Introducing Spiro’s “Anti-CRM” CRM

Virtually every sales team at every company has one thing in common: they hate CRM. Why? Because CRM is a soul-sucking application that requires a lot of time and money to work, and essentially turns sales teams into data entry clerks, which gives them less time to sell.

CRM is so bad that more than half of Spiro’s customers didn’t even bother with CRM because they knew it would be detrimental to their sales teams. One publicly traded medical equipment company we work with was spending $500,000 a year on CRM that their sales team never logged into!

The complaints about CRM have been around for 20 years, and remain the same. CRM is an outdated approach that requires a company to change its work streams to align with the software, or to pay for a lot of customization and integration to make it work. And it still doesn’t provide adequate visibility into the forecast. Assuming, of course, that the sales team entered objective and accurate data (which we all know isn’t a reality).

“We don’t want to fix CRM. We want to kill it.”

Salespeople should be selling, and sales leaders should be helping their team close more deals. Technology should work for you, not the other way around. We don’t believe that’s a radical statement, but this may be: old-school CRM tools will never achieve this goal.

Spiro threw out the playbook and complete re-imagined a modern, AI-powered CRM platform, which has a few defining characteristics:

• It’s natively built on artificial intelligence and consolidates CRM capabilities, sales enablement, VoIP, and analytics into a single solution. This consolidation is important because the artificial intelligence, which underpins the proactiveness of this platform, relies on having a full view of the data.
• The software doesn’t need to be “used.” Spiro creates contacts based on who you’re emailing. It updates opportunities when a proposal is sent. All without any data entry.
• The software needs to guide people to the right actions. Because the data is proactively being captured, Spiro’s CRM is able to spot patterns and provide recommendations on next best actions.

Spiro leverages AI and machine learning to work in the background, collecting information from calls, texts, emails and more, and dynamically creating contacts, activity lists, and much more.

Spiro proactively provides a daily to do list for sales reps based on the most important opportunities, and guides the next best action, whether it be a call or an email using an existing template. Since Spiro is embedded in the sales person’s workflow, our customers report collecting up to 16 times more data than with a CRM.

With more data, sales leaders have more visibility into their teams’ activities, and can pinpoint stalled deals or underperforming pipelines. They love being able to ask Spiro a simple question (“What’s John’s pipeline for Q2?” or “What did my team do last week?” or even “What’s the status of the Prudential deal?”).

So that’s what Spiro is all about – helping your sales team work smarter and closer faster.

It’s a radical new approach, in that we want to kill CRM and give you a software that works for you, not the other way around.

We hope you join us on the journey!