Kanpo Life Insurance gives 1,200 corporate sales staff AI assistant
Kanpo Life Insurance — Kanpo Life Insurance rolled out bellSalesAI, a Salesforce data-entry agent from bellFace, to its 1,200-strong corporate sales workforce nationwide, using an AI assistant in corporate sales to pull structured details from calls. Post-meeting write-up time fell from roughly 50 minutes to about 10 — an 80% cut — with sharper record accuracy. Staff redirect the recovered hours to direct client engagement, an early case of AI assistant adoption in corporate insurance sales reshaping Japan's workforce routines.
TPFG rolls out AI across its 1,900-branch estate agency network
The Property Franchise Group (TPFG) — TPFG is bringing AI in estate agency to the group's 1,900 franchised branches, boss Gareth Samples said, with 14 franchisees running roughly 25 offices on board, 50 more queued. Trial AI sales agents booked 25% more valuation appointments than usual methods, the company's own figure, across sales and lettings. Some 4,000 daily enquiries go unanswered in the UK network, the gap this property AI targets.
Honda Sales Operations Japan adopts Salesforce Agentforce AI
Honda Sales Operations Japan — Honda Sales Operations Japan now runs Agentforce, Salesforce's AI agent platform, inside its My Honda app to answer customers 24/7 with tailored replies. Applying AI in automotive sales, the tool lets drivers arrange test drives purely through chat, while an AI sales agent for car dealerships also speeds up staff tasks like compiling information, writing proposals, and flagging promising deals from buyer interests. Facing a shrinking labour pool, Honda is betting the setup lifts dealership sales efficiency.
Rodland Real Estate puts its agents on voice-driven AI platform Roro
Rodland Real Estate — Rodland Real Estate has moved every agent onto Roro, a spoken-command AI real estate platform devised by founder Tim Rodland. Asked aloud, Roro returns median prices, sales volumes, price-per-square-foot and pricing shifts across Old Fort Bay, rebuilt daily from Bahamas Real Estate Association feeds. The brokerage AI system also opens client files, drafts compliance paperwork and handles diaries and correspondence; nobody outside the firm may sign in.
Shinei Shoji deploys JAPAN AI platform across wholesale sales team
Shinei Shoji — Shinei Shoji, a Japanese wholesale distributor, cut weekly workloads from 52 to 12 hours after a two-month pilot of the JAPAN AI platform—an example of AI agents for wholesale distribution. Staff built 62 custom agents for order emails, document checks and sales reporting, shrinking one report task from 8 hours to 10 minutes. The JAPAN AI platform rollout now covers all 100 employees.
Safaricom deploys agentic AI across dozens of customer journeys
Safaricom — Agentic AI customer service now powers dozens of workflows at Safaricom, letting users finish tasks on digital platforms rather than queuing at a shop or calling in. Dilip Pal, the firm's finance and innovation chief, told Nairobi's De{c0}dE 4.0 summit that cutting friction across multi-step journeys was the goal. Fraud checks, tailored engagement and energy management round out its wider AI push in Kenya.
Clearwater USVI Realty deploys AI sales agents for round-the-clock client intake
Clearwater USVI Realty and Property Management — Clearwater USVI Realty and Property Management now claims a US Virgin Islands first: 24/7 AI sales agents in real estate, live on its website to greet visitors day and night. Instead of waiting for office hours, buyers chat with the bot, which records their needs and forwards full transcripts so human staff can pick up the conversation. The Christiansted firm paired this always-on client-intake bot with a fresh property app on the Apple Store, extending its reach across the St. Croix market.
AI knowledge assistants lift sellers' effective selling time 25-35%
Sellers who use AI well report win-rate gains of over 30%. Given that selling typically fills only about a quarter of sellers' time, Bain's 2026 B2B Growth Agenda measured AI 'knowledge assistants' adding 25-35% to effective selling time, grounding the earlier 'AI could double selling time' hope.
