What key capabilities does the AI-assisted Sales Agent feature provide?
The Sales Agent is an integrated workspace within the Hoop platform designed to help sales representatives sell smarter and increase pipeline velocity. It unifies essential tools like email, calendar, calls, tasks, and deal management into one CRM-powered view. AI is layered across the workflow to automate routine tasks, ensuring reps spend less time on busywork and more time closing deals.
Core capabilities include automated lead prioritization, drafting outreach emails, and capturing meeting notes and follow-ups. The feature provides reps with the necessary context immediately, streamlining the entire sales motion from initial contact to close. This creates pipeline momentum for the entire sales organization.
How does the Sales Agent unify a sales rep's daily workflow?
The Sales Agent acts as a command center, consolidating all necessary actions and data points. It eliminates the need for reps to jump between multiple applications to manage their day. This unified timeline keeps all interactions in one place.
Key elements of the unified workspace include:
- Email, calendar, calling, and tasks displayed in a single, coherent timeline view.
- A customizable deal board clearly defining stage, owners, and next steps for every deal.
- Automatic activity logging and engagement tracking, syncing actions to the CRM effortlessly.
By keeping context readily available, the Sales Agent helps reps maintain momentum and ensures that the entire team is working from the same, up-to-date information within Hoop.
What conversation intelligence features assist in coaching and deal reviews?
The Sales Agent enhances sales coaching by providing robust conversation intelligence tools. These features give managers clear, objective data derived from real interactions, allowing them to pinpoint what drives successful conversions and what areas require improvement. The platform processes call transcripts and identifies key moments.
Specifically, the coaching tools include:
- Call insights: Provides transcripts, keywords, and highlights moments that significantly impact win rates.
- Rep scorecards: Compares performance metrics such as talk time, meeting volume, and conversion rates across individual reps and teams.
- Deal reviews: Helps managers spot risk early by analyzing stage, deal amount, and last activity, focusing coaching where it is needed most.
What level of process customization is available within the Sales Agent?
The Hoop Sales Agent is designed to fit your unique sales process, not the other way around. Customization is a core component, allowing your team to mirror its existing sales motion without sacrificing standardization or reporting integrity. This approach significantly reduces friction during the transition.
Users can tailor several aspects of the platform to meet their needs:
- Customize deal stages and properties to match your pipeline's specific lifecycle.
- Define role-based permissions and custom views to ensure reps only see relevant information.
- Configure automation triggers to align with your follow-up cadence and prospect engagement patterns.
How do the automation features reduce manual preparation and follow-up tasks?
Automation in the Sales Agent replaces repetitive manual work with AI-driven actions, freeing up time for direct selling activities. This allows reps to focus their energy on building relationships and advancing deals, knowing that routine steps are handled automatically by the Hoop platform. AI drafts and schedules essential communications.
The system leverages advanced logic workflows to ensure timely execution. When prospects engage or stall, triggers activate sequences that:
- Draft personalized follow-up emails instantly.
- Automatically set and assign next tasks to the rep.
- Update CRM records based on prospect activity, ensuring data accuracy and compliance.
Which Hoop pricing plans include access to the Sales Agent feature?
The Sales Agent feature is available across multiple tiers of the Hoop platform to accommodate different organizational sizes and needs. This ensures that businesses can choose the plan that best aligns with their required feature depth and user scale. Functionality and limits may vary slightly between the tiers.
The Sales Agent is included in the following plans:
- Core Plan: Provides essential AI assistance and unified workspace functionality.
- Pro Plan: Offers enhanced coaching, reporting, and more sophisticated automation capabilities.
- Enterprise Plan: Delivers full, customizable functionality, advanced security, and high-volume usage limits suitable for large organizations.