GTM Strategist for Founders

Your product is ready.
Your
sales pipeline isn't.

I build sales systems into repeatable, measurable pipelines, pairing Claude with proven CRM tooling. Toronto-based, always happy to talk to founders.

Corinne Bernett speaking on a panel
5+ Years Sales experience
$100M+ Cumulative trading volume Growth KPI for Sai.fun (futures trading)
700+ Sales qualified leads in CRM Sai.fun, since Jan 1, 2026
$3M+ Invested via Nibiru Ventures SAFTs, SAFEs, swaps
What I can help with

Consulting & advisory

Bring me in to build the go-to-market engine, tighten the sales motion, rebuild it with AI, or pressure-test a deal. Every playbook is tailored to the business and its industry.

01

Go-to-market strategy

ICP definition, positioning, and a channel plan built to hit real revenue targets, whether that's FinTech, AI, finance, or crypto.

GTM ICP Positioning
02

Sales consulting & process

Work together to create repeatable, measurable pipeline: qualification frameworks, CRM design and deal playbooks your sales reps can leverage.

Pipeline MEDDIC CRM
03

Sales systems, rebuilt with AI

I take legacy, manual sales ops and rebuild them with Claude and AI: automated research, lead scoring, outreach, and CRM hygiene that shorten time-to-close.

Claude Automation Sales ops
04

Market research & diligence

Competitive analysis, revenue and pricing models, and risk assessment, including the investment memos and diligence I ran on a venture investment committee.

Research Diligence Memos
05

Product strategy

Roadmaps, positioning, and product-market fit, informed by UX walkthroughs and honest engineering feedback, from managing launches like storage.market and Estuary.tech to perps-DEX product direction.

Roadmap PMF Launches
06

DeFi & crypto consulting

Ecosystem growth, tokenomics and incentive design, liquidity and deal structuring, and top-of-funnel content for protocols building across the DeFi stack.

Tokenomics Ecosystem Incentives
My approach to sales

Research into pipeline, pipeline into revenue

I run complex, multi-stakeholder enterprise deals with long cycles. Here's how I think about every one.

01

Know exactly who you’re selling to

Deep product and market research to define the ICP and target account list, then buying-committee mapping: economic buyer, champion, evaluators, and blockers.

02

Find them where they already are

Account-based outreach that multi-threads into each account across the right channels, communities, events, inbound, intros, and direct outreach.

03

Define what a qualified lead is

A consistent framework to pressure-test budget, authority, need, and timeline so the team stays focused on winnable enterprise deals.

04

Build a pipeline that mirrors your KPIs

CRM structured around core KPIs with explicit stage exit criteria and data hygiene, so forecasts stay trustworthy.

05

Hunt for inefficiencies

With clean data, spot where deals stall and where pipeline leaks, then tighten, enable, or automate with Claude and AI to shorten time-to-close.

06

Perfect every stage of the deal

Discovery checklists, mutual action plans, stakeholder maps, and ROI models that build the internal case for change.

07

Don’t disappear after the close

Structured onboarding with customer success, regular business reviews, and a land-and-expand motion that grows net revenue retention.

08

Arm the team with the right assets

Case studies, ROI and business-case models, response templates, and mutual action plans, so every rep tells the same sharp story and moves deals faster.

09

Align sales and marketing on one motion

Shared personas, a single definition of a qualified lead, and closed-loop feedback between outbound, inbound, and content, so demand generation actually converts.

Corinne Bernett, portrait
700+SQLs in CRM
$100M+Volume driven
$3M+Venture investments

“I build repeatable, measurable processes that turn research into qualified pipeline, and pipeline into long-term, expanding accounts.”

Work history

Where I've driven pipeline

Head of Business Development & Nibiru Ventures IC Member

Sai.fun & Nibiru Chain · Feb 2024 – Present · Toronto
  • Grew a perps DEX to $100M+ cumulative volume within six months of launch, with $80M+ in signed volume commitments, through campaigns and targeted trader outreach across Telegram, X, and DeFi communities.
  • Designed the incentive engine behind that growth: volume programs, trading tournaments, referral codes, and fee structures for high-volume traders.
  • Owned the full deal cycle, sourcing, negotiation, signing, and volume tracking, and closed liquidity, pre-seed (SAFT/SAFE), and token swaps totaling $3M+ under management.
  • Sat on the Nibiru Ventures IC: prepared investment memos, ran diligence, and analyzed revenue, pricing, and competitive positioning across a 1,000+ company pipeline.
  • Rebuilt outbound as an AI-assisted motion, using Claude for account research, reverse-lookup of high-value leads, and outreach, feeding a cleaner, faster-moving CRM.
GTM Deal-making Ventures Community

Business Development Lead & Product Manager

Protocol Labs · May 2022 – Feb 2024
  • Drove customer acquisition and product for Filecoin data-onboarding tooling; ran sales and check-in calls with an 80% close rate.
  • Built a pipeline of 500+ SQLs via A/B-tested outreach (50% open rate, 6% response), and managed launches for storage.market, Estuary.tech, and Filecoin Data Tools.
  • Researched 400+ storage products to inform pricing, positioning, and product-market fit.
Sales Product Filecoin
Also · University of Toronto, BSc, Health & Disease · Superteam Canada member
Speaking & content

Making complex topics accessible

I speak, host, and produce, from workshops and conference panels to original video and content houses, on sales, go-to-market, AI in the sales stack, and DeFi. Looking for a speaker, panelist, or podcast guest?

Workshop
SheFi Investment Club “What Are Lending Protocols?”, a hands-on DeFi lending & borrowing workshop.
Watch
Panel
EthDenver Panelist on storytelling in Web3.
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Content
Sai & Nibiru Chain Trading and DeFi education content.
Watch
Demo
Filecoin Toronto Summit Live product demo of Filecoin data tooling.
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POV me while thinking about how $292 of rsETH was released from KelpDao which led to a $6.6B drain from Aave: Short version of what happened: 1. Kelp's bridge used LayerZero. LayerZero's default config is a 1-of-1 DVN setup, meaning a single verifier signs off on a cross-chain…

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Please don't make me re-do your pitch, get it right the first time! Ask yourself: what problem am I solving? Lead with that.

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EthDenver Take Aways, am I wrong? 1. The only companies not struggling atm are infra products that chains/DeFi apps rely on for core functionality 2. L1s/L2s are dying. Base moved off of Optimism. ZeroLend moved off Zircuit & Manta. The "Ecosystem/VC Model" is not working. You…

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This is how I explain what crypto is to my non-crypto friends: Imagine everyone in the word had access to the same currency, removing worries about failing economies and inflation. You get instant access to money transfers including across global institutions. The days of…

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This is what I mean by SUSTAINABLE DeFi: 1) APY that you can trust to be there longer than 1 year -this means no protocol based incentives, no airdrops, no farming opportunities, just yield. 2) Yield from traditional trading strategies -Leveraged looping, hedging, liquidity…

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Over the last few months I have been hard at work with @erickpinos making DeFi vaults in the @NibiruChain ecosystem that bring you real APY. This is what I have learned: -High APY doesn’t matter, accessibility does - user experience is king. For example, if you make the deposit…

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Here as some BD survival tips for every conference, & some learnings from Devconnect 🇦🇷 -Come prepared, know which events you want to attend & who you want to talk to - yes this involves research, but the preparation is worth it instead of spending your day at the main venue h…

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