AI saves sellers 4.8 hours weekly, yet few firms reinvest it
AI saves sellers an average 4.8 hours a week, yet 72% of sales organisations fail to put that time into high-value selling, a Gartner survey of 210 chief sales officers and senior leaders (early 2026) found. The issue is now managing the freed time, not whether sales AI helps.
69% of B2B buyers use a salesperson to check AI insights
69% of B2B buyers turn to a salesperson to validate AI-generated insights, Gartner found in May 2026. Even as AI research spreads, buyers still lean on people for trust and quality checks.
AI leaders reap twice the revenue growth from sales AI, Bain finds
Leading adopters of sales AI achieved about 2x the AI-attributed revenue growth and 1.8x the cost efficiency of laggards in Bain's B2B Growth Agenda 2026 (1,125 sales and marketing leaders, 40 countries). AI 'knowledge assistants' added 25-35% to effective selling time, grounding 'double the selling time' hopes.
AI sales agents will outnumber human sellers 10 to 1 by 2028
By 2028 AI sales agents will outnumber human sellers 10 to 1, yet under 40% of sellers will say AI agents raised their productivity (Gartner forecast, 18 Nov 2025). That tempers AI-SDR hype.
Sellers given AI 'next best actions' are 2.6 times likelier to grow
Sales organisations giving sellers AI-enabled 'next best actions' are 2.6x likelier to grow commercially (Gartner, May 2026). It forecasts that 95% of seller research workflows will start with AI by 2027, from under 20% in 2024.
Mauritius Sotheby's launches MaxAI, the first real estate AI agent
Mauritius Sotheby's International Realty — Mauritius Sotheby's International Realty spent two years building MaxAI, the Mauritian market's first AI real estate agent and AI property assistant. Buyers describe what they want in plain language to surface listings, while staff get automated draft emails and follow-ups.
Arcor launches Tokin, an AI-powered B2B platform connecting 250,000 small shops
Arcor — Over 250,000 kiosks, grocery stores and self-service shops in Argentina gain AI-driven inventory management for small retailers via Tokin, Arcor's new AI-powered B2B retail platform. It scans 600-plus variables per outlet to customise stock suggestions, matches shops with Arcor's goods and 80-plus partner brands, then links them to official distributors for restocking.
Raiffeisen Immobilien tests Ri.Ki AI assistant for estate agents
Raiffeisen Immobilien NÖ/Wien/Burgenland — Raiffeisen Immobilien NÖ/Wien/Burgenland built Ri.Ki, an AI assistant for estate agents, with iteratec: piloted from summer 2025, tested internally by November. Housed in Microsoft Teams, it fetches live records to answer staff on portfolios, energy certificates and tenancy law — part of a wider shift toward AI-assisted real estate services in Austria.
Ooredoo expands AI assistant Obot to retail customers with avatar
Ooredoo Qatar — Retail shoppers in Qatar gained access to Ooredoo's digital assistant Obot on 26 November 2025, now paired with an avatar feature powered by GPT Real-Time Voice and Azure AI Services. Deployed across X, Facebook and WhatsApp, this AI customer service tool leans on Dynamics 365 Omnichannel so each interaction feels tailored to the individual user. A tool once limited to scripted replies has grown into a fuller virtual assistant, able to converse through text, spoken voice or a lifelike avatar.
Motorpoint sells 350 cars through AI sales agent Lily
Motorpoint — Lily, Motorpoint's AI sales agent for car dealers, closed 350 UK used-car deals in six months to September 2025, pursuing shoppers abandoned by staff. Motorpoint links this AI-assisted car sales push to profits climbing 80% to £2.7 million and turnover climbing 15% to £647.7 million.
82% of Brazilian sales professionals expect AI to boost productivity
Agendor — Agendor's Panorama of AI Use in B2B Sales in Brazil surveyed 1,031 professionals and found 82% expect AI in B2B sales to lift their output. Over half, 52.38%, predict machines will take over routine operational work within two years, whereas 30.26% instead picture the technology as a strategic partner guiding decisions rather than just a tool for machines taking over routine operational work.
