Brody Dorland

Brody Dorland is a marketing leader, 4x founder, and growth advisor with 25+ years in the trenches building, scaling, and fixing B2B growth engines. He’s worked across corporate, agency, startup, and PE-backed environments, most notably as co-founder of DivvyHQ, later acquired by Lytho, where he served as VP of Marketing.
Today, Brody co-leads Forge & Fathom, helping B2B companies (and their investors) replace GTM guesswork with clarity, focus, and execution-ready strategy. He's also a husband, father of two, bleeds K-State purple, and a big fan of everything Kansas City.

vertical expansion strategy

Your GTM Works. That Doesn’t Mean It’s Ready For a New Vertical.

Vertical expansion is one of the highest-stakes GTM bets a B2B company can make. The risks don’t show up in revenue data, pipeline metrics, or board decks. They live in the assumptions that the ICP will transfer, the GTM motion will translate, and the credibility you’ve built will mean something to buyers who’ve never heard of you. Most find out which assumptions were wrong about twelve months in.

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problem ownership - the north star of b2b aeo strategy

Problem Ownership: The North Star of B2B AEO Strategy

Most B2B companies that are trying to crack the code on AI search visibility are measuring the wrong thing. Citation counts and category-level visibility scores tell you whether AI systems know you exist. They don’t tell you whether you show up when a real buyer describes a real problem in natural language. That gap has a name, and closing it requires a different starting point than most AEO programs ever reach.

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gtm strategy - missing evidence

You’re Running Growth Strategy Without Your Best Evidence

Before almost every growth strategy engagement, someone asks: “Who should we invite to these meetings?” The list they build is telling. Which functions get named first as growth drivers? And which ones get treated as something else? There’s a group that almost never makes the first cut. They’re also sitting on the only unfiltered evidence about whether your growth strategy is working.

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B2B marketing channel mix

Your Channel Mix Has an Expiration Date. When Did You Last Check It?

PR got deprioritized. Direct mail got cut. Events got shelved. Every channel decision your team has ever made had a reason behind it. Most of those reasons have never been revisited. Some of them have quietly expired — and a few of the tactics that were abandoned are now more valuable than the channels that replaced them.

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