Meet Dusted

Goal

You will know what Dusted is, who it is for, and how a peer-validated GTM portfolio is meant to be used.

Steps

1. Start with the product, not the marketing line. Dusted is a peer-validated GTM portfolio. Operators publish case studies of real go-to-market work so other operators can read the proof, not a polished claim. The home line on the public site is The marketing community built on proof, not polish. Hold that sentence in mind as you move through the rest of this guide.

2. Picture the unit of work. A case study on Dusted has five sections: Context, Challenge, Approach, Tools, and Result. You write what was true on the ground, the constraint you faced, the path you took, the vendors and tools in the stack, and what changed. Readers can follow that sequence without asking you to restage the project on a call.

3. Meet the people the product is built for. Dusted is for GTM practitioners who already do the work: demand, growth, product marketing, partnerships, sales enablement, and the operators who sit next to them. If your proof lives in decks, Slack threads, or a private Notion page, this is the place that turns that proof into a public record other people can cite.

4. Learn the two surfaces you will live on. After you sign in, Home at /me is the signed-in feed. Your public profile is the page other people share. Case studies you publish sit on that profile and in explore. Vendors you mention get a durable link back to the work. Patches mark standing in the community. None of that replaces the case study; it frames it.

5. Know Ranger by name. Ranger is the case-study assistant. Ranger interviews you section by section, drafts language in your voice, and scores whether a section is ready to publish. Ranger is not a chatbot bolted onto the sidebar for small talk. You stay the author. Ranger proposes; you accept, reject, or refine.

6. Understand how access is changing. The early-access waitlist is sunsetting. New members arrive through an invite or through Sign up at /sign-up. If someone sent you an invite link, use that link so the account and the invite stay attached. If sign-up is open for you without an invite, begin at /sign-up and complete onboarding before you try to publish.

7. Read the field guide in chapter order when you are new. This article is the first entry in Start here. The next article walks the account path. Later chapters cover writing a case study, working with Ranger, publishing, building your profile, reading and following, vendors, and account settings. Search from any help page when you already know the task.

Next

Open Create your account when you are ready to sign up. When you have an account, move to Write a case study to learn the five sections before you sit down with Ranger.