The Builder DNA Plan

A marketing, growth and AI operating system for Vision 2 Estimating FY26 to FY28

Prepared for: Michael Read, Managing Director, V2E Prepared by: Adam Lopez Delon Date: 28 April 2026 Read time: ~28 minutes

00. What This Plan Is▶Listen

This is a marketing plan grounded in what V2E already does well, not a generic strategy doc. The research behind it includes a full crawl of v2e.com.au (30 pages), a competitor and segment scan across eight Google search batches and the 30-minute discovery call from 21 April.

By the end of the document V2E will have:

• A national, sized view of the Australian residential estimating services market and where the addressable dollars sit (refreshed with December 2025 ABS data)
• Four named builder archetypes drawn from V2E's actual product tiers (CORE, PRO, MAX, Enterprise) and software integration partners
• A six-level Builder's Journey showing how transactional buyers become Enterprise customers, mapped to outcomes in revenue, time and sanity
• An honest read on V2E's competitive moat against offshore staff, software-only, in-house and other Australian + global estimating firms (Buildxact, Buildertrend, Cubit, Databuild, Togal AI, Beam AI, ProEst, STACK, PlanSwift)
• Six named campaigns built on V2E's existing voice ("Builder DNA", "Small Mistakes BIG Money", "Stop Free Quotes")
• A Platform Partnership Program that turns V2E's 10+ integration partners (Buildertrend, Buildxact, Wunderbuild, Cubit, Databuild, Zavanti, CoConstruct, Nexvia, BuildPrice, MS Excel) into a recurring marketing channel. One platform activation per month for 12 months
• A 12-month authority content spine that scales the V2E blog from 11 published posts to a full editorial machine
• A first-90-days GTM sequencing plan. What runs in week 1, week 4, week 12 and who or what does it
• An operating system specification: a vendor-agnostic blueprint for the AI agent layer that runs the plan
• A V2E AI System worked example showing how V2E Brain, Farnsworth, Livingston and Visi map onto the blueprint, with the Stage 1 / Stage 2 / Stage 3 rollout sequence
• A defensible valuation framing for V2E's data asset (10,000+ jobs accumulated over five years), with comparables and a productisation pathway
• An AI predictions, threat map and strategic position section. What gets automated, what stays human and where V2E either disrupts the segment or gets disrupted
• A two-to-three-year growth roadmap with quarterly gates aligned to V2E's actual AI rollout
• A 30/60/90-day action plan Michael can execute himself
• A ChatGPT instructions appendix with ready-to-paste prompts so this plan becomes a working document, not a static deliverable
• An honest read on what this plan asks of V2E if run in-house

"I want to use this to discover information about my industry, who we're targeting, create campaigns, landing pages, the whole lot." Michael Read, V2E Discovery Call, 21 April 2026

That ask becomes this plan. Every section that follows is wired to it.

00.5 How V2E Uses This Plan▶Listen

Three audiences, three modes

This plan is built to serve V2E in three different modes simultaneously.

Mode 1. Michael's fishing rod

You like to go fishing. This plan is the rod. Drop sections of it into ChatGPT, Claude or any LLM and pull at threads. Interrogate the archetypes, attack the assumptions, generate the next angle, draft the next post. The plan was structured so every section can be queried standalone. The 14 ready-to-paste prompts in the ChatGPT companion (downloadable separately) are designed specifically for this mode. Section 13 walks through the setup; the standalone v2e-chatgpt-prompts.md contains the full prompt library plus dedicated prompt sets for fishing, for the team and for upskilling.

Mode 2. The V2E sales and marketing team's playbook

The sales team uses Section 02 (Builder Archetypes), Section 02.5 (Builder's Journey) and Section 03 (Wins/Walk-aways) as the daily reference for prospect conversations and triage. The marketing team uses Section 04 (Campaign System), Section 05 (Authority Content) and Section 05.5 (Platform Partnership Program) as the campaign brief and the 12-month calendar. Both teams use the next-steps in Section 11 as the running execution checklist. Set B in the standalone prompts file is built for this mode.

Mode 3. V2E-wide upskilling material

This plan is also a teaching artefact. New hires read it on day one. Tom uses Section 07a (V2E AI System) to brief technical contributors. Carlee, Emma and the production team use Section 02.5 (Builder's Journey) when running the Consultation, Orientation and Next Steps meetings to position where each customer sits and where they're heading. The Builder's Journey table is intentionally a one-page-per-level deliverable that the V2E team can reuse internally. Set C in the standalone prompts file generates onboarding handouts and quizzes from the plan content directly.

A working document, not an artifact

The plan is markdown. It is downloadable. It is plain text. Every claim cites a source. Every campaign has a brief. Every section is queryable.

A recommended weekly rhythm:

How to use the markdown file specifically

The plan ships as a markdown file because markdown is the most useful format for AI tools. Keep a copy on your laptop. Re-upload it to ChatGPT (or Claude, or Gemini) whenever the context resets. Use Section 13 for setup instructions and the 14 prompts. The standalone v2e-chatgpt-prompts.md file (download from the same page as this plan) contains the full prompt library plus three audience-specific prompt sets:

• Set A for Michael (the fishing rod prompts)
• Set B for the V2E sales and marketing team (the playbook prompts)
• Set C for V2E team upskilling (the teaching prompts)

What this plan is NOT

It is not a slide deck. It is not a presentation. It is not designed to be read once and filed. It is designed to be opened, queried, expanded, marked up and re-used every week. The plan is V2E's. Use it that way.

01. The Australian Estimating Services Market▶Listen

Why "Builder DNA" is a category-defining frame

Before we size the market, the frame V2E already uses is worth naming explicitly. From V2E's own blog:

"I call that invisible layer your Builder DNA. It's the way you build: the standards you won't compromise on, the products you trust, your team's structure and the types of jobs you're best suited for."

This is a defensible, ownable concept. It is also the most important word in this entire plan. Every campaign, every piece of content, every agent in the operating system you'll see in Section 07 is wired to "Builder DNA". The plan's job is to make V2E synonymous with it. The way Salesforce became synonymous with "CRM" or HubSpot became synonymous with "inbound."

The market in numbers

The Australian residential pipeline is moving. The December 2025 ABS Building Activity release shows 53,567 dwellings commenced in a single quarter (a +8.0% jump on the previous quarter), with 236,858 dwellings under construction at quarter-end¹. Building approvals for January 2026 came in at 14,564 (seasonally adjusted), softening at the top but with house starts holding (+1.1%)². The residential renovations and additions market sits at roughly the same scale, with HIA reporting renovation activity at $40-50B annually³.

Combined, the addressable Australian residential build-and-renovate market is well above $200B per year, with builders ranging from sole traders through to volume builders running 200+ dwellings annually.

Master Builders Australia reports approximately 35,000-40,000 registered residential builders nationally, with Master Builders Victoria alone holding ~9,000 members and similar numbers in NSW and QLD⁴. The serviceable subset for V2E, builders too small to support a full-time in-house estimator and too sophisticated to settle for software-only, is a substantial 20,000+ businesses nationally.

