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AI is reshaping how sales teams find prospects, build relationships, and close deals. Frank O’Dowd, Cloudera’s Chief Revenue Officer, joins to discuss Cloudera’s approach to AI in the sales function. Frank details his philosophy, which is that rather than replacing the human touch, AI is helping sales professionals work smarter, offering insights, personalization, and efficiency at scale. It’s a complementary tool that can help sales teams make themselves relevant to their target audience. As Frank says in the episode, “The person with the most information always wins.”

Spotter 3 is our smartest agent yet. It acts as a true analytical partner that thinks, reasons, and validates its work—all automatically. It blends structured and unstructured data to go beyond traditional data sources, providing a complete picture of the business. With new skills, like Python coding and forecasting, Spotter 3 acts as your AI data scientist. Spotter 3 ensures every question leads naturally to confident, data-backed action.

AI now writes 30% of Big Tech’s code, but the resulting surge in defects is crashing platforms like AWS and GitHub. Manual testing can no longer keep up with this velocity; it's time to deploy AI Quality Agents to save our systems. Is AI speed worth the decline in code quality, or are we headed for a breaking point? Let me know if you’ve noticed more bugs in your workflow lately. Video collab with @ScottMooreConsultingLLC.