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Revenue Operations

AI Meets RevOps: How Sales Teams Are Getting Superpowers

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In this high-impact session hosted by RevOps Co-op CEO Matthew Volm, two operators at the forefront of AI-driven revenue transformation break down what’s really working (and what’s not) when it comes to embedding artificial intelligence into your go-to-market motion. Jacob Fleisher, Head of Sales at Attention, and Jeremy von Halle, VP of Revenue Operations and Chief of Staff to the Chief Commercial Officer at Abridge, take us deep into the workflows that are helping sales teams scale productivity, improve forecasting, and elevate rep performance.

Whether you're experimenting with AI adoption or already rolling out new tooling, this is the practical playbook you didn’t know you needed.

Why RevOps is Ground Zero for AI Adoption

Matthew kicks things off by making a case that’s becoming harder to ignore: Revenue Operations sits at the intersection of people, process and technology — and AI does too.

If your job is to drive repeatable revenue, AI might just be the most powerful tool available today. But that also means RevOps teams are on the hook for helping their organizations implement it responsibly.

“RevOps is the proving ground for scalable AI impact.” – Matthew Volm, CEO at RevOps Co-op

To help ground this in reality, Jacob and Jeremy walk through three key areas where AI is transforming sales execution today:

  1. Rep productivity and performance
  2. Manager enablement and coaching
  3. Leadership-level data and strategy

Check out this related blog post on How an AI Sales Manager Transformed Our $30M Sales Operation.

Goodbye Admin Work, Hello Selling Time

It’s no secret that sales reps have been drowning in admin work — logging CRM fields, writing follow-up emails, digging through call recordings to prep for meetings. AI tools are starting to take that burden off their plate.

Jacob Fleisher explains how Attention uses AI to automate:

  • CRM field updates, including custom objects
  • Auto-generated follow-up emails tailored to each conversation
  • Google Task creation and management based on calendar and call activity

Jeremy echoes this, noting that the value of AI starts with automating the unglamorous but critical work that often drains rep energy.

“Reps don’t want more tools. They want less friction.” – Jeremy von Halle, Abridge

When implemented well, AI becomes a silent teammate. One Attention AE runs an agent that scans all his daily meetings and auto-generates his to-do list each morning. No context switching, no manual effort. Just pure sales motion acceleration.

Check out this related blog post on How to Reduce Your Sales Team’s Ramp Up Time.

A New Era for Coaching and Onboarding

What if you didn’t need to guess what makes a top-performing rep different? What if you could actually quantify it — and then teach it?

That’s exactly what Jeremy’s team is doing.

Using Attention, Abridge has completely revamped their onboarding and certification program. Every new rep goes through mock call simulations, scored by AI across the same metrics used in live calls. This creates:

  • A standardized coaching baseline
  • Proactive QA alerts for enablement
  • Ongoing trend reporting on rep behavior

Jacob takes it one step further. Using AI to automatically score reps across specific MEDDIC criteria (like economic buyer identification), his managers can now pinpoint skill gaps with real evidence, not gut feel.

“I used to spend hours trying to find a call worth coaching. Now the AI flags them for me.” – Jacob Fleisher, Attention

Instead of “What calls should I review?” the question becomes “Where can I coach most effectively today?”

Check out this related blog post on How to Coach Revenue Teams: 12 Strategies For Success.

CRM Hygiene that Actually Works

Both speakers agreed: CRM hygiene is no longer a nice-to-have — it’s table stakes. And AI is finally making it achievable.

Jeremy shared how Abridge uses Attention to auto-log:

  • Deal next steps and MEDDIC fields
  • Competitive mentions and product feedback
  • Opportunity stages and forecast notes

They also implemented a scoring layer that assesses the strength of those MEDDIC components — not just if a rep filled it in, but whether it’s been validated or changed over time.

Jacob mentioned they’ve extended their implementation to include win/loss reasoning. After a deal closes, an AI agent analyzes the full thread of conversations and emails, and logs the win or loss reason into Salesforce.

