Strategic Target Accounts

Know exactly which companies to pursue, and how to land them

We turn your ideal customer profile into a ranked, scored list of the accounts worth your team’s time, with the intelligence and account plans to win them.‍ Stop selling to everyone and build your pipeline with the customers most likely to buy.

650+ Companies Served

Your team can’t (and shouldn’t be) chasing everyone. We’ll help you identify who they should.

Companies engage Think & Grow for Strategic Target Accounts because…

Their sellers are spread thin across too many accounts, with no clear order of priority
They have an ICP on paper, but no list of the real companies that match it
They're entering a new market and need to know exactly who to approach first
They can't tell when an account is in-market; the funding round, cloud migration or regulatory shift that signals it's time to move
Most of their growth comes from existing accounts, but there's no plan for which to expand into next
Their outreach is spray-and-pray; no clear "why us, why now" per account, and the conversion rate shows it
Think & Grow quickly got to the heart of the opportunities we have with Diverge despite the complexity and nuance of our target markets. Their approach to segmenting our target accounts really opened our eyes.
Dean Van Gerrevink
Dean Van Gerrevink
GM at Diverge
Think & Grow have enabled us to initiate new discussions, bringing to the table new potential prospects that we hadn’t previously considered.
Gonen Gershuni
Gonen Gershuni
Co-Sell Program Leader at Bringg
Think & Grow are a highly valuable partner for any organisation looking to scale in new markets.
Paul Koopmans
Paul Koopmans
VP AU & NZ at Worldpay
About service

What is the Strategic Target Accounts service?

We turn your ideal customer profile into a living, prioritised list of the specific companies worth pursuing. Scored by fit, intent and winnability, not instinct or assumption. For each tier, you get the intelligence to approach them well: who the buyers are, what’s changing in their world, where you fit, and which partner can open the door.

Most teams either sell to everyone or work a list built on hunches. Both methods burn the most expensive resource you have: your sellers’ time.

Strategic Target Accounts points to the limited time you have at the accounts most likely to buy, and gives your team a repeatable way to keep the list sharp as the market (and your product) moves. It's account-based go-to-market, built by people who’ve had to hit the number themselves.

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What you get with Strategic Target Accounts

A prioritised, CRM-ready target-account list, built in-house by our operators from real data and signals. Depending on your stage and market, it’s built from a menu of components:

ICP definition & refinement
Firmographic & technographic fit
Account identification & long-list build
Account scoring & tiering
Buying signals & intent triggers
Whitespace & expansion mapping
Account intelligence dossiers
Buyer & stakeholder mapping
Partner-to-account matching
Outreach angle & messaging
Repeatable account-planning pack
Our Work 

Case studies

Repeatable account-planning pack

Snowflake was expanding into South Africa, which can be a tough market. We validated the opportunities, prioritised segments, built the partner segmentation and onboarding flows, and delivered a Top 100 target-account list.

A prioritised list that converts.

GoCardless had the ANZ ambition but needed priority. We ran competitor analysis and built a deeper, prioritised sales target list which the in-market team turned into 20+ new customers.

An accounts playbook the team can run

VTS needed account planning that was accessible to the team. We built a repeatable accounts playbook featuring scoring, prioritisation and per-account plans that the commercial team could pick up and run every quarter.

Why Think & Grow

Our team hasn’t just studied growth, they’ve done it.

Our team builds target lists based on real data, so accounts we prioritise are the ones worth a seller’s time, scored on winnability and real buying signals, not scraped from a database and sorted by revenue.

And because Strategic Target Accounts sits inside our full Growth Stack, the list doesn’t stop at a spreadsheet. It flows straight into other Growth, People and AI services to continue progressing your growth journey.

William McCahey

A growth advisor and entrepreneur with deep expertise in fintech, operations and scaling ventures.

William McCahey
Head of Delivery (Growth)
Sneh Mehta

A market-research specialist who turns market intelligence into go-to-market direction and strategy for scaling companies.

Sneh Mehta
Research Analyst
Jacqui Rowlands

Global Strategy and Program Lead with 20 years across AWS, Bain and Telstra, spearheading initiatives like the AWS Passport Program to boost tech exports.

Jacqui Rowlands
Global Strategy and Program Lead
Jonathan Jeffries (JJ)

Spent 20 years helping scale companies globally. Designed the Global Passport Program for AWS, now in over 26 cities worldwide. Clients in AWS, Etsy, Snowflake, Stripe, Harrison.ai, Fireworks.ai, Dropbox, GoCardless, Peloton, and Spotify.

Jonathan Jeffries (JJ)
Founder & CEO
Simon Robinson

Helped build companies like Groupon from an early stage, now scaling technology companies through GTM, hiring, and digital transformation.

Simon Robinson
Growth Partner & Operator
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Four pathways, one team

Your Growth Centre of Gravity

Strategic Target Accounts is one of the services inside the Growth pathway. Customers often go onto or combine this service with:

GTM Playbook to turn the chosen markets into a strategy and a pipeline.
Capability Review to ensure they have the team they need before market launch.
Executive Search to get the right level of experience and fit in the right roles.

Programs

A defined entry point

Facilitated workshops for a structured, high-value engagement about your business

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Growth Services

Support for expansion and scaling

GTM and market intelligence for ambitious companies scaling into new markets and phases.

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People Services

Design your org for its next phase

Executive Search, Capability Review, and Organisational Design for scaling companies.

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AI Services

Level up operational infrastructure

AI and digital transformation that’s grounded in commercial context, not just technical delivery.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

A ranked, scored list of the specific companies worth pursuing in a market, built from your ICP and scored on fit, intent and winnability, with the account intelligence and plans your team needs to land them. It’s the foundation of an account-based go-to-market motion.

When you know your market but not your accounts: entering a new region, launching a new product, focusing a co-sell motion, or when your sales team is working too many accounts with no clear priority.

A data platform sells you contacts. We build a prioritised list from your ICP and real buying signals, score it on winnability, add the account intelligence to approach each one well, and match accounts to the partners who can open the door. Built by operators who’ve scaled into the markets you are, not scraped and sorted by revenue.

We combine firmographic and technographic fit with buying signals, like funding, tech stack, hiring, triggers, and winnability, then tier the list so your team knows exactly where to start. Existing accounts are mapped for whitespace and expansion.

Our team would always recommend that Market Intelligence comes first — the target-account list is built on the market it points to.

Book a call. We’ll talk through your ICP and target market, and scope the right piece of work.

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