Free sales session · Venture X, Columbia

How would you double revenue with the sales team you already have?

Ninety minutes, no charge, on the morning of Friday, October 23 — the session that stops asking how to make a sales team ten percent more productive and starts asking what AI can now run on its own. Stay for the afternoon and you put it to work on your own accounts, your own deals and your own quota before you go home.

9:00–10:30free, 90 minutes
11:00–5:00optional workshop
$599afternoon, lunch in
Venture XColumbia Town Center
Register — the morning is free Afternoon is optional — decide in the form
The whole argument, in 1:44 The workshop in full →
One day, two halves

Come for the morning. Stay if it lands.

The ninety minutes stands on its own and costs nothing — come, take the argument, leave at 10:30 with no obligation. The afternoon is for the people who want it running against their own pipeline by five o’clock the same day.

Free · no charge
9:00 – 10:30 AM

The sales session

Freeopen to anyone

Ninety minutes making the case, and showing the thing working on a real pipeline. You leave understanding which parts of the sales job can now run without a person in the loop — not what a vendor demo says they can.

  • Why “our reps use AI for emails” is not a strategy
  • What a rep’s week looks like when AI is operating, not drafting
  • Where it goes wrong on a sales floor, and what that costs in quota
Doors and coffee at 9:00. Nothing to bring, nothing to install.
Optional · paid
11:00 AM – 5:00 PM

The hands-on workshop

$599per person · lunch included

Lunch at eleven, then five and a half hours with your laptop open, working your own book — your accounts, your deals, your quota. Not a demo environment and not somebody else’s example accounts.

  • Connect an assistant to your CRM, email and calendar
  • Build two things from your own pipeline, in your own words
  • Put one of them on a schedule before you leave
Bring a laptop. Complimentary lunch at 11:00, work starts 11:30.
Doors, coffee, and straight inThe room is ours from nine, so the session starts at nine. Ninety minutes, free, and complete on its own.
Morning endsLeave here with no obligation, or stay for the afternoon.
Lunch, includedFor workshop registrants. Tell us about dietary needs in the form.
Hands on keyboardsFive and a half hours against your own pipeline, with breaks.
You leave with it runningSomething real, on a schedule, that was not running this morning.
We have seen this before

They all saw it coming.

Every one of these companies was watching the thing that ended them. They had the analysis. They had a sales force that hit its number for years. What they did not have was an organization that had already changed the way it sold.

Kodak

Saw digital photography coming. Invented a good deal of it, in its own labs, and went on selling film.

Filed for bankruptcy, 2012

Blockbuster

Saw Netflix. Nine thousand stores, a stronger balance sheet, and most of a decade of warning to move on it.

Filed for bankruptcy, 2010

BlackBerry

Saw the iPhone. Owned the executive pocket, and judged that what it owned would be what kept it.

Left the handset business, 2016

These were smart companies with good sales teams. They saw the technology — they just didn’t transform fast enough. That is exactly where we are with AI in sales.

The difference

Stop asking how to make the team ten percent more productive — start asking what the job looks like when AI does part of it.

Reading a summary of what AI can do has never once changed how a company sells. Ninety minutes of seeing it done against a real CRM, a real territory and a real set of stalled deals — that changes what you ask of the floor. The afternoon is where it stops being a demonstration and starts being theirs.

AI becomes your team’s second brain and its digital labor on the pipeline.

01
Connected to what the team actually sells on A secure assistant across your CRM, email, calendar and call recordings — not a chat window in a separate tab.
02
Working the book all day Research before the call, the follow-up after it, the account plan nobody has time to write, and the outreach that never gets sent.
03
The pipeline nobody is mining Closed-lost worth reopening, accounts worth expanding, deals gone quiet — surfaced without a rep going looking.
04
Selling hours back, every week Not theoretical hours. The ones currently going to admin that never needed a salesperson in the first place.
The afternoon · $599

Six things, on your own pipeline.

This is the hands-on half. Everyone in the room works their real book, and nobody leaves with a slide deck — the day is graded on what is actually running at five o’clock.

01
Your accounts as context Getting the assistant to know your territory and your product well enough that its first answer is usable in front of a buyer.
02
Research and call prep Who is in the room, what changed at the account, and the three questions worth asking — before the call, not after.
03
Outreach that sounds like you Sequences built from your own won deals and your own voice, instead of the same template the whole market is sending.
04
Automations The move from asking to scheduling — follow-up, next steps and CRM hygiene that happen without a rep opening anything.
05
Mining the pipeline you have Closed-lost re-engagement, expansion inside current accounts, and the deals that went quiet, worked against your own CRM.
06
Security What you connect, what you never connect, and how to tell the difference before you click.
You won’t leave with a slide deck. You’ll leave with AI working your pipeline.

Two things built from your own book and one of them on a schedule — running Monday morning whether or not you open your laptop. That is the bar for the afternoon, and it is the only thing it is measured on.

Who is running it

Nick Caruso, with Chris Cocca

Nick Caruso is Co-Founder and AI Evangelist at KnowledgeNet.ai. Twenty-five years putting AI into executive hands, starting with the US intelligence community in 2001. He runs the room himself — there is no bench.

Chris Cocca co-hosts this one. He is President of Sales Xceleration and a Certified Sales Leader, and a career spent building sales organizations is what keeps the afternoon honest — every automation in the room has to survive a question about whether it actually moves a number.

The morning is the argument and the afternoon is the work. If you only have time for the argument, take the argument — it is free, and it is genuinely the half that changes what you do next.

Register

Take a seat on the 23rd.

The morning is free and you can register for it alone. If you want the afternoon too, choose that below and you will go to checkout after this form.

Your details go to KnowledgeNet.ai and nowhere else — no list, no reseller. Trouble with this form? Email nick.caruso@knowledgenet.ai and you will be registered by hand.

Before you come

What to know

The morning really is free

No card, no catch, and no obligation to stay for the afternoon. Register for it on its own and leave at 10:30 if that is all you have time for.

Bring a laptop for the afternoon

It is hands on from the first hour after lunch, on your own CRM and your own deals rather than a demo environment. The morning needs nothing.

The afternoon is capped

Small on purpose — every rep gets looked at individually. When it fills, registration closes and the checkout comes down.

Venture X Columbia Town Center — Howard Hughes Meeting Room

10490 Little Patuxent Pkwy, Suite 600, Columbia, MD 21044. Sixth floor; free garage parking at Columbia Town Center. Check in at the Venture X front desk on the day; if you get stuck, call the number in your confirmation email.

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