The Adelaide-to-national reality

V2E is headquartered in Adelaide and serves nationally through digital delivery. The 20-strong team and 3D-model-driven workflow scales without geographic constraint. The constraint is not capacity. It is awareness.

"We provide tailored and accurate residential building estimates using unique 3D technology that's developed and powered by experienced industry experts." V2E LinkedIn page

Cross-referenced against the Facebook page (361 likes), the LinkedIn presence and ranking data from the Google search scan, V2E's brand reach today is strong in South Australia, partner-supported in Victoria via Wunderbuild and undersaturated everywhere else. That is the gap this plan exists to close.

Why the segment is hard

V2E has already solved part of this. The existing blog passes the "share with a mate" test. The opportunity in FY26 is to do more of what already works, at a national cadence, powered by an operating system that makes scale possible without doubling headcount.

02. The Four Builder Archetypes (Aligned to V2E's Tiers)▶Listen

V2E's existing product structure (CORE, PRO, MAX) is itself a clue to the archetypes. Each tier serves a distinct buyer. The campaigns in Section 04 are wired into them.

Archetype 1. The Owner-Operator Carpenter (CORE buyer)

"I'm doing everything. Quoting, ordering, supervising, making sure my apprentices show up. By the time I sit down to my computer, the kids are in bed and I just want to watch the footy."

Archetype 2. The Design-Build Studio Principal (PRO buyer)

"My architect partner won't work with us if our quotes look amateur. Our pricing documents have to match the design package. The whole thing has to feel premium."

Archetype 3. The Volume-Leaning Boutique (MAX buyer)

"We're trying to do 12-15 builds/year without losing the boutique feel. The bottleneck is always estimation and procurement. If we can crack that, we double the business."

Archetype 4. The Timber Framing Specialist (Vertical play, SA-led)

"Truss packages, structural engineering, design reports. We live in this. Other estimators just don't know it the way we do."

How the four shape everything that follows

Each campaign in Section 04 is targeted at one or two archetypes. Each piece of content in Section 05 lands harder for one or two. The roadmap in Section 09 sequences which archetypes V2E should win first, second and third. The four are the spine. Builder DNA is the connective tissue.

A note on Archetype 1 (the Owner-Operator Carpenter)

The Owner-Operator is not ready to buy Enterprise. They need heavy onboarding before V2E's enterprise tier makes sense, and the wrong move is pitching them past where they sit. The right move is meeting them at their level (CORE tier, transactional first job) and showing the journey to L3+ exists, without forcing the climb. The Builder's Journey in the next section is built for that.

02.5 The Builder's Journey: from Competent to Master▶Listen

V2E's existing internal framework defines a six-level progression for residential builders, from solo operator to industry leader. This is the spine of the strategy. Every campaign feeds it. Every conversion goal traces back to it. V2E's products live at Levels 1 and 2; the rest is the journey V2E either guides (via Builder Mastery, Section 04 Campaign 6) or refers out to specialists.

The journey is not a coaching curriculum. It is an outcome map. Each level shows what shifts in the builder's revenue, time and sanity once they reach it.

The six levels at a glance

What the levels look like in outcomes

For every builder reading this plan, the meaningful question is not "where do I sit?" but "what changes when I move up one level?"

What V2E owns versus what V2E enables

V2E's product range is concentrated at L1 and L2. That is correct. L3 to L6 is what the builder builds with V2E's data + their PM platform + their own discipline. The Builder Mastery campaign (Section 04 Campaign 6) is V2E's referral-partner solution to that gap. V2E is the foundation; trained Wunderbuild, Buildxact, Buildertrend, Cubit and Databuild experts are the layer above.

This matters for marketing because most builders don't know the journey exists. They see what they have today and a vague sense of "growing the business" and assume the gap between them and the L6 operator is unbridgeable. The Builder DNA Diagnostic (Campaign 1) places them on the journey explicitly. The Builder Mastery program (Campaign 6) shows them the next step.

How the journey maps to V2E's existing onboarding sequence

V2E already runs a four-meeting customer journey (Consultation → Orientation → Next Steps → Technical Review). The Builder's Journey overlays cleanly:

The Next Steps Session is where Enterprise tier is introduced. Marketing's job is to fill that funnel and pre-condition the conversation.

The 12-month conversion goal

By the end of FY26, V2E should be moving builders through this journey at a measurable rate. The targets:

• L1 entries (new customers): 800-1,200 verified diagnostic completions, 200-300 first-job conversions
• L1 → L2 progression (Enterprise onboarding): 60-90 Enterprise Essential / Integrated subscribers
• L2 → L3 onramp (Builder Mastery referrals): 25-40 builders into the consultancy network
• L5+ partnerships (data-tier customers): 5-10 progressive customers exploring API/MCP access

These numbers are directional, calibrated against V2E's current 50 plans/week throughput target. The marketing plan exists to get the front door volume that makes them achievable.

03. Where V2E Already Wins (and Where to Walk Away)▶Listen

Three jobs V2E should always win

Three jobs V2E should always disqualify

The competitive landscape (from the segment scan)

The Anti-ICP

V2E is not the right partner for builders who: - View estimation as a cost to be minimised, not a discipline to be invested in - Cannot articulate their build types, target margins or repeat customer profile - Ask for a discount before scope is defined - Treat take-offs as a commodity (project-home tier)

Walking away from the wrong customer is the fastest way to grow margins. It is also the cheapest marketing decision V2E can make this year.

The strategic conclusion

V2E's competition is not other estimators. It is the builder's own time, the builder's own self-image as "I should be able to do this myself" and the cognitive cost of switching from spreadsheets to a system. Every campaign in Section 04 frames the choice that way. Every agent in Section 07 is built to do the same.

04. The Five-Campaign System▶Listen

Five named campaigns, each briefed deeply enough to commission tomorrow. Each is wired to one or two archetypes and to V2E's existing voice.

Campaign 1. The Builder DNA Diagnostic

Hook: "Your Builder DNA is leaking $30,000 a job. Here's where and here's how to plug it."

Campaign 2. Saturday Back

Hook: "We give you Saturday back. Everyone else can keep their growth hacks."

Campaign 3. Tender Autopsy

Hook: "Three real builders. Three lost tenders. Three won. Here's what was different."

Campaign 4. The Estimator's Edge

Hook: "The monthly market intel briefing for builders who think a step ahead."

Campaign 5. The Integration Partner Engine

Hook: "V2E plugs into the platform you already run on. Wunderbuild. Buildxact. Buildertrend. Cubit. Databuild. Zavanti. CoConstruct. Nexvia. BuildPrice. Even your Excel."

V2E already integrates with 10 construction management platforms. v1 named four. v2 names all of them and treats the network as a recurring channel, not a one-off campaign. The full per-platform briefs sit in Section 05.5 (the Platform Partnership Program). Below is the campaign-level summary.

Platform tier and activation order

The full per-platform brief (audience profile, pitch angle, content type, mechanic, success metric) is in Section 05.5.

Campaign 6. Builder Mastery Consultancy

Hook: "V2E gets you to Level 2. Builder Mastery gets you to Level 6."

