Every sales leader in the survey uses AI somewhere. Only 20.6% have it running in production with results they can actually measure.
That is the Salesloft benchmark, 500 US sales and revenue leaders, they published it with their announcement today https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/10/27/3389102/0/en/salesloft-advances-agentic-revenue-vision-with-new-ai-capabilities-for-sales-teams.html
Same survey, only 31.8% can say right away why a deal got stuck. Thats the number I would fix first. If you cant see why deals stall, one more agent just helps you stall faster 😅
Pilots are easy. Measuring is the boring part nobody wants to own.
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