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Nov 11, 2025
Amanda Kahlow dives into her ambitious new venture, 1Mind, which aims to revolutionize sales with AI. The discussion highlights the launch of ‘Mindy,’ an AI that replaces sales engineers and enhances customer onboarding. Kahlow addresses how 1Mind employs deterministic AI to reduce inaccuracies and shares insights on securing impressive contracts with major players like HubSpot and LinkedIn. The future of account executives is explored, as Kahlow envisions a landscape dominated by agent-to-agent interactions.
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Inbound-First Sales Agents
- Amanda Kahlow's OneMind focuses on inbound sales and closing deals rather than cold outreach.
- The agent is designed to replicate human sales experiences across websites and Zoom calls to capture buyer intent.
Train Agents On Full Knowledge Bases
- Train agents on a company's full product, technical, and competitive knowledge base for accurate performance.
- Use agent
Deterministic Guardrails Reduce Hallucinations
- OneMind limits hallucinations by combining LLMs with deterministic AI guardrails.
- The agents are trained to recite ingested corporate materials and explicitly say when they don't know an answer.