This is the campaign that resolves the L3-L6 gap surfaced in Section 02.5. V2E's products are concentrated at Levels 1-2. Levels 3-6 are where the builder builds the rest of their business. Construction management, financials, CRM, marketing, people. V2E doesn't sell those services. So V2E sets up a referral consultancy with 2-3 trained PM-platform experts who coach builders through the journey, platform-agnostic by design.

How the six fit together

The Builder DNA Diagnostic (front door, all archetypes)
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Saturday Back (warms Owner-Operators)
The Estimator's Edge (warms Design-Build, Volume Boutique, Timber)
The Integration Partner Engine (warms Design-Build, Volume Boutique. Across 10 platforms)
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Tender Autopsy (closes high-intent prospects)
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V2E onboarding via existing meeting sequence (Consultation → Orientation → Next Steps)
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CORE / PRO / MAX tier match (L1-L2 baseline)
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Builder Mastery Consultancy (L3-L6 referral pathway → Enterprise tier upgrade)

The entry asset is the Builder DNA Diagnostic. Every campaign in the middle warms specific archetypes. Tender Autopsy closes high-intent. V2E's existing onboarding meetings convert. Builder Mastery is the ladder up. And the lock-in for the Enterprise tier that becomes V2E's recurring annuity. The diagnostic also feeds the knowledge base (Section 07) with first-party data on every builder who completes it.

05. The Authority Content Spine▶Listen

V2E already publishes. The blog has eleven posts as of this writing, and they are good. Punchy, problem-led, builder-fluent. The opportunity is to scale and systemise, not start from zero.

What's already there (the audit)

That is enough material for the foundational SPEAK content database (database #8 in the knowledge base, Section 07). The plan from here is frequency, distribution and topic sequencing, not invention.

The five SPEAK pillars, instantiated for V2E

A note on SPEAK. SPEAK is a founder-voice and content framework developed by Evelyn Lopez Delon and productised at SpeakStudio.ai. It is optional but powerful, particularly for V2E if Michael wants a sustainable founder-led posting cadence on LinkedIn and via the V2E blog without burning out. V2E has three honest paths: (a) run the Voice session and ongoing cadence with Evelyn directly, (b) subscribe to SpeakStudio.ai for the templates, prompts and structure or (c) use the five-pillar framework below as a guide for the V2E team to capture Michael's voice in-house. The plan describes the structure either way; SPEAK is what gives the structure repeatability.

The cadence

The 12-month editorial rhythm

By month twelve, V2E will have produced approximately 52 LinkedIn long-form posts, 12 newsletters, 8-10 long-form blogs, 2 major reports, 4 webinars and 4 partner-led activations. That is what category leadership looks like.

05.5 The Platform Partnership Program▶Listen

V2E integrates with 10 construction management platforms. v1 of this plan named four. v2 names all of them and treats the integration network as a recurring channel. One platform activation per month, 12 in FY26. Not a one-off campaign.

This is the strategic pillar between Authority Content (Section 05) and GTM (Section 06). Each platform gets a per-platform brief covering who its audience is, what V2E says to that audience, what content type fits, what referral mechanic ships and what success looks like.

Why a program, not a campaign

A campaign runs out. A program compounds. Each platform partnership produces three artefacts that work for V2E indefinitely:

1. Co-branded content that lives on both V2E's site and the partner's site. Backlink and SEO compounds for both.
2. Audience exchange. V2E's email list grows; the partner's list grows. Joint promotions are net-positive for both sides.
3. Decision-stage proof. When a builder is choosing between V2E and a competitor, "V2E integrates with the platform you already use" turns into a closing line.

The program is sequenced across the year. Tier 1 in months 1-3, Tier 2 in months 4-7, Tier 3 in months 8-10, Tier 4 in months 11-12. Cadence is one new partner activation per month. Not all 10 at once.

The lifecycle (every partnership runs through five stages)

1. Identify. Confirm alignment (audience overlap, mutual gain, integration depth).
2. Align. Exec-to-exec call (Michael × partner founder/MD). Agree the asset, the timing, the success metric.
3. Co-create. Joint draft, mutual review. V2E does the heavy content lifting; partner contributes data, quotes, audience.
4. Distribute. Both sides ship to their audiences in the same week.
5. Review. Measure outcomes (referred enquiries, joint pipeline, content downloads). Decide next move.

Per-platform briefs

Tier 1. Warm partners + AU SMB strongholds (months 1-3)

Wunderbuild. Top priority

Buildxact (closest direct competitor. Co-position, don't co-market)

Tier 2. Strong AU base (months 4-7)

Buildertrend

Cubit (Buildsoft)

Databuild

Tier 3. Strategic but smaller (months 8-10)

Zavanti

CoConstruct

Nexvia

Tier 4. Defensive long-tail (months 11-12)

MS Excel + BuildPrice

The annual calendar at a glance

Operating discipline

• One owner per platform within V2E (could be Michael, could be Megan, could be a future hire). Owner is responsible for the relationship, the content brief and the review cycle.
• One quarterly partner review with each Tier 1 partner. Light bi-annual review with Tier 2-3.
• Content reuse rule: every co-branded asset gets recut into LinkedIn (3 posts), email (1 send), the Estimator's Edge (1 highlight), the Builder DNA Index (data point). No asset ships once.
• Measurement standard: UTM tracking on every co-branded link; partner-attributed enquiries logged in the knowledge base (DB13: Companies and Partners. Section 07).

By end of FY26, V2E will have shipped 12 platform-specific activations, 5+ recurring co-promotion mechanics and a partner-attributed pipeline that is independently measurable. That is the definition of a program.

06. GTM Recommendations: Sequencing the First 90 Days▶Listen

This section is the bridge between strategy (Sections 02-05) and operating system (Section 07). It answers: what runs in week 1, week 4, week 12 and who or what does it.

Principle: every campaign produces inputs that train the system

Every asset, every reply, every diagnostic completion is training data for the knowledge base and the agents that read it. The first 90 days are not just the launch of a marketing engine. They are the data-collection phase that makes the operating system smarter at month 4 than it was at month 1.

Days 1-30: Foundation + Front Door

Days 1-30 outputs: 200+ Builder DNA Diagnostics completed, 50+ qualified email replies, 5+ booked Fifteen-Minute Friday calls, 1,500+ LinkedIn impressions on Michael's profile, weekly cadence locked in.

Days 31-60: Authority + Tender Autopsy

Days 31-60 outputs: 500+ diagnostics, 20+ Friday calls, 3 Tender Autopsy participants signed, 1 Estimator's Edge edition delivered, 1 partner piece live, ~5,000 LinkedIn impressions/week sustained.

Days 61-90: Conversion + Compounding

Days 61-90 outputs: 1,000+ diagnostics, first 8-12 customers attributable to FY26 marketing system, 250+ newsletter subscribers, full operating system running with V2E team operating most of it day-to-day.

Channel mix and budget split (recommended)

Who does what (the org map)

The headline shift: V2E does not need to hire a marketer. It needs to commission an operating system, and use the existing 20-person team to feed and review it.

07. The Operating System: a vendor-agnostic blueprint▶Listen

This section is the build brief. Every campaign in Section 04 and every GTM move in Section 06 maps to one or more components below. The blueprint is intentionally vendor-agnostic. V2E can build it in-house, commission an agency or buy components from a SaaS vendor. The shape of the system is what matters.

