Helps you decide what your prep should optimize for given your sales motion.
Which sales strategy is best for your startup?
Y Combinator 2024
Watch on YouTube youtube.com →Buyers say the thing that separates a good rep is understanding their business, and AI collapses that prep from 45 minutes of tab-hopping to a 3-minute brief: company context, the person's role, likely pain, and three sharp discovery questions. Founders run a standard prompt or a saved research skill before every call, and let their notetaker carry forward context from previous conversations. The one rule is to verify anything specific before you say it out loud, because a hallucinated detail costs more trust than no research at all.
18 resources.
Helps you decide what your prep should optimize for given your sales motion.
Y Combinator 2024
Watch on YouTube youtube.com →Weekly tactical episodes full of discovery-prep frameworks worth stealing.
Nick Cegelski and Armand Farrokh 2025
Listen on Apple Podcasts podcasts.apple.com →A full prep system with realistic time savings and the human-review caveats spelled out.
MarketBetter 2026
Open marketbetter.ai →Current, copy-ready prompts covering research, prep, and outreach in one page.
Prospeo 2026
Open prospeo.io →A structured 90-second company-brief prompt replacing 30 minutes of manual search.
Reruption 2025
Open reruption.com →Prompts tuned for multi-stakeholder deals where prep depth actually decides outcomes.
ChatAE 2025
Open chatae.ai →Shows how prior-call context carries into your next meeting automatically.
Granola 2026
Open granola.ai →Positions prep and research within the broader selling skillset a founder must build.
Apollo.io 2026
Open apollo.io →Evidence that AI-grounded prep changes the quality of the conversation itself.
Harvard Business Review Feb 2025
Open hbr.org →Short, tested prompts including pre-call briefs and objection prep.
SellMeThisPen 2025
Open sellmethispen.ai →A broad prompt library spanning research, discovery, and follow-up.
Team-GPT 2025
Open juma.ai →Connects prep to the post-call loop so each meeting makes the next one smarter.
Demodesk 2024
Open demodesk.com →The research prompts double perfectly as pre-call briefs.
HubSpot 2025
Open blog.hubspot.com →Data on which questions to walk in with, so your prep produces the right ones.
Salesprep 2025
Open salesprep.ai →A ready-made AI play for Claude or ChatGPT that outputs a call brief in one shot.
Amplemarket 2025
Open amplemarket.com →The same research muscle applied to events, where founders do half their selling.
Amplemarket 2025
Open amplemarket.com →Prep briefs delivered to your inbox each morning before every call on the calendar.
Cirrus Insight 2025
Open cirrusinsight.com →Combines the contact database with AI research so prep starts from real data.
Apollo.io 2025
Open apollo.io →The same ground, over in Get your first customers, our Starting Up track.