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Charlie Gifford · carrying a number in the most technical room in sales
Mid-Market Account Executive at GitLab — selling the platform developers already have opinions about, to buyers who bring their engineers to the call.
Who Charlie is
The technical-sales seat
Mid-market is the honest tier: deals big enough to be complex, teams small enough that the AE does everything — research, multithreading, POC wrangling, procurement. The AEs who last are the ones who systematize the grind instead of grinding harder.
What a SideGuy does for Charlie
Where a one-person tech layer fits an AE's week
- Account briefs that build themselves — A living page per account before every call: the org, the stack, the news, the angle.
- Follow-ups that sound human — Sequences tuned by an operator, not a template farm.
- Champion leave-behinds — Living pages your champion can forward internally — a PDF dies in a downloads folder; a page travels.
Charlie, you do the part no tool does: reading a technical room and earning the next meeting.
SideGuy is the layer underneath — briefs, follow-ups, leave-behinds — the rig that hands an AE hours back every week.
Want to try a tech department for an hour?
I'll give it a quick first look. No Calendly · no meeting · neighbor to neighbor.
Either way · I'll give it a quick first look. Text PJ at 858-461-8054. No Calendly · neighbor to neighbor.
Find Charlie publicly
Charlie's work, not ours
- LinkedIn: Charlie Gifford
- Company: GitLab · the DevSecOps platform
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