Hospitality & events · Group and event sales coaching
AI coaching for hotel group sales and event venue sales teams
Amotions AI coaches hotel group sales, catering, and event venue sales managers with private live prompts, AI roleplay, and post-call scores trained on your property’s own menus, capacity charts, policies, and playbook. It helps them qualify inbound leads, run site tours, answer hold and minimum questions, and negotiate within approved authority. It never speaks to clients or drafts contract terms.
Event business is won or lost in a handful of conversations: the first call after an RFP, the site tour, and the moment the planner asks for more. Amotions helps your sales managers ask the right questions, answer from your own documents, and hold your pricing with confidence—without pressure and without inventing terms.
Built for teams where every client conversation matters. Published September 24, 2026 · Pianpian Xu Guthrie
Discovery (inbound RFP call)
Client“We sent the RFP last week. Can you just send over your best rate for those dates?”
Suggested next move
Confirm you will send a proposal, then ask two questions first: how flexible the dates are, and what mattered most at last year’s venue. Note the room block and meeting-space pattern before quoting.
Qualification (decision makers)
Client“I’m pulling options together, but our VP signs off on the final pick.”
Suggested next move
Ask what the VP will weigh most—cost, location, the space, or past experience—and when they plan to decide. Offer to include the VP on a virtual tour.
Private by design
Read the Trust CenterNever joins as a bot
No extra attendee, no recording notice from a meeting bot. The coach runs beside the call, not in it.
Private to the rep
Prompts appear on the seller’s own screen. The prospect, client, or family never sees them.
Your conversations stay yours
Customer conversations are never used to train third-party foundation models.
Works where you already talk
Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, phone on speaker, and dialers, through the desktop app or a browser tab.
What this page covers
- Private prompts only the sales manager sees—on lead calls, virtual site tours, and seated conversations after an in-person tour. Not a bot on the call.
- Answers from your own capacity charts, menus, room-block policy, and approved contract language—never drafted terms or legal advice.
- Handle “another venue quoted less,” “can you hold the date,” and comp-room requests within the authority your property sets.
- Rehearse planners, couples, and parents in AI roleplay, then score every conversation against your own sales rubric.
Where revenue leaks
Where hospitality and event sales conversations break down
Most lost event business is not lost on the rate alone. It slips away when the first call skips qualification, the tour becomes a room-by-room recital, or a sales manager gives away a concession to fill an uncomfortable silence.
Quoting before qualifying
A new lead asks for pricing, and the sales manager sends a number before learning dates flexibility, headcount, the room block, or who decides. The proposal competes on price alone.
Tours that recite the space
The tour covers square footage and ceiling height but never asks what the event has to feel like, what went wrong at the last venue, or what the budget really has to cover.
Concessions given too early
A planner mentions a competing offer and the sales manager offers comp rooms or a lower minimum before asking what the other quote included—or what the planner would trade for it.
Attrition and minimums explained loosely
Room-block attrition, cutoff dates, service charges, and the F&B minimum get paraphrased on the fly. The client hears something different from what the contract says, and it surfaces at the final bill.
Tentative holds that never close
Dates sit on a tentative hold for weeks with no follow-up plan. The group drifts, another inquiry for the date gets turned away, and the calendar has a hole.
Every property and manager sells differently
Directors of sales cannot join every tour. New managers learn by shadowing whoever is free, and each property in a portfolio explains packages and policies its own way.
How Amotions helps
Give every sales manager support in the moments that matter
Amotions covers the whole conversation loop: practice before the call, private guidance during it, and scored feedback after it, all built on your own playbook.
During the conversation
Real-time guidance on calls and meetings
A private overlay listens and surfaces one next question, response, or next step at a time, drawn from your playbook. The client never sees it, and no bot joins the call.
How real-time guidance works →Before the conversation
AI roleplay for practice
Rehearse the calls your team loses most often against AI clients built from your own objections and scenarios, then get scored on your criteria.
AI roleplay →After the conversation
Post-call feedback and coaching insights
Every conversation is scored against your process, with the one moment worth practicing next. Managers see where the team drifts without listening to every call.
