ABOUT FOREFRONT ABM

Expert practitioners. No account managers. No junior staff.

Most B2B marketing consultants come from big agencies: expensive, slow, and staffed by junior practitioners. Forefront ABM is built differently: senior expertise, AI-powered delivery, and direct access to the people doing the work. We meet you where you are — whether that's building your first marketing program or scaling an enterprise ABM motion.

Steve Kosted, Founder, Forefront ABM
Steve Kosted
Founder, Forefront ABM

We have over 60 combined years building and running Marketing and account-based marketing programs for B2B companies across solutions including Technology, Financial Services, Manufacturing, and more. We've worked with companies from startups to $2B revenue organizations and seen what separates the programs that move pipeline from the ones that produce reports.

What we've learned: marketing fails not because teams lack effort — but because they lack a clear target, a differentiated message, and a measurement system that connects activity to revenue. That's true whether you're building your first program or optimizing your fifth.

Forefront ABM was built to solve exactly that, with AI-powered delivery that gets you from strategy to first play in weeks, not quarters.

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Background
  • Over 60 combined years in B2B marketing, and ABM
  • Verticals: Technology/SaaS, Financial Services, Manufacturing, Retail, Healthcare, more...
  • Companies: Microsoft, Amazon, SAP, F5, and more.
WHY FOREFRONT ABM

The problem the team kept seeing.


Every company we worked with had the same problem at its core: marketing wasn't connected to pipeline. Sometimes that meant they needed ABM. Sometimes it meant they needed a clearer ICP. Sometimes it meant they needed their first real marketing program, full stop. The common thread was always the same — the research took too long, the messaging was too generic, and marketing and sales couldn't agree on which accounts to target or what to say to them.

AI changed that equation. What used to require a team of analysts and weeks of research can now be done in hours. Account profiles, stakeholder maps, value proposition matrices, campaign copy, all generated at a fraction of the time and cost.

Forefront ABM exists to give small and midsized companies the marketing capability they've always wanted but couldn't afford — delivered at the speed their pipeline actually needs.

OUR APPROACH

How we work.

Direct. Senior practitioners only.

When you hire Forefront ABM, you work directly with a senior practitioner. We run every engagement, write every deliverable, and attend every client session. There's no handoff to a junior team after the kickoff call.

Diagnostic before prescriptive.

Every engagement starts with listening. We don't arrive with a pre-packaged methodology. We start with your accounts, your sales team's reality, and your business imperatives — then build a program that fits.

Outcome-accountable.

We measure Revenue, Relationships, and Reputation (the 3Rs) every month. You'll always know exactly what ABM is doing for your business. If it's not moving the right numbers, we change the plays.

LET'S TALK

Ready to talk?


The first conversation is always a free 30-minute Marketing Audit. No pitch. Just an honest assessment of where your program stands and what it would take to move it forward.

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