The three layers

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  LAYER 3. IDENTITY-AWARE ACCESS                            │
│  Email-verified gateway in front of V2E's IP. Audit logs,  │
│  device trust, GeoIP scoping. Off-the-shelf solutions      │
│  available (identity-aware access, Tailscale, Cisco Duo, etc). │
├────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  LAYER 2. AI AGENT LAYER                                   │
│  Five functional agents (research, targeting, messaging,   │
│  content, response). Each wired to a specific campaign and │
│  a specific archetype. Implemented on any modern LLM       │
│  orchestration stack (n8n, LangChain, Make, Zapier AI).    │
├────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  LAYER 1. KNOWLEDGE BASE                                   │
│  V2E's IP captured as structured documents + vector        │
│  embeddings. Builder DNA, ICP, personas, competitive       │
│  intel, value stack, market intelligence. Stored in any    │
│  vector DB (Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector, Chroma).         │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Layer 1. The knowledge base (V2E's brain)

Twelve to fourteen knowledge databases capturing V2E's IP. Of particular relevance to V2E:

Layer 2. AI agent layer (V2E's digital workforce)

Five AI sub-agents, each tied to one of Michael's stated use cases:

Approval workflow: every outbound message passes a human approval queue. The AI agent layer is a force multiplier, not an unsupervised firehose. Michael is the bottleneck only on strategy and tone; the V2E team handles approvals daily.

Layer 3. Identity-aware access (V2E's access layer)

The knowledge base holds V2E's IP. The AI agent layer holds customer lists, campaign assets, active conversations. None of it should be a public surface.

The recommended pattern is an identity-aware proxy with email-verified policies, secure tunnelling for internal services without exposed firewall ports, optional device trust on sensitive surfaces, full audit logs and GeoIP scoping. Multiple off-the-shelf solutions ship this pattern (identity-aware access, Tailscale, Cisco Duo, Google IAP, AWS IAM Identity Center). None require V2E to install or maintain hardware.

Why this stack, why now

A custom-builder marketing system without this stack is achievable. It is also a system that fades the moment a marketer leaves, the moment a competitor copies the surface content or the moment Michael's voice drifts in someone else's hands.

With this stack, the system is defensible, transferable and durable. It is also exactly the kind of system that makes V2E AI-resilient (Section 08).

07a V2E's AI System (a worked example)▶Listen

Section 07 is the vendor-agnostic blueprint. Section 07a is what V2E is actually building, in V2E's own naming convention. Tom is leading the build. The roadmap below comes directly from V2E's internal AI System document and the four-component architecture it specifies.

The four named components

The three stages

V2E's AI rollout has three stages, sequenced over FY26 and FY27. The marketing plan must feed each stage.

Stage 1. Drawing automation via Livingston (FY26 Q1-Q2, in build now)

• What ships: Livingston handles the takeoff and drawing-prep work that today consumes 5-7 days of human time per build. Goal: cut turnaround from 10-14 days to 5 days.
• Capacity unlock: V2E's existing production team can serve roughly 4-5x more builders without hiring. The "V8 engine" Michael talks about is Stage 1 capacity.
• What marketing has to do: Fill the engine. Stage 1 is wasted if marketing doesn't bring 4,000 builders to the front door instead of 40. The Builder DNA Diagnostic, the Saturday Back sequence, the Platform Partnership Program (Section 05.5). These exist to fill Stage 1's capacity before it goes idle.

Stage 2. Visi customer chatbot (FY26 Q3-Q4)

• What ships: Visi goes live as the customer-facing 3D model interrogator. Builders log in, ask questions, get answers in natural language about their build. Reduces the support load on Carlee, Tom and Emma.
• What marketing has to do: Position Visi as the differentiator competitors can't match. It's the visible expression of V2E's data + AI moat. Featured in the Tender Autopsy webinars (Section 04.3), in the Builder DNA Index annual report (Section 05) and in the Wunderbuild + Buildxact decision guides (Section 05.5).

Stage 3. Full autonomy + headless API + MCP (FY27)

• What ships: Farnsworth coordinates internal sub-agents end-to-end. V2E offers a headless API + Model Context Protocol surface. The Enterprise tier becomes "the only estimator with an MCP-accessible data layer". I.e. the builder's own AI agents can pull V2E quotes, prices and BOQ data on demand.
• What marketing has to do: Reframe V2E's positioning from "estimator who uses AI" to "estimator that owns its AI." Stage 3 is the foundation for the Data Asset Valuation in Section 08a. It is the productisation pathway that turns 10,000 jobs of historical data into a balance-sheet asset. Marketing in FY27 is about reaching the larger volume builders and enterprise developers who buy via API.

The marketing-AI feedback loop

Each stage of V2E's AI rollout produces compounding marketing benefit, and each marketing campaign produces compounding AI training value. The feedback loop is:

Marketing brings builders to V2E.
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Builders complete the Builder DNA Diagnostic + use Visi + buy CORE/PRO/MAX.
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Every interaction trains V2E Brain (more data, more patterns, more defensibility).
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V2E Brain makes Livingston faster, Visi smarter, Farnsworth sharper.
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V2E's product is better. Marketing has more proof.
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Marketing brings more builders.

Stage 1 is the unlock. Stage 2 is the proof. Stage 3 is the moat. The marketing plan is the petrol that runs through all three.

What V2E should NOT build (and why)

There is one strategic discipline worth naming: V2E should not build the things its partners build better. Specifically:

• Project management software. Wunderbuild, Buildertrend, Buildxact already do this. V2E integrates; it doesn't compete.
• General-purpose AI assistants. The hyperscalers (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google) build these. V2E is domain-specific.
• Construction CRM. Zavanti and HubSpot already do this. V2E feeds its data into the builder's existing CRM.

V2E's AI is vertical, domain-specific and IP-rich. That is the moat. Anything outside the moat dilutes the focus.

08. AI Predictions, Threat Map and V2E's Strategic Position▶Listen

This is the section most marketing plans skip. It is the section that matters most.

The prediction (12-36 months)

The estimating profession is on the list of professions where AI compresses the work fastest. Manual takeoffs from 2D plans are already partially solvable by computer vision models. By the end of FY27, "good enough" estimates from PDF plans will be one prompt away for any builder with a $20/month Claude or ChatGPT subscription.

This is not a possibility. It is a near-certainty. The question is not whether AI compresses estimating. The question is what V2E does with the 24-36 months of headroom that exist before it does.

The threat map for V2E

What gets automated, what gets fired, what stays human

This is the uncomfortable truth section. The honest read:

The pivot V2E should make (and the reason)

V2E's job over FY26-FY27 is to move up the value chain before the bottom commoditises. That means:

1. Lock in Builder DNA as the category-defining frame. Rename the methodology if needed; trademark if commercially appropriate. Make V2E synonymous with this frame in builder publications, conferences and integration partner channels.
2. Reposition the service from "outsourced takeoff" to "trusted estimator + verification layer". As AI estimates become commodity, the human layer becomes "who do I trust to check this and stand behind it?". V2E becomes that layer.
3. Productise the integration depth. V2E's 10+ software integrations are a defensible moat. Other estimators do not have this. Lean into it as a category position: "the estimator that integrates with everything you already use."
4. Acquire the verification and AI-checked tier of work that's coming. As AI estimates flood the market, builders will pay premium for human-checked, brand-stamped certainty. V2E should be the brand they pay for.
5. License the Builder DNA methodology by FY28. Other estimators (regional, smaller) can license V2E's framework, intake and AI-stack in exchange for a share. V2E becomes a platform, not just a service.