Post-call scorecards →
During the conversation
What Amotions does during a group or event sales conversation
Amotions listens alongside your sales manager and shows short private prompts drawn from your property’s own documents and playbook. The planner or couple never sees them, and Amotions never speaks.
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Load your property’s documents and playbook
Upload capacity charts, floor plans, banquet and private-dining menus, package descriptions, AV price lists, room-block and hold policy, approved contract language, concession authority, and your sales playbook.
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Keep qualification ahead of the quote
Amotions tracks which qualifying questions are still open—dates and flexibility, headcount, room block, budget, decision makers, decision date—and suggests the next one before the sales manager starts quoting.
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Answer from your own documents
When a client asks whether the ballroom seats 220 at rounds of ten, what the plated menu includes, or how long a first-option hold lasts, the sales manager sees the answer from your uploaded charts and policies.
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Guide the negotiation inside your authority
When a planner asks for comp rooms or a lower minimum, prompts suggest a question to ask first and the trades your playbook allows—never a concession you have not approved.
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Notice hesitation and competing voices
Hedging, a sudden price question, or a parent taking over the conversation trigger prompts to slow down, ask what is behind it, and include the person who decides.
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Score the conversation and assign practice
Afterward, each sales manager gets a transcript, a score against your rubric, and one roleplay focus for the next tour.
Example in-call guidance
Illustrative coaching across an inquiry, tour, and close
Examples of how Amotions might guide a hotel or venue sales manager. Real prompts come from your property’s own documents, policies, and approved language—not from Amotions.
Illustrative coaching examples for this industry. Not recorded customer calls, compliance advice, or performance claims. Amotions does not speak to buyers; the professional stays in control. Contract terms, rates, and concessions are set by the property; nothing here is legal or contract advice.
Discovery (inbound RFP call)
Client: “We sent the RFP last week. Can you just send over your best rate for those dates?”
Private prompt
Confirm you will send a proposal, then ask two questions first: how flexible the dates are, and what mattered most at last year’s venue. Note the room block and meeting-space pattern before quoting.
Date flexibility and priorities change what you can offer. A rate sent without them competes on price alone.
Qualification (decision makers)
Client: “I’m pulling options together, but our VP signs off on the final pick.”
Private prompt
Ask what the VP will weigh most—cost, location, the space, or past experience—and when they plan to decide. Offer to include the VP on a virtual tour.
The planner is shortlisting; someone else is choosing. Knowing their criteria shapes the proposal and the tour.
Site tour (seated debrief)
Client: “The ballroom is beautiful. I’m just not sure how we’d fit the reception and the dinner.”
Private prompt
Pull up the capacity chart for the room flip or the prefunction space, explain the timeline your team usually runs, and ask whether they want to see the floor plan for both setups.
A specific answer from your own charts turns a vague worry into a plan they can picture.
Hold request
Client: “Can you hold the date while we decide?”
Private prompt
Explain your hold policy in its approved wording: the type of hold, how long it lasts, and what happens if another group asks for the date. Then agree on a specific follow-up before the hold expires.
A hold with a clear end date and a scheduled conversation moves toward a decision. An open-ended hold just blocks the calendar.
F&B minimum and deposit
Client: “What exactly counts toward the food-and-beverage minimum? Does the service charge?”
Private prompt
Answer from your approved policy exactly as written, including how service charge and tax are treated. If the client wants an exception, name who approves it and offer to ask.
Paraphrasing minimums is how final-bill disputes start. Your own language, read accurately, prevents them.
Objection handling
Client: “Honestly, another hotel quoted us a lower rate and comp rooms.”
Private prompt
Thank them for telling you. Ask what the other proposal included—block size, attrition, F&B minimum, meeting-room rental, AV—before discussing any concession. Offer only trades your authority allows.
Proposals rarely compare line for line. Understanding the other offer comes before matching it, if you match it at all.
Couple and parents
Client: “My dad is paying for most of this, so he’s going to want to see the numbers.”
Private prompt
Invite him in directly: offer a call or a second visit, ask what he will want to understand, and send the same proposal to everyone who decides.
The person paying often has different questions from the couple. Including them early avoids a stalled contract.
Contract and deposit
Client: “Okay. I think this is the one. What do we need to do?”
Private prompt
Confirm the date, space, headcount, and package they are choosing. Explain the deposit and payment schedule in your approved wording, agree when the contract will go out, and book a time to review it together.
A clear recap and a set review time prevent the “we’re still looking” email after a great tour.
Objections
Common event and group sales objections—and coaching moves
Planners and couples push back because budgets are fixed, decisions are shared, and every venue is asking for a commitment. Coaching helps sales managers find the real concern and answer it with your property’s approved language and authority.
“Another venue quoted less.”
Suggested next move: Say that comparing is smart. Ask what the other quote includes—room rental, F&B minimum, service charge, AV, attrition terms—then show what yours covers. Never criticize the other venue.
Quotes differ in what they include more often than in the headline number. A line-by-line comparison keeps the conversation on value.
“Can you hold the date while we decide?”
Suggested next move: Explain your hold policy exactly, including how long it lasts and what happens if another inquiry arrives. Ask what they still need to decide and schedule that conversation before the hold ends.
A hold tied to a dated next step keeps the decision moving and protects your calendar.
“We’d need comp rooms and a lower group rate to make this work.”
Suggested next move: Ask which matters more to their budget. If your authority allows a concession, pair it with something that helps the property—dates, block size, or F&B commitment—and never offer beyond what is approved.
Trading instead of giving keeps the deal balanced and keeps pricing authority where it belongs.
“We can’t sign an attrition clause that tight.”
Suggested next move: Do not reinterpret the clause. Ask what attendance risk they are worried about, explain your standard terms in approved wording, and route any change request to the person who approves contract terms.
Contract language is the property’s to change. Understanding the underlying worry helps whoever approves exceptions respond well.
“That food-and-beverage minimum is more than we planned to spend.”
Suggested next move: Ask their headcount and budget per guest, then show which menus, dates, or rooms your policy allows at a lower minimum. Do not waive a minimum you are not authorized to waive.
Minimums often depend on day, date, and room. Finding a real fit is more useful than a discount you cannot keep.
“We need to talk to our parents first.”
Suggested next move: Agree. Ask what the parents will want to know, offer a tour or call with them, and explain your hold policy so the couple knows how long they have.
Including the people paying respects how the family decides and avoids a surprise veto after the contract goes out.
Before the conversation
AI roleplay for hotel and event sales training
Sales managers can rehearse the conversations that unsettle new hires with AI planner, couple, and parent personas before they happen for real. Feedback scores against your property’s rubric.
A third-party planner with a 150-room block says a competing resort offered comp rooms, a lower rate, and waived meeting-room rental.
Practice goal: Learn what the other offer really includes, trade within your authority, and avoid giving concessions before asking.
Feedback focus: Question-before-concession order, staying within approved authority, and a clear next step.
A couple loves the venue on a tour, but the bride’s mother, who is paying, keeps asking about the service charge and the minimum.
Practice goal: Include the parent respectfully, explain the minimum and service charge accurately, and agree on a hold and follow-up.
Feedback focus: Inclusion of every decision maker, policy accuracy, and tone under pressure.
A host calls about a private-dining buyout for a company party and balks at the minimum for a Saturday.
Practice goal: Qualify headcount and budget, then offer the rooms, dates, or menus your policy allows.
Feedback focus: Discovery depth, alternatives from approved options, and no unauthorized waivers.
A follow-up call to a planner who chose another hotel and sounds uncomfortable taking the call.
Practice goal: Thank them, learn why without arguing, and ask about the next program.
Feedback focus: Listening, no pressure, and whether a future opportunity was identified.
After the conversation
Post-call scoring for hotel and event sales teams
After each lead call, virtual tour, or seated conversation, Amotions provides a transcript, a score against your rubric, and specific feedback: whether the sales manager qualified before quoting, whether hold, block, and minimum answers matched your approved language, whether concessions stayed within authority, and whether a dated next step was set.
Scores measure how the conversation was run, not only whether the contract was signed. Directors of sales can compare managers and properties on the same scorecard, spot tentative holds that need a follow-up conversation, and assign roleplay on the moments each person finds hardest.
Outcomes
What your team can measure
Teams can measure impact through the numbers they already track. Set a baseline before the pilot and compare the same measures after; Amotions does not promise a specific lift.
