r/AI_Sales

So how this basically works is Instead of getting another PDF or sitting through a training session you just work through short roleplays and practice the stuff you actually need to say, our team is using it for uploading the sales material we already use so the scenarios match our process instead of giving us some generic script I like that I can mess up in practice and run it again before doing it with a real customer it makes training a lot better, just thought of sharing it here with you guys maybe it helps someone out.

my job kinda turned into "test random ai tools and report back" this past year, roleplay and coaching stuff, call recording and scoring, prospecting tools, forecasting, all of it. some were genuinely good, most i forgot existed within a month, a couple were actually worse than doing nothing at all

if theres something specific youre trying to solve, ramp time, forecast accuracy, call coaching whatever, drop it below and ill tell you what actually worked for that vs what was just noise

I build AI automations for small businesses, things like chatbots, follow up systems, scraping data, cleaning up workflows, whatever is eating up their time or costing them money. I'm solid on the technical side but honestly not great at finding clients or pitching them.

Looking for someone who's good at talking to small business owners and can spot where they're bleeding time or money. If you bring me the client and close the deal, I'll handle everything on the build side and we split it.

Doesn't matter if you've done this exact thing before, if you're good with people and can sell, that's really the main thing I need.

If this sounds like something you'd want to do, and we can figure out the split and get moving.

Hey so as part of my work, I need to reach out to thousands of vendors, and find out if they are suitable and interested to be part of our network to offer their service to our leads.

Ideally the AI agent can even be charming and build a warm relationship with the potential partners. That's honestly the most exhausting part to do the intro over and over, explain same thing over and over.

I used to do this super manually, it's just not scalable, and I don't want to do it all over again. Hiring and training would take a while too. I think there needs to be a better way to automate this.

Anyone has done anything similar?

I build n8n systems end to end. An AI receptionist that handles bookings, FAQs and reminders using WhatsApp Cloud API, OpenAI and Google Sheets, with SMS fallback through Twilio. A speed-to-lead workflow that replies to form fills in under a minute. A scraping pipeline that finds local businesses, enriches them and tiers them by website quality.

For months I assumed the problem was my product or my pitch. I rewrote the offer. I rebuilt the demo. I sent personalised messages instead of templates. Still nothing closed.

Here is what actually came back across those conversations. About half were some version of "let me think about it" — never a no, never a yes, and follow ups just died. A lot of them heard "AI receptionist" and thought I wanted to replace their existing receptionist rather than cover the hours she isn't there. I sent one clinic a fully working live demo and they never opened the link. And then budget, which was the one I kept explaining away.

The real answer was the market, not the product and not the pitch. I was selling to local businesses in Pakistan, where a recurring monthly software bill in dollars is simply not realistic for a small clinic no matter how good the demo looks. I was running a Western SaaS playbook in a market that cannot support Western SaaS pricing. No amount of better copywriting fixes that.

So I stopped outreach rather than keep grinding a market that can't pay.

Now the question I actually need answered. For people who have closed paid automation work with clients in the US, the UK or Canada, what was the first channel that genuinely worked for you? Cold email direct to those businesses, subcontracting for agencies that have overflow, or one of the freelance marketplaces? I can only run one experiment properly this month and I would rather run the one that worked for someone than the one that sounds good in theory.

Hi. I’m currently working under as a sales associate for this new idea called “bestinmiami”. To give some detail, it’s a protected site launching in September, it’s one business per category for all of Miami, totaling 75 categories, so 75 businesses. It’s structured based on back tracking from ai. The whole design is for ai to pull the answer already from our source when someone goes and asks chatgpt, Gemini, or Claude- “Who’s the best [category] in Miami?” See when someone asks that today, it’s pulling from pages on the web that already answer that question. And almost every page that exists is a top 25 list with 25 names on it so it doesn’t even know what it’s working with.

My difficulty is selling this to owners. Right now everything has been mostly digital. And almost half the time nobody is ever interested and don’t wanna hear some guy call them trying to sell something over the phone to them. I’m wondering how can break through that barrier because not only is it difficult but I feel like this business could be very useful and help smaller businesses and comes with many other benefits.

Any help?

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We’re an AI-native product studio building AI products and custom AI systems for businesses.

Our products solve specific business problems, while our custom solutions are built around the unique challenges of individual businesses.

We’re looking for Sales / Business Development people who want to help us get our first paying customers.

What you'll do

- Find potential customers for our AI products and custom solutions

- Prospect businesses through cold calls, email, LinkedIn, etc.

- Understand their problems and identify opportunities

- Qualify leads and book meetings

- Help turn prospects into paying customers

- Be involved in the process from prospecting → conversation → qualification → conversion

Who we're looking for

No years of sales experience required.

Students, freshers, freelancers, or anyone confident in their communication and ability to sell are welcome.

What matters most:

Communication + confidence + willingness to learn + execution.

