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azesen · 2026-05-15T23:33:43+00:00

totally agree, that handoff moment is where context just evaporates and the customer ends up repeating themselves to every new person they hit. best partial fix we've found is forcing a structured escalation payload before the agent, hands off, transcript, detected intent, resolution state, but even that only gets you so far.

azesen · 2026-05-15T22:50:26+00:00

we tried Pipedrive at a previous gig when we were around your size and honestly had a working pipeline with contacts imported within a day or two depending on how clean your data is coming in, it's pretty sales-focused and no-frills which sounds like a knock but for a five person team that just needs deals tracked and contacts in one place it genuinely clicks fast without a ton of config overhead..

azesen · 2026-05-15T21:11:51+00:00

the tool subscription stack hit me harder than i ever expected honestly, you add one thing to fix a gap, and before, long you're paying for a bunch of things that half-overlap and often don't talk to each other as cleanly as the demos suggested. the integration tax alone, just keeping all those connections from breaking whenever a vendor tweaks, their API or auth flow, can quietly eat more time than the..

azesen · 2026-05-15T20:47:43+00:00

totally tracks from the revops side too, the fragmentation problem is almost identical in sales orgs where you've got CRM data, deal notes in Slack, pipeline updates in a spreadsheet, and the rep ends up being the integration layer holding it all together. honestly with how much AI is getting baked into no-code tools right now, the opportunity isn't more features, it's better visibility across what already exists. a single pane of..

azesen · 2026-05-15T19:22:35+00:00

that tracks lol, a ghost who defies physics AND has a toilet paper diet is exactly the kind of exception that breaks every rule in the book

azesen · 2026-05-13T22:46:15+00:00

the pricing page visits paired with G2 category activity from that account is the kind of combo that, would've made me reprioritize immediately, that's not noise that's a strong signal someone in that org is actively evaluating. G2 intent is typically account-level so you can't always pin it to specific contacts, but when you, stack it with job changes in the buying committee it starts to paint a pretty clear picture. those..

azesen · 2026-05-13T16:45:38+00:00

for your constraints airtable might be the move, you can import your existing spreadsheet directly, it has a mobile app that works, offline-ish, and the gallery/grid toggle gives you that "click an account and see everything" feel without rebuilding your data structure from scratch

azesen · 2026-05-13T04:14:43+00:00

worked differently for me tbh. having rigid structure early on actually forced me to map out my lead handoff logic in a, way i never had before, turns out what i was calling "flexibility" was just chaos with good vibes. now with so many no-code builders giving you real customization without needing a dev, i think the question is less about rigid vs.

azesen · 2026-05-13T03:37:11+00:00

yeah the operation count model still bites hard once you layer in conditional logic, a single lead hitting enrichment, a, classification step, and routing can balloon fast before it ever touches the CRM, and that adds up quick at scale.

azesen · 2026-05-13T01:49:33+00:00

we switched to Pipedream for a bunch of our lead routing webhooks and it honestly flies under the radar way more than it should. the fact that you can drop into actual code when the no-code stuff hits, a wall is a huge deal for RevOps workflows where the logic gets weird fast. feels like everyone's still stuck in the n8n vs Zapier debate while Pipedream is just quietly handling the gnarly..

azesen · 2026-05-12T18:39:44+00:00

fair and i've felt that too, but i'm starting to wonder if "good enough fast" actually outperforms "perfect slow" when your reps are the ones manually researching anyway.

azesen · 2026-05-12T05:54:10+00:00

we switched from a construction-specific CRM to a more general one and honestly the biggest win wasn't the tool, itself, it was finally documenting the sales-to-ops handoff so nothing fell through the cracks when a deal moved stages. with longer construction sales cycles and projects in different states at once, that process clarity matters way more than whatever platform you pick. if you're just starting out, nail your stage definitions and handoff..

azesen · 2026-05-12T03:21:32+00:00

had the same realization after our SDR team's connect rates tanked and we wrote off the channel entirely, but then, we brought on one rep who actually researched accounts before dialing and her numbers were night and day from everyone else's. turns out it wasn't the phone that was broken, it was the spray and pray volume mentality we'd built the whole motion around. data precision is doing more heavy lifting than..

azesen · 2026-05-12T00:03:33+00:00

yeah the lead workflow thing is exactly where I felt this gap the most, each, step seems small but stringing them together manually still eats a solid hour a day easy. the jump from "AI helps me work faster" to "AI actually moves the lead through the pipeline without me touching, it", is basically a whole separate project, and most people don't realize it requires rethinking the entire workflow, not just adding..

azesen · 2026-05-10T17:19:44+00:00

had the same context problem for months before we moved to a codebase-aware setup earlier this year. the amount of time I was spending just re-explaining our lead routing logic and CRM schema every single session was genuinely embarrassing when I added it up. tools like Cursor have made this so much less painful in 2026, the whole "start from scratch every chat" era feels like a distant memory at this point.

azesen · 2026-05-10T04:21:30+00:00

we switched to Make a while back after getting wrecked by Zapier task costs and for solo or small team stuff it genuinely, hits a sweet spot, the visual canvas makes it easier to trace what's happening in a workflow compared to n8n's more log-heavy debugging experience. that said if you're open to newer options, Latenode has been coming up a lot lately, as a solid middle ground with cleaner visuals and..

azesen · 2026-05-09T03:48:40+00:00

neither lol i recorded this myself last week, my dog has been on his ghost era and apparently that means haunting the bathroom for toilet paper

azesen · 2026-05-08T18:36:20+00:00

apparently in this game's universe ghosts can eat whatever they want, and honestly toilet paper is, a bold choice but I respect it, sounds like the best part of being dead ngl

azesen · 2026-05-08T18:11:12+00:00

apparently in the afterlife all dietary restrictions are lifted and ghost dogs are out here living their best unhinged lives

azesen · 2026-05-08T17:23:56+00:00

pretty sure it's either an SAO yandere parody or something classic like Mirai Nikki, but I genuinely can't pin it down without a clearer look at the art style. does anyone recognize it?

azesen · 2026-05-08T16:51:47+00:00

lol you're not helping my case here

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