Cohort 01 · 20 seats only · Applications open

Become an AI-powered GTM engineer.

GTM engineering is the highest-leverage job in B2B right now, and there is no established path into it. We are one of the top 30 GTM engineering companies in the world. Pick the starting path that matches where you are today and we convert you into a GTM engineer who builds AI-powered revenue systems.

No open enrolment. Every seat is earned through an assessment and an interview.

20seats per cohort
₹24L+what the role pays
7starting paths
333GTM engineers studied
The research this is built on

What did GTM engineers do before they were GTM engineers?

We studied 333 GTM engineer profiles across 274 companies to find out where this role is actually entered from. There is no single door in, which is exactly why we built a separate starting path for each one.

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No shared definition

Clay splits the title into Sales, Ops, Enterprise, Strategic Accounts and CX. OpenAI calls them AI Success Engineers inside a GTM org. The same job title means different work at every company.

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Almost no entry level

Just 8 of the 333 held a junior title. There is no graduate scheme for this role, which is why what you can build matters more than what your CV says.

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Demand outruns supply

Every serious B2B company is hiring for this and the talent pool is tiny, because no degree teaches it and no clear path leads into it.

Step one

Pick your starting path

You do not start from zero. You start from whatever you already are. Each path has its own batch, its own assessment and its own first month, then everyone converges on the same full stack.

What the job pays
₹24 LPA minimum

That is the floor we train you to clear within a year of finishing, not the ceiling. GTM engineers who own the full stack sit well above it, and the ones who go remote or international sit higher again.

The stack you will actually run

Every tool a working GTM engineer has open on a Tuesday

This is not a tool tour. You build with these against live data, live domains and real spend, and you learn why each one is in the stack and what breaks when it is not. 60 tools across eight disciplines.

Sourcing and company data

ClayApolloZoomInfoCrunchbaseLinkedIn Sales NavigatorBuiltWithWappalyzerOcean.ioGoogle Sheets

Where the account universe comes from, and how to size it honestly.

Contact data and enrichment

ProspeoLeadMagicIcypeasEnrichleyApolloZoomInfoFindymailDatagma

Multi-vendor waterfalls, cost per resolved record, and never paying twice for a row you already own.

Verification and list hygiene

ReoonZeroBounceMillionVerifierBouncerPython pandasDedupe keys

The layer that decides whether your domains survive month two.

Sending infrastructure

InstantlySmartleadInboxKitGoogle WorkspaceMicrosoft 365Azure tenantsSPF / DKIM / DMARCMXToolboxGlockApps

Domains, mailboxes, warmup, DNS and inbox placement. The part almost nobody teaches.

LinkedIn and multichannel

SalesRobotHeyReachExpandiSales NavigatorPhantombuster

Connection limits, sender rotation, activity screening and reply handling.

Scraping and signals

ApifySerperTinyFishFirecrawlPredictLeadsTheirStackPlaywrightRSS and job boards

Turning public web data into a trigger you can prove works before you build on it.

AI and automation

Claude CodeAnthropic APIOpenAI APIn8nZapierPythonClay AI columnsCursor

Agents that scrape, classify, enrich, write and push, with checkpoints so nothing fails silently.

CRM, RevOps and reporting

HubSpotSalesforceAttioLooker StudioBigQueryGoogle SheetsLinear

Routing, lifecycle, attribution and the numbers leadership will actually trust.

Tool names are the current stack. Vendors get swapped when a better one appears, which is itself part of the training: you learn to evaluate a vendor, not to depend on one.

Week by week

The full track, end to end

Twelve weeks, twelve shipped artefacts. Every week names the tools you will use and ends in something you built, not a quiz you passed. Your starting path decides how the weeks are weighted.

Week 01

How a revenue machine actually works

ICP, TAM, funnel math and unit economics. What a meeting costs, what a reply is worth, and where the leverage sits before you touch a tool.

Google SheetsHubSpotSalesforceAttio
What you shipA funnel model for a real company, with the maths behind every stage.
Week 02

Sending infrastructure and deliverability

Domains, mailboxes, DNS records, warmup curves, per-provider send limits and inbox placement testing. Why most campaigns die before anyone reads them.

InboxKitInstantlySmartleadGoogle WorkspaceMicrosoft 365SPF / DKIM / DMARCMXToolboxGlockApps
What you shipA live sending fleet you built: domains bought, records set, mailboxes warming, placement measured.
Week 03

TAM building and segmentation

Sizing a market you can defend, then cutting it on firmographics, technographics and behaviour so each segment earns its own angle.

ApolloZoomInfoClayBuiltWithCrunchbaseGoogle Sheets
What you shipA segmented TAM with defensible counts and a named angle per segment.
Week 04

Enrichment waterfalls

Chaining vendors so the cheap ones run first, measuring coverage and cost per resolved record, and checking what you already own before spending anything.

ClayProspeoLeadMagicIcypeasEnrichleyApolloPython
What you shipA working waterfall with a measured hit rate and a real cost per contact.
Week 05

Verification, dedupe and suppression

Bounce risk, catch-all handling, dedupe keys, and the suppression logic that keeps you out of your client's customers and open deals.

ReoonZeroBounceMillionVerifierPython pandasGoogle Sheets
What you shipA clean, deduped, suppression-checked list with a QA report attached.
Week 06

Buying signals and intent

Hiring spikes, funding, leadership change, tech adoption and job-post language. Finding candidate signals, then proving each one on live data before building on it.

ApifySerperTinyFishPredictLeadsTheirStackPlaywright
What you shipThree validated signals, each with live in-ICP hits and a measured volume.
Week 07

Copy, hooks and offers

Subject lines, opening lines, the single-question test, spintax and variables. What makes a reply happen and what makes a message get deleted.

Instantly editorSmartleadClaudeSwipe libraries
What you shipA full sequence graded against a hook rubric, rewritten until it clears.
Week 08

AI personalisation at scale

Per-account research, prompt design, evidence grounding and QA gates. The difference between genuinely personalised and merely variable.

Claude CodeAnthropic APIOpenAI APIClay AI columnsPython
What you shipOne hundred personalised messages that survive a blind human read.
Week 09

Agentic workflows

Building agents that scrape, classify, enrich, write and push. Rate limits, retries, checkpointing and resumability so a run never silently dies at scale.

Claude CodePythonn8nVendor REST APIsCursor
What you shipAn agent that runs a full pipeline stage end to end, and resumes after you kill it.
Week 10

Multichannel execution

Email and LinkedIn running as one motion. Sequencing, sender rotation, connection limits, activity screening and reply handling.

InstantlySalesRobotHeyReachSales Navigator
What you shipA live multichannel campaign sending on both channels from your own infrastructure.
Week 11

CRM, routing and reporting

Lifecycle stages, routing rules, attribution and dashboards. Wiring the campaign back into the system the business runs on.

HubSpotSalesforceAttion8nLooker StudioBigQuery
What you shipA routing and reporting layer wired to your live campaign.
Week 12

QA, measurement and capstone

Pre-launch gates, verified versus plausible, the counting traps that inflate every report, and how to present numbers that survive scrutiny.

PythonGoogle SheetsThe full stack
What you shipThe capstone: one ICP taken from nothing to live, presented and defended.
How selection works

Twenty seats. You have to earn one.

We are not trying to fill a room. A cohort only works if everyone in it can keep up, so we screen hard before anyone is offered a place.

STEP 01

Apply

A short application: who you are, your starting path, and what you have done so far. Takes about five minutes.

STEP 02

Assessment

A practical assessment on the path you picked. We are not testing memory. We are testing how you think and how you use AI to get to an answer.

STEP 03

Interview

Clear the assessment and you get an interview with our team. We go through your work, your reasoning, and whether this is right for you.

STEP 04

Seat confirmed

Pass both and you are offered one of the twenty seats. Once they are gone, the cohort closes and the next intake opens.

Be honest with yourself

This is not for everyone

✔️ Apply if

  • You want to be the person who builds the revenue system, not the person managed by it
  • You are willing to do real work every week, not just watch recordings
  • You are comfortable being wrong in public and fixing it fast
  • You want AI to be a tool you command, not a thing you are scared of
  • You can commit to the full cohort once you accept a seat

❌ Do not apply if

  • You want a certificate to put on LinkedIn without doing the work
  • You are looking for passive video content you will never finish
  • You expect a job handed to you rather than earned on what you build
  • You are not prepared to be assessed and possibly rejected
  • You want quick money with no craft behind it
Who teaches it

Operators, not lecturers

Valcat is a GTM engineering company. This school exists because we could not hire enough people who could do this work, so we decided to train them ourselves.

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Taught from live systems

The workflows you learn are the ones we run in production for B2B clients, not a sanitised classroom version.

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Built for hiring reality

We know what a GTM engineering hiring manager asks, because we are one. The whole program aims at that conversation.

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Small on purpose

Twenty seats means you get looked at individually. Your work gets reviewed by a person, and your gaps get named.

Applications open

Apply for Cohort 01

Fill this in and we will review it. If your application clears, you get the assessment for your chosen path, then an interview. Only then is a seat offered.

  • Takes about five minutes
  • You hear back on your application within 3 working days
  • The assessment is practical and AI-assisted, and we tell you exactly how it is graded
  • Twenty seats. When they are gone, the cohort closes
⏱️ Cohort 01 is capped at 20 seats. Applications close when it fills.

By applying you agree to be contacted about your application. We do not sell your data.

Application received

We review every application by hand. If you clear this stage, we will email you the assessment for your chosen path within 3 working days. Check your inbox, and your spam folder just in case.

Questions

Before you apply

Do I need to know how to code?

No. The largest single group of GTM engineers came from sales, not engineering. You do need to be comfortable being technical: reading an API doc, working in a spreadsheet properly, and directing AI to write the parts you cannot. We teach that from the start on the paths that need it.

What is the assessment actually testing?

How you think, not what you remember. You are expected to use AI. We look at how you break a problem down, what you check before you trust an answer, and whether you can defend your reasoning in the interview. Anyone can get an output. We are looking for people who can tell a good one from a bad one.

How much time will this take each week?

Enough that you cannot fake it around a full-time job without planning for it. We tell every candidate the exact weekly commitment on the interview call so you can decide honestly before accepting a seat.

Is it online or in person?

Online and live, so you can join from anywhere. Sessions are interactive and your work gets reviewed directly. This is not a library of pre-recorded videos.

What does it cost?

We discuss fees and payment options on the interview call, once we both know it is a fit. We would rather talk about money with someone who has already earned a seat than put a number in front of everyone who lands on this page.

Is a job guaranteed?

No, and be careful with anyone who guarantees one. What we guarantee is that you leave able to do the work, with a portfolio of real builds, trained against what hiring managers in this field actually ask for. The ₹24 LPA figure is what this role pays in the market, not a promise about your individual outcome.

Can I switch paths later?

The path decides your assessment and where you start, not where you finish. Everyone converges on the same full stack by the capstone. If you pick wrong, tell us in the interview and we will move you.

What if I do not get in?

You can apply again for the next cohort. If we reject an application we will tell you which part did not clear, so a re-application is worth something rather than a coin flip.

Twenty seats. One assessment between you and one of them.

If you have been waiting for the right moment to stop being replaceable, this is a reasonable one.

Apply now, see if you qualify
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