u/Damazinga49

Spent the last two weeks having Cluely on half my sales calls to see whether it would help me close deals. A few stats/results are shown below:

(Results have only been registered for non-automatic rejections bc Cluely doesn't impact that at all.)

Without Cluely: Close rate: 53% Average call length: 5 mins

With Cluely: Close rate: 64% Average call length: 5 mins

The software gave me good directions for questions asked that I wasn't exactly sure about (mostly revolving around definitions of terms, concepts I didn't know, etc)

As you can see, the close rate went up 11% across the 50 calls. I would overall recommend it, especially for 20$ a month. It's really not that big of an investment.

Will start using Cluely from now on (for the upcoming months and see If I stick with it, will keep you guys updated).

19M studying CS here. Finished freshman year with no internship. Spent the following months grinding LeetCode through winter break while most people were off. 348 applications, 6 interviews, 1 offer for summer 2026.

The process was fricking harder than expected and had a serious impact over my mental health. All friends were out during winter break while I got depressed studying all these hours in my bedroom. I feel like I'm slaving my life away.

Am I the only one asking myself if this is even worth it ?

Spent way too much money on AI SDR tools this year before realizing the unsexy stuff was outperforming everything by a wide margin. Sharing 5 plays that almost nobody talks about because they don't have a logo or a Series B behind them.

The careers page tells you everything. Forget intent data. A company's open roles in the last 90 days reveal exactly what they're building, replacing, or scaling. Four sales roles plus a RevOps lead means they're scaling infrastructure, pitch them on scale. One backfill plus a security hire means they're replacing a vendor, pitch them on switching cost. Free. Public. Almost nobody actually reads them.

Earnings calls are the cheat code for enterprise. Public companies hand you their entire strategic roadmap every 90 days. Pull the last two transcripts, extract every initiative the CFO mentions and every "investment priority" the CEO lists. Those exact phrases become your subject lines. Replies climbed 3-4x for us. You're literally repeating their own words back to them.

Funding rounds have a delayed window. Everyone hammers companies the week they announce. Wrong moment. The real buying window opens 60-90 days later once the first hires land and they need tools to onboard them. Set a 75-day lag on Crunchbase alerts. Reply rates noticeably improved once we made this single change.

Negative reviews of competitors are gold. Filter G2 and TrustRadius for 2-star reviews of your top three competitors posted in the last 30 days. That company is actively shopping. Don't message the reviewer, message the buyer at that company. Early results have been the strongest of anything we've tried this year.

Job changes inside closed-won accounts are the highest-converting motion in any stack. When someone from a happy customer takes a new role somewhere else, that's a warm lead the day they sign their offer letter. Reach out 30 days into the new role. They already know your product works. No AI required, no fancy tooling, just a LinkedIn alert and a calendar reminder.

The unifying lesson, AI SDRs are racing for volume in an already burned inbox. None of these plays compete on volume. They compete on timing and context, which is where the actual deals live in 2026.

Drop a comment if you want the exact filters and prompts behind any of these.