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The Conversation Intelligence Landscape: How to Evaluate Your Options
Conversation intelligence is now a crowded category. A fair map of the landscape, Gong, Chorus, Sybill, Fireflies, Revenue.io, and Spotlight.ai, what to look for, and how to choose.

Lolita Trachtengerts
Jun 253 min read


Gong and Spotlight.ai: How They Compare, and Why Many Teams Use Both
A fair look at Gong and Spotlight.ai: what each does well, where they differ, and why many teams run them together, conversation intelligence on one side, autonomous deal execution on the other.

Lolita Trachtengerts
Jun 253 min read


AI for Deal Execution Automation: What It Actually Means
Most sales automation handles busywork around the deal. Deal execution automation handles the deal itself, qualification, inspection, forecasting. Here's what that means.

Lolita Trachtengerts
Jun 253 min read


How to Reduce Manual CRM Data Entry for Sales Teams
Manual CRM data entry is the most hated task in sales and the reason your data can't be trusted. The fix isn't discipline, it's removing the task. Here's how.

Lolita Trachtengerts
Jun 253 min read


Best Practices for Executive-Level Value Presentations
Executives do not sit through product tours. An executive value presentation earns the room by leading with their numbers and the cost of inaction. Here is how to do it.

Lolita Trachtengerts
Jun 253 min read


How to Build a Joint Business Case With a Prospective Customer
A business case you build alone is a pitch; one you build with the buyer is a commitment. Here is how to build a joint business case and why the champion will carry it.

Lolita Trachtengerts
Jun 253 min read


Best Sales Tools With MCP Integration: What to Look For
Every sales tool is adding MCP integration, but a connector is only useful if there is something worth connecting to. Here is what separates real MCP integration from a checkbox.

Lolita Trachtengerts
Jun 163 min read


How Do Knowledge Graphs Improve Sales Forecasting?
Two AI forecasting tools can read the same deals and predict differently. The difference is the knowledge graph underneath. Here is how a graph improves the forecast.

Lolita Trachtengerts
Jun 163 min read


The Spotlight Slack Agent: Deal Answers and Inspections Where Reps Already Work
Reps live in Slack, not another dashboard. The Spotlight Slack Agent brings deal answers and inspections into the channel, ask a question, trigger an inspection, get an evidence-based answer.

Lolita Trachtengerts
Jun 163 min read


What Is the Spotlight CLI? Query the Knowledge Graph From the Command Line
Most sales AI lives behind a dashboard. The Spotlight CLI puts the Knowledge Graph and agent squad on the command line, scriptable, automatable, and built for RevOps engineers.

Lolita Trachtengerts
Jun 163 min read


Knowledge Graph vs Data Warehouse for Revenue Intelligence
A data warehouse stores your revenue data; a knowledge graph understands it. Here is the difference, why revenue AI needs the graph, and why it is not either/or.

Lolita Trachtengerts
Jun 103 min read


How to Build a Business Case for Enterprise Software Investment
A business case is what gets a seven-figure purchase through finance. Here are the four things it must quantify, why most stall in procurement, and how to build one on every deal.

Lolita Trachtengerts
Jun 103 min read
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