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Agentic Marketing: The New GTM Architecture

Agentic Marketing: The New GTM Architecture

Why autonomous AI agents are outperforming traditional funnels–and how modern teams are scaling without headcount.

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Rick Koleta
Aug 11, 2025
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Infographic showing a sales funnel icon with an upward red arrow leading to a robot icon, representing Agentic Marketing and the rise of autonomous AI agents in go-to-market strategies.
Agentic Marketing: The New GTM Architecture — why AI agents are redefining the funnel and enabling teams to scale without adding headcount.

The Funnel Is Breaking — And Most Teams Don’t See It

Missed revenue. Misaligned teams. Leads going cold within hours.

For years, the B2B go-to-market funnel has been quietly breaking:

Marketing teams generate thousands of leads. SDRs chase a handful. The rest? They vanish.

Buyers fill out forms, attend webinars, request demos — only to wait 48+ hours for follow-up. If it ever comes.

Behind the scenes? Expensive tech stacks duct-taped together and a growing gap between buyer expectations and GTM reality.

The cracks are clear:

  • 80%+ of inbound leads never get touched

  • 24+ hrs average time-to-lead response

  • SDRs spend < 40% of their time actually selling

Illustration of a B2B sales funnel with visible cracks, highlighting common bottlenecks such as slow response times, lead leakage, and low sales rep engagement.
Where the old funnel leaks: slow follow-up, low SDR coverage, and untapped inbound demand.

We didn’t notice the leak at first. The top of the funnel was wide enough. But as buyer behavior shifted, the fractures became impossible to ignore.

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