Pricing, market consolidation, qualification and what actually books a meeting. Written for the businesses the enterprise roll-up left behind.
An outreach agent writes to people who have not asked. A website agent answers the ones who have. How they differ, the risks of each stated plainly, and a five-minute way to decide which to buy first.
Read article
Learn, talk, decide, verify, book, record. The six steps behind an AI sales agent, what good looks like at each one, what goes wrong, and the question to ask a vendor before you sign.
Read article
A door policy is a handful of firm rules that decide who gets a meeting. How one rule is built, the four protections every rule gets, six worked policies for six kinds of business, and how to write a no that nobody minds hearing.
Read article
Prospecting, research, outreach, inbound qualification and CRM hygiene are five different jobs sold under one name. Most stacks have bought three and left the website with a form. A five-minute audit of what you are paying for.
Read article
Two of the best-known inbound AI sales agents now belong to Salesforce, and Drift is being retired. If you run HubSpot, Pipedrive or Zoho, what matters is whether an agent fits your CRM and your plan. What changed, what your own CRM offers, and how to tell whether an agent is tied to one CRM.
Read article
AI sales agents are billed in four main units. The unit decides what the vendor earns more from, and so what the product is quietly built to do. Each model explained, priced against the same month, and tested on whether the agent can afford to say no.
Read article
An outbound AI SDR writes to people who have never heard of you. An inbound AI sales agent answers the people already on your website. Different training, different metrics, different risks, and which one to buy first.
Read article
A sales-led company needs support that never sells and never guesses. What to look for, how the options compare on the job, and how a support agent sits beside your sales agent on the same site.
Read article
Fit scoring is deciding who somebody is, not how they behave in the first two minutes of a chat. Here is what an AI agent may judge, the six behaviours that never count, and where a firm rule takes over.
Read article
The main products sorted by the job they actually do: answering your website visitors, chasing cold contacts, or adding AI inside your CRM. With where each one beats us.
Read article
Two products share the name and almost nothing else. What an AI sales agent actually does, step by step, and the nine questions to ask any vendor before you sign.
Read article
The market leader will not quote a number until your third meeting. The affordable one bills you every time it works. Here is what the whole stack actually costs.
Read article
Drift, Qualified and Intercom were the shortlist. One is being retired and two now belong to Salesforce. Here is what that means for buyers outside the enterprise.
Read article
Salesloft retires Drift on 31 January 2027 and is referring its customers to 1mind. Here is how to move your website conversations with the 8-Minute Aijent.
Read article
Many business chatbots are decision trees wearing an AI badge, and visitors work it out almost immediately. Here is the test that tells the two apart.
Read article
There is a precise moment when many website leads die: the handoff to a scheduling link. Every extra tab sheds intent.
Read article
Time to live ranges from minutes to months, and the gap is not product complexity. It is the business model behind the invoice.
Read article
A fee every time the AI qualifies a lead turns your best month into your biggest bill. Here is the maths on the pricing model that punishes growth.
Read article
Well-run businesses screen who they take on, then run a website that treats every visitor the same. Here is how to write the door policy yourself.
Read article
Everyone agrees unqualified demos are annoying. Almost nobody costs them. Here is one, line by line.
Read article
Many AI sales agents are tuned to let more people in. We built one that is proud of who it turns away, warmly, with nothing lost.
Read article
Our comparison table lists the rows where competitors beat us, with sources. Our price is printed on the page. Transparency only works if the product survives it.
Read articleLive in minutes, trained on your own site. 14 days free, no credit card.