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Competitive Analysis

Stop guessing where you stand. Our Competitive Analysis delivers board-ready, decision-grade insights into your GTM strategy, product portfolio, pricing, and market presence. Using AI-accelerated research, we benchmark against rivals and analyze web traffic, reviews, and positioning. Get a clear plan to outmaneuver competitors and confidently drive growth.

Win/Loss Analysis

Unlock why you truly win—or lose—deals. Our Win/Loss Analysis combines unbiased buyer interviews with rapid insight delivery. Within two weeks, receive board-ready reports that reveal sales execution gaps, competitive positioning, and product-market fit opportunities. Gain actionable recommendations to boost close rates, sharpen messaging, and capture more revenue.

AI-Accelerated PMF & Pricing Studies

Early-stage SaaS founders struggle with three questions: Who is our ideal customer? Do we truly have product–market fit? What’s the right pricing? Our AI-accelerated ICP and PMF validation service combines synthetic data with targeted interviews to deliver fast, credible answers. In five structured phases, we refine personas, identify 50 high-fit prospects, validate PMF, and run pricing studies—providing investor-grade insights and a clear go-to-market roadmap that reduces risk and accelerates growth.

Strategic Advisory Services

Scale smarter with Strategic Advisory Services designed for SaaS founders and executives. We deliver ICP definition, pricing and packaging strategy, sales process secret-shop audits, GTM revamps, and M&A readiness planning. Backed by real-world enterprise SaaS expertise, we help you accelerate growth, de-risk decisions, and capture market advantage.

Your Consulting Partner for Success

Most early-stage and growth SaaS companies lose winnable deals without ever knowing why. CRM notes are incomplete. Sales team feedback is biased. And while AI can generate reports, it can’t uncover what buyers actually say behind closed doors. That’s where I come in. I specialize in Win/Loss Analysis, Competitive Intelligence, and GTM for early-stage B2B SaaS. firms. With 29+ years as a COO, VP of Marketing, VP Product Management, and SVP Business Development in enterprise software, I bring executive-level insight into why deals are won or lost, and how you can fix GTM gaps before they cost millions.

We have been an executive officer of several publicly traded and private-equity backed firms. COO, VP Product Management, VP Marketing, SVP Client Service, VP Business Development. Plus, we have worked for three startups. Plus 5+ years providing strategic guidance to early-stage enterprise software B2B SaaS firms.
Looking at publicly available data has its limitations. We know how to research and get answers to key questions in creative ways.
The consulting landscape is undergoing a profound transformation, driven largely by the advent of artificial intelligence. AI tools are automating the routine, data-intensive tasks of traditional consulting, such as market research, competitive intelligence, and data analysis. This technological shift has created a market perception that consulting fees should decrease due to significant efficiency gains, leading to a point of friction between clients and large firms. While AI has the potential to make work faster and cheaper, major firms must still manage high overhead costs and large teams, leading to a dilemma over how to share productivity gains with clients. We use several AI tools (chatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok, DeepSeek) to improve our productivity, but our three decades of experience in large enterprise software and startups cannot be replaced by an LLM that summarizes other peoples’ content.

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John C. Mecke Managing Director john.mecke@devlopmentcorporate.com +506 6133 8358
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M&A Basics for Product Managers. Part I: Major Types of M&A

The objective of this post is to provide product managers with some practical insights into the overall merger and acquisition process. I have been involved in product management for over 15 years. As a corporate development executive, I have led five major acquisitions and eight divestitures. This is the first of a three part series. It will focus on the major types of acquisitions. The second will focus on roles and responsibilities in the M&A process, especially for product managers. The final installment will walk through the major process steps in a typical M&A deal.

Acquisition Candidate Analysis

A short presentation for product managers on how to analyze a potential acquisition candidate and present it to senior management. Acquisition analysis leverages open source and other publicly available information. This presentation covers the key concepts associated with acquisition candidate analysis, the process of developing an analysis, a sample ‘teaser’ presentation used to present information to senior management, boards of directors, and investors.