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Tuesday, May 5, 2026 Ian Koniak Journal Untap your sales potential

AI & Tech in Sales

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AI & Tech in Sales

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How to use ChatGPT Plus 4o for Account Research and POV Development

If your job involves convincing other businesses to buy something, this workflow could cut your preparation time from days to minutes — using publicly available information and a handful of precise prompts.

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ChatGPT Research Uncovers Live Customer Data Mid-Demo, Revealing KeyCorp Already Uses WorkivaThe ChatGPT-generated point-of-view document produced a detail that surprised even the presenter: it independently surfaced a published PwC article confirming that KeyCorp's banking arm had already integrated Workiva into its operations, cutting manual reporting in half and autom

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ChatGPT Maps Customer Goals to Sales Pitches in Minutes, Cutting Weeks of Prep WorkA sales training demonstration shows how a structured ChatGPT prompt can automatically align a prospect's publicly stated business priorities with a vendor's product lineup. Using Workiva — an AI-powered finance and risk reporting platform — and banking company KeyCorp as a live

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AI-Generated Executive Profiles Give Sales Reps Hyper-Personalized Outreach IntelligenceA second ChatGPT prompt in the same sales workflow goes beyond company goals to profile the individual executives who own each priority. The demonstration showed the tool pulling named C-suite officers — including the CEO, CFO, chief risk officer, and chief information officer —

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ChatGPT's Deep Research Feature Builds Full Strategic Sales Documents in Under Ten MinutesThe third step in the demonstrated workflow activates ChatGPT's deep research mode, which takes roughly ten minutes — though the KeyCorp example completed in about four — to generate a comprehensive point-of-view document. Before running the research, the tool asks clarifying que

He closed a 75M deal at Oracle and shares exactly how!

Stock markets are already pricing in a world where companies build their own AI tools instead of buying software. No one has actually done it at scale yet.

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AI Fears Erase Billions From SaaS Valuations as 'Build vs. Buy' Debate IntensifiesRecording on February 5, 2026, enterprise sales coach Ian Koniak noted that billions of dollars had been stripped from the market valuations of major software companies — Salesforce, HubSpot, ServiceNow, and Workday among them — driven not by any proven shift in customer behavior