Sales calls: hear the deal, not just the demo
Every sales recap says the same thing: “good call, they’ll get back to us.” The deal died three sentences before that, when the champion went quiet after the pricing slide and nobody logged it. Donna attends the call from your server, records it, and reads it like your best deal-desk analyst — and because she’s self-hosted, your pipeline conversations never sit on a notetaker vendor’s cloud where your prospect’s legal team wouldn’t want them either.
What goes wrong without a real record
- CRM notes capture what the rep remembers, which is mostly what the rep said.
- “We’ll circle back next week” gets logged as a next step instead of flagged as a soft commitment.
- The person who actually decides often says the least — and summaries weight airtime, not authority.
What Donna catches here
The prospect’s exact words on budget, timeline, and next steps — with timestamps. “Probably next quarter” gets flagged soft, so your forecast stops inheriting optimism.
Who on the buyer side deferred to whom. When the VP checked with the quiet architect before answering, Donna noticed who the real economic buyer is.
The competitor they mentioned once and never again, the security question that got deflected — the objections that will resurface in procurement.
Where the prospect’s stance shifted during the call, and which part of your pitch caused it — your actual message-market fit, measured per meeting.
All eight sections of the report, explained: meeting intelligence vs meeting notes.
Questions, answered straight
Can Donna replace call recording in my sales stack?
For Google Meet calls, yes: Donna records audio and screen video on your own VPS, transcribes with Whisper large-v3, and stores everything in your PostgreSQL database. You keep full recordings without a per-seat conversation-intelligence subscription.
Is it safe to record prospect calls with a self-hosted bot?
Donna joins visibly as a participant, so the recording is transparent to everyone — and consent rules for your jurisdiction still apply, same as any recorder. The self-hosted difference is custody: the recording lives on your server, not a third-party cloud your prospect never agreed to.
Does Donna score calls like conversation-intelligence tools?
Donna doesn’t emit numeric scores. She produces a close reading — commitments verbatim, objections raised and dodged, power dynamics on the buyer side — which is the evidence a deal review actually argues about.
Put Donna in your next meeting
Donna deploys onto your own VPS in an afternoon: nginx, pm2, PostgreSQL, your API keys. Early access is open — tell us about your team and we’ll get her a seat at your table.
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