What you get

- Real-world B2B sales experience

- Hands-on exposure to AI + business

- Experience selling actual AI products and solutions

- Performance-based earning

- Opportunity to take on more responsibility as we grow

Compensation

Performance-based, depending on the quality and results of the leads/opportunities you generate.

If you're interested, DM me with a little about yourself and why you'd be a good fit.

We'll have a short conversation and take it from there.

I've been thinking about what “handled” means after some useful conversations here.

There's one scenario I haven't seen discussed much:

Customer submits an enquiry.

Business responds.

Lead gets qualified.

Employee calls.

No answer.

What happens now?

I can imagine several reasonable approaches:

A. Leave voicemail and wait.

B. Call again later.

C. Follow up through another channel.

D. Put them into some defined follow-up sequence.

E. Close the lead.

What interests me isn't which option is theoretically best.

It's whether businesses actually have an explicit rule at all.

Because “we tried calling” can easily become a terminal state even though neither side decided the conversation was over.

I've started thinking about open conversations as needing one of three things:

1. An owner — somebody is responsible.

2. A next action + time — something should happen later.

3. An explicit closure reason — we're intentionally done.

Anything without one of those seems vulnerable to quietly disappearing.

For disclosure, I'm building Brrim in the lead/customer communication space, so I'm obviously interested in this operationally.

For people running actual businesses:

What's your real process after callback attempt #1 fails?

And at what point do you decide you've followed up enough?

I'm especially interested in what happens in practice rather than what the official SOP says.

This Reddit post should not include Brrim.com. Let the disclosure do the work and keep the discussion operator-first.

I’ve been testing different AI tools to improve sales productivity and would love to hear what’s working for others.

The areas where I’ve seen AI provide the most value so far are:

• Researching prospects and gathering account insights

• Creating more personalized outreach messages and emails

• Summarizing calls and tracking next steps

• Keeping CRM data organized and up to date

• Preparing for meetings and managing follow up tasks

AI has definitely helped to reduce a lot of repetitive work, but I still think building relationships and earning customer trust are what ultimately drive successful sales outcomes!!

If you added an AI chatbot to your store recently, there's a huge chance it's giving people wrong info, making up fake discount codes, or recommending items that are out of stock.

I see this all the time when working on sites. People install a basic AI app, think it's plug-and-play, and then wonder why customers get annoyed and leave.

The main problem is simple: you can't just drop an AI app on your site and expect it to magically know your business.

If you want a chatbot to actually make sales instead of messing up, you have to set it up properly behind the scenes:

1. Set strict rules: You have to explicitly tell the AI, "If you don't know the exact answer, do NOT guess. Tell them to contact support." Otherwise, it just makes stuff up.
2. Connect it to live inventory: The bot needs to be hooked up directly to your product catalog so it knows what's actually in stock, the real price, and correct details.
3. Clean up your site data: If your product descriptions and site setup are messy, the AI gets confused. Cleaning up your site structure fixes the AI and helps your Google SEO at the same time.

Once you actually set up custom rules and proper connections, the bot acts like a real salesperson instead of a dumb pop-up.

Anyone else dealing with their chatbot giving out weird answers? How are you guys handling it?

I used to work in outbound sales for an IT outsourcing business, so reaching out to people on LinkedIn to promote that service was something I did regularly.

Trying to send 200+ manual connection requests a week was time consuming though, and so I decided to use a tool to automate this process.

After about a week, I got a warning that my account might get banned if I continued doing this.

So, I stopped using that automation tool, as it didn’t seem worth it.

I did some research into why/how accounts get flagged for automation by LinkedIn, and it seemed like none of the existing tools really took all of these safety factors into account.

So, I built my own instead, for my own use case and to satisfy my paranoia about being banned on LinkedIn.

From the very beginning my intention was to make the automation as human-like as possible, so I deliberately scoped the architecture to have certain features;

- Browser based automation (no plugins/cloud usage)
- Daily rate limits on connection requests
- Randomised timing delays between actions
- On screen typing
- Human-like mouse clicks on LinkedIn pages

It certainly wasn’t easy putting this all together from scratch, and without any technical knowledge.

After a few weeks of building with AI tools
though, I had a working prototype.

I started using it in my sales job, and it was really helpful for me to book more meetings with engineering managers at the time, so I decided earlier this year to make the tool public as well.

Since launching in April, the tool has had over 450 people sign up to free trials, and has roughly 50 active users on average per day.

I also use it myself daily for my own outreach, and so far none of the users have had account bans.

So far at least, I can say that I achieved my goal of making a LinkedIn automation tool that I can trust with my account!