- Inbound leads and RFPs answered with a qualified next step
- Site tours that end with a proposal, hold, or clear decision
- Tentative holds converted to signed contracts, tracked in your CRM
- Lost-business follow-up calls completed
- Concession requests handled within approved authority
- Time for a new sales manager to ramp
- Consistency of the tour and proposal walk-through across properties
- Coaching hours directors spend per sales manager
Who it is for
Who is hospitality and event sales coaching for?
This page is for the people who turn inquiries into signed event and group business—hotel and resort sales managers, catering and venue sales teams, and the directors who coach them. It is communication coaching for your sales team, not a booking engine and not a guest-facing chatbot.
Hotel group sales and catering/conference services managers
Sales managers who answer group RFPs, negotiate room blocks and meeting space, and the catering and conference services managers who pick up the event after the contract is signed.
Event venue and wedding venue sales managers
Managers at ballrooms, estates, barns, rooftops, and wineries who take lead-form calls, run tours for couples and families, hold dates, and turn a tour into a contract and deposit.
Restaurant private-dining and event coordinators
Coordinators who sell private rooms, buyouts, and set menus, and who explain food-and-beverage minimums to hosts planning a rehearsal dinner, a company party, or a milestone birthday.
Resort and destination-management sales teams
Resort sales and destination-management teams selling incentive trips, offsites, and multi-day programs to corporate planners and third-party agencies.
Directors of sales and multi-property sales leaders
Leaders who own the property’s sales standards, onboard new managers, and cannot join every tour or virtual walk-through across a portfolio.
Not the right page if
- Front-desk, reservations, or guest-services teams looking for transient booking or service scripts—this page is about group and event sales conversations.
- Properties looking for an AI booking agent or chatbot—Amotions never answers inquiries, sends proposals, or speaks to clients; a person from your team runs every conversation.
- Teams looking for contract drafting, legal review, or revenue-management pricing—contract terms and rates stay with your property and its approvers.
- Properties looking for a sales-and-catering system, event-management platform, or CRM—Amotions runs beside those tools and replaces none of them.
Conversations
What conversations do hotel and event sales managers have?
Group and event sales runs on a short list of conversations, each with a different job. Coaching follows the conversation type instead of one generic sales script.
Inbound RFP and lead-form call
The first call after an RFP, a third-party lead, or a web form: dates and flexibility, headcount, room block, space needs, budget range, decision makers, and when they plan to decide.
Site tour, in person or virtual
Walking a planner or couple through ballrooms, breakout rooms, guest rooms, and outdoor spaces—or showing the same on a Zoom or Teams call—then sitting down to talk dates, packages, and next steps.
Availability and holding space
“Is the fourteenth open?” and “Can you hold it while we decide?” Explaining availability, first-option and second-option holds, how long a tentative hold lasts, and what happens if another group wants the date.
Room-block, attrition, and minimum questions
Planners ask how the block works, what attrition means for them, and what counts toward the food-and-beverage minimum. The answer has to match your property’s approved language exactly.
Concession and rate negotiation
Corporate planners and third-party agencies ask for comp rooms, a lower group rate, upgrades, waived room rental, or a better AV package. The sales manager negotiates inside the authority the property sets.
Couple-and-parents decision
A wedding tour where the couple, one or both sets of parents, and sometimes a planner all have a say—and the person paying is not always the person asking the questions.
Tour to contract and deposit
Turning a good tour into a signed contract: confirming what is included, walking through the deposit and payment schedule, and agreeing on when the contract goes out.
Lost-business follow-up
Calling a planner who chose another property to learn why, thank them, and keep the door open for the next program—without arguing the decision.
Your playbook
Train your property’s sales playbook into Amotions
Amotions uses what your property loads. It does not invent rates, concessions, menus, or contract terms. Load the documents and language your leadership has already approved.
Capacity charts, floor plans, and space details
Room capacities by setup, flips and turnover times, outdoor and rain-plan spaces, and load-in details, so answers come from your charts rather than memory.
Menus, packages, and AV price lists
Banquet and private-dining menus, wedding and meeting packages, upgrade options, and AV offerings, so upsells are accurate and offered only when they fit.
