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Market–product; Product–channel; Channel–model B2B Playbook working file. Read four fits first. One company. Four sentences. Delete teaching notes. Do not paste a $100M case study as the live card. Copyright © 2026 Ivan Xu. Private operating copy permitted. See LICENSE.

Market–product

  • Segment and job:
  • Dated evidence they want it (love / pay / pull):
  • What would prove this sentence wrong:

Product–channel

  • Path this product is actually built for:
  • Path we wish we had (do not plan from this):
  • What we would have to change in the product to use a different path:

Channel–model

  • Year-one pay (ARPU / ACV):
  • Fully loaded cost of one success on the real path:
  • Danger: hunter motion on a self-serve price, or free loop on a field close (yes / no / how):

Model–market

  • How this market already buys:
  • Believable capture × number of buyers × price — does the company we claim still exist?
  • Board story we will not tell until this math is honest:

Change control

  • What we want to add (channel, SKU, AI, segment):
  • Which of the four sentences it would break:
  • Date these four were last re-written: