Impact Summit 2025 US – Public Content

This flagship summit deck brings together market data, valuation analysis, GTM benchmarks, and AI-native operating models to explain why traditional SaaS growth playbooks are breaking down—and what replaces them. Drawing on BenchSights data, real-world AI-native examples, and Winning by Design’s Bowtie and Growth Architecture frameworks, the content demonstrates how growth is constrained by broken acquisition models, rising CAC, and siloed systems. It introduces modern GTM built around users, growth loops, and AI-led orchestration, and outlines a practical path from assistive AI to autonomous, closed-loop growth systems that increase velocity, certainty, and long-term durability.

Best For

• CEOs & Founders accountable for growth, valuation, and long-term competitiveness

• CROs, CMOs, and Revenue Leaders redesigning GTM for velocity and compounding impact

• CFOs & Finance Leaders focused on growth certainty, CAC efficiency, and planning accuracy

• RevOps & GTM Operations teams responsible for metrics, data models, and forecasting

• Boards, PE, and Growth Investors evaluating AI readiness and growth durability

Key Takeaways

• Growth above 40% commands disproportionate valuation premiums—and is increasingly rare

• Classic “Grow at All Costs” GTM models are failing under rising CAC and slowing demand

• Net New ARR must be understood across acquisition, retention, and expansion, not just top-of-funnel

• AI-Native companies grow faster by activating users as the growth engine, not just leads

• Growth loops outperform linear funnels by reducing risk and increasing revenue certainty

• Real-time, closed-loop planning replaces static forecasting and manual course correction

• AI maturity progresses from assistive → agentic → orchestrated → autonomous GTM

• Velocity, growth loops, and AI together create compounding advantage—not in isolation