The AI for Sales Podcast Meta-Prompting, Context, and Saving 7.6 Hours/Week
Sep 22, 2025
Gaurav Bachar, Founder and CEO of Jeeva.ai, discusses the transformative power of AI in sales by automating repetitive tasks like inbox triage and note-taking, allowing sellers to concentrate on closing deals. He emphasizes that the real win in AI is in saving an average of 7.6 hours per week. Gaurav also touches on the importance of meta-prompting and context engineering for continuously refining prompts, while addressing adoption challenges like organizational inertia. His insights reveal that expert practitioners can leverage AI for even greater impact.
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AI Frees Sellers For High-Value Work
- Jeeva.ai's purpose is to remove repetitive sales tasks so humans focus on high-value work.
- Gaurav frames sales skills as broadly essential across jobs and wants AI to amplify them.
Top Seller Still Doing Manual Cleanup
- Chad describes a top performer who writes excellent emails but still spends time flagging bounces and updating systems manually.
- He argues that those record-cleaning tasks should be automated, not done by human sellers.
Compete On Time-To-Value
- Compete on time-to-value because buyers expect activation immediately after demo.
- Design products and implementations to deliver an on-day first 'aha' rather than weeks later.