What this is
The Master GTM is the parent doctrine that governs every marketing motion Webgold Designs ships — every published opinion, every named-author piece, every event, every channel allocation, every campaign. It exists because Webgold's strategic posture has shifted — from a regional digital partner to the Caribbean's strategic digital authority for the AI age — and the marketing function has to evolve with it. The Master GTM holds that shift, holds the doctrine that makes it true daily, and holds the discipline that keeps the doctrine from drifting.
Four claims define what we sell: strategy at the bedrock (work rests on thinking, not on craft), we are the proof (we demonstrate before we sell), AI-age leadership for the Caribbean (Webgold has already evolved; we bring clients with us), and human-leading evolution (AI amplifies our humans; the Caribbean keeps its people). The four claims produce the load-bearing sentence below as outcome — it is the operational close, not the headline thesis.
The doctrine is built around one central metaphor (The Reef) and one central insight (build-as-attraction). The Reef is what we are constructing — a feeding ground of authority that the right prospects find their way toward, not a funnel they are pushed through. Build-as-attraction means the construction itself is the invitation. We do not build then attract; we build as attraction. The translation tax we eliminate is one operational expression of the wider claims.
How it all works together
The pages
The Reef · Spine v1.0
The 11-section canonical doctrine. The Reef premise, the translation-tax sale, the white-space claim, the four-position commitment, the demand-architecture map, content portfolio mix and ratios, channel hierarchy, authorship architecture, proof factory, kill list, and the economic shape of the Reef.
Phase Architecture & Sprint Binding
Per-sprint operational plan binding the Reef rollout 1:1 to the WG-25 sprint cadence. Pre-MVP, Sprints 1 through 7, Buffer, Full Launch. Each sprint card names authors, channels, harmony ratios, Filter focus, dependencies. Timeline-shift-robust by design.
Channel Harmonisation Matrix
Five-sheet reference: Cover, Channel Matrix (19 channels × 10 columns), Phase Ratios, Position × Channel activation, Filter Card. Codifies which of the four positions activate on which channels and at what tempo. Sheet tabs at top for quick switching.
Harmony Calendar
The strategic register of every motion in flight. Airtable-backed (HARMONY_CALENDAR table). 45 motions seeded across all sprint windows. Three tabs: 13-Week View (filterable), Ratio Validator (mechanised against Spine §6 ratios), Setup & Sync. Service GTMs read filtered views from this single source.
Gate Register & Tempo Protocol
Two gates, one rhythm. Launch Posture Gate (quarterly, founder + architect, Hold/Adjust/Pivot). Tempo Gate (weekly, marketing layer + active voices, Lean-in/Hold/Pull-back per motion). Eight gate criteria. Airtable GATE_REGISTER schema. Operational rhythm + escalation paths.
Filter Card
The one-page reference card. Eight tests every motion must pass before it ships: translation tax addressed, Caribbean-context anchored, named author present, outcomes lead, vocabulary clean, proof referenced, channel fit, cadence respects Tempo. Plus the banned-vocabulary list and the Caribbean-context test.
Cascade Execution Guide
The build register. Decision Trail (DT-1 through DT-32+). Phase status. Master Task Register with 188+ tasks tracked. Service GTM Framework appendix. Architectural decisions log. PCC Deploy Cycles history (recurring). Path-to-Project-Complete checklist.
Reef Team Briefing
One-page Reef explainer with embedded cross-reference card (metaphor stack — Reef alongside Vehicle / Beacon / Riverlets / Warfare / Symphony plus the Organism layer above) plus the whole-team-session agenda. Companion .pptx deck shipped for the team-session vehicle.
Master GTM ↔ Content Command Alignment Layer
The contract between Master GTM (doctrine) and Content Command (execution engine). Bookend model · ownership boundaries · downstream/upstream/shared contracts · boundary objects (Service GTM doc, Filter Card sidecar, Harmony Calendar Airtable schema) · crosswalk · decision register. The reference both teams come back to whenever a new feature is being scoped.
Service GTM Framework
Single-portfolio HTML template + workflow + service-gtm-builder skill (T-MGTM-091). The pattern by which each WG-25 service-line Service GTM (Commerce, Development, Engagement, Products, Growth, Content, Identity, Intelligence, Support) is produced. Output schema feeds Content Command directly per Alignment Layer §4.
Operating Architecture
The companion to the Spine. The four-layer system map (Doctrine / Operating Instruments / Operating Data / Render layer). PCC integration model. Master ↔ Airtable ↔ ops.webgold.co data flow. Update propagation discipline. Internal-vs-client boundary. The final act of the cascade.