Why this architecture is structurally on the right side of the shift

The blueprint in Section 07 is not a marketing tool. It is the architecture that survives the AI compression because it is built on AI rather than threatened by it.

The knowledge base captures the human IP that AI cannot replicate (Builder DNA, founder voice, customer relationships). The agent layer does the work that AI was always going to do anyway, but owned by V2E instead of leased from Buildxact's or Cubit's roadmap. The identity-aware access layer protects the IP on top.

When AI estimating commoditises in FY28, V2E's competitors will be using third-party AI tools they don't own. V2E will be running its own AI-native operating system, trained on its own IP, with its own brand on the output. The asymmetry compounds every quarter.

The line worth walking away with: V2E is not the estimator that uses AI. V2E is the estimator that owns its AI.

Practical implication for the FY26 plan

Every campaign in Section 04 has been designed to feed the knowledge base with the data that makes V2E AI-defensible. Every Builder DNA Diagnostic completion is training data. Every reply, every approved email, every blog draft fed into the Voice Stream is voice capture. By the end of FY26, V2E owns a knowledge base that no competitor can replicate without rebuilding from scratch. And that is a 24-36-month head start no software vendor can close.

08a V2E's Data Asset Valuation▶Listen

This section quantifies what Section 08 only implied. V2E has spent five years accumulating something rarer than software: structured, AU-specific, residential-build estimating data. 10,000+ jobs taken to date. Each job is a BOQ + 3D model + material takeoffs + supplier pricing + builder choices. Together they form a data asset that almost no one else in Australia owns at this depth.

This is the asset Michael called "the value we naturally own." Below is a defensible valuation framing, the comparable-company evidence and the productisation pathway that converts the data from a cost centre into a balance-sheet item.

What V2E owns

Comparable-company framing

Construction data businesses transact at meaningful valuations. Below is the comparable set that frames where V2E's data sits.

These businesses sit at the valuation ceiling. V2E is not a $1B platform. But the comparison establishes the upper boundary of what construction data can be worth when productised. The transaction multiples that recur in this space sit in the 6-10x ARR range at acquisition (sources: CRE-tech transaction histories) and that is the framing reference for V2E.

Conservative and aggressive framings for V2E

Two ways to read V2E's data asset, both defensible:

Conservative. Defensive moat valuation

V2E's data is worth what an acquirer would pay to skip 5 years of data accumulation. That is the cost-to-replicate. For a serious AU competitor or a US tool entering AU, replication costs:

• 5 years of operational time
• A 20-person production team accumulating jobs
• AU-specific pricing relationships and supplier integrations
• Builder-side trust and brand

Conservative cost-to-replicate framing: $5-15M. This is the floor. It's the valuation V2E should never sell below. It's what a strategic acquirer would pay just to skip the wait.

Aggressive. Productised data licensing valuation

V2E productises the data via the Stage 3 headless API + MCP layer (Section 07a). The Enterprise tier becomes the "MCP-accessible AU residential build dataset." Builders' AI agents pull from V2E directly. Other estimators license the V2E methodology + data feed. The data becomes a revenue stream, not a cost centre.

In this framing:

• API/license tier: small estimators pay $X/month for read access to anonymised AU build data
• Enterprise data licensing: large builders / developers / banks pay $XX/month for analytic feeds
• Tool-side licensing: AI takeoff tools (Togal, Beam, future AU equivalents) license V2E data as a regional reference

Aggressive valuation framing: $25-75M if V2E builds out the licensing tier, with revenue multiples of 6-10x ARR landing in line with construction-data-platform comparables. This is achievable within 24-36 months IF the productisation roadmap (Stage 3) is funded and shipped.

Important: these are framings, not audited figures. The real valuation only crystallises when V2E either raises capital, sells the business or licenses the data formally. The point of the framing is to make sure V2E (a) prices its Enterprise tier knowing what the underlying asset is worth, (b) doesn't give the data away through overly cheap APIs and (c) makes investment decisions consistent with the upside.

The productisation pathway

Three concrete moves convert V2E's data from "stuff sitting in our database" to "an asset on the balance sheet":

1. MCP-accessible Enterprise tier (FY26 Q3-Q4). Build a Model Context Protocol surface so Enterprise customers' AI agents can query V2E's data on demand. This is a Stage 3 deliverable from Section 07a but the marketing positioning is owned by Section 05 and Section 05.5. It's the "Enterprise difference" headline.

2. Headless API for partners (FY27 H1). The integration partners in Section 05.5 already pull V2E data via webhooks and one-off integrations. Productise this as a formal API. License it with a metering model (per call, per build, per month).

3. Anonymised data licensing pilot (FY27 H2). Pick one segment. E.g. AU construction-cost-index publishers, or a specific bank's lending team. And pilot a quarterly anonymised data feed. If the pilot prices at $50-100k/year, the path to $1M+ ARR in data licensing is mapped.

Why this matters now (and not in 2 years)

Two windows are closing:

• Window 1: AU competitive head start. US AI takeoff tools (Togal, Beam, others) are 12-24 months ahead. They have data, model maturity and budget. When they enter AU at scale (FY28-FY29), they'll either license AU data from someone or build it. V2E has 24-36 months to be the someone they license from.

• Window 2: AI buyer demand. Anthropic, OpenAI and Google are paying for high-quality, vertical-specific training and inference data. Construction is one of the largest and least-digitised industries. AU residential builds is a clean, structured, high-value dataset. The buyer pool is nascent today. By FY28 it'll be mature.

The marketing plan in Section 04 and Section 05 is the engine that grows V2E's customer base. The data asset valuation is the second revenue line that the customer base produces as a side effect. Marketing brings builders. Builders generate jobs. Jobs generate data. Data productises. Data licenses. The asset compounds independently of the service margin.

The line worth walking away with: V2E is not just an estimating business. V2E is an AU residential construction data company that sells a service today and licenses the data tomorrow.

09. The 2-3 Year Roadmap▶Listen

Each quarter has a measurable gate. There is no "execute the plan for three years and hope." There is only "earn the right to the next quarter." This roadmap is now aligned to V2E's three AI stages (Section 07a) so the marketing plan and the AI build move together, not on parallel tracks.

FY26. Foundation. Stage 1 (Drawing Automation via Livingston)

The job of FY26 is to fill V2E's V8 engine. Stage 1 production capacity expands roughly 4-5x. Marketing has to fill it. Every campaign in Section 04 and every partner activation in Section 05.5 ships in service of that goal.

