What Is the Spotlight CLI? Query the Knowledge Graph From the Command Line
- Lolita Trachtengerts
- 3 days ago
- 3 min read
Most sales AI lives behind a dashboard. The Spotlight CLI puts the Knowledge Graph and the agent squad where developers and RevOps engineers already work: the command line.
What the Spotlight CLI is
The Spotlight CLI is a developer tool for querying the Spotlight.ai Knowledge Graph and running agents directly from the command line. Instead of clicking through a dashboard, a RevOps engineer can pull deal context, run an inspection, or trigger an agent with a single command, and pipe the result into whatever they are building.
It treats your revenue intelligence as something you can script, not just something you can look at. That is the difference between a tool and a platform.
📊 Reps spend only 28% to 30% of their week actually selling; the rest is admin and tool-switching. — Forrester |
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Why a command-line tool for revenue AI
Revenue teams are increasingly technical. RevOps now writes scripts, builds automations, and wires systems together. A UI-only platform forces that work back into manual clicks. A CLI lets RevOps engineers automate it.
It also unlocks the workflows a dashboard cannot: scheduled jobs, data exports, and custom integrations that call the Knowledge Graph as a building block rather than a destination you visit.
What you can do with it
Query the Knowledge Graph
Pull structured deal context, account relationships, and historical patterns on demand, and feed them into your own scripts and tools.
Run agents
Trigger qualification, inspection, or research agents from the terminal, on one deal or in bulk, without opening the app.
Automate and integrate
Wire Spotlight into scheduled jobs, data pipelines, and internal tools, so revenue intelligence becomes part of your stack instead of a place you log into.
Need | Dashboard | Spotlight CLI |
|---|---|---|
Look at one deal | Yes | Yes |
Pull data into a script | No | Yes |
Run agents in bulk | Manual, one at a time | One command |
Wire into pipelines and CI | No | Yes |
📊 75% of B2B sales organizations will augment traditional playbooks with AI-guided selling. — Gartner |
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Where it fits in the platform
The CLI is one of three ways to reach the Spotlight.ai Knowledge Graph, alongside the full agentic platform and the MCP server. It is the developer's on-ramp: the same 40-million-signal brain, accessible as a command.
Who the Spotlight CLI is for
RevOps engineers. Automating deal workflows instead of clicking through them.
Developers. Building internal tools on top of revenue data.
Teams running bulk work. Inspections, exports, and batch operations across the pipeline.
Anyone wiring Spotlight into CI. Scheduled jobs and pipelines that call the Knowledge Graph.
Terminal power users. People who would rather type a command than open a tab.
Make revenue intelligence scriptable.
A dashboard is where you look at the deal. A command line is where you build on it. The Spotlight CLI turns the Knowledge Graph and the agent squad into something your team can automate, integrate, and run at scale.
FAQs About the Spotlight CLI
What is the Spotlight CLI?
A developer tool for querying the Spotlight.ai Knowledge Graph and running agents from the command line, so revenue intelligence can be scripted, automated, and integrated rather than only viewed in a dashboard.
What can you do with the Spotlight CLI?
Query the Knowledge Graph for deal context and patterns, run qualification, inspection, or research agents from the terminal, and wire Spotlight into scheduled jobs, pipelines, and internal tools.
Who is the Spotlight CLI for?
RevOps engineers, developers, and technical revenue teams who want to automate deal workflows, run bulk operations, or build on top of the Knowledge Graph.
How is the CLI different from the Spotlight dashboard?
The dashboard is for viewing one deal at a time. The CLI lets you pull data into scripts, run agents in bulk, and integrate Spotlight into automations and CI.
Does the CLI use the same Knowledge Graph as the platform?
Yes. It is one of three ways to reach the Spotlight.ai Knowledge Graph, alongside the agentic platform and the MCP server, the same 40-million-signal foundation.
Can I run Spotlight agents from the command line?
Yes. You can trigger qualification, inspection, and research agents from the terminal on a single deal or in bulk.