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Crafting an Effective CRM RFP to Avoid Pitfalls

This guide explains how to write a comprehensive CRM Request for Proposal (RFP) to prevent common buying decision issues. It addresses the diverse needs of sales, IT, marketing, and finance teams to ensure consensus and clear ROI definition.

ttaylor@hubspot.com (Tristen Taylor)Aug 20, 2026
AI Engineering & DevToolsAI in MarketingAI in Sales

Airlines Optimize Revenue with Advanced Market Models

Airlines manage complex pricing for thousands of daily passenger journeys, considering numerous variables like demand, season, and competitor activity. Advanced market models are crucial for optimizing these factors to uncover hidden revenue opportunities.

MIT Technology Review InsightsAug 20, 2026
AI in MarketingAI in Sales

AI Agents Bridge Search and CRM for Customer Re-Engagement.

A new production-deployed framework uses AI-powered Product Research Agents to connect e-commerce search and CRM systems, proactively re-engaging customers with personalized recommendations via WhatsApp based on their exploratory purchase intent. This system significantly improved engagement and generated downstream purchases.

Mandar Kulkarni, Pooja A., Samir ShahAug 20, 2026
AI in Sales

CRM for Insurance: Managing Customer Relationships Effectively

CRM systems help insurance agencies manage customer relationships throughout the policy lifecycle, including follow-up, nurturing, service, and renewals. This enables agents to handle numerous contacts and communications efficiently.

Mandy BrayAug 17, 2026
AI Engineering & DevToolsAI in SalesAI in Marketing

Access Dun & Bradstreet Data Affordably via Apify

Apify offers a method to build an affordable API for accessing Dun & Bradstreet data, with or without code, making it usable for AI applications and workflows without needing an enterprise contract.

Antonello ZaniniAug 17, 2026
AI ResearchAI Engineering & DevToolsAI in Sales

SocialRL Enhances Negotiation Skills in Small Language Models.

SocialRL is a new training recipe that directly teaches social reasoning to small language models, enabling them to act as more strategic negotiators rather than passive assistants. It allows 4B models to match or exceed the performance of larger frontier models in various negotiation and social interaction tasks.

Wenyue Hua, Zachary Huang, Tyler Payne, Safoora Yousefi, Saleema Amershi, Asli CelikyilmazAug 17, 2026
AI Engineering & DevToolsAI in MarketingAI in Sales

Benchmarking Reveals Pitfalls in Offline Top-k Policy Evaluation

This research provides a controlled benchmark and guide for offline evaluation of deterministic top-k allocation policies, revealing critical pitfalls. It highlights that weak overlap, optimizer's curse, and propensity-estimation error significantly degrade off-policy evaluation, especially when the logger's actions poorly align with the target policy.

Binshuang LiAug 14, 2026
AI in MarketingAI in SalesAI Research

FunnelCausalNet Optimizes Coupon Campaigns for Conversion and Revenue.

This paper introduces FunnelCausalNet, an uplift estimator designed to jointly optimize conversion and revenue in multi-tier coupon campaigns by modeling the deterministic funnel from conversion to order value. It outperforms existing baselines in maximizing return on investment for coupon allocation.

Yu Zhang (AMap Alibaba Group, Beijing, China), Zhihan Wang (AMap Alibaba Group, Beijing, China), Guanlin Chen (AMap Alibaba Group, Beijing, China), Min Jiang (AMap Alibaba Group, Beijing, China), Shuai Li (AMap Alibaba Group, Beijing, China)Aug 13, 2026
AI Engineering & DevToolsAI in MarketingAI in Sales

Shopping Agents Learn from Online User Feedback

LOFA is a framework that enables large language model-based shopping agents to learn directly from real online user interaction logs without human annotation. It combines reinforcement learning with feedback-aware on-policy distillation to capture both behavioral patterns and user-specific preferences, significantly improving recommendation quality and user satisfaction.

Haobo Zhang, Kelong Mao, Sulong Xu, Simiu Gu, Zhicheng DouAug 13, 2026
AI in SalesAI Engineering & DevToolsAI Research

Dynamic Governance Boosts Multi-LLM Agent Conversational Outcomes.

This paper introduces the Experience Orchestrator (EO), a control-theoretic governance layer that significantly improves collaborative conversational outcomes in multi-LLM agent systems. In a simulated financial services environment, EO achieved a 32 percentage point lift in high-intent advisor contact rates by using contextual bandits, PID control, and POMDP belief tracking.

Alexander Liss, Nicholas Desmond, Santiago Gil GallegoAug 13, 2026
AI in MarketingAI Engineering & DevToolsAI in Sales

Causal Optimization Boosts LinkedIn Feed Marketing by 7.2%

This paper introduces a decision-centric framework for large-scale targeting and recommendation systems that optimizes for incremental impact rather than just predictive scores, using a causal neural network, a Bayesian neural-bandit layer, and a dual-based linear programming layer. An online A/B test on LinkedIn Feed marketing traffic showed a 7.20% lift in long-term value.

Changshuai Wei, John Bencina, Phuc Nguyen, Andre Assuncao Silva T Ribeiro, Benjamin ZelditchAug 12, 2026
AI in SalesAI Engineering & DevTools

AI Prospecting Tools Leverage Live Web Data for Sales Intelligence

AI prospecting tools are moving beyond static contact databases by utilizing live web data to provide more accurate and timely sales intelligence. This approach enhances common prospecting workflows with dynamic information.

Antonello ZaniniAug 10, 2026

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