Predictive & GenAI Use Cases In Sales | Predictive AI | Generative AI (LLM) |
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Prospecting | – Account identification & scoring (ICP) – Lead identification & scoring (persona) | – Researching accounts & people – Drafting relevant, personalized messaging – AI-native sales engagement (less than perfect as of late 2024); outbound prospecting & inbound response |
Managing & Advancing Opportunities | – Assessing deal health (opp scoring) & identifying deal gaps – Forecasting – Optimizing territories | – Surfacing next best action – Maintaining deal rooms – Rep call coaching (real-time or post-call) – Preparing pre-meeting dossiers – Drafting post-meeting follow ups – Drafting RFP responses – Drafting proposals – Updating CRM |
Post-sale (renewal, expansion, success, & service) | – Identifying at-risk accounts – Identifying expansion opportunities (whitespace) | – Responding to support requests (aka ticket deflection) – Synthesizing customer feedback |
Other | – Creating ideal rep hiring profiles; evaluating candidates | – Providing custom-tailored, just-in-time enablement learning journeys – Role playing – Gathering competitive intelligence |
The following is an overview of AI in B2B sales & customer success using a jobs-to-be-done (JTBD) approach.
New Logo AE JTBD
Lead & Account Scoring/Qualification (incl. PLG)
- 6Sense1
- Akkio
- Asgard.ai (find lookalike companies)
- Blend (PLG)
- Coho
- Double (lead enrichment)
- Drift
- Exceed.ai by Genesys
- Hubspot
- Forwrd.ai
- Ocean (find lookalike companies)
- Signals
- Tomi.ai
Contact & Account Research
Prospect Engagement / Outreach (incl. copywriting)
- 11x (AI powered SDR)
- AiSDR
- Amplemarket
- Apollo (outbound prospecting)
- Artisan (AI BDR)
- Attention
- Autobound (outbound prospecting)
- Aviso
- Bard
- Buzz
- CadenceIQ (see Namora.ai)
- Cargo (email generator; free Google Workspace add-on)
- ChatGPT
- Clay
- Copilot AI
- Copy.ai
- CopyFactory (email generator)
- Creatext
- Crono
- Crystal
- DALL-E (image generator)
- Experiense (outbound prospecting; AI-SDR with voice)
- First Sales
- Gamma (presentation generator)
- Growbots
- HoppyCopy (email generator)
- Humanlinker
- Humantic (personality based personalization)
- Infotelligent (outbound prospecting)
- Instantly
- Jasper1
- LaGrowthMachine
- Lavender (email generator)
- LeadIQ (contact data + email generator)
- LeadSpot
- Lemlist
- Luna
- Meetz (outbound prospecting)
- Namora.ai (research & messaging) [fka CadenceIQ]
- Nooks (power dialer)
- Octave
- OneShot (outbound prospecting)
- Outplay (outbound prospecting)
- Outreach (outbound prospecting)
- OutreachWriter
- Opnbx.ai (email generator)
- Pipegen.ai
- Potion (video personalization)
- ReachOut (video personalization)
- Reachy
- Reel.fyi
- Reply
- Regie
- Rev (outbound prospecting)
- Revenue Grid
- Rightbound (outbound prospecting)
- Saile
- Salesforge
- Salesloft (outbound prospecting)1
- Salesrobot
- Sales Compass
- SampLead (outbound prospecting)
- Scheduler.ai (meeting schedule-bot)
- Scrab.in
- SDR GPT
- Signum (trigger based outbound prospecting)
- Simplified (marketing copywriting)
- SmartLead (outbound prospecting; email only; auto-rotating email accounts)
- SmartWriter
- Super Send
- SuperRep
- Tavus (video personalization)
- Twain
- Typewise
- Ubique (video personalization)
- Unify
- Upbound
- Veloxy
- Warmer.ai
- We-Connect
- White Cream (email, audio, image, video)
- Woodpecker
- Zopto
Opportunity Management/Scoring
- ChatGPT (summarize meeting notes)
- Clari
- Crayon.co (competitive intelligence)
- Discern
- Dubber Notes (meeting notetaker)
- Fireflies.ai (meeting notetaker)
- Gondola (meeting notetaker)
- Gong
- Grain (meeting notetaker)
- LightSki (CRM updating via AI slackbot)
- MeetGeek
- Otter (meeting notetaker)
- People.ai
- SalesDirector.ai (similar to People.ai; activity tracking; opp. scoring; etc.)
