Strategy + Playbooks

TAM Calculator: AI-Powered Total Addressable Market Estimator

Estimate your Total Addressable Market using company criteria, headcount ranges, and industry data. Size the opportunity before you build the campaign. Free Claude skill.

TAM / SAM / SOM breakdownMultiple sizing methodsRevenue projectionsMarket segment analysis
[tam-calc]

The Problem

Why teams struggle without this

"How big is the opportunity?" It's the first question investors, board members, and leadership ask. It's also the question most sales teams can't answer with any precision. They either throw out a massive number from a Gartner report that means nothing, or they guess based on a LinkedIn search they did once.

Properly sizing a market requires combining multiple data sources — industry reports, company databases, your own customer data — and running the analysis for TAM (total addressable), SAM (serviceable addressable), and SOM (serviceable obtainable). That's hours of spreadsheet work that most teams skip in favor of "there's a lot of companies out there."

The problem isn't just accuracy — it's decision-making. Without a real TAM analysis, you can't prioritize segments, allocate resources, or know when a market is saturated. You're running campaigns blind.

What It Does

What TAM Calculator generates

TAM Calculator estimates your Total Addressable Market by combining your ICP criteria with market intelligence. It produces a three-tier analysis — TAM, SAM, and SOM — with company counts, revenue projections, and segment breakdowns. The output is structured for board decks, investor conversations, and campaign planning.

Every output includes:

  • TAM estimate: total market size based on broad industry and company criteria
  • SAM calculation: serviceable segment filtered by your ICP, geography, and product fit
  • SOM projection: realistic obtainable market based on current capacity and competition
  • Segment breakdown: market size per vertical, geography, or company size tier
  • Revenue modeling: projected ARR based on your pricing and penetration assumptions

This skill works best with a GTM playbook in your project for context. No playbook yet? Install GTM Playbook first.

Example

See it in action

Input
[tam-calc] Calculate TAM for a sales engagement platform targeting B2B SaaS companies with 50-2000 employees in North America. ACV is $24,000.
Output

TAM ANALYSIS: SALES ENGAGEMENT PLATFORM — B2B SAAS, NORTH AMERICA

TAM (Total Addressable Market)

All B2B SaaS companies with 50-2,000 employees in North America

  • Estimated companies: ~28,000
  • At $24,000 ACV: $672M annual market

SAM (Serviceable Addressable Market)

B2B SaaS companies with 50-2,000 employees, using a CRM but no dedicated engagement platform, with an outbound sales motion

  • Estimated companies: ~8,400 (30% of TAM)
  • At $24,000 ACV: $201M annual market

SOM (Serviceable Obtainable Market)

Companies in SAM actively hiring SDRs or showing buying signals, reachable through current channels, in Year 1

  • Estimated companies: ~840 (10% of SAM)
  • At $24,000 ACV: $20.2M annual revenue opportunity

Segment Breakdown

SegmentCompaniesRevenue Opportunity
50-200 employees~4,200$100.8M
201-500 employees~2,500$60M
501-2,000 employees~1,700$40.8M

Sizing method: Top-down + bottom-up validation

Data basis: Industry estimates + ICP criteria

Confidence level: Moderate (±25% on company counts)

Time to generate: ~10 seconds

Get Started

Install in 2 minutes

1

Open Claude Projects

Go to claude.ai and open your Projects section. Create a new project or use an existing one.

2

Add the skill instructions

Paste the skill prompt into your Project instructions. This teaches Claude the skill.

3

Start using it

Type `[tam-calc]` followed by your target market criteria — industry, company size, geography, and pricing. The skill calculates TAM, SAM, and SOM with segment breakdowns.

Use Cases

How teams use this skill

Size a new market before committing resources

Before building a campaign for a new vertical or geography, run the numbers. Know whether there are 500 or 50,000 potential customers before investing in targeting and content.

Build investor-ready market sizing for pitch decks

Generate TAM/SAM/SOM slides with structured data instead of vague market references. The three-tier breakdown is exactly what investors expect to see.

Compare opportunity across segments

Run TAM calculations for multiple verticals side-by-side. Use the comparison to decide where to focus first based on opportunity size and competition density.

Validate pricing assumptions against market size

Model different ACVs against your TAM to understand how pricing affects total market opportunity. Useful for pricing strategy decisions and packaging.

Set realistic pipeline targets from market data

Work backwards from SOM to set pipeline and revenue targets your team can actually hit. No more arbitrary quota assignments disconnected from market reality.

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