Hold, room-block, and minimum policies
How first-option and tentative holds work, room-block and cutoff terms, attrition language, F&B minimums by room and date, and deposit schedules—in the exact wording your contracts use.
Concession authority and escalation rules
Which concessions a sales manager may offer, which need a director’s approval, what to ask for in return, and who reviews contract change requests.
Sales rubric and do-not-say list
The behaviors your director of sales wants on every call—qualification before quoting, accurate policy language, concessions traded not given, and a dated next step—plus phrases managers must never use.
Works with the sales methodology you already use
Amotions is configured around your team’s framework and stages, not a built-in one. Qualification fields, discovery questions, and scoring criteria come from the method you already teach.
- MEDDPICC
- SPIN Selling
- Challenger
- Sandler
- BANT
- Your own playbook
Signals
What communication and behavioral signals matter?
Planners and couples show they are ready in small ways. Amotions helps sales managers notice those moments and move to a hold, a proposal, or a contract instead of repeating the tour.
Readiness signals event sales managers should not miss
Asks about a specific room layout, ceremony flip, or where the band or DJ would set up
Surfaces the relevant floor plan and capacity from your documents and prompts the sales manager to ask whether they want to hold the date.
Asks how the deposit works or when payments are due
Cues a clear explanation of your deposit and payment schedule in approved wording, followed by a confirmation of what they are choosing.
Asks about preferred vendors, tastings, or menu changes
Prompts the sales manager to explain your vendor and tasting policy and book the next step on the same call.
A planner asks about the room-block cutoff date or booking link for attendees
Surfaces your approved block and cutoff language and reminds the sales manager to confirm the contract timeline.
Offers to bring the VP, parents, or planner to a second visit or virtual tour
Cues the sales manager to schedule that session now and ask what the new decision maker will want to see.
Emotional signals in event and group sales conversations
Wedding and milestone events carry a lot of feeling: excitement, family tension, and fear of overspending on a day that has to go right. Amotions picks up on hesitation, a sudden drop in energy when numbers come up, or a parent’s voice taking over, and cues the sales manager to slow down, acknowledge it, and ask what matters most.
Corporate planners bring different pressure—an executive to satisfy, a budget someone else set, and a job on the line if attendance falls short. Prompts help sales managers hear that risk under a request for looser attrition or comp rooms, and respond to the worry instead of just the ask.
Behavioral signals across tours and negotiations
On the client side, patterns matter: returning to price three times, going quiet after the F&B minimum, deferring every answer to someone who is not on the call, or asking detailed questions about one competitor. Amotions surfaces those moments in the post-conversation summary so the follow-up addresses the real question.
On the sales manager side, scorecards show talk-time balance, whether qualification happened before the quote, whether policy answers matched your approved language, whether concessions stayed within authority, and whether the conversation ended with a dated next step.
What they see
What the sales manager actually sees
The planner, couple, or host never sees or hears Amotions. Your sales manager sees short prompts in a private overlay on their own laptop or tablet.
Short cues and document answers
The next qualifying question, a ballroom capacity from your chart, your hold policy wording, or a reminder to ask before conceding—never a paragraph to read aloud.
Playbook phase tracking
A quiet view of which parts of your tour and proposal flow are done and which are still open, so nothing is skipped when the conversation jumps around.
No drafted contract terms
Amotions surfaces your own approved language. It does not write, interpret, or negotiate contract clauses, and it does not give legal advice.
Not a bot, not an AI booking agent
Amotions does not join calls as a participant, answer inquiries, or send proposals. A person from your team runs every conversation.
Workflows
Which hospitality and event sales workflows are supported?
Event and group sales happens on the phone, on video, and in the building. Amotions runs beside your sales-and-catering system and CRM and does not replace either. It does not integrate natively with event-management or property-management systems.
Virtual site tours on Zoom
Zoom has a native Marketplace sidebar app for desktop Zoom, so prompts appear beside the call while you share floor plans and walk-through video.
Planner calls on Teams or Google Meet
Private desktop or web overlay beside Microsoft Teams and Google Meet calls with corporate planners. This is an overlay, not a native integration.
Inbound lead and RFP calls
Private overlay when the sales manager’s computer can hear the call, including softphones and desktop VoIP apps. Confirm your phone setup in a demo.
