We've been analyzing demo funnels across B2B SaaS companies, and the pattern is consistent: the "Book a demo" button creates a 5 9 day gap between peak buyer intent and first product contact.
By the time the call happens, half the excitement is gone. No-show rates climb. Reps spend the first 15 minutes on basics the prospect would've preferred to explore alone.
The fix isn't a better calendar tool. It's removing the wait entirely.
We built Naoma to replace that gap with an instant AI demo live, conversational, running in the browser 24/7. The prospect gets a real product walkthrough the moment they click. We route qualified leads straight to sales.
In early pilots, we're seeing 6 20% visitor-to-demo conversion, which for most inbound funnels is a meaningful jump from the default.
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While I am new to NAOMA, the rationale for the pivot from v1 to v2 really resonates and v2 sounds much more compelling to me in terms of my own use cases.
Any pro tips or explainers you recommend for someone new to this type of tool?
Naoma AI Demo Agent
@nseldeib thank you, feel free to try it out on our website
Naoma AI Demo Agent
@nseldeib thanks! Yep, David is spot on - the best would be trying it yourself. Happy to hear your feedback afterwards.
Naoma AI Demo Agent
@nseldeib Thank you for your question, David - for the answer!
Naoma AI Demo Agent
@nseldeib Many thanks!
Very cool concept.
Replacing “Book a demo” with an instant AI demo makes a lot of sense for SaaS products.
Curious how well the agent handles deeper product flows and real questions from users.
Naoma AI Demo Agent
@new_user___2902025abb5753b18b341a5 Thank you! We provide a knowledge base and a sales playbook that helps to handle those type of questions
Naoma AI Demo Agent
@new_user___2902025abb5753b18b341a5 thanks for the support! It handles it well - just try the agent on our website. Would be grate to hear your feedback on that.
Naoma AI Demo Agent
@new_user___2902025abb5753b18b341a5 thank you for the question! David handled it
Naoma AI Demo Agent
@new_user___2902025abb5753b18b341a5 Thanks so much for the feedback!
Selzy
Looks interesting. Just a small question here -- when a cost per demo can be $250-600 do you think it's reasonable to delegate it to an AI bot? I just try to understand the use cases of this tool. Upvoted 👍
Naoma AI Demo Agent
@evgeny_kotelevskiy Great question, and the math is actually why Naoma makes sense here.
That $250-600 cost per demo includes SDR time, AE time, no-shows, and leads that weren't qualified to begin with. A significant chunk of that cost goes to demos that should never have happened.
Naoma doesn't replace the high-value human demo. It runs the first discovery layer: qualifying the lead, answering basic product questions, showing the product value relevant to that specific visitor, and capturing intent - so when a human rep does step in, they're talking to someone who already understands the product and is ready to move forward.
The result: fewer wasted demos, higher close rates on the ones that happen, and the leads who would have bounced on a 5-day Calendly wait actually convert instead.
So the question isn't "should AI run the $500 demo?" It's "how many of those $500 demos are currently happening with the wrong people or not happening at all?
Naoma AI Demo Agent
@evgeny_kotelevskiy @dzmitry_ivanouski
Dima, thank you for your answer!
Selzy
@dzmitry_ivanouski Appreciate your deep well-thought answer. When doing outreach we try to qualify leads during the email exchange or via a short call with an SDR before scheduling an actual call with a client. But when you deal with cold traffic (for example from Meta) and you simplify don't have any tools to qualify those leads before a demo call, Naoma seems to be a possible solution. Good luck!
Naoma AI Demo Agent
@evgeny_kotelevskiy yes, exactly - we are currently only focused on the inbound funnel. Thanks again!
Naoma AI Demo Agent
@evgeny_kotelevskiy thank you for your support!
Naoma AI Demo Agent
@evgeny_kotelevskiy Thank you for your support!
I think you have found a sweet spot when for a company employing humans it may be prohibitively expensive to do a live demo to every qualified lead; you are practically dropping the threshold to mere dollars, not hundreds of dollars per demo.
Naoma AI Demo Agent
@max_kraynov yes, exactly!
Naoma AI Demo Agent
@max_kraynov exactly! Thank you!
Naoma AI Demo Agent
@max_kraynov , yes, thanks for the comment
The "book a demo" wait is where so many deals seem to die, and this is an awesome product that removes that friction completely. Can the agent handle tough questions on the spot or does it hand off to a real person at some point?
Naoma AI Demo Agent
@simonk123 Naoma can handle tough questions probably even better than a real person.
Naoma AI Demo Agent
@simonk123 It can do both. It can use the company knowledge base to answer questions and he can redirect to the human if needed
Naoma AI Demo Agent
@simonk123 thanks for the comment!
Yes, it can handle questions on the fly, navigate pages, click buttons, etc. You can interrupt it and ask questions any time.
I read the description and got interested right away, then I click through to the landing page and see that I need to register and book a demo and that’s the moment I close the site...Which is a bit ironic because the idea itself is really cool !!! My first instinct is to just try the AI demo right there on the page without any signup to see how it works
Naoma AI Demo Agent
@natallia_novik No, you don't need to book a demo with our team. You just can click the button "start demo now".
@dmitry_zakharov_ai sounds awesome :) let me check then and thanks for your help
Naoma AI Demo Agent
@natallia_novik yes, I'm waiting for your feedback
Naoma AI Demo Agent
@natallia_novik the demo is available on our website, just click "Start demo now" to test our agent. Are you sure you've visited the right website? Feel free to test our agent here https://www.naoma.ai/
Naoma AI Demo Agent
@natallia_novik, Thanks! How did the conversation with the agent go? Have you tried it?
Naoma AI Demo Agent
@mithlesh_shah thanks! Surprisingly, many people have no issues interacting with AI and telling the agent about their situation and answering qualification questions.
Naoma AI Demo Agent
@mithlesh_shah Honestly, still too early to say with confidence. We have some signals but not enough volume to draw real conclusions yet. That's part of what we're actively tracking — would love to revisit this in a few months with actual data.
Naoma AI Demo Agent
@mithlesh_shah Thank you! 🙏
Honestly — better than we expected. The initial assumption was that some prospects would bounce the moment they realized it wasn't a human. What we're seeing in pilots is that most people engage pretty naturally once the demo actually starts. The product is doing the work, and when the walkthrough is relevant and the answers are accurate, the avatar becomes background.
The moments that matter most aren't "does this look human enough" — they're "did it answer my question" and "did it show me something relevant to my use case." When those land, prospects stay and convert.
That said — avatar quality is something we're actively investing in. More realistic, more expressive. Not because users are complaining loudly, but because we know it raises the ceiling on the experience, especially for higher-ACV products where the buying environment needs to feel more premium.
Curious what your instinct is from the buyer side — does the avatar matter to you, or is it purely about the demo quality? 🙏
Naoma AI Demo Agent
@mithlesh_shah Thanks so much for the feedback!
Naoma AI Demo Agent
@mithlesh_shah thanks! It’s actually a very common question from our prospects. In short, if user is really interested in the product, they don’t care from where they get answers to their questions.
But we also have avatarless option, and working on implementing a photorealistic version of the avatar.