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Industry 04 · Cloud & Infrastructure

Reach the engineerswho make the call.

Infrastructure decisions are made bottom-up more often than in any other category. The engineer who trials the tool drives the outcome, and the campaign has to reach them without patronising them.

By the numbersLidespy
Where most evaluations start
Bottom-up
Trial to commercial commitment
3–6 mo
Countries covered
50+
Gated content for practitioners
0
Practitioners first, budget secondAdoption before purchaseDocumentation, benchmarks and proofTargeting on infrastructure signalsPractitioners first, budget secondAdoption before purchaseDocumentation, benchmarks and proofTargeting on infrastructure signals
Who we reach
Head of InfrastructureDevOps LeadPlatform Eng

Cloud platforms, hosting, and DevOps tools

01

Practitioners first, budget second

The person who decides is often the one who ran the trial on a Friday afternoon. Reaching only the executive misses the evaluation entirely; reaching only the practitioner leaves nobody able to sign.

Platform engineers and DevOps leads who run the trial
Heads of infrastructure who standardise the choice
CTOs and VPs Engineering who release the budget
FinOps and procurement on committed spend
02

Adoption before purchase

The commercial conversation usually happens after the technology is already in use. That inverts the funnel: the job is to be findable and trialable early, then to arrive with a commercial case once usage is real.

Self-serve trial as the true first conversion point
Usage growth as the signal that a deal is available
Migration cost and lock-in as the central objection
Commercial outreach timed to consumption milestones
03

Documentation, benchmarks and proof

This audience reads documentation and runs benchmarks. Content that is genuinely useful without a form in front of it builds the reach; the gated material comes later, aimed at the funding conversation rather than the practitioner.

Ungated technical content and reference architectures
Independent benchmark and cost-comparison material
Technical webinars and live migration walkthroughs
Executive-level TCO content for the funding case
04

Targeting on infrastructure signals

Firmographics say almost nothing here. What a company currently runs, how fast it is scaling and whether it is hiring platform engineers say almost everything.

Technographic targeting on current cloud and tooling
Scaling and hiring signals as budget indicators
Displacement targeting against incumbent platforms
Verified contact for engineering and platform roles
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