Divar adds AI sales assistant that handles bargaining for sellers
Divar — Iran's classifieds platform Divar now lets دستیار فروش, its AI sales assistant, field buyer calls and haggle over prices on sellers' behalf. Within limits sellers define upfront, the tool chats or talks around the clock and fixes viewing appointments without human input. Each national ID unlocks one free run; further use costs ۴۹ هزار تومان on ordinary listings and ۶۹ هزار تومان on job ads under this automated bargaining tool.
Fisher & Paykel deploys AI agents for customer service and field repairs
Fisher & Paykel — Fisher & Paykel's Salesforce AI agent resolves 70 per cent of product troubleshooting queries, versus 30 per cent for previous chatbots, since the New Zealand home appliance maker launched AI customer service in February. An agentic AI support bot briefs technicians with customer profile summaries and suggested parts before home repair visits.
Globe Business adopts Salesforce AI to cut customer service workload by 34%
Globe Business — A new AI in telecom customer service deployment has cut Globe Business's overall support workload by 34%. The enterprise arm of Globe Telecom built the rollout on Salesforce's Service Cloud, Sales Cloud and Einstein for Service, plus a pilot of Agentforce, sorting incoming emails by intent and directing them straight to the right team. Field staff can now pull up customer records instantly rather than searching manually, and intent-based case classification reaches 80% accuracy on Globe Business's own figures. In the Philippines, this telecom AI customer support model targets sharper personalisation throughout the client relationship.
Metrovacesa launches MiA AI agent for real estate sales
Metrovacesa — Metrovacesa built MiA, an AI agent for real estate sales, atop Google Cloud's Vertex AI. Response times fell 38%, and early contact handling drove a potential €90.7 million pipeline, with 77% of buyers scoring the multilingual assistant 8.75 out of 10. This AI-powered property sales assistant now runs Spain's top homebuilder's qualification and commercial workflows.
ÍNTEGRO launches Alana, Guatemala's first AI real estate agent
ÍNTEGRO (Corporación Aicsa) — Corporación Aicsa's ÍNTEGRO arm introduced Alana, Guatemala's first AI real estate agent, fielding calls, arranging bookings and messaging buyers across commercial, residential and hospitality deals. This AI-powered property agent launch drew 9.8 million views plus almost 15 mil followers on @alanasliving within two months, a figure the company reports itself.
Tele2 deploys Dzirkstele AI assistant in its e-shop
Tele2 Latvia — Tele2 Latvia has launched Dzirkstele, an AI shopping assistant on its e-shop, to guide customers choosing mobile and home internet plans and to draft product descriptions. Built for AI customer service in telecoms, it works across multiple languages, reading input for tone and intent to generate tailored answers instead of scripted replies. This conversational AI assistant favours context-aware responses.
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Proximus NXT deploys AI platform to support B2B account managers
Proximus NXT — Proximus NXT, the B2B arm of Proximus, has rolled out uman, an AI platform for AI in B2B sales that supports account managers handling complex deals. The system pulls together relevant documents, product details and client background so meeting preparation takes minutes instead of hours, while also helping with follow-up work. Using AI-assisted account management, Proximus NXT reports the tool cuts preparation workload substantially and boosts cross-selling by making it simpler for staff to pitch products outside their usual range.
Porta da Frente Christie's AI agent generates $100m in sales leads
Porta da Frente Christie's — Porta da Frente Christie's, a Portuguese real estate brokerage, deployed eSelf AI's conversational agent to field property enquiries and run virtual tours at all hours, across a portfolio of 5,000 properties. This use of AI in real estate produced $100 million in sales from leads generated by the AI-driven property inquiry system, the firm reports, a figure that is the company's own and has not been independently audited.
Sellers who use AI are 3.7 times likelier to meet quota
Sellers who partner effectively with AI tools are 3.7 times likelier to hit quota than those who do not. Gartner surveyed 1,026 B2B sellers from January to March 2024.
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