Nexuscore
ICP Discovery
This form covers the business side of Nexuscore only: VPS, bare metal, and web hosting for companies, developers, and agencies. Game server hosting is out of scope here. The questions build the ideal customer profile we'll prospect against, and every answer becomes a filter, a title to match, a signal to monitor, a place to look, or a line in an email, so specifics beat generalities every time. Give us numbers, named examples, links, and the literal words your customers use wherever you can.
Roughly 40 to 50 minutes. All 70 questions are required. Answers save automatically on this device, so stop and return anytime, then download or print once every answer is in.
A working reference for the list build, drawn from the Nexuscore research and refined by your answers above. Rows that point at a question are our current read, not a settled fact.
| Signal | Indicator we target |
|---|---|
| Primary segment | Developers and small software companies running web apps, APIs, and SaaS backends that outgrew shared hosting or overpay a hyperscaler; confirmed in Q09 and Q14 |
| Agency and MSP segment | Web agencies, WordPress shops, and MSPs hosting client sites and workloads, often on reseller or white label terms; open until Q11 is answered |
| Small business segment | Local and online businesses that need WordPress, WooCommerce, or a simple US hosted site and a human who answers |
| Organization size and stage | Solo to about 50 people, bootstrapped or lightly funded; no enterprise procurement, RFPs, or compliance audits; stage confirmed in Q15 |
| Budget band | $5 to $40/month VPS is self serve; bare metal, agency, and reseller accounts are where outbound pays; the floor for a human conversation is set by Q20 |
| Technical posture | Root access and self service by default; a managed persona only if Q05 and Q26 say so |
| Geography | US and North America first, with Chicago latency and a US data location as the story; off limit regions from Q17 |
| Current provider | Hyperscaler overspenders, developer clouds, managed WordPress, shared hosting, and servers in closets; the providers you win from are confirmed in Q19 |
| Trigger events | Cloud bill shock, a price increase or acquisition at the old host, an outage during a launch or sale, a DDoS or security incident, outgrowing a plan, a developer leaving, a new launch, a renewal date |
| Where to look | Developer and hosting communities and forums, agency and MSP directories, startup and product launch lists, competitor review pages, Louisville and Chicago business and tech groups |
| Technographic tells | The network a site or app resolves to, shared hosting and control panel fingerprints, slow page response, recent migrations, DevOps and hosting job posts |
| Disqualifiers | Enterprise IT with formal procurement, compliance, or SLA demands you can't paper; abuse prone workloads; regions you don't serve; buyers who want everything managed at a self serve price |
| Capacity fit | Volume tuned to a 1 to 10 person team; monthly targets set from your answers to Q61 and Q63 |