What is Backstory?

Backstory is an AI-powered revenue intelligence platform built to give sales organizations deeper visibility into deals, accounts, pipelines, forecasts, and customer engagement. It connects with existing CRM, email, calendar, meeting, and sales applications to collect account activity without requiring representatives to manually enter every interaction. Calls, meetings, stakeholders, and other engagement signals can be automatically associated with the relevant opportunities and accounts. The platform analyzes this information alongside historical sales patterns to evaluate deal health and estimate the likelihood that an opportunity will close. Revenue teams can use the resulting insights to identify risks, stalled deals, missing contacts, coverage gaps, bottlenecks, and potential expansion opportunities. Stakeholder mapping helps sellers understand the people involved in each buying process and determine whether important decision-makers or influencers are missing. Backstory also generates deal-specific recommendations that suggest possible next steps based on buyer activity and the context surrounding an opportunity. AI sales coaching capabilities can help representatives evaluate their approach and improve execution without relying solely on periodic manager reviews. Sales leaders and revenue operations teams can use forecasting and pipeline management features to compare opportunities, monitor changes, and improve visibility into expected revenue. The platform also supports renewal and retention use cases by applying account activity intelligence to existing customer relationships. Backstory is intended for organizations that want to combine automated sales data capture with AI analysis to improve pipeline management, forecasting, account strategy, opportunity qualification, and day-to-day selling decisions.

Pricing

Price Starts At:
$50 per user per month
Free Version:
Free Version available.
Free Trial Offered?:
Yes

Screenshots and Video

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Company Facts

Company Name:
Backstory (People.ai)
Date Founded:
2016
Company Location:
United States
Company Website:
www.backstory.ai/

Product Details

Deployment
SaaS
Training Options
Documentation Hub
Online Training
Support
Standard Support
24 Hour Support
Web-Based Support

Product Details

Target Company Sizes
Individual
1-10
11-50
51-200
201-500
501-1000
1001-5000
5001-10000
10001+
Target Organization Types
Mid Size Business
Small Business
Enterprise
Freelance
Nonprofit
Government
Startup
Supported Languages
English

Backstory Categories and Features

Sales Performance Management Software

Incentive Compensation Management (ICM)
Predictive Sales Analytics
Quota Management
Reporting / Analytics
Sales Coaching Analysis
Sales Gamification
Sales Performance Tracking
Sales Planning & Forecasting
Territory Management

Sales Intelligence Software

CRM Integration
Data Cleaning
Data Enrichment
Data Import/Export
Data Mining
Data Verification
Email Integration
Lead Scoring
List Building
Performance Management
Pipeline Management
Predictive Modeling/Analytics
Prospecting Tools
Reporting/Analytics
Sales Forecasting

Sales Analytics Software

Collaboration Tools
Dashboards
Forecasting Analytics
Ideal Customer Profile (ICP)
Lead Analytics
Pipeline Management
Predictive Forecasting
Predictive Lead Scoring
Sales Intelligence Reporting

Revenue Operations Software

AI Insights
Account Health Dashboard
Automatic CRM Updates
Contact / Activity Tracking
RevOps Automation
Revenue Dashboard
Revenue Intelligence / Reporting
Sales Analytics
Sales Forecasting
Third-Party Data Aggregation

Revenue Intelligence Software

Actionable Insights
Alerts / Notifications
CRM Interactions
Call Scoring
Conversation Intelligence
Dashboard
Email/Message Interactions
Market Intelligence
Phone Call Interactions
Pipeline Visibility
Sales Coaching
Video Call Interactions

Inside Sales Software

Auto-Dialing
Call List Management
Call Recording
Campaign Management
Dashboard
Data Management
Lead Capture
Lead Distribution
Lead Scoring
Performance Management

Account Planning Software

Account Segmentation
Account Tracker
Annual Account Plan
Communication Matrix
Competitor Stacking
Dashboard
Performance Metrics
Relationship Mapping
Trend Monitoring
White Space Analysis

More Backstory Categories

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