Account Strategy & Execution

Every deal qualified. Every buyer mapped.

Backstory checks every deal against your methodology and maps every stakeholder from real activity - emails, meetings, and calls. You know which deals are real, and who's actually moving them.

Trusted by sales leaders at NVIDIA, OpenAI, Red Hat, HPE, Zscaler, and Rubrik - and 100,000+ sellers daily.

Backstory is an important tool for sales moving forward. Information lives in many places, meeting transcripts, emails, etc. Having information in one place via AI will be a game changer.
Quiara Neam
Account Manager
AMD
For a company our size, multiply those time savings across every rep and manager globally - Backstory basically pays for itself before you even count the deals caught earlier.
Reagan Lucas
Sales Process Coach
OpenAI
Red Hat
Visibility into activity, pipeline, and execution fuels better decisions, faster corrections, and more predictable outcomes - without requiring reps to change their workflow.
Andrew Brown
Senior Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer
Zscaler
Elastic
Cyberark
Five9
With Backstory, we removed the guesswork from our sales process. The data is clean, insights are actionable, and our team finally has a shared view of every deal in pipeline.
Esther Friend
Former VP of Sales Efficiency and Transformation
Seismic
If reps aren't in a multi-threaded deal, Backstory flags it. That lets us act fast - asking who we need to get in front of before the gap becomes the reason we lost the deal.
Toby Carrington
Chief Business Officer
Pluralsight
With Backstory, you see if reps are single-threaded and the quality of their interactions. It's one thing to diagnose a pipeline problem. Backstory helps you actually fix it.
Mitch Beck
Head of Digital Sales at Pluralsight
TTEC
We started thinking about automation and deal tracking. We quickly learned Backstory supports the entire revenue cycle. That shift - and that partnership - changed how we sell.
Jonathan Gray
Senior VP at TTEC
Hexagon
With Backstory, we can see what's actually happening in the field - and we know exactly what to work on, whether that's coverage gaps or finding the right people for key roles.
Eric Chapman
Vice President Sales Operations and Enablement
Ping Identity
What matters is adoption, enforceability, and CRM compliance. Backstory integrated in a few clicks and guarantees high usage of our chosen sales methodology. Simple as that.
Spencer Hodson
Vice President of Global Sales Operations and Development
Lily.ai
When you step into a new leadership role, you wonder if you can trust the existing data. Because of Backstory, I know I can - and I run my entire sales org confidently off it.
Julian Dimery
Sr. Director of Sales
Forcepoint
Every customer-facing activity is captured in Salesforce automatically - contact created, tied to the right opportunity, no extra effort from the team. CRM hygiene solved.
Clark Green
VP, Global Revenue Operations
Dataiku

For a company our size, multiply those time savings across every rep and manager globally - Backstory basically pays for itself before you even count the deals caught earlier.

Reagan Lucas
Reagan Lucas
Sales Process Coach

Every rep prepared like your best rep. Every account treated like a top account.

  • Generate complete account plans automatically - pulling from public data including 8-K filings, earnings reports, and press releases alongside your full internal history of emails, meetings, calls, and CRM data.
  • See where your team has already sold, where competitors have landed, and where expansion opportunities exist across your book of business.
  • Scale strategic account coverage across your entire book of business - not just your top accounts.
Why it matters

Your team walks in prepared. Every account. Every time.

Every stakeholder mapped. Every growth opportunity within reach.

  • Every engaged contact automatically detected and mapped by title, seniority, and department.
  • See predicted buying power, inferred win rate, and engagement level across every stakeholder in every account.
  • Identify missing personas and coverage gaps - so your team always knows who to engage next.
Why it matters

The right relationships drive the right outcomes.

One account story. Pre-sale and post-sale.

  • Account plans carry the full story from pre-sale to post-sale - why they bought, who championed it, what problems they're solving.
  • Pre-sale and post-sale teams work from the same account context - same goals, same relationships, same priorities.
  • Your team gets answers on any account - risks, expansion opportunities, renewal health - grounded in complete activity data and your specific business context.
Why it matters

When pre-sale and post-sale work as one, accounts don't just renew - they expand.

Questions & Answers

What account questions can Backstory answer?
  • Which accounts are under-covered or at risk of churning?
  • Where are the upsell and expansion opportunities?
  • Where should reps be spending time?
  • What's changed recently at this account - new leadership, funding, product announcements?
  • Which renewals need attention before it's too late?

Backstory pulls from your team's full engagement history and public sources - earnings calls, press releases, leadership changes - so you have the full account picture in one place, not pieced together across five systems.

Does Backstory do account planning automatically or does a rep still have to do it?

Backstory generates the account plan. It pulls business priorities, leadership changes, financial updates, and competitive context from public sources - earnings calls, 10-Ks, press releases - and combines that with your full CRM and engagement history. The rep reviews and acts, instead of spending hours researching.

What sources does the AI pull from for account research?

Public sources: company websites, earnings reports, 8-K filings, press releases, Crunchbase. Private sources: your full CRM history, every email, meeting, call, and engagement pattern captured from your team's activity. Both inputs feed the account plan automatically.

Can this scale to my full book, not just top accounts?

That's the point. Strategic account planning has historically been reserved for the top 10 accounts because doing it well takes hours per account. Backstory runs it at scale - what used to take two hours per account now takes two minutes to review and execute.

How does Customer Success get context when an account transfers?

Backstory carries the full account context through the handoff - why the customer bought, who championed it, what problems they're solving, and which stakeholders are engaged. CS doesn't inherit a blank slate. They inherit a working strategy.

How do Relationship Maps work?

Backstory builds org charts automatically using two data sources: your team's actual engagement data from every email, meeting, and call, and our PeopleGraph technology, which identifies each stakeholder's department, seniority, title, buying power, and win rate. When new stakeholders appear in conversations, Backstory flags them for review - so you can add them to the map with one click. No manual research required.

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