TAM Mapping

9 min Advanced

What you'll learn

  • Turn an ICP description into a live, structured market
  • Anchor on closed-won customers and scout the lookalikes that resemble them
  • Expand from those seeds into your complete addressable market
  • Run an AI qualification sweep that scores every account against your criteria
  • Size the market and read the report and ICP viewer
  • Tier the market by fit and hand the result to sales

Total addressable market work usually means stitching together exports, filters, and manual research, and the result goes stale the moment it is finished. TAM Mapping replaces that with a single flow: you describe who you sell to, Landbase builds and expands the market from your best customers, qualifies every account, and returns a sized, tiered, shareable view. This lesson walks the whole flow from an ICP description to a market your sales team can act on.

What you’ll have
TierAccountsExamples
Tier 1180Acme, Globex, Initech
Tier 2540Hooli, Vehement, Soylent
Tier 31,200and the rest of the qualified market

The workflow, step by step

  1. 1

    Turn your ICP into a market

    TAM Mapping starts by turning your ICP description into a live, structured audience rather than a static spreadsheet. You describe who you sell to, and Landbase builds a market you can expand, qualify, and refresh, so the work stays current instead of going stale.

  2. 2

    Anchor on closed-won

    Anchoring the model on your closed-won customers lets Landbase learn the traits that actually predict revenue. Point it at the accounts you have already won, and it scouts the lookalikes that resemble them, so the market is grounded in real outcomes rather than a guess.

  3. 3

    Expand to the full market

    From those anchors, Landbase expands into your complete addressable market and deduplicates as it goes, so you get one clean view rather than overlapping lists. The seeds set the shape, and the expansion fills it in.

  4. 4

    Qualify every account

    A qualification sweep scores every account in the market against your criteria at once, so you are not reviewing accounts one by one. Each account carries a score you can trust, because the sweep shows the reasoning behind it.

  5. 5

    Size the market

    Sizing turns the qualified market into a number you can plan against, such as how many accounts truly fit and how that breaks down by segment. This is the figure you take into planning and forecasting.

  6. 6

    The report and ICP viewer

    The report and ICP viewer make the market readable and shareable, so the work is not locked in your head. You can hand a colleague a view they understand at a glance.

  7. 7

    Tier by fit

    Tiering ranks the market so the best accounts rise to the top, which is how you decide where to start. Tier 1 is where your team spends its first and best effort.

  8. 8

    Hand off to sales

    The final step delivers the tiered market to the team that will work it, in a form they can act on immediately. The motion ends with sales holding a list they trust.

Try it in Landbase

  1. Describe your ICP and anchor the model on five closed-won customers.
  2. Expand to the full market, then run a qualification sweep.
  3. Tier the result, open the report, and note your Tier 1 count.
  4. Save the work so you can re-run it as the market changes.
Tip
Anchor on real closed-won customers, not a guess at your ICP. The market is only as good as the accounts you teach it from.