{"id":311029,"date":"2025-04-15T07:20:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T14:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saastr.com\/?p=311029"},"modified":"2025-04-15T11:57:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T18:57:14","slug":"ai-cant-sell-yet-but-its-probably-already-smarter-than-90-of-your-sales-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saastr.com\/ai-cant-sell-yet-but-its-probably-already-smarter-than-90-of-your-sales-team\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Can’t Sell Yet. But It’s Probably Already “Smarter” Than Much of Your Sales Team"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So we do love our SaaStr AI.<\/h3>\n

It’s not perfect, but in its first month alone, it’s answered over 6,000 chats and questions from the SaaStr community!<\/a>\u00a0 On everything from how to hire a great VP of Sales, to reviewing investor memos, to helping (many!) founders decide if they should quit or not.<\/p>\n

It’s not perfect but it’s great.\u00a0 Try it here<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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And it turns out it can do things we didn’t intend.<\/p>\n

One is be our BDR for SaaStr sponsorships.\u00a0 Initially, it was OK and could answer support questions on its own.\u00a0 But then we uploaded the prospectus and trained it a bit,\u00a0 And wow.<\/p>\n

It’s not perfect, but honestly it’s better than 90% of humans could be — for answering questions at least.\u00a0 Not for selling per se, but for answering sales-related questions.<\/h3>\n

Because it knows so much more:<\/h3>\n
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  • It truly knows the differences between different levels of offerings, and different booths<\/li>\n
  • It knows how many leads and lead scans each type of sponsor gets<\/li>\n
  • It can make recommendations for a given budget<\/li>\n
  • It can hand you off to sales, albeit just a general email, when the prospect is ready<\/li>\n
  • It knows booth specs, how activations work, and lots of niche stuff even I don’t really know<\/li>\n
  • It can kindly tell folks with not enough budget that it might not be a fit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Our AI knows its stuff cold.\u00a0 That’s better than 90%+ of BDRs.<\/h3>\n

    It’s not the same.\u00a0 It’s not a salesperson.\u00a0 It’s a digital agent that can answer questions pretty accurately.<\/p>\n

    But for what it is, within its limited scope — it’s better.<\/p>\n