Greenway Ontology

Your market. Connected to action.

Greenway Ontology brings accounts, buying committees, signals, and your offer together to power always-on GTM execution. Your people and AI work from shared context to find, qualify, and engage your next best customers across every channel, helping small businesses build qualified pipeline without hiring a full SDR team.

Signals become context. Context guides action.

Reduced motion enabled

Market intelligence in motion

See the market. Know the next move.

Explore the context behind your segments, accounts, buying committees, and campaigns.

Evidence to connect

  • industry and geography
  • technology in use
  • ICP and exclusions
Market
Accounts
Buyers

Connected
market context

Timing
Messaging
Learning

Market decision

Which industries and regions deserve our attention?

Pick the segments worth building lists and campaigns around this quarter, and set clear exclusions.

A connected model of your market

An ontology is a shared model of the things a business cares about, what is known about them, and how they connect.

For a revenue team, that means accounts, the people involved in a purchase, the events worth watching, and the offer you can make. A semantic layer gives that information a consistent business meaning.

Greenway applies those ideas to daily prospecting: the account, the reason it matters, the person to reach, and the next action stay connected.

Translate the idea into a sales decision

Data

CRM history, company news, and buyer research

Model

Accounts, buying committees, and the events that connect them

Logic

Which account fits, why now, and who owns the problem

Action

A relevant conversation, a follow-up, and a recorded outcome

For a revenue team, the idea becomes practical when an account, its buyers, the evidence about them, and the next action are connected. That is the sales context explored in Greenway’s model.

See how Greenway applies it

Greenway Ontology

The operational model of your market.

Greenway connects every account, buying committee, and buying signal into one live model, scores it every morning, and acts on it across email, LinkedIn, and your CRM. Every reply, meeting, and win sharpens the next run.

Follow the connection

From market event to meaningful outreach

Explore an illustrative account. Select a scenario and follow each decision.

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Observed event

A new operations leader joins

Source: Company leadership announcement

Account + buying committee

Investigate what this change means for the VP of Operations.

Connect with context

Give the event an account and an owner.

Keep the source with the signal. Connect it to the company, the people responsible, and the problem your offer helps solve.

The Greenway Ontology connects the data, scoring, and outreach of your go-to-market, so your team works the right buyers every day and every result makes the system sharper.

The idea, in sales terms

A shared language for every revenue decision

An ontology describes the things your business cares about and how they connect. For a revenue team, that means accounts, the people involved in a purchase, the events worth watching, and the offer you can make. A semantic layer gives that information a consistent business meaning. Greenway applies those ideas to daily prospecting: the account, the reason it matters, the person to reach, and the next action stay connected.

Objects: the people, companies, and events

Start with the things a rep needs to understand. An account is a company. A buying committee contains people with different responsibilities. A signal is an observed event with a source and a date. Giving each a place in the model lets your team review the evidence behind a recommendation.

Illustrative exampleA regional logistics provider, its new operations leader, and the leadership announcement are distinct pieces of the same sales story.

Properties: the details that shape fit

Industry, company size, geography, technology, and role tell you whether an account belongs in your market. Your ICP and disqualifiers give those details meaning for your offer. A relevant event at an account outside your territory can still be a poor use of a rep’s time.

Illustrative exampleThe logistics provider operates in your target region. Its operations team owns a process your offer can help improve.

Relationships: who owns which problem

A company can employ several people who influence a purchase. The operations leader may own the workflow, finance may evaluate cost, and another team may run the existing system. Connecting each person to the account and the problem helps a rep choose a relevant opening conversation.

Illustrative exampleThe operations leader is the first contact to investigate. Discovery establishes which other stakeholders need to participate.

Actions: what your team does next

Research becomes useful when it changes a decision. Greenway ranks buyers on fit, intent, and timing, supports outreach through email and LinkedIn, and delivers buyers and status updates to your CRM and Slack. Replies, meetings, and disqualifications give subsequent targeting and messaging more context.

Illustrative exampleOpen with the leadership change, ask about current priorities, and record the response so the next touch reflects what you learned.

A buyer model that stays with the work

Who to reach. Why now. What to say.

Think of a buyer digital twin as a working picture of the account: its business, the people involved, the changes you can observe, and the conversations you have had. Its value comes from keeping those connections useful as the account changes.