FY27. Scale + Strategic Position. Stage 2 (Visi) and Stage 3 (Headless API + MCP) lift-off

FY28. Productise + License. Data licensing pilot, methodology export

Honesty clause

Years two and three are directional. They will be revised at the end of FY26 based on what the data shows. The job of FY26 is to make FY27 and FY28 obvious. The campaigns and the operating system are the levers. The AI stages and the data asset are the long-game prizes.

10. What This Plan Asks of V2E▶Listen

A plan that does not honestly account for what it costs to run is a sales pitch, not a plan. Here's what executing this work in-house looks like, in commitment terms rather than dollar terms. The numbers are a conversation worth having properly with whichever partner V2E chooses to work with, not in a document.

The in-house build: what it asks of V2E

Plus four risks the line items do not capture:

The three viable build paths

V2E has three reasonable ways to commission this plan. Each one has different time, cost and ownership profiles.

This plan is V2E's, regardless of which path is chosen. Every campaign brief, every persona, every piece in Section 05 is yours to use. The choice is about the operating system underneath, not the strategy on top.

11. Recommended Next Steps▶Listen

The strategy is V2E's. What follows is a sequenced set of moves V2E can take in the next 30, 60 and 90 days, regardless of which build path V2E chooses. Each action below has the same five-line shape: what ships, why it matters now, how to start, who owns it and what success looks like.

Next 30 days

1. Internalise the Builder DNA frame across the V2E team

• What: 90-minute team session walking the four archetypes (Section 02), the Builder's Journey L1-L6 (Section 02.5), the wins/walk-away grid (Section 03) and the campaign list (Section 04 + Section 05.5).
• Why now: Every customer conversation in the next quarter compounds when the team uses one frame. Without it, marketing ships and sales reverts to the old vocabulary.
• How: Block the calendar. Print this plan. Walk it section by section. Capture three things per person: which archetype they think we serve best, which level of the Journey their best customers are at, which campaign they want to help ship.
• Owner: Michael (chairs the session). Megan + Tom + Carlee + Emma + Vinny attending.
• Success: Each person can name the four archetypes and the six levels of the Journey from memory. Stuck on the wall.

2. Lock the Tier 1 partner alignment (Wunderbuild + Buildxact)

• What: Two phone calls. One with Hashi at Wunderbuild to confirm the FY26 co-promotion plan. One with Buildxact's partner manager to confirm the co-position decision-guide approach.
• Why now: Tier 1 partner activations are the lowest-cost, highest-leverage motions in this plan. The Wunderbuild partnership has heat; convert it before it cools. Buildxact's "co-position not co-market" needs explicit alignment before content ships.
• How: Hashi call this week. Buildxact within 14 days. Use Section 05.5 brief as the agenda.
• Owner: Michael (founder-to-founder for both). Megan supports content scoping.
• Success: Two signed-off partner briefs (one per platform), shared activation calendar agreed for months 1-3.

3. Pick a build path for the operating system

• What: Decide in-house, agency build-and-train or SaaS-stitched (Section 10).
• Why now: Time to first revenue depends on this decision. Every week without a path = a week the operating system isn't being built.
• How: Spend two hours on the Section 10 trade-off table. Talk to one reference per path before deciding. Don't try to do all three at once.
• Owner: Michael + Megan jointly.
• Success: A written one-pager naming the chosen path, the time-to-first-asset estimate and the FY26 budget allocation.

4. Stand up the four confidential attachments as inputs to the knowledge base

• What: The V2E AI System docx, Builder's Journey xlsx, Initial Enquiry Meeting PDF and Full Product Suite PDF (already shared) seed the V2E Brain (Section 07a) on day one.
• Why now: Every later marketing asset references these documents. The Builder's Journey table is what salespeople will reach for in customer conversations within 60 days.
• How: Whichever build path is chosen, the four documents go into the knowledge base in week 1. Tag them appropriately (canonical naming for AI agents, archetype mapping for personas, journey level for capability).
• Owner: Megan (operations).
• Success: All four documents indexed and queryable by week 4. AI-drafted email replies referencing the Builder's Journey within 30 days.

5. Voice capture. Session 1

• What: 60-90 minute recorded session with Michael walking the founder origin story, the Builder DNA frame in his words and the "what V2E does for builders like you" line.
• Why now: Founder voice is the asset that cannot be outsourced or AI-generated. Every campaign in Section 04 needs it.
• How: Block the calendar. Record on Otter or Riverside. Transcribe. Store in the Voice Stream (Section 07).
• Owner: Michael speaks; Megan operates.
• Success: One transcript, one summary, three "punchy quotes" pulled and pinned for content reuse.

Next 60 days

6. Ship the Builder DNA Diagnostic v1

• What: The gated landing page + scorecard logic + personalised PDF output. The front door for every campaign.
• Why now: Everything else feeds from or back to the diagnostic. Without it, Saturday Back has nothing to drive to and the Authority content has no conversion mechanic.
• How: Build path determines the implementation route (Section 10). Use the four archetypes as the scoring matrix.
• Owner: The chosen build path's operator (in-house marketer, agency or fractional CTO).
• Success: Diagnostic live by day 60. Existing V2E quiz traffic redirected. First 50 completions in the wild.

7. Run Saturday Back v1 against the existing V2E builder list

• What: The 5-email sequence (Section 04 Campaign 2) targeting V2E's existing list. Both customers and lapsed enquiries. Before scaling to cold outbound.
• Why now: Warm-list test reveals voice fit, sequence pacing and reply rate before cold deployment risk. It's free volume.
• How: Messaging agent drafts in Michael's voice (Voice Stream feeds it). Michael reviews 100% of v1.
• Owner: Build-path operator. Michael as voice-quality gate.
• Success: 3-5% positive reply rate vs the 1% industry baseline. Sequence iterated based on actual replies.

8. Wunderbuild co-content piece live

• What: The first co-branded asset (long-form blog or decision guide) with Wunderbuild. Founder-on-founder thread to follow.
• Why now: Tier 1 partner momentum is the easiest early win. Hashi's audience is V2E's audience. Cost is mostly time.
• How: Co-write with Wunderbuild content team. Both sides ship to their audiences in the same week. UTM tracked for partner-attributed enquiries.
• Owner: Michael (founder voice), Megan (production), Hashi at Wunderbuild.
• Success: 1 piece live by day 60. 200+ partner-driven referrals to V2E site within 30 days of publishing.

9. Voice capture. Session 2

• What: Second recorded session with Michael focused on the Builder's Journey (Section 02.5). What L6 looks like, why builders should aspire to it, who he's seen do it.
• Why now: The Journey content is the spine of all customer conversations and the Builder Mastery campaign (Campaign 6) needs founder voice on the topic.
• How: Same as Session 1. Use Section 02.5 as conversation prompt.
• Owner: Michael + Megan.
• Success: Transcript stored. At least three Journey-specific quotes pulled and ready to thread into content.

10. Brief the FY26 Q1 outcomes review

• What: Pre-define what success looks like in Q1 (Section 09). The team needs to know what they're aiming for, not just what they're doing.
• Why now: Without pre-defined gates, Q1 ends with "we shipped a lot" rather than "we shipped against a target."
• How: Take Section 09's Q1 row. Convert to a one-page tracking sheet. Update weekly.
• Owner: Megan (operations) + Michael (sign-off).
• Success: Q1 dashboard live by day 60. Weekly 15-minute review meeting in the calendar.