- Sembly (meeting notetaker)
Guided Selling/Conversations (incl. note taking)
(*) = recommended
- Abstrakt
- AirCover
- AssemblyAI1 (AI models to transcribe & understand speech)
- Attention (real-time conversation capture & guided selling/prompting)
- Avoma
- CallRail
- Circleback (automated meeting notes)
- Chorus by ZoomInfo
- Clari Copilot
- Colibri
- Demoleap
- Dooly (sync notes to SFDC; update deals with simple UX; real-time co-pilot but rep must type)
- Fabius (post-call rep coaching)
- Fathom
- Fireflies.ai
- Glyphic
- Gondola
- Gong
- Grain
- Gryphon.ai (conversation intelligence platform that also has real-time co-pilot; more focused on service & success)
- Jiminny
- Mediafly Conversation Intelligence
- Oliv
- Paperplane
- Pilot
- Read.ai
- ReplazIQ (call scoring/coaching)
- Revenue.io
- Salesroom
- Sybill
- Traq.ai (seems to be more focused on call processing – ex. to score calls and ID what is working)
- Trellus (real time call coaching)
- Unique
- Vowel
- (*) Winn.ai1 (real-time conversation capture)
- Wonderway (post-call rep coaching)
- Zoom IQ
Expansion AM JTBD
Whitespace Identification
- People.ai
- (recommendation engines for upsell & cross-sell)
Customer Success JTBD
Customer Health Scoring
- Gainsight1
- Kaizan (health scoring via conversational intelligence)
Customer Engagement
Customer Support JTBD
- Balto (contact center AI)
- Cohere
- ConnexOne – Athena AI
- Cresta
- Forethought.ai
- Officely
- Sapling
- theLoops
- Ultimate
- XSELL (for call center agent coaching)
Sales Manager JTBD
Sales Forecasting
(for Sales Forecasting, see Revenue Operations Section)
Hiring
Deal Coaching
- Gong
- Momentum
Non-Deal Coaching
- Brevity
- ChatGPT (ex: role play)
- Chorus
- Frontline (AI-based guidance for sales managers)
- Gong
- Hyperbound (real time conversational AI role-play)
- Luster.ai
- PaddleBoat
- PitchMonster
- Quantified (video avatar role-playing)
- Replicate
- SaleSage
- Replicate
- Second Nature (video avatar role-playing)
Revenue Operations JTBD
Dialers
- Apollo
- CloudTalk
- FlashIntel
- Five9
- Hot Prospector
- Justcall
- Kixie
- Koncert
- Nooks
- Orum
- Outplay
- Phone Verify
- PhoneBurner
- PipeGen.ai
- Reply
- RingCentral
- RocketPhone
- Trellus
- Upscale
Price Optimization/Deal Desk
- Prisync
Sales Forecasting
- Clari
- Discern
Territory Optimization
- GradientWorks
- Humanlinker
Revenue Intelligence
- Discern1
- Setsail1
RFP
Tool & Data Management
- (Dynamic administration – ex: remove fields; make fields required)
- (Dynamic process – recommended next step)
Compensation & Quota
Revenue Enablement JTBD
Content Management
Training/LMS
(see Sales Management – non-deal coaching)
Sales Engineering JTBD
Demo
Proposals
- RocketDocs
Footnotes
Another great list here: https://www.coldiq.com/ai-sales-tools
1 This is an Insight Partners portfolio company. The editor of this page is employed by Insight Partners.