For Greenway, that picture brings research, buying committees, signal evidence, your offer, and recorded outcomes into the same sales motion. The next message can carry forward what your team already knows.

Keep the evidence and the interpretation distinct

A company hiring for a new system is an observed event. The idea that it may need help is a hypothesis. Use the source and date to frame a question, then let the buyer confirm the need. That distinction makes account research useful in a real conversation.

Your brief steers the work

Start with your website, ICP notes, CRM history, and outreach rules. Give the system a clear description of the market you want to work.

Your market
Industries, account sizes, territories, and exclusions.
Your offer
The problem you solve and the people who own it.
Your signals
Events that merit attention and the evidence behind them.
Your voice
Tone, opening questions, and outreach rules.
Replies, meetings, and disqualifications feed the next round of targeting, scoring, and messaging.

Model

Your market, connected.

Accounts, buying committees, buying signals, your ICP, and your offer live in one model as connected objects, built from your CRM history, 270M+ SMB, Greenfield, and Mid-Market contacts, 115+ buying signals, and 128+ data points per researched buyer.

  • Account at the centre
  • Buying committee roles and titles
  • Signal source and date
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Decide

Know who matters today.

Fit, intent, and timing scores run across the model every morning and update as new signals appear, so the highest-propensity buyers rise to the top of your team's day.

  • ICP fit
  • Propensity to buy
  • Re-scoring on new signals
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Act

Act where your team works.

Signal-grounded outreach goes out over email and LinkedIn, and buyers and status updates land in Salesforce, HubSpot, and Slack with the reason to reach out attached.

  • High-propensity buyers every morning
  • Email and LinkedIn outreach
  • CRM and Slack delivery
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Learn

Every outcome sharpens the next run.

Replies, meetings, ignores, and disqualifications, together with the wins and deal history in your CRM, flow back into targeting, scoring, and messaging on the next daily run.

  • Day 1: ~5% reply rate, Day 90: ~45%
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System

Data, logic, and action in one system

Your team gets one system that reads your market, decides who to contact, reaches out, and learns from every response, with each layer feeding the next.

Data → Ontology → Logic → Action → Learning

Reduced motion enabled

01 Data

Signals in

The raw inputs Greenway reads about your market and your own offer.

  • Your website, ICP, and rules
  • Your CRM history
  • 270M+ contacts via Apollo
  • 115+ buying signals
  • Research: 128+ data points per buyer

02 Ontology

The semantic layer

Every input becomes a connected object with properties and links.

Objects and links

Account at the centre

  • AccountemploysBuying committee
  • AccountshowsBuying signal
  • AccountmatchesYour ICP
  • Your ICPdefines buyers ofYour offer
  • Buying signalis the reason forOutreach

Properties

  • Industry
  • Company size
  • Geography
  • Technology stack
  • Funding and hiring activity
  • Buying committee roles and titles
  • Verified email and phone
  • Signal source and date

Filters

  • Disqualifiers and exclusions
  • Negative signals
  • Deduplication across campaigns

03 Logic

Scoring

Rules and weights that decide which accounts deserve attention today.

  • ICP fit
  • Fit, intent, and timing
  • Propensity to buy
  • Re-scoring

04 Action

Outcomes

The work that leaves the system and reaches your buyers and your team.

  • High-propensity buyers every morning
  • Email and LinkedIn outreach
  • CRM and Slack delivery
  • Inbox and tasks

Learning loopback to the Ontology

Every reply, meeting, ignore, and disqualification, together with the wins and deal history in your CRM, refines targeting, signals, scoring, and messaging on the next daily run.

The Greenway Ontology in four layers. Data flows into the Ontology, the Ontology feeds Logic, Logic drives Action, and the learning loop carries every outcome from Action back into the Ontology.

Built around your team’s decisions

One account story. A clearer next step for every team.

GTM leaders

How do we agree on market priorities and keep revenue teams planning from the same account picture?

Greenway holds account, buying committee, signal, ICP, offer, outreach and outcome context in one place, so GTM leaders can set market priorities with the same picture their teams use. Review which segments your configurable ICP currently favors, read the signal evidence behind fit, intent and timing scores, and decide where sales and marketing effort should concentrate. CRM history and status show which accounts are already in motion. Recorded outcomes feed back into scoring, so each planning review starts from what the last cycle actually produced.

GTM leaders use one shared account and signal context to choose market priorities and coordinate the teams working them.

