Use your CRM's AI assistant to build automations and target accounts
A marketer building a function from scratch used the AI assistant built into the CRM to narrow a contact list to the best targets, build automations faster, troubleshoot sequences and automate weekly reporting without filing support tickets.
Reported results
The source reports narrowing 1,300 contacts to 470 targets and building a full marketing function in 18 months.
Ask the assistant to explain your current data: fields, segments, gaps.
Have it suggest filters for your ideal customer and review them.
Use it to debug automations that aren't firing.
Automate a weekly report and check it against the raw data.
⚠️ Watch out
Check that AI-suggested segments don't exclude good customers by mistake.
Results are as reported by the source and have not been independently verified. Steps are our own suggestions. We are not affiliated with the vendors named and earn nothing from these links.
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