Matteo Lombardi

Stratega

Stratega is a company that provides Digital Marketing Solutions for SMB's and Start-ups.
Within such a competitive environment in the Digital World, our Mission is to help our Clients Succeeding with a Strategic approach that involves a Deep Examination of all the relevant aspect involved Digital Marketing related to Your Company.
Our analytical approach starts with a detailed Company Assessment followed by an extensive Data Analysis phase that would design the right path towards your Business Goals.

Founder & Digital Strategist

PickEat

Responsible for defining the company's strategic sales and marketing 'vision' and for guiding the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)

Chief Strategy Officer (CSO)

it's campus | startup accelerator

Start-up mentorship on Facebook Ads & Digital Strategy. My role is to support the Start-ups involved in the acceleration program by providing them recommendations on "how to implement a fast and scalable digital strategy" according to the KPIs set for the Demo Day.

Start-up Mentor

Italia's Growth Talent

The first Italian conference on the company's growth, 100% online.

More info at www.italiasgrowthtalent.it

Marketing Manager

Accenture

Italian Market - October 2018 - February 2019
UKI Market - February 2019- currently employed

Job Description:

•	Manage a portfolio of SMB clients with responsibility for growing revenue
•	Uplift revenue by providing consultative advice to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to help them grow their businesses across multiple channels - chat, email and phone
•	Demonstrate the value of our SMB advertising solutions 
•	Provide pre and post-sales support for all self-service products
•	Take responsibility for helping SMB clients drive results via their marketing campaigns through consultation, education, and support
•	Provide vital product insights and feedback from our customers to engineering.

Social Media Account Executive

Centre of English Studies (CES)

An Activity Leader works with students on guided tours, sports, afternoon/evening activities and parties. 

Job Description:

- This figure is responsible for looking after the students and ensuring they have a fun and interesting time.
- It’s a varied role: in the mornings the Activity Leaders are responsible for helping students get to class on time, testing and explaining new students about their new academic life; managing relationships with previously present students and helping to promote the social activities by making informational material and going around to classrooms making announcements. 
- Every afternoon and during the weekend the students have tours to various attractions around Dublin, guided by an Activity Leader.

Activity Leader

Move Your Inspiration srl

Development of my dissertation project: Strategic analysis of the company
Main points:
Resources and competences analysis
Competitive environment and competition analysis

Internship Student

Zamira Fashion Limited

Coordinator of the project for the development of a female collection (20 pieces).
The job was related to the team management and customer relationship. 
Also detailed translations of the fashion schedules from Italian to English

Team Coordinator

Founder @Stratega | CSO @Pickeat | B2B Tech Growth Marketer - sharing all my knowledge for free 🚀

Pickeat.it 👉 signed 4 partnerships with 10k+ companies in 2 months with NO BUDGET

Klondike.ai 👉 13 sales meetings worth 150.000€ booked in 2 months with NO BUDGET

vtenext.com 👉 37 MQL generated and positive ROI in 2 months with NO BUDGET

Redrays.io 👉 prototyped their app and saved 60% of the development costs

Duomodesign.it 👉 generated positive ROI with Facebook ads for 3 years straight

Would you like to achieve the same results for your business?
Email me: matteo@stratega.co

At Stratega our passion is your growth and we achieve it by partnering with you on digital marketing activities.
We do it as your business would be our business, following step by step your path towards your goal.

My academic career

☣︎2014 BSc in Management & Economics at the University of Florence

☣︎2014 PAL-INT Entrepreneurship course at the University of Florence

☣︎2017 MSc in Strategic Management at the University of Pisa

☣︎2018 Italia - USA foundation prize winner for Academic achievements (top 1000 in Italy)

☣︎2019 Scholarship & Master in Global Marketing & Communication at Centro Studi per l'impresa

& extra CV

☣︎ 2019 - Partner with The Start-up Training through Stratega for Digital Strategy

☣︎ 2020 - Moderator and Host for Growth Hacking Italia

☣︎ 2020 - Marketing Manager @ Italia's Growth Talent the biggest online marketing event in italy

☣︎ 2020 to date - Start-up Mentor for It's campus for Facebook ads & Digital Strategy

☣︎ 2020 Growth Hacking graduate at Growth Tribe

I build B2B GTM (Go-To-Market) Systems on Clay

#1 GTM Engineering Advisor in the world with 900+ students, consulting the fastest growing B2B companies and the highest number of testimonials in the entire GTME ecosystem:

