality

When one company gets answers to unlimited, open-ended strategic questions — across segments, personas, verticals, motions, and history — and another is still waiting for quarterly reports, the performance gap becomes structural.

Hex saw this immediately. Reps once spent 30–60 minutes per account assembling context; once connected, leadership could instantly see where deals slowed, where coaching gaps existed, and where risk accumulated. What used to bog down operating reviews now happens continuously in the background.

BetterUp experienced the same shift. GPT prototypes worked for isolated use cases but collapsed under scale. Consolidating everything into a single intelligence layer unlocked visibility no manual process could match.

When the friction of analysis disappears, curiosity becomes a competitive advantage. Leaders interrogate the business in real time, not quarterly. Teams uncover patterns they never would’ve justified exploring. Insights compound rather than evaporate.

Revenue organizations move from static reviews to continuous visibility, from intuition-heavy decisions to evidence-driven adaptation, from slow learning cycles to perpetual intelligence.

The companies that win the next era of revenue leadership will be the ones who adapt to this shift first. Those who cling to old rhythms — monthly analysis, quarterly insights, annual process changes — will be competing with fundamentally limited information against opponents who know more, learn faster, and act sooner.

The economics of questions have changed, but the core principle remains: the teams that learn the fastest win. What’s new is that the tooling has finally removed the constraints.

Experience the new world of revenue superintelligence and try Endgame.

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