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Spotlight.ai in Good Morning US: Fewer Entries in the Competitor Field
Why a shorter competitor field is a sign of better data, how checking one name at a time against the evidence works, and what structured competitor data unlocks for win-loss analysis.

Lolita Trachtengerts
Oct 54 min read


The AI Research Agent That Preps the Account For You
Account research is the first thing skipped under a full calendar, so calls go out generic. Here is how a research agent fills the field before you open the deal, so the prep actually happens.

Lolita Trachtengerts
Sep 243 min read


Validate the AI, Don't Just Trust It
With AI you either trust the output or you don't, and both are wrong. Here is why verified trust beats blind trust and blanket doubt, and how to make every AI answer cheap to check.

Lolita Trachtengerts
Sep 243 min read


How AI Should Match a Meeting to the Right Deal
Every piece of deal intelligence rests on attaching each call to the right opportunity. Here is why matching is harder than it looks, and how reading the conversation, not just the calendar, keeps the foundation clean.

Lolita Trachtengerts
Sep 243 min read


You Don't Have to Fix the Foundation First
Teams delay AI because 'our data isn't good enough yet,' then wait through a multi-quarter cleanup while risk sits unread in the CRM. Here is why you don't have to fix the foundation first.

Lolita Trachtengerts
Sep 243 min read


Your Dashboard Isn't a Strategy
Revenue teams have never had better dashboards, and leaders stare at them waiting for the number to change. Here is why a dashboard describes reality but can't move it, and how to turn data into action.

Lolita Trachtengerts
Sep 243 min read


Signal Rich, Action Poor
The CRM overflows with scores and alerts, and deals still slip. The bottleneck moved from knowing to acting. Here is why revenue teams are signal rich and action poor, and how to close the last mile.

Lolita Trachtengerts
Sep 243 min read


Can You Trust an AI Agent on a Live Deal?
Handing an AI agent a live deal is a higher bar than a good demo. Here is what makes an agent trustworthy on real opportunities: shown evidence, grounding, and inspection you can repeat.

Lolita Trachtengerts
Sep 164 min read


Keep Vendor Noise Out of Your Deal Signal
Email is a rich signal of deal health until automated notifications and third-party noise drown it out. Here is why clean deal intelligence starts with excluding what was never part of the deal.

Lolita Trachtengerts
Sep 163 min read


One Schema for Your GTM Data, Grounded in Conversations
Your GTM data is scattered across tools that don't agree on what an account is, and your AI pays for it. Here is why the teams pulling ahead unify on one schema with conversations at the core.

Lolita Trachtengerts
Sep 163 min read


Clone the Answer, Not the Work
Expansions and renewals keep starting from a blank page, re-asking questions the last deal already answered. Here is how cloning answers from a related opportunity turns rework into recovered selling time.

Lolita Trachtengerts
Sep 163 min read


Don't Let Your Conversation Data Get Locked in Your CRM
Bundling call recording into your CRM is convenient until you try to use the data elsewhere and it won't come back out. Here is why data egress is where the value lives, and how to keep your conversations an open asset.

Lolita Trachtengerts
Sep 163 min read


Synced Isn't Connected: Why Integrating Your Tools Isn't a GTM Motion
Fields syncing between HubSpot and Salesforce is plumbing, not a connected go-to-market motion. Here is the gap between synced and connected, and why closing it takes an intelligence layer, not another integration.

Lolita Trachtengerts
Sep 163 min read


AI Can't Fix What You Haven't Defined
AI does not decide what "qualified" or "committed" means; it inherits your definitions. Here is why fuzzy terms sink AI rollouts, and how to define, ground in evidence, then automate.

Lolita Trachtengerts
Sep 163 min read


Connect Your Knowledge Graph to Any AI With an MCP Server
Your AI assistant is only as good as what it can see. Here is how an MCP server connects your Knowledge Graph to any AI, so it answers about your deals from evidence instead of guessing.

Lolita Trachtengerts
Sep 83 min read


Why AI-Generated CRM Automation Breaks on Day Two
AI writes a CRM automation in seconds and the demo dazzles. Then day two arrives and it breaks. Here is why generated automation fails on cross-object context, auditability, and maintenance, and what to use instead.

Lolita Trachtengerts
Sep 83 min read


Run Your Deals From Slack
Reps live in Slack and visit the CRM under duress, so the CRM does not get used. Here is how a Slack-native AI sales agent brings deal answers, risk, and next steps to where reps already work.

Lolita Trachtengerts
Sep 83 min read


Revenue-Data Provenance: The Trust Layer AI Forecasting Needs
AI will forecast confidently on wrong data, and the output looks the same either way. Here is why provenance, knowing where each number came from, is the trust layer AI forecasting needs.

Lolita Trachtengerts
Sep 83 min read


A New CRM Won't Fix Bad Governance
When the pipeline is a mess, the CRM gets blamed and replaced, and eighteen months later the same problems return. Here is why process debt migrates with you, and what to fix instead of the platform.

Lolita Trachtengerts
Sep 83 min read


The Deals Quietly Stalling in Your Pipeline
Deals rarely die in a meeting; they die by sitting. Here is why stalled deals hide in your pipeline, why time in stage is the honest signal, and how a velocity warning catches the stall while you can still act.

Lolita Trachtengerts
Sep 84 min read
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