Selling time isn’t something you add — it’s something you reclaim
Whatever the team, the basics of working with an AI assistant hold steady: point it at a real task, feed it the context it needs, and have a person check what comes back before it goes anywhere. That’s the entry point, not the destination. The payoff shows up when you push past the basics into the motions a role repeats all week — and for a rep, those motions are the writing, the prep, the recapping, and the CRM logging that bookend every conversation with a buyer.
And whether your team works in Microsoft Copilot, Claude, or another assistant, the skill is the same — that skill, plus the judgment about when to trust the assistant and when not to, is exactly what this specialty builds. The tool is interchangeable; the way of working is what travels.
That’s exactly what The Value Shift argues for: putting AI in reps’ hands isn’t a productivity gimmick. It’s about repricing the team’s value from admin churned through to deals moved forward — clearing the busywork so reps can spend their hours qualifying, building trust, and reading a deal, which no model can do for them.