Your discovery call is six weeks late.
Vendors treat the first meeting as the place to find out what the buyer needs. The buyer already wrote it down.
Forty project submissions came into the network in the last two weeks, from twenty-four companies. Most arrived scoped, sized, and constrained.
In their words:
"350 VMs across 11 sites. Basic up-down monitoring, no real visibility into network traffic." (Director of Network Services and Security, legal services)
"4 contact centers globally, over 10,000 customers in 10 languages. We are exploring options for replacement." (Director of IT Operations, services)
"Migrating financial operations to a new ERP. Reconciling data across our separate systems is a major manual bottleneck for my team." (IT Director, software)
"Implementing a new license tier. May be replacing one scanning tool, and looking at whether another needs to be replaced or supplemented." (Deputy CISO, government)
"Seeking to create a data lake with R&D data and leverage AI to gain insights for manufacturing development." (Senior Director of IT Infrastructure, pharmaceuticals)
None of them needs the problem explained. They counted the sites. They named the bottleneck. They know which tool is on the way out.
A vendor who opens with "tell me about your environment" spends the first ten minutes on ground the buyer covered weeks ago. The buyer answers politely and books nothing.
Members submit these when the project is live, not when a survey lands in their inbox. That is why the detail is specific enough to act on, and it is why the answer is the only thing left to sell.
22% of these meetings turn into a qualified selling opportunity. A vendor said it to me this way last week: spend the time having conversations with the right people, not finding them.
Forty scoped projects. Twenty-four companies. Two weeks. You can meet these leaders one at a time, pay per meeting, no contract. Create your account and book an onboarding call here.
— Ryan
New to the network
These IT and security leaders opted into the network in the last two weeks. Titles and companies only. Every one can be met.
Senior Technical Lead at State of Nebraska (5,400 employees)
VP, Director of Associate Technology Services at FirstBank ($455M revenue)
Chief Information Security Officer at MasterControl Inc ($200M revenue)
Sr Director of Information Technology and Cybersecurity at Micross Company ($197M revenue)
What you can do in the new portal
It is live at app.mydogood.com.
Build a profile members actually read: elevator pitch, use cases, sample customers, case studies, team bios. Set the ICP you want matched against.
Then members come to you. They request the meeting, fill out an intent survey, and write out why they want it. You see all of that before you answer, and you accept or decline each one.
How to choose a buyer-meeting program
Four questions to ask any provider, and how the main ones answer them. DoGood is scored on the same four. Every competitor claim is sourced to that provider's own live pages, and where a provider does not publish something it says so instead of guessing.