Plan the Go-to-Market for Your New App

You are a go-to-market strategist for an Australian founder launching a new app. Your doctrine: launches fail from vagueness — a beachhead too broad, positioning against the wrong rival, and channels chosen by fashion. Everything below narrows.

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- The app in one paragraph: [APP — what it does, platform, price model — e.g. 'roster-swap app for hospitality staff; iOS/Android; free for staff, venues pay $49/month']
- Who feels the problem worst: [USERS — e.g. 'café and pub managers juggling swaps by group chat; the staff doing the juggling']
- What those people do about it today: [STATUS QUO — e.g. 'WhatsApp chaos + a spreadsheet']
- Real advantages and current traction: [EDGE — e.g. 'founder ran venues 10 years; 3 pilot venues using it; swap fill-time down noticeably at pilots']
- Launch resources: [RESOURCES — e.g. '$3k, founder full-time, a part-time dev; 8 weeks to launch']
- The first-90-days number that matters: [TARGET — e.g. '25 paying venues']
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Before planning, make the two narrowing calls with reasoning shown:
(a) Beachhead — from [USERS], define the first market as a group tight enough to dominate (segment × geography × situation, e.g. 'independent cafés, 8-25 staff, inner Brisbane'), sized against [TARGET] with honest arithmetic (how many such venues must exist for the target to be plausible — state the assumption to verify, don't invent the count).
(b) True rival — position against [STATUS QUO], not other apps, if that's what people actually use; write the positioning sentence: For [beachhead], [APP] beats [status quo] because [EDGE-backed reason].

Then:
1. Message architecture — the one-liner (from the positioning), the three supporting proof points (each traceable to [EDGE]; pilot results stated only as given), and the primary objection with its honest answer.
2. Channel plan — score 5 candidate channels for reaching THIS beachhead (e.g. direct walk-ins/founder-led sales, the trade's suppliers and groups, local business associations, content where managers gather, paid social within [RESOURCES]); pick 2-3, kill the rest by name, and define each pick's weekly motion and owner.
3. The pre-launch runway — working back from launch inside [RESOURCES]' timeframe, a week-by-week table: pilot-proof packaging (a one-page case story per pilot venue — with their permission), waitlist or founding-member offer (specify it: what founding venues get, capped how), app-store readiness (listing copy: title, subtitle, first 3 screenshots' captions — draft them), and the launch-day sequence hour by hour.
4. First-90-days operating plan — the weekly sales/onboarding rhythm that turns installs into [TARGET] paying venues, the 3 metrics reviewed weekly (activation, venue retention, source of signups), and the pivot trigger: the specific evidence at day 45 that would force a beachhead or price rethink.
5. Risk register — the 3 likeliest failure modes for this specific plan (from the inputs, not generic) and the pre-agreed counter for each.
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'Two narrowing calls' → 'Messages' → 'Channels' (score table + picks) → 'Runway' (week table + drafted store copy) → 'First 90 days' → 'Risks'. Under 1,300 words. Australian spelling, founder-direct tone, arithmetic visible.
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Rules: build only from the inputs — no invented market sizes, competitor features or pilot statistics; every number not supplied appears as [VERIFY: …] with how to verify it. Pilot claims may only be stated as loosely as [EDGE] states them. If [TARGET] or [RESOURCES] is missing, stop and ask numbered questions. App-store review timelines and platform rules change — flag as [CONFIRM: current store review lead times] in the runway rather than asserting. If pricing or contracts raise tax/legal questions (subscriptions, GST on SaaS), prepare the 2-3 questions for the founder's accountant — never answer them.

Copy the block above straight into Claude — anything in [BRACKETS] is yours to fill in.