In-person site tours and tastings
Run Amotions on a laptop or tablet with a microphone. Walking tours through busy ballrooms and kitchens are hard to hear, so many teams coach the seated conversation in the sales office afterward. Tell clients about transcription according to your policy and local consent law.
Salesforce CRM sync
Salesforce is the only native CRM sync. Other sales-and-catering and event systems stay where they are; Amotions sits beside them.
Upload recorded calls for scoring
Score recorded lead calls and virtual tours after the fact for coaching and onboarding, with consent where your policy or local law requires it.
Evidence
Customer evidence for hospitality and event sales
Amotions only cites named customer stories that are published on this site. There is no published named hospitality and event sales customer story yet.
No named customer story is published for hospitality and event sales yet. The conversation examples on this page are illustrative enablement content, not case studies. See the customer-stories hub for published proof in other verticals, or book a demo to discuss a pilot.
Published customer stories →Pilot
Start with a focused pilot
Choose one team, one call type, and a small set of measurable outcomes. Configure Amotions around your existing playbook, establish a baseline, and evaluate how live guidance, practice, and post-call coaching affect performance.
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Define the team and conversation type
Pick one group and one call that matters, such as first inquiries, consults, or renewals, and agree on the numbers you already track.
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Configure guidance around your playbook
Upload your scripts, approved answers, objection responses, and scoring rubric. Calibration typically takes about a week.
- 3
Review adoption, quality, and outcomes
Compare conversation scores and your business metrics against the baseline, then decide whether to expand.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Amotions coaches how your sales managers communicate; it never speaks to planners, couples, or guests. Contract language, attrition and cancellation terms, rates, concessions, and food-and-beverage minimums belong to your property and its approvers. Amotions surfaces your own approved language from the documents you upload. It never drafts or interprets contract terms and does not give legal advice. Recording and transcription notice follows your policy and local law.
Is there AI sales coaching for hotel group sales managers?
Yes. Amotions coaches hotel group sales and catering managers during RFP calls, virtual site tours, and concession negotiations with private prompts only they see. Prompts come from your own capacity charts, room-block policy, and approved language. It never speaks to planners and never drafts contract terms.
How do we train venue sales managers to turn tours into contracts?
Give tours a consistent shape: qualify before showing, answer from your own charts and menus, include every decision maker, explain holds and deposits clearly, and end with a dated next step. Amotions lets managers rehearse that flow with AI personas, prompts them privately on real calls, and scores each conversation against your rubric.
Can Amotions help with “another venue quoted less”?
It helps sales managers respond well. Prompts suggest asking what the other quote includes—room rental, minimums, service charge, AV, attrition—before discussing concessions, and surface only the trades your property allows. Amotions does not set prices or offer discounts; pricing authority stays with your property.
Does Amotions give advice on attrition or cancellation clauses?
No. Contract language belongs to your property and its approvers. Amotions can surface your own approved wording from uploaded documents so managers explain terms accurately, and prompt them to route change requests to the right person. It does not draft, interpret, or give legal advice on contract terms.
Can we use Amotions during in-person site tours?
Yes, on a laptop or tablet with a microphone. Walking tours through busy spaces are hard to hear, so many teams use it for the seated conversation after the tour. Whether and how you tell clients about transcription follows your policy and local consent law. There is no mobile app.
Does Amotions integrate with our sales-and-catering system?
Amotions runs beside your sales-and-catering and event-management tools rather than integrating with them. Salesforce is the only native CRM sync, and Zoom has a native Marketplace app for virtual tours. Phone, Teams, and Google Meet calls use a private overlay on the sales manager’s computer.
Is there AI roleplay for event and wedding venue sales?
Yes. Managers can practice planner concession requests, couples with parents paying, private-dining minimum pushback, and lost-business calls with AI personas before facing them live. Your property loads its own scenarios, policies, and approved language, and each practice session is scored against your rubric.
See what better live guidance could do for your team.
Bring your capacity charts, a menu or package, your hold and minimum policy, and one conversation your team finds hard. We will roleplay a planner asking for concessions, show private live prompts, and score it against your rubric. Playbook-trained custom agents are included on Professional ($99/seat/month billed annually) and Enterprise.
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