In today's newsletter: a new tool for making sales admin work faster and more AI photo studios, now for couples, too.
A sales copilot to close more deals
We talk a lot about productivity over here. We even have a dedicated newsletter on the topic. And while we love highlighting new cool calendars and note-taking apps, today’s product is about a different kind of productivity: improving sales efficiency.
Pod, an AI workspace dedicated to sales teams, wants to put the admin work on autopilot so that you spend more time building relationships with customers and closing deals. “Over the past few years, I’ve had the chance to work with world-class go-to-market teams, and there’s one thing that will always remain true: sales reps want less admin work. Salespeople want to spend more time selling. They want results - admin tasks don't get results, selling does,” one of the makers behind Pod shares as the motivation for building the product.
How? Pod helps you apply the best plays by analyzing winning pipeline trends to recommend who, when, and how to best engage stakeholders and then generates personalized outreach emails. It synthesizes compelling events on your deals to provide actionable recommendations for when you meet with them and then updates your CRM for you.
New AI technology is adding an interesting layer of automation to sales tools. According to the makers of Pod, “54% of sellers didn’t hit their quota last year.” The economic downturn likely had a lot to do with that, but it will be interesting to see how removing distractions will improve those numbers.
If there are other specific sales products you’re looking for, like CRM tools and meeting assistants, check out the best ones here.
Your agents stopped answering and started doing
Your agents call tools, write to databases and move money, so a wrong answer is now a wrong action, which is a considerably worse meeting. Arcjet runs policy before every LLM call, tool call, query and API request: prompt injection, sensitive data, bots, rate limits, spend quotas, and your own rules in Rego on top. It reads the OpenTelemetry you already emit, so switching it on is one environment variable, no code changes and nothing to deploy. Each check also reads the earlier steps in the same workflow, so an agent's tenth action gets judged against the first nine and not on its own. JavaScript, Python and Go SDKs all at 1.0, agent framework guards included, free tier to start on.
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