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AI-Powered Revenue Operations: The Future of Sales for SMBs - with Vanessa Tabbert of Salesforce

aired Sep 02, 2026 · 30.0m
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Summary

Welcome, everyone, to the Emerge AI in Business podcast. Vanessa discusses how her team built and deployed an AI SDR agent to work inbound leads that would otherwise go completely unanswered without replacing the humans who close the best opportunities.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of team, going, really, including: Today's guest is Vanessa Tabard, VP of Argenti Transformation and Sales Development at Salesforce.

Key takeaways
  1. 01Vanessa discusses how her team built and deployed an AI SDR agent to work inbound leads that would otherwise go completely unanswered without replacing the humans who close the bes
  2. 02She walks through how to find the lowest risk place to start, why the agent needs ongoing coaching rather than a one-time launch, and how the same approach scales down for small sa
  3. 03Great conversation today about how our SME leaders should be thinking about certain parts of their processes that they should be handing over to AISDR agents
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