Next 90 days

11. Publish the first Tender Autopsy case study

• What: Three-customer case study (start with GDC Built per existing V2E reviews page). One lost tender vs one won tender, anonymised, structurally compared.
• Why now: Authority pillar's strongest asset. Builders trust peer evidence over vendor copy. Sets up the Tender Autopsy webinar in Q2.
• How: Sign customers, interview them, V2E content team writes, Michael edits, ship across LinkedIn + email + V2E blog.
• Owner: Megan + content agent. Michael edits.
• Success: 1 published case study by day 90. 2,000+ LinkedIn impressions on the share. 50+ webinar registrations off the back of it.

12. First Tier 2 partner activation (Buildertrend or Cubit)

• What: Marketplace listing or joint white paper with the second-priority partner.
• Why now: Tier 2 momentum starts before Tier 1 finishes. The cadence is one new partner activation per month from month 4 onward (Section 05.5).
• How: Reach out to partner manager in week 8-10. Co-create asset in weeks 11-13. Ship in week 13-14.
• Owner: Build-path operator. Michael fronts the founder-level intro.
• Success: 1 Tier 2 piece live by day 90. First Tier 2 partner-attributed enquiry tracked.

13. Builder Mastery Consultancy v1. Pick the first specialist

• What: Identify and onboard the first vetted specialist for Builder Mastery (Campaign 6). Wunderbuild expert is the natural first choice.
• Why now: Builders won't step up to Enterprise just because of a price point. The L3-L6 referral path needs a face. Day 90 is when the first builder is ready to move from CORE/PRO/MAX to Enterprise. They need someone to refer to.
• How: Identify 3 candidates. Interview each. Select 1 to start. Co-design the Builder Mastery roadmap (one-pager per level).
• Owner: Michael (founder-to-founder selection).
• Success: 1 specialist signed by day 90. First builder enrolled in Builder Mastery by day 120.

14. Run Q1 outcomes review against Section 09 gates

• What: Compare Q1 actuals to the targets set in Section 09. Honest review. Adjust Q2 plan accordingly.
• Why now: The plan is built for honest revision, not blind execution. End-of-Q1 is the first decision point.
• How: Use the Q1 tracking sheet from action #10. Run a 90-minute review with Michael + Megan + the build-path operator.
• Owner: Megan facilitates. Michael decides.
• Success: One-page Q1 review document. Specific Q2 changes listed (drop X, double down on Y, restart Z).

15. Surface the data asset story to the board / advisors

• What: Walk Section 08a with the V2E board, advisors or investors (whichever applies). Get sign-off on the productisation pathway as a strategic priority.
• Why now: Stage 2 + Stage 3 of V2E's AI rollout (Visi + MCP, Section 07a) need budget and headcount. The data asset valuation framing is the strategic argument that unlocks the budget.
• How: Use Section 08a as the brief. Pre-read 24 hours before the meeting. Have the conservative + aggressive valuation framings ready.
• Owner: Michael.
• Success: Board / advisor alignment that the data asset is a balance-sheet item, not a cost centre. Stage 2 + 3 budget approved.

Beyond 90 days. The discipline

The plan is set up so that a single month's slip doesn't kill the system. But three months of slippage does. The discipline is:

• Monthly check-in against Section 09 quarterly gates.
• Quarterly review of the campaign system (Section 04 + Section 05.5). Drop what's not working. Double down on what is.
• Annual revision at the end of FY26 Q4. The Section 09 roadmap for FY27 should be rewritten then, not blindly followed.

The plan is V2E's. The execution is V2E's. The advisor's job (whoever fills it) is to keep the calendar honest.

A note on this document

This plan is V2E's, paid in full. The IP, the frameworks, the persona work, the campaign briefs and the operating system blueprint all belong to V2E. Use it however serves the business best. Including uploading it to ChatGPT (see Section 13 for instructions and prompts), sharing with partners or handing it to whichever team or agency executes the build.

12. Methodology and Sources▶Listen

This plan was prepared in April 2026 by Adam Lopez Delon, drawing on:

1. A 30-minute discovery conversation with Michael Read on 21 April 2026
2. A full Apify-driven crawl of v2e.com.au (30 pages) on 27 April 2026
3. An Apify Google Search competitor and segment scan across eight query batches on 27 April 2026
4. Publicly available industry data from the sources cited below
5. Direct experience deploying similar AI operating system architectures for Australian SMBs

Market sizing in Section 01 should be read as publicly defensible estimates, not audited figures. Where the source is the Australian Bureau of Statistics, figures are drawn from the most recent reporting cycle available at the time of writing. V2E should treat these numbers as directionally correct and verify before using them in customer-facing materials.

Cited sources

¹ Australian Bureau of Statistics. Building Activity, Australia (most recent quarterly release, accessed April 2026) ² Australian Bureau of Statistics. Building Approvals, by State (most recent quarterly release) ³ Housing Industry Association. Renovations Roundup and segment commentary, 2024-2025 ⁴ Master Builders Australia + Master Builders Victoria membership data, publicly reported

V2E primary research

• v2e.com.au full-site crawl (30 pages) including pillar pages: Avoid Costly Construction Mistakes, Cut Estimating Time & Reduce Stress, Win More High-Value Contracts, Seamless Integration with Your Workflow, Solutions, About V2E, Data Matching, Full Build Estimating and 11 blog posts.
• Voice and tone samples from V2E's "The 4 Shifts That Quietly Drain Profit Margins" and "Budget Blind Spots" articles, used as primary input for the SPEAK voice mapping in Section 05.
• Customer testimonial: Grant Crapp, GDC Built (referenced in Section 04 as Tender Autopsy candidate).

Competitive scan sources

Buildxact reviews (Connecteam, Capterra, Software Advice, Reddit r/Construction); Databuild reviews (Software Advice); offshore estimating market (Beepo, OutsourcedStaff, Platinum Outsourcing); Australian estimating service competitors (Nedes, Arch10, BluLevel, OptiBuild, AVL, Matrix); marketing agency landscape for Australian builders (Arrow Agency, Building Boom, BuilderContentMarketing, Tenfold Coaching).

Cost-comparison sources (Section 10)

Salary ranges drawn from Seek.com.au advertised mid-senior B2B marketing roles in Australia, March-April 2026. Tool costs drawn from publicly listed pricing on HubSpot, Mailchimp, Canva and equivalents. Founder time treated as opportunity cost at consulting-grade rates.

A note on the author

This plan was prepared by Adam Lopez Delon for Vision 2 Estimating in April 2026. The methodology underpinning Section 07 is the same architecture pattern used to run several Australian B2B operations across agritech, cybersecurity and professional services.

13. How to Use This Plan with ChatGPT▶Listen

This plan is most useful when V2E uses it as a working document, not a one-time read. ChatGPT (or Claude or any modern LLM) can interrogate the plan, refine its arguments, draft assets against it and audit V2E's existing work against its recommendations.

A separate, ready-to-paste prompts file is published alongside this plan: v2e-chatgpt-prompts.md (download from the same page as this plan). The instructions below explain the setup and the most useful prompts.

