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Expert insights on AI sales tools, deal intelligence, and sales automation. Learn how AI co-workers are transforming enterprise sales execution.

How Jobilla went from tools that captured everything to a co-worker that does the work

Over 2,000 pieces of finished work delivered every month, 60% more deals created, and a pipeline Jobilla can finally see in full

Jobilla win a unit, not a company, so each seller carries around 20 open deals at once.
Reps now keep every promise they make, because each commitment is tracked until it is done.
All 25 sellers work with Ollie every day, in every market Jobilla sells into.

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How Supermetrics rolled out an AI sales co-worker to 50 sellers, and hit 96% weekly active usage in 30 days

The marketing intelligence platform processing 15% of global online ad spend partnered with Optivian. Inside the rollout: a skeptical Chief Sales Officer and a Q4 win/loss analysis that flipped the room.

96% of 50 sellers active weekly, within 30 days of the global rollout.
72 stale deals reactivated in the first 30 days, through 80 Ollie-prepared actions.
Business cases that took 1–2 hours are built in minutes, and have unlocked board-level budget.

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Latest insights

Sales follow-up tracking: You make the promise. Ollie keeps track until it’s done.

Use case

Sales follow-up tracking: every promise kept

Before the contract, the only thing a buyer can test is whether you do what you said you would. Ollie captures every promise made in a meeting or an email, and closes it when the email or meeting that fulfils it shows up.

Karri TakkiOctober 6, 2026

Ten document tiles flow into the Optivian mark and out again as a single smaller document, under the line "Optivian reads every conversation. The model gets only what it needs."

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How much of your deal data does an AI sales tool actually need?

AI security reviews rarely ask one question: how much of your data does the AI need? How Optivian applies GDPR data minimisation to what models see.

Johanna RauhalaSeptember 25, 2026

Note taker, assistant, or sales co-worker? Three rising cards: level 1 note taker, level 2 assistant, level 3 co-worker.

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AI note taker, AI meeting assistant, or AI sales co-worker: which one your sales team needs

An AI note taker stops at the summary. An AI meeting assistant stops at the meeting. An AI sales co-worker starts the work after it. Which one your team needs.

Karri TakkiSeptember 17, 2026

AI sales meeting prep: The recap is not the work. Ollie has your prep ready before the meeting.

Use case

Your prep arrives before the meeting

The meeting is where deals move, and reps routinely walk into it cold, then walk out of it into admin. AI sales meeting prep is the same work, with the reading done for you.

Karri TakkiSeptember 4, 2026

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Gong alternatives for European teams: nine checks before you switch

The questions that sort a shortlist: which job you are actually replacing, where your data lives, how deep the CRM integration goes, and what happens after the insight. Written for European mid-market SaaS teams.

Karri TakkiAugust 19, 2026

Templates start with a blank page. Ollie starts with the deal.

Use case

Mutual action plans, drafted from the deal

A plan the seller writes alone is a close plan wearing a costume. Ollie drafts the mutual action plan from what has actually happened in the deal, an owner on each side of every milestone, and redrafts it as the deal changes.

Karri TakkiAugust 14, 2026

The bottleneck isn't one stuck deal. It's a pattern your pipeline keeps repeating.

Use case

Find your sales pipeline bottlenecks

The same deals stall at the same point, and you find out at the forecast call, too late to fix it. A bottleneck is not one stuck deal. It is a pattern your pipeline keeps repeating, and here is how Ollie catches it in time.

Karri TakkiJuly 30, 2026

Diagram titled "Access is not knowledge": a lone CRM connector wires straight into the AI, giving it access but no memory, while email, calls, notes, company offering, case studies, and sales rules flow through a deal intelligence layer into the AI as knowledge that is kept current.

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Everyone uses the same models. The difference is what they know.

The model was never the moat, everyone runs the same frontier AI. What actually separates teams is what their system knows about their deals, and whether it still knows it tomorrow.

Visa-Pekka LaurilaJuly 6, 2026

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Use case

Watch every deal. Act on the unhealthy ones.

Reps operate in weeks, not days. Ollie watches every open deal in your CRM, catches what reps miss between meetings, and drafts the work to keep deals moving.

Karri TakkiJune 29, 2026

A tall, precarious stack of paper documents with loose pages spilling off the top against a white background, representing an overloaded AI context window

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The hidden cost of connecting AI straight to your sales stack

Most sellers have wired their AI straight into their CRM, meeting recorder, and email. It works. It is also burning through tokens, missing context, and rebuilding the same picture from scratch every single day.

Roope HeiniläJune 16, 2026

News

Optivian is now ISO 27001 certified

Optivian is certified to ISO/IEC 27001:2022, the international standard for information security management. The certified scope covers the development and operation of our AI sales co-worker and platform.

Johanna RauhalaMay 29, 2026

2026 Complete Guide

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The Complete 2026 Guide to AI Sales Co-Workers

The AI sales category is noisy. Agents, assistants, co-workers, execution platforms: the names multiply while most tools still don’t move quota. This guide cuts through it.

Roope HeiniläApril 9, 2026

A salesperson collaborating with an AI co-worker on a mutual action plan at a modern desk

Insights

From recording to executing: sales AI's next chapter

Sales AI spent a decade analyzing calls. The next era is about execution — AI agents that do the work, from business cases to pipeline management. See how Ollie makes it real.

Roope HeiniläApril 1, 2026

Illustration showing disconnected dashboards on the left transitioning to an AI figure collaborating alongside a human professional on the right

Insights

Your sales team doesn't need another AI tool. They need an AI co-worker.

The sales AI industry has spent the last three years building smarter dashboards. It's time for something fundamentally different.

Roope HeiniläFebruary 16, 2026

News

Optivian emerges from stealth to decouple revenue growth from sales headcount - backed by architect of Europe's largest AI exit

AI Sales Execution platform launches with $2M pre-seed round led by Failup Ventures and Tero Ojanperä, former Executive Chair and co-founder of Silo AI.

Roope HeiniläFebruary 3, 2026