1) Clay Consultant Program: Land a Client in 60 Days Guaranteed
2) Fractional GTM Engineering (mid-market companies)
3) The 80/20 GTME Course (99$)

Author of 'The GTM Engineer', Available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FGLVG5HL

I am working with companies like: Appcue, Teramind, Vidyard, Procore, HeyReach, Isendu (Exited, now Sendcloud), Single Grain 

What people think about my Clay Consultant Program:

'Through the GTME Training program, we now deliver advanced workflows and measurable results for mid-market and enterprise clients, even securing retainers up to $12,000 per month'.

(Daniel Monteverde Founder @ LeadField)

“A client of mine, a major tech company, was blown away by the results and even asked how I managed to deliver such exceptional outcomes. Not even the most renowned agencies had ever achieved anything close during their years of collaboration.”

(Alessandro Martinengo, Managing Partner @ Chattwin, Early Stage Startup Investor)

“Michael’s Clay Consultant Program helped me land four consulting clients in just 60 days. I started from zero and his process gave me clear structure, systems and lead generation strategies that actually work. No guesswork, no noise, just practical steps and real execution. If you want to get clients fast and know exactly what to focus on Michael is the coach you need.

"(Asher Chua, Founder @ Revenue Journey)

“Since joining, we build campaigns ten times faster and manage 12 clients with a small team. Before, I wasted time and money on tools that didn’t deliver. Now I know that just three or four well-integrated tools are enough to get strong results in most niches.”

(Pablo Beitman, Founder &amp; CEO @ Blumo.io)

You can read all testimonials at clayoperator.com

Michael Saruggia

Most companies don't know Clay
Most companies don't know Claude
Most companies don't know Outreach

It's crazy how everybody screams about saturation and replacement and they have absolutely no idea how the market thinks and works.

You live in a bubble of tech companies
You live in a bubble of content called GTM Engineering or AI in GTM

If you network with senior people in finance, RE or whatever other industry, you will realize how far they are from this kind of world.

We are like 0.1% of the evolution of the GTM world.

Saturation is just in your mind.

GTM Engineering | AI + Clay Consultant Program: Land a Client in 60 Days Guaranteed | Get My Free GTME Guide👇

State of GTM Engineering:

> 6-figures jobs
> Great company and compensation
> 40+ applications after over 1 WEEK

(Of those 40+ maybe 1-2 people are somewhat competent since pros simply run their own biz)

A similar application for an AE probably has 300+ applications in 24 hours.

If this isn't one of the craziest opportunities ever to upgrade your skill..

I don't know what it is.

> Get the skills
> Get the experience
> Build network + media

And I can guarantee you that this is the new golden era of GTM Consulting

Crazy if I think about some years ago

Here's how everything started

I was working with Alessandro Martinengo V. in a B2B SaaS in Italy

(by far the toughest thing to sell ever LOL)

Then we figured out about Clay, AI & GTM Engineering.

2 years later, together with Federico Costa:

> He built a 7-figure agency
> He hired a team and a co-founder
> He's on the path to becoming a leading GTM Agency & Data Broker in EU

(And some secret news we can't share yet aha)

I am emotionally involved since I've been following Alessandro's team from the beginning with my coaching and he's Italian too.

Super happy to become a Strategic Advisor for SalesMagic and get more hands-on work.

Claude will replace Smartlead
Claude will replace Loom
Claude will replace Clay

No it won't LOL.

1) Building and maintaining software is hard
2) The time/cost opportunity simply makes no sense
3) The problem is debugging, edge cases and security

If you are not selling a CRM, why did you spend 20 hours of your time building one and then you have to update it every X weeks because something breaks?

Unless your time is worth < $20 per hour it makes no sense

But sure my hacker friend, continue to vibecode a new Calendly competitor to save $10/month.

You smart.

The fact that you should doesn't mean you have to.

The real art is understand what to use and in what situation and quickly do a cost/time analysis. (Ex. many of my internal ops are run by Claude now).

This is so true

BUT I have 2 conflicting feelings:

From one side, it's clear that:

> Claude made people work 2X with less results
> Most people see Claude as a way to hide from real work
> Many outsourced their thinking to AI and got even dumber (decks, ads, outreach, projects)

While from the other side:

> Some people move way faster
> The 1M per year solo agency is now a reality
> You have to start learning it since it will evolve

My take:

Play with it but perform a cost/time analysis.

