The Hallway Track
9 tracked signals on sales-automation.
Salesforce launches Claudeforce, integrating Claude AI directly into its CRM platform
“We're actually seeing users of our internal pilot that are leveraging Salesforce two to three times more because what used to take a user several days to weeks, an agent now can do that on behalf of the user.”
Salesforce launched Hunter, a goal-based outbound sales agent covering the full deal cycle
“A lot of agents are single prompt, one task and they're done. Customers wanted more, so we built Hunter, a new outbound sales agent that can hold an outcome in mind and work the full deal cycle.”
Siemens deployed Salesforce AgentForce's Piper agent to automate partner onboarding and pipeline generation 24/7
“This is the dream. You have a hot buyer and Piper is ushering them along in their journey.”
Former OpenAI sales leader advises founders to automate go-to-market before hiring sales teams
“build the machine first before you build the team”
AWS launches Amazon Quick, an agentic AI sales assistant automating CRM and prospecting tasks
“Amazon Quick is an AI assistant for work that turns questions into answers, answers into actions, and actions into outcomes.”
Batteries Plus generated $15M+ in pipeline by deploying Salesforce Agentforce to automate sales outreach
“The biggest complaint that I got was we're talking to our customers too much. But before we weren't talking to our customers at all”
GTM engineering is emerging as the first role that directly indexes on AI model advances.
“it's one of the first roles that actually is an index on the advances that we're making in AI”
Salesforce pitches AI agents to generate inbound sales pipeline at scale in the agentic era.
“But what we're going to be talking about is generating pipeline at scale in the agentic era.”
Batteries Plus grew sales pipeline to $16M in months using Salesforce Agentforce AI agents.
“Now we have the agent reaching out to them, driving opportunities, driving revenue, staying top of mind.”