Go-to-Market Advisory · Market Intelligence

The signal first.
Then the system.

Keynote Collective builds go-to-market systems: strategy, demand engines, targeted campaigns, and the market intelligence that tells you where to point them. Run by founder Matt Breese, with specialist partners brought in per engagement.

What We Do

Senior go-to-market capability, without building the team.

Keynote runs the commercial engine for companies that need traction now: from positioning through pipeline. Engagements are scoped tight, run hands-on, and built to be handed off.

Strategy

GTM Strategy

Positioning, pricing, launch sequencing, and the plan your board and investors can hold you to.

  • Go-to-market and launch plans
  • Proposals, SOWs, and investor communications
  • Fractional GTM leadership
Demand

Demand Engines

The infrastructure that turns strategy into pipeline, implemented and run day to day.

  • HubSpot implementation and CRM hygiene
  • Outbound programs and sequenced sprints
  • Lifecycle and nurture systems
Campaigns

ABM & Creative

Targeted campaigns built for named accounts, with creative grounded in your actual brand.

  • LinkedIn ABM and document ads
  • Account lists and audience builds
  • Campaign creative and copy
Data

Intelligence & Datasets

Curated market data and buyer mapping that tells you who to call and why, before you spend.

  • Custom account and contact datasets
  • Market reads and category analysis
  • Network-driven deal flow
Recent Engagements

Different markets. Same machinery.

Spirits

Full-scale ABM and marketing automation build

Standing up the whole commercial engine inside the spirits category: account targeting, lifecycle automation, and the CRM discipline underneath it, so outreach runs as a system instead of a series of one-offs.

Focus: ABM, automation, CRM
Brand Awareness

LinkedIn advertising built for a tight market

Targeted awareness and engagement programs for categories where the buyer universe is small and every impression counts: paid creative aimed at named accounts rather than broad reach.

Focus: paid social, creative, engagement
Cross-Industry

Market research and addressable market mapping

Focused research engagements across industries: buying personas, serviceable addressable market sizing, and the account intelligence that tells you where the real opportunity sits before budget gets committed.

Focus: research, personas, SAM
The Signal · Market Watch
AMERICAN WHISKEY $5.1B ▼ 0.9% DISCUS FY25 U.S. SPIRITS $36.4B ▼ 2.2% DISCUS FY25 AGING STOCK 16.1M BBL ▲ RECORD TTB CONTROL-STATE VOLUME ▼ 1.7% NABCA MAY 26 WHISKEY EXPORTS ▼ 19% DISCUS 2025 INDIA TARIFF 150% → 100% 2026 AMERICAN WHISKEY $5.1B ▼ 0.9% DISCUS FY25 U.S. SPIRITS $36.4B ▼ 2.2% DISCUS FY25 AGING STOCK 16.1M BBL ▲ RECORD TTB CONTROL-STATE VOLUME ▼ 1.7% NABCA MAY 26 WHISKEY EXPORTS ▼ 19% DISCUS 2025 INDIA TARIFF 150% → 100% 2026
Flagship Vertical

Built in whiskey. Applied anywhere.

Whiskey is where Keynote goes deepest: a connected network of operators across distilleries, brands, private label programs, clubs, retailers, bottlers, and investors. We publish the market intelligence, surface the barrel opportunities, and run outreach for the people building in a correcting market.

The depth is the proof of method. The same system behind our whiskey coverage, curated data, targeted outreach, and relationship-driven deal flow, is what we bring to clients in SaaS, healthcare, financial services, and beyond.

Read the coverage at The Signal.

10,000+Operators in network
30+Segments mapped
500,000+Transactions in dataset
$300M+Opportunity mapped
Figures from Keynote's proprietary dataset. Sources include TTB, NABCA, and public filings.
Matt Breese, founder of Keynote Collective
The Founder

Run by an operator, start to finish.

Keynote is run by Matt Breese: 15+ years of B2B marketing leadership across healthcare, technology, and spirits. No account layers, no hand-offs to a junior team. The person you meet is the person doing the work.

More about Matt →
The Signal

What's moving the market.

Aug 20, 2026 · 2 min read

Payment Terms Are Coming to the Barrel Market

Whiskey has the longest production cycle in consumer goods and the least developed commercial infrastructure.

Aug 5, 2026 · 5 min read

Whiskey Brand Owners Are Underwriting Their Distributors

Ask a brand owner to describe their distributor and you'll get an answer about service.

Jul 7, 2026 · 9 min read

A Barrel Is Worth Exactly What Your Access Can Realize

A question that comes up every time the market softens, usually from someone smart.

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