AINewsnow

Are sales teams wasting closers on lead qualification?

This story is from 2026-08-23. It is preserved in the archive; the latest stories are on the live feed.

We’re wasting hours following up with inbound leads that don’t go anywhere. I wish there were a better way to serve agents qualified leads instead of asking them to qualify, follow up and close. I’ve been looking into whether AI voice agents like Bland can realistically handle the first part of tha…

Read the full story at r/AI_Agents ↗

Timeline · 1 report

  1. 2026-08-23 20:12 · r/AI_Agents
    Are sales teams wasting closers on lead qualification?

More stories

  1. Introducing Kimi K3 on Amazon Bedrock — AWS Machine Learning Blog
  2. Introducing Amazon SageMaker HyperPod Inference Gateway — AWS Machine Learning Blog
  3. Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, Google sued over call to ‘pace’ AI development — Politico Technology
  4. Gemini Hacked Three Companies in First Known Breakout by Google’s AI — Wall Street Journal Technology
  5. Alibaba ships Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash to watch, listen and call tools — r/LocalLLM
  6. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang rejects ‘AI will end the world’ claim, yet cautions ‘we should go as fast as we can but...’ — Mint AI
  7. Meet the Data Agent in ChatGPT Work — OpenAI YouTube
  8. AI hallucination of Chinese nuclear components almost led to US military attack — Ars Technica AI

Get the daily brief of stories like this at 6:30 every morning →