Named patterns. Observable in mid-market growth.

The patterns we keep finding. The library runs against every Clarity Session — your wall is probably in here.

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• № 14 · AI revenue

  The twelve AI-addressable revenue leaks.

  What's actually leaking in a mid-market business, ranked by payback, matched to the AI move that closes it. The taxonomy that runs every Clarity Session.

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Observable across mid-market.

Walls that show up regardless of vertical. Each named, each calibrated against the engagements that surfaced them.

• № 01 · Growth · retention

  Leaky bucket, not a traffic problem.

  Retention signal masking as a pipeline problem. Top-of-funnel numbers look healthy, revenue lags — the ceiling is the back door. First check: what happens between signup and day 30.

• № 02 · Positioning · sales

  You're being compared, not chosen.

  Close-rate erosion with unchanged pipeline quality. Positioning is losing in the head before the pitch even starts. Fix upstream of the sales motion.

• № 03 · Marketing · ICP

  Traffic without intent.

  Volume up, conversion down. Attracting lookers, not buyers. The positioning drifted between what you build and who's finding you.

• № 04 · Strategy · timing

  A clock on the fix.

  Runway or board signal sets the decision window. The right move isn't the best move — it's the best move that compounds inside your clock.

• № 05 · Sales · org

  People problem or system problem.

  Sales team strain reads like a hiring miss. Usually it's enablement, comp design, or ICP — not the reps. Diagnose before replacing.

• № 06 · PMF · product

  The read may not be sales.

  PMF question dressed up as a sales problem. Every downstream fix becomes a lie if product-market fit has slipped underneath. Re-check before you optimize anything.

• № 07 · Greenfield · strategy

  Greenfield clarity before build.

  New-venture signal: the next bet isn't the next feature. Pressure-test target customer, Jobs-to-be-Done, minimum viable evidence before one line of code.

• № 08 · Scaling · ops

  Don't scale what you haven't pressure-tested.

  Scale ambition without a pain cluster in the current motion. Hiring plans and spend plans built on a motion that breaks at 3×. Name the fracture before you fund the scale.

• № 09 · AI strategy

  The AI question, reframed.

  "How do we use AI" is the wrong question. The right one is: "Which of our motions does AI make obsolete first, and what replaces them?" Different diagnosis, different moves.

• № 10 · Market expansion

  Expansion before positioning is a tax.

  Market expansion without tightened positioning. Every new market pays a positioning tax you're already paying at home. Sequence matters.

• № 11 · Capital · fundraising

  What the next round is actually for.

  Capital strategy drift. The plan you pitch investors isn't the plan that compounds. Pick the compound plan; build a second narrative for the round.

• № 12 · Category · narrative

  Category creation is a narrative problem.

  Category plays fail on language before they fail on product. The winning move is rarely "build the thing" — it's "own the frame." Diagnose the narrative layer first.

• № 13 · Pivot · focus

  Pivots are measured in what you stop.

  Pivots fail when the old motion stays funded. Oxygen for the new thing requires killing the old. The hardest part of a pivot is the subtraction.