what’s actually working with AI sales agents right now?

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Summary

The article shares practical insights that focused automations for repetitive sales tasks (like lead qualification and follow-ups) are more effective than fully autonomous AI sales agents.

after testing a bunch of AI sales tools lately, it feels like the biggest wins aren’t coming from fully autonomous “AI closers” but from smaller focused automations that handle repetitive parts of the workflow really well. things like lead qualification, follow-ups, objection tagging, voicemail drops, call summaries, scheduling, etc seem way more useful in practice than trying to replace the whole sales rep. curious what people here have actually seen work in real sales environments and which parts of the funnel are getting the most value from AI right now.
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