Does it make sense to replace a 10$/m app to work 20 hours?

Is it something that truly makes me better / faster / helps my clients?

Focus and time management is probably the #1 skill in 2026

Even more today than in the past.

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Follow Michael Saruggia for more GTM Engineering Tips

Click 'Visit My Website' for my Become A GTME guide in the profile

I just used Claude Code to build a set of ready-to-use agents that you can steal. You can connect them to Clay, Hubspot or wherever. And I made a full document guide for you.

> Google Ads Library Scraper
> Facebook Ads Library Scraper
> My LinkedIn Flow Agent (semi-automated)
> My Twitter Content Flow Agent (semi-automated)
> How to connect everything to Clay, Hubspot, Wherever
> General Strategy, Productivity, Locally vs Claude vs Github

Like + comment 'SCRAPERS' and I will send the doc to you

Follow Michael for more GTM Engineering tips

Click 'Visit My Website' for my Become A GTME guide in the profile

From a career in Sales

To 6-Figure GTM Engineer

It's crazy how fast you can reinvent yourself when:

> You put in 5–10 hours per week
> You follow a path someone else has already taken
> You choose a proven direction that's working

Justin Roux was working in sales just a few months ago.

He discovered Clay and realized how big the trend would become.

I coached him for weeks and couldn't be more proud.

> He now masters Clay and all the top AI sales tools
> He works at one of the best GTM agencies out there
> He leverages his sales skills and new tech skills to be dangerous

Let's go, man!

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Want to get into GTM Engineering? (close a client in 90 days or money back)

Check my 1-1 program here: clayoperator.com/program

The market is confused about the ROI of a GTME 

Here’s 27 VITAL problems that GTM Engineering solve

Data & CRM                                                                    

1. Dirty/duplicate CRM data slowing down sales teams                          
2. No standardized lead scoring or qualification framework                    
3. Missing or outdated contact/company data (enrichment)
4. Job Changes, Duplicates, Parent/Child accounts
5. Manual data entry eating up rep selling time

Outbound
 
6. Low reply rates on cold outreach (bad targeting, bad copy, bad timing)
7. No systematic way to identify and prioritize ideal prospects
8. Reps manually researching accounts instead of selling
9. No personalization at scale, every email feels generic
10. Deliverability issues, emails landing in spam

Inbound
  
11. Leads coming in but not routed to the right rep fast enough
12. No lead nurturing system, MQLs going cold
13. Website traffic but no conversion infrastructure
14. Form fills with no automated follow-up sequence
15. No visibility into which channels actually drive pipeline

Tool Stack & Integration

16. Disconnected tools, CRM, sequencer, enrichment
17. Paying for overlapping tools with redundant functionality
18. No automation between marketing and sales handoff
19. Manual reporting, pulling data from 5 different dashboards
20. New tools adopted but never properly configured or integrated

Pipeline & Revenue Operations

21. No pipeline visibility, leadership can't forecast accurately
22. Deals stalling in pipeline with no automated re-engagement
23. Job changes breaking CRM data and pipelines
24. Tech Stack consolidation: paying 5 providers when you need 1 
25. No systematic referral or partner intro process

Scaling

26. Processes that work for 2 reps but break at 10
27. Tribal knowledge, playbooks live in people's heads, not in systems

What else would you add?

More tips to become a GTME here: clayoperator.com/trainings

Jack Dorsey laid off 4000 people because of AI

This is 2026

On one side we have tens of thousands of tech workers (or knowledge workers) losing their jobs because a smaller team with AI can produce the same output as 10x more people.

All of us have 2 choices:

1) Scarcity mindset

Freaking out
Let scarcity mindset dominate us
Thinking we are lost, it's the worst time to be alive

or

2) Abundance mindset

Leverage the game to your advantage
It's never AI replacing people, it's 1 person + AI replacing people
It's  the best moment to be alive and build a $1M/year solo agency

One choice will attract other broke people

The other will attract opportunities

Choose wisely what content to consume and what you believe in

Because it has the biggest influence ever in your life

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Want to know how to jump into GTME?

I wrote a guide for you (FREE): https://lnkd.in/gw6g424X

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