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Sales
A pipeline built on evidence, not optimism.
Find accounts that match a described profile, qualify them against real signals, and forecast a pipeline whose drivers you can inspect.
What is Sales?
Sales tooling is good at recording what happened and poor at explaining what is likely. Sales works the other way round: it finds accounts matching a profile you describe in words, explains why each one matched, drafts outreach grounded in what is actually known about the account rather than a merge field, and builds a forecast whose drivers are visible. When a number moves, you can see which deals moved it.
Problems it solves
- Find accounts matching a described profile rather than a static list
- Explain why an account qualified, in terms a manager can check
- Draft outreach from real account context instead of merge fields
- Forecast with the drivers behind the number visible
- Keep qualification consistent across a team
- Spot accounts going quiet before renewal
Key capabilities
- Prospect Discovery
- Find accounts matching a described profile and explain why each one matched.
- Outreach Drafting
- Draft messages grounded in what is actually known about the recipient's context.
- Forecasting
- Project a pipeline, a harvest or a load curve, with the drivers behind the number visible.
- Evidence Trail
- Every figure carries the record it came from, so a reader can check the answer instead of trusting it.
- Cross-Source Intelligence
- Reason across several approved systems at once, so an answer is not limited to whichever database someone happened to open.
How it is built
- Profile in words
- Describe the customer you want in a sentence rather than assembling a filter.
- Match explained
- Each candidate carries the signals that produced the match, so a bad profile is visible immediately.
- Grounded drafting
- Outreach references what is known about the account, not a template with a name substituted.
- Forecast drivers
- The number decomposes into the deals and assumptions behind it.
How it works
How the work is structured, and what each step's output rests on.
Describe the profile
SourceState the customer you are looking for in plain language.
Discover candidates
ObservedSearch connected sources for accounts matching that description.
Explain each match
AI-inferredAttach the signals that caused a candidate to qualify.
Draft outreach
AI-inferredWrite messages grounded in the account's actual context.
Forecast
EstimateRoll qualified opportunities into a forecast with visible drivers.
Example use cases
Each example has its own page you can read and share.
Sales
Prospect discovery from a described profile
Describe the customer you want in words and get candidates with the reasoning for each match.
3 minute walkthrough
- Prospect Discovery
- Evidence Trail
Sales
Consistent lead qualification
Qualify leads against the same criteria every time, with the evidence for each judgement attached.
3 minute walkthrough
- Prospect Discovery
- Evidence Trail
- Confidence Ceilings
Sales
Pipeline forecasting with visible drivers
Produce a forecast that decomposes into the deals and assumptions carrying it.
4 minute walkthrough
- Forecasting
- Evidence Trail
Ask Sales
Illustrative examples. Results depend on your own data.
- “Find mid-market manufacturers who recently opened a second site.”
- “Why did this account qualify?”
- “Which deals are carrying this quarter's forecast?”
- “Which accounts have gone quiet since the last renewal?”
Security, governance and human control
Where the software deliberately limits itself.
Governance
- Outreach is drafted, never auto-sent
- Forecasts labelled as estimates with assumptions shown
Questions
- Does it send email on my behalf?
- It drafts. Sending stays a human action, because an ungoverned outbound agent is a reputational risk, not a productivity gain.
- How is the forecast calculated?
- From qualified opportunities and stated assumptions, both of which are shown. It is an estimate and is labelled as one.
Related applications
Teams using Sales often want these too.
Marketing
Plan, brief and measure campaigns in one place.
Capabilities
- Campaign Planning
- Forecasting
- Evidence Trail
Service
Run the venue on the numbers that decide margin.
Capabilities
- Inventory Optimisation
- Forecasting
- Cross-Source Intelligence
- Evidence Trail
DeepQuery
Ask your databases a question, in words.
Capabilities
- Natural-Language Query
- Cross-Source Intelligence
- Evidence Trail
- Agentic Investigation
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