I’m looking for brutally honest feedback from people who’ve worked in marketing, sales, SaaS, or education. Here’s my funnel. Meta ad to WhatsApp, then they chat with an AI career counsellor that I built, which is a Hermes agent. Hermes doesn’t pitch immediately. It asks about their career goals, identifies gaps, gives personalized insights, then introduces our HR course as a possible solution. People engage deeply. They answer questions, ask about the course, even ask about fees, but later they vanish. They stop replying or say ‘I’ll think about it’ or ‘Next month’ and then they’re gone. We’ve tried softer selling, better follow-ups, human intervention. Same result. Now we’re switching ads to promote the course directly, instead of free guidance, to attract higher intent. Where do you think the leak really is? Is this a trust issue, a timing issue, a value mismatch, or are these simply not real buyers? If you were rebuilding this funnel, what would you change first?

I currently run 6 operational micro ai saas products that generate a little over $20k in monthly recurring revenue.

I hardly wrote a single line of traditional code. i used ai to generate literally everything, from the database architecture to the user interface.

it wasn't magic on day one. i spent hours stuck in endless debugging loops and dealing with faulty ai code before i finally cracked the formula.

it basically comes down to three rules:

- keeping the idea aggressively minimalist (build a true mvp, not a platform).

- guiding the ai step-by-step instead of asking it to build the whole app at once.

- launching fast to get real user traction instead of perfecting features in secret.

lately, i've seen way too many non-technical founders give up at the very first ai bug or deployment error. or the worst, give up without push anything in marketing !!!!

it's a massive shame, because the technical barrier to entry has practically disappeared and the marketing is easy in 2026

because of this, i’m launching a skool community to share my exact method.

to be completely transparent: i will likely charge for the full course later down the road. it just makes sense given the specific prompt sequences, n8n workflows, and copy-and-paste templates i'll be sharing.

but right now, our main objective is simply to build together. working alone in a silent corner is the absolute fastest way to quit.

if you want to join a group of active creators and build or launch your own ai saas: drop a comment below or send me a dm, and i’ll send you the invite link.

I build an AI video outreach tool. I have never hired an SDR. Every customer we have came from me pointing the product at my own pipeline and living with whatever it did.

That is an uncomfortable place to sit, because my ICP is heads of sales, SDR managers, and founders running their own outbound. These are the exact people who can smell a template from the subject line. If the video is stiff or the opener is generic, they do not just ignore it, they screenshot it and post it here.

Last week the loop finally produced a number worth writing up: 52 meetings booked.

The funnel

Contacts worked: 1,842
Touches sent: 3,110 across email and LinkedIn
Replies: 214 (11.6%)
Positive replies: 78
Meetings booked: 52
Of those, 35 have happened: 31 held, 4 no-shows, 17 still on the calendar

Our normal week is 8 to 12. I do not think 52 is the new baseline. I think 25 to 30 is, and I will post again in a month with whether that held.

Why dogfooding changes what you build

When you sell an outbound tool and do not use it, you optimize for the demo. Dashboards, charts, a settings page with forty toggles. When the replies land in your own inbox, you optimize for the only thing that decides whether a stranger books time with you, which is the first five seconds.

Four things I only learned because I was the one getting the responses:

1. Every script sounded like the same person wrote it. Technically they were all personalized. Different company, different role, different opening fact. But the rhythm was identical across all 1,800, and once you notice it you cannot unnotice it. Nobody replies to tell you this. They just stop replying. I rebuilt the generator so the sentence structure varies, not only the nouns.
2. The opener has to be something they know I could not have guessed. Not “I saw you’re hiring SDRs.” That is public and reads as scraped. Closer to “you posted two SDR roles and an enablement role in the same month, which usually means the problem is ramp time, not headcount.” The inference is the personalization. The fact is just the setup.
3. Video length. Anything past 40 seconds and replies roughly halved. My best performer is 28 seconds. I kept wanting to explain the product and the product is not what gets the meeting.
4. No calendar link in the first touch. Asking a question outperformed asking for time by a wide margin, and the people who answered the question booked anyway when I sent the link in the reply.

What flopped outright

Video on a LinkedIn touch before the connection is accepted. Dead every time.

Monday 8am sends. Tuesday to Thursday, 10am to 2pm local, roughly doubled replies.

Openers starting with “Hope you’re well” or “Quick question.” Under 3% reply rate.

Going wider. I ran a looser second list of 900 contacts mid-week and it returned 4 meetings. The tight list returned 48 off 1,842.

The part I would not have believed a year ago

The tool is maybe 30% of this. The list filter and the first line are the other 70%. You could take the exact same product, point it at a bad list, and book nothing. I know because I did that to myself for months.

Disclosure up front rather than buried: the tool is Outvid and I built it. This is my own pipeline, not a customer case study, and I am not linking it here. If you want the sequence structure or the actual scripts I will paste them in the comments, and they work with whatever you are already sending from.

Ask me anything about the funnel, the list build, or the failures. The failure list is longer than the win list and I am happy to go through all of it.

Not the ones where you know you fumbled it. I mean the ones where it felt like it was going well, the prospect seemed engaged, and then nothing. Even replaying it in your head, you still can't figure it out. How did you handle it?

till now,

tried flagon ai , booked karumi ai demo , supersonik ai demo

flagon ai seems promising and giving free plan option also anyone used ?