Marketing leaders

How do we decide which audiences to reach, how to position, and what campaigns should carry?

Marketing leaders can shape audience, positioning and campaign strategy from the same researched buyer and account context the field works in. Look at who sits on buying committees, the roles that appear most often, and the events that give your team a reason to investigate. Use the configurable ICP to define the audience a campaign should reach, and connect messages to the offer context sellers carry into email and LinkedIn outreach. Recorded outcomes and CRM status give campaign reviews a grounded read on which audiences and messages held up.

Marketing leaders define audience, positioning and campaign direction from researched buying committees, signal evidence and recorded outcomes.

Sales leaders

Why did this account reach my rep's queue, and what should the first call confirm?

Review why an account surfaced, the event behind it, and the role the rep plans to approach. Use that context to coach discovery: who owns the problem, what has changed, and what would make a next conversation useful? A shared account story gives managers and reps a concrete basis for deciding where to spend time.

Pipeline reviews start from written evidence your team can question.

Demand generation

Which audience, signal, and message belong together?

Build a campaign around an account segment and a reason to engage. Expansion, hiring, and a leadership change can call for different opening questions. Keep the ICP, your offer, and the voice rules aligned so campaign messaging and rep outreach begin from the same understanding of the buyer.

Give each campaign a clear audience and a relevant reason to start a conversation.

RevOps

How do I keep definitions, weights, and CRM records consistent?

Keep target industries, account sizes, geographies, exclusions, and scoring weights aligned with the current sales motion. Use CRM wins and deal history to inform that definition, then record outcomes consistently. Buyers and status updates arrive in Salesforce, HubSpot, and Slack, where the team already coordinates its work.

One definition to maintain, with weights you can tune as you learn.

Start with the market your team knows.

Bring a territory, examples of customers you have won, and the problem your offer solves. Use that common starting point to guide the next sales motion.

  1. 01

    Write the definition

    Load your website and ICP notes, name target industries, account sizes, and geographies, list disqualifiers, and set the tone and outreach rules your team will follow in email and LinkedIn.

  2. 02

    Bring in history and set weights

    Add CRM wins and deal history so past outcomes inform research, then configure how much hiring, funding, leadership, expansion, and technology evidence counts toward fit, intent, and timing.

  3. 03

    Work the daily set and record outcomes

    Work a manageable daily group of researched buyers, use the attached signal to frame outreach, and record replies, meetings, and disqualifications. Review what those outcomes say about your targeting and messaging.

Frequently asked questions

How does this relate to a semantic layer?

A semantic layer gives data a shared business meaning. An ontology describes the people, companies, events, and relationships that matter to your work. Greenway connects those ideas to prospecting: which accounts fit, who owns the problem, why the timing may be relevant, and how your team should follow up.

What does a buying signal tell us?

A signal is evidence to investigate. Check its source and date, then ask what it means for the account and your offer. A leadership announcement or job posting gives you a relevant opening question. Discovery establishes budget, ownership, priorities, and timing.

How does the ontology work with our CRM?

Your CRM supplies wins and deal history that help inform targeting. Greenway adds researched buyers, buying signals, and account context, then delivers buyers and status updates to Salesforce, HubSpot, and Slack. Recording outcomes gives the next round of work more context.

What is the Greenway Ontology?

The Greenway Ontology is the operational model of your market. It connects accounts, buying committees, buying signals, your ICP, and your offer, and Greenway scores and acts on those connections every day.

What data feeds the model?

Your website, ICP notes, outreach rules, and CRM history of past wins and deals, plus 270M+ contacts via Apollo, 115+ buying signals, and 128+ data points per researched buyer.

Who builds and maintains it?

Greenway builds and maintains the model for you from your website, ICP notes, CRM history, and outreach rules. Your team steers it with exclusions, schedule controls, and plain-English direction.

How does it improve over time?

Every reply, meeting, ignore, and disqualification, together with the wins and deal history in your CRM, flows back into targeting, scoring, and messaging on the next daily run. Greenway's learning loop lifts average reply rates from ~5% on Day 1 to ~45% by Day 90.

Where does the work show up?

A manageable daily list of high-propensity buyers arrives every morning with the buying signal attached, and more are available on request. Outreach runs over email and LinkedIn, and buyers and status updates land in Salesforce, HubSpot, and Slack.

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