“The data is cleaner. The reps are happier. And leadership actually trusts what they’re seeing in the CRM.” – Jacob Fleisher

If you’re still waiting for reps to manually fill out 15 custom fields in your CRM, AI might be your best shot at making those fields usable — and accurate.

Check out this related post on why Sales Teams Hate CRM Data Entry and How to Make it Effortless.

Better Forecasting, Powered by AI Scoring

Sales managers are under pressure to coach, forecast, run 1:1s, and hit number — all while parsing through dozens (or hundreds) of deals. AI isn’t replacing them, but it is giving them superpowers.

Jacob shared how Attention scores each opportunity using a blend of company-specific criteria and sales methodology inputs (like MEDDIC). That score:

  • Flags high-risk opportunities even if reps are bullish
  • Surfaces top deals that may be overlooked
  • Sends weekly alerts when a high-commit deal is missing key data

Instead of spending 20 minutes per rep per forecast call just getting context, managers now show up with a ready-to-review list of deals that matter most.

“My one-on-ones are now 30 minutes of execution, not 20 minutes of detective work.” – Jacob Fleisher

Jeremy took it a step further — his team is building an AI-generated 1:1 agenda that includes pipeline pacing, goal attainment, manager notes, and flagged risks for each AE.

The result? Better coaching, faster course correction, and a more strategic frontline.

Check out this related post on the 9 Best Sales Forecasting Methods for Realistic Predictions.

AI as a Strategic Layer for Leadership

One of the most powerful — and overlooked — use cases for AI in RevOps? Leadership enablement.

Jeremy explained how they use AI to:

  • Track product feedback across all customer conversations
  • Highlight repeat objections tied to pricing or packaging
  • Feed real-world examples into enablement, content and product roadmap discussions

This isn’t just anecdotal feedback — it’s quantified, tracked and categorized across thousands of data points.

Jacob emphasized how Attention is changing the way they capture Voice of Customer.

“We’re not relying on the loudest AE anymore. We’re relying on all our calls.” – Jacob Fleisher

It’s not just helping product and marketing — it’s helping executive leadership make better decisions.

Implementation: Human-in-the-Loop Still Matters

Let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Both speakers were quick to say that full automation is not the goal — thoughtful implementation is.

Here are their shared guidelines for rolling out AI-powered workflows:

  • Use “trust but verify” frameworks
  • Route AI-generated fields through Slack or inbox approvals before syncing to CRM
  • Involve managers in building the scoring models — so they trust the output

One particularly interesting example: Abridge tracks both human-entered and AI-generated next steps, and uses discrepancies as a QA mechanism. This gives leadership visibility into potential pipeline quality issues without forcing reps to do double entry.

“You don’t need to automate everything. You need to automate enough to drive change.” – Jeremy von Halle

If You Could Only Keep One AI Workflow…

Matthew closed the session with a simple question: If you had to give up every AI workflow except one, which would you keep?

Jacob’s answer: His AI assistant that lets him query CRM and conversation data like a chat bot. He uses it to ask questions like:

  • “Which $50K+ deals are missing a clear next step?”
  • “What competitors were mentioned in lost deals last quarter?”
  • “Which of my deals have pricing risk flagged by the AE?”

Jeremy’s answer: AI-powered meeting recaps and exec prep workflows. These pull context, sentiment, action items and blockers into a single view — enabling faster, more confident decision-making across the team.

“That kind of AI saves me hours and makes every meeting more productive.” – Jeremy von Halle

Final Thoughts: The AI Frontier Belongs to RevOps

This isn’t hype. It’s not theory. These are workflows delivering tangible results — today.

AI is fundamentally changing how sales teams operate. But it’s RevOps that holds the keys to implementation, measurement and scale.

If you’re in RevOps, you’re not a bystander. You’re the architect of how your org will — or won’t — use AI to drive revenue.

Let’s not waste that opportunity.

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