Business Problem
The client's SaaS manages sustainability compliance — IGBC, GRIHA, ESG reporting — for real estate developers and construction firms, work that today lives across consultants, spreadsheets, and email threads. The product solved a real problem, but the market didn't know the category existed. Nobody searches for a tool they don't know is a tool.
So this was never a lead-gen problem; it was a demand-gen problem. The market needed education on sustainability ROI before it would fill a form, and a single-channel, single-touch approach would only burn budget and generate MQLs that sales would reject.
Diagnosis
Two things had to be true before scaling.
First, the message had to match the buyer — the product sold into three segments with three different pains: large builders needing multi-project ESG reporting, mid-sized developers stuck on consultant dependency, and EPC contractors facing green certifications as bid requirements. One generic pitch would miss all three.
Second, the market had to be deep enough to justify spend, so we set a validation gate of 2,000+ qualifying organizations across the segments. If the TAM didn't hold, the plan would change before a rupee was wasted at scale.
Execution
₹5L/month across two channels. Google Ads ran search-only against problem-aware queries — compliance software, green-building management, certification tools — capturing buyers already mid-problem.
Email funded data sourcing, enrichment, and deliverability to build a verified list of 2,000+ ICP accounts and ~6,000 decision-makers, then ran segmented sequences: the ESG-reporting angle to builders, the consultant-cost angle to developers, the bid-requirement angle to contractors.
Phased deliberately: weeks 1–6 baseline and TAM validation (no SQL targets), weeks 7–12 optimization for 20% efficiency gains, weeks 13–18 scaling winners to maximum velocity.
Business Impact
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