Setup (5 minutes, one-time)

1. Open ChatGPT (chatgpt.com). The Plus plan ($20/month USD) gives access to GPT-5 and document upload, which is recommended.
2. Start a new chat. Click the paperclip icon and upload the v2e-marketing-plan.md file (the markdown version, downloadable from the same page as this plan).
3. Paste the system prompt below into the first message before adding your own question. ChatGPT will treat the plan as authoritative for the rest of the conversation.

Recommended system prompt (copy and paste at the start of any chat):

I have just uploaded V2E's FY26 marketing plan. You are now my "V2E AI Strategist." Your job is to help me execute, refine and expand this plan. You should treat the plan as authoritative on V2E's strategy, voice, archetypes (the four Builder DNA archetypes), the Builder's Journey (L1-L6), the campaign system (Campaigns 1-6), the Platform Partnership Program (10 platforms across 4 tiers), the operating system blueprint (Section 07), V2E's AI System (V2E Brain, Farnsworth, Livingston, Visi. Section 07a) and the data asset valuation framework (Section 08a). When I ask a question, ground your answer in the plan first, then add your own reasoning. Use Australian English. Don't sound like a generic AI. Sound like a strategic operator who has read the plan and worked through it.

For best results, also create a Custom GPT in ChatGPT (Plus plan only) with the system prompt above as the GPT's "Instructions" field and the marketing plan attached as a knowledge file. Name the GPT "V2E AI Strategist." Then every chat with that GPT inherits the context automatically.

The 12 ready-to-paste prompts

Each prompt is designed to produce useful output in one shot. Substitute the {...} placeholders with V2E specifics.

A. ICP refinement. Audit my customer list against the four archetypes

Here is my current V2E customer list (or a sample): {paste 5-15 customer names + 1-line description each}. Map each one to the four Builder DNA archetypes from Section 02. Where you're not sure, say so. Then tell me: which archetype is currently my strongest segment by revenue? Which is my fastest-growing? Which one am I missing entirely?

B. Campaign expansion. Write Saturday Back email 1 in Michael's voice

Use the Saturday Back campaign brief from Section 04 Campaign 2. Draft email 1 of the 5-email sequence. The reader is Archetype 1 (Owner-Operator Carpenter). Length: under 120 words. Voice: my voice (Michael Read), based on the SPEAK references in Section 05. Hook on the "you can't keep pricing on Saturdays" pain. End with a soft Fifteen-Minute Friday Call CTA. Don't sound corporate. Don't use em-dashes. Use Australian English.

C. Content drafting. Founder origin blog post (Story pillar)

Draft the Story pillar blog post from Section 05. "From lumber yard to estimating company. Why I built V2E." Length: 800-1,000 words. Voice: my voice. Open with a specific moment from the lumber yard (you can invent a plausible scene; I'll edit). Bridge into why I built V2E (the underquoting / disorganised quotes / margin pressure). Close with the Builder DNA frame. Use Australian English. Don't use em-dashes or AI clichés.

D. Asset audit. Compare my current website to this plan

I'm pasting in the current V2E website navigation / homepage copy / pillar page below. Compare it to the plan, especially Section 05 (Authority Content Spine) and Section 02 (the four archetypes). Tell me: which archetype is my homepage speaking to most clearly? Which archetype is invisible? What three changes would have the biggest impact on archetype-1 (Owner-Operator) conversion? Be blunt. What's working, what's confused?

E. Builder's Journey gap analysis. Which level am I serving, which am I not?

Use Section 02.5. The Builder's Journey. For my current customer base, where do most of my customers sit (L1, L2 or higher)? What's the average level? Where's the biggest gap? Build a 12-month plan to push my median customer up by 0.5 levels and identify the assets/services I'd need to deliver to make it real. Reference Campaign 6 (Builder Mastery Consultancy) where relevant.

F. Pre-meeting prep. Discovery questions for a new lead

I'm meeting a new prospect tomorrow. Their company is {company}, builder type is {description}. Based on Section 02 and Section 02.5, draft three discovery questions that will help me figure out: (1) which archetype they are, (2) which level of the Builder's Journey they're at and (3) which V2E tier (CORE/PRO/MAX/Enterprise) is the right fit. Don't make them sound like a sales script. Make them sound like a curious peer.

G. Partner pitch prep. Wunderbuild outreach email

Draft a 2-paragraph email to Hashi Kaar at Wunderbuild proposing the Integration Partner Engine activation in Section 05.5. Month 1 co-content piece + month 3 joint webinar. My voice. Reference the existing relationship. End with a 30-min call CTA. Australian English, no em-dashes.

H. Campaign sequencing. What should I ship in week X?

I'm at {week number} of the FY26 plan. What should I be shipping this week per Section 06 (the GTM sequencing) and Section 05.5 (the Platform Partnership Program calendar)? List the specific assets, the owner per asset and the leading metric to track. If I'm behind, tell me what to drop.

I. Data asset positioning. Investor / advisor pitch

Use Section 08a (the data asset valuation framework). Draft a 1-page brief for V2E's board / advisors on the data asset opportunity. Sections: what we own, why it matters now, conservative vs aggressive valuation framings, the 3-step productisation pathway and the FY26 budget ask. Tone: factual, defensible, ambitious without being delusional.

J. AI System narrative. Explaining the four agents to a non-technical audience

Use Section 07a. V2E's AI System. Write a 300-word explainer suitable for the V2E homepage that introduces V2E Brain, Farnsworth, Livingston and Visi to a non-technical builder audience. Don't be cute. Don't oversell. Frame it as: "Here are the four AI components we're building and here's what they do for you, the builder."

K. Platform Partnership Program. Pick the next move for {platform}

I want to activate the {platform name} partnership next quarter. Use the per-platform brief in Section 05.5. Draft me: (1) a 2-paragraph outreach email to their partner manager, (2) a one-page co-content brief I can hand them and (3) the success metrics for the activation. Australian English.

L. Quarterly review. Q{N} actuals vs Section 09 gates

Here are my Q{N} actuals: {paste numbers}. Compare them to the Q{N} gates in Section 09. Tell me: am I ahead, on-track or behind on each gate? What's the single biggest risk going into Q{N+1}? What's the change I should make to next quarter's plan based on what just happened?

How to get the best out of these prompts

• Iterate, don't accept. First output is rarely the best. Reply to ChatGPT with "tighten that," "shorter," "less corporate," or specific edits. The second or third version is usually publishable.
• Voice grounding. When you want Michael's voice, paste 1-2 paragraphs of existing V2E content as voice samples in the same chat before asking for new copy.
• Use it as a co-pilot, not an autopilot. ChatGPT drafts. You and the V2E team edit, approve and publish. The plan is built around an approval workflow (Section 07) for a reason.
• Save your good outputs. When ChatGPT produces something useful, paste it into the V2E knowledge base (Section 07 Layer 1. Voice Stream / SPEAK Content). It becomes input for the next round.

The standalone prompts file (v2e-chatgpt-prompts.md) contains all of the above plus a few additional advanced prompts. Download it whenever ChatGPT updates and re-upload to keep the context fresh.

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