AI Briefing#sales-automation
The latest AI and developer news about #sales-automation, with the original source and a short summary.
The latest AI and developer news about #sales-automation, with the original source and a short summary.
The agent generated 1,540 artifacts in 12 weeks, saving 337 hours of rep time by using business context rather than just prompt tuning.
AI supports customer DB and consultation drafts, enabling experts to focus on coverage diagnosis and design explanations.
The tool intelligently runs campaigns to reach outcomes like qualified leads or confirmed appointments, with beta users reporting 100% lead coverage compared to previous 50-60% rates.
The team built Account Intel, Quote, and Deal Bots to centralize expertise and automate the deal cycle while keeping human oversight for sensitive decisions.
The agent fleet, named Nakama, handles lead routing, email drafting, and CRM updates, saving the representative approximately 60 hours of manual work per week.
The guide highlights ElevenLabs' Scribe v2 and Scribe v2 Realtime models, which support diarization for up to 32 speakers and transcription in over 90 languages.
Anthropic's sales team implemented a Claude Managed Agents buying agent, resulting in leads converting to opportunities more than twice as often and deals closing about five days faster.
Proaction's non-technical COO uses Codex to build custom demos, saving 40-60 engineering hours monthly and increasing the rate of deals moving to solution development by 50-60%.
ElevenLabs' AI SDR 'Dom' reduced the median lead qualification time from 2 days to 4 minutes and generated over $1 million in monthly pipeline.
The Claude Code plugin 'Insight', which analyzes LinkedIn profiles and posts to formulate customized outreach strategies, has been released under the MIT license.
The system pulls data from BigQuery via MCP to generate unique Monday digests for every account executive, doubling event registrations in one week.
AI agents qualify leads through conversation and immediately connect only suitable sales opportunities.
Anthropic's business development representatives use Claude Cowork skills to automate inbox triage, account prospecting, and CRM updates, reducing manual research time.
Chloe, an AI agent integrated directly into the CRM, has launched to handle lead calls and data management.
Mahindra automated XUV 7XO launch consultations with an ElevenLabs-powered AI voice agent.
ElevenLabs standardized sales training globally with an AI role-play coach.
ElevenLabs shared the contents of a workshop on building an AI SDR that automates everything from lead qualification to meeting scheduling.
Cars24 automated 25% of sales calls with multilingual multi-agent Voice AI.
lemlist has partnered with ElevenLabs to introduce a solution that automates personalized LinkedIn voice messages at scale.
Funding Societies has adopted ElevenLabs' AI voice technology to automate thousands of sales calls every day.
Leadtailor.AI uses ElevenLabs' AI voice to create personalized sales videos, achieving sales conversion rates more than 10x higher than existing methods.
In 2025, outbound sales are evolving toward maximizing efficiency through collaboration between AI agents and humans.
The most effective model is a collaboration where AI automates initial lead discovery and humans close the final deal.
Thoughtly provides an AI phone agent solution that automates sales and customer support by leveraging ElevenLabs' voice models.