Launches, pricing changes, funding, models and regulation that affect sales teams. Every item links to its primary source and to the tools in our directory. RSS feed
Launch
Salesforce has a new outbound sales agent for Sales Cloud, called Hunter. ZoomInfo says it is one of Hunter's flagship data partners, so Hunter can use ZoomInfo company, contact and intent data inside Salesforce, without a separate login.
Launch
Gong says it is one of four Leaders among 13 vendors in Gartner's 2026 Magic Quadrant for Revenue Action Orchestration, its second year in a row.
Launch
Tottenham Hotspur has launched Ask Spurs, an Agentforce agent available in eleven languages. Salesforce says it has an 86% engagement rate, with 20% of interactions resolved by the agent alone, and hands the rest to people.
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ZoomInfo has added Workbounce, which it acquired in 2024, to GTM.AI. It brings a company's own call transcripts, emails, decks and notes into the same graph as ZoomInfo's market data, for AI agents to use.
Funding & M&A
Brazilian start-up Imersa raised $50,000 in its first round for an AI sales copilot that analyses B2B sales conversations in real time.
Instantly or Smartlead? Both are paid cold email tools with unlimited sending and warm-up. The split is scope: Instantly adds a B2B lead database and AI agents. Smartlead sticks to sending at scale. Got your lead data? Smartlead. Want leads and sending in o
X · @aisalesbench · 16 Oct 2026Gong or Avoma? It comes down to how you want to buy. Avoma publishes prices, from $19 per recorder seat/month (billed annually). Gong builds a custom proposal. #SalesTech #AIsales
X · @aisalesbench · 16 Oct 2026We recorded the entry prices of AI sales tools from each vendor's own website. Median entry plan: $35 a month (73 tools with a published price). 36 of 99 verified tools (36%) have a free plan. 14 of 99 (14%) are quote only. Most quote-driven category: foreca
LinkedIn · 16 Oct 2026Gong or Avoma? It comes down to one thing: how you want to buy. • Avoma publishes its prices. Meeting assistant plans start at $19 per recorder seat a month, billed annually, and viewers are free. • Gong prices per user, plus a platform fee based on team size
LinkedIn · 16 Oct 2026AI sales role-play tools let reps practise on an AI buyer, then score the conversation and give feedback straight away. Before you choose one, check three things. 1. Where reps will practise. Role-play comes in three forms: specialist tools (Hyperbound, Secon
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