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Expected results

  • Instantly understand whether a company fits your ICP.

  • Save time and boost response rates with personalized, data-driven outreach.

  • Focus efforts on high-potential accounts to accelerate pipeline growth.

When every minute counts, manual research becomes a costly bottleneck. Sales teams lose hours trawling through websites, LinkedIn pages, and databases just to understand who a company is, what they do, and whether they fit your Ideal Customer Profile (ICP). Marketing teams face a similar challenge, validating long lists of prospects before confidently launching a campaign.

AI Company Insights changes that.

With a single natural-language question, such as “Does this company sell in our market?”, you can instantly access a clear, data-backed summary of a company’s profile, market position, and ICP fit. It’s your shortcut to faster qualification, sharper outreach, and smarter go-to-market alignment, all directly within the Dealfront platform.

Why manual research no longer works

Every sales and marketing team knows the pain of manual company research. It’s repetitive, slow, and inconsistent, and yet, it’s often the only way to determine whether a prospect is worth your time. Reps jump from websites to LinkedIn profiles to data platforms, piecing together fragmented information just to decide if a company fits their Ideal Customer Profile (ICP). Meanwhile, marketing teams face the same challenge at scale, sorting through thousands of records to build lists that might not even align with campaign goals.

Here’s what typically happens when manual research runs the show:

  • Sales inefficiency: Reps spend too much time browsing websites and databases instead of engaging qualified prospects.

  • Inconsistent list quality: Teams struggle to ensure campaign lists contain companies that really fit their ICP, meaning wasted effort and lower engagement.

  • Shared consequence: Without fast, reliable company context, both teams risk wasting energy on irrelevant or low-fit accounts, delaying pipeline generation and reducing campaign ROI.

This leads to missed opportunities, slower go-to-market execution, and inconsistent qualification standards across teams. That’s where AI Company Insights changes the game, replacing hours of laborious research with instant, reliable answers grounded in verified data. Instead of manually connecting dots, your teams can focus on what really matters: engaging the right companies, faster.

How AI Company Insights transforms revenue qualification

Manual research limits your speed, precision, and scale. Even the most experienced reps and marketers can only review so many company profiles before fatigue sets in, and that’s when good opportunities start slipping through the cracks. AI Company Insights eliminates that friction by turning complex company research into a simple, conversational experience. Instead of hunting for data across multiple tools, you can now get verified, contextual intelligence in seconds, right where you work.

Think of it as your on-demand research assistant inside Dealfront: one that understands your ICP, knows your data sources, and instantly surfaces the insights you need to make better decisions faster. Whether you’re checking if a company sells in your market, exploring its expansion signals, or validating audience lists before launch, AI Company Insights streamlines every step of qualification and personalization.

Here’s how it delivers immediate impact:

  • Ask anything, naturally - no filters or complex queries. Just type your question as you’d ask a colleague, like “Does this company sell to enterprise clients?”

  • Get contextual summaries - each answer is generated from verified Dealfront data and condensed into clear, relevant insights.

  • Instant ICP fit checks - quickly assess whether a company matches your target industry, region, or customer size.

  • Seamless integration - access insights directly in your Dealfront CRM or company list view, with no need to switch tabs or tools.

For Marketing: Validate and enrich campaign target lists in minutes instead of days, ensuring every company in your database is relevant and ready for engagement.

For Sales: Save hours each week qualifying accounts and crafting personalized outreach that’s backed by real company context.

Together, these capabilities transform how your teams qualify, prioritize, and engage prospects. AI Company Insights doesn’t just make research faster, it makes it smarter, helping you move from guesswork to data-driven confidence in every decision.

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Step-by-step workflow

Getting started with AI Company Insights takes only a few moments and once you see it in action, you’ll never want to return to manual research again. The process is simple, intuitive, and designed to fit naturally into your existing Dealfront workflow.

Before you dive in, watch the short video below for a quick walkthrough of how it works. You’ll see exactly how to access AI Company Insights, ask natural-language questions, and turn instant company intelligence into real action for your sales or marketing team.

After watching, follow the steps below to start qualifying companies:

Step 1 – Open a company profile in Dealfront

  • Navigate to any company in your saved lists or CRM view.

  • You’ll see the AI Company Insights feature available within the profile.

Step 2 – Ask a natural question

Type your question in plain language. Examples include:

  • “Does this company sell in our market?”

  • “Who are their customers?”

  • “Have they expanded into new markets recently?”

For marketing: Verify ICP fit before adding companies to campaign audiences.

For sales: Qualify leads instantly and tailor first-touch messages with relevant context.

Step 3 – Review the AI-generated summary

  • The AI provides a concise, data-backed summary that answers your question.

  • Information is drawn from verified Dealfront data and other trusted company sources.

  • Results are contextual, focusing on the most relevant facts for your query.

For marketing: Instantly validate industries, markets, and regions.

For sales: See expansion signals, customer types, and growth indicators.

Step 4 – Use the insights to take action

In Sales: Use the insights to personalize outreach, tailor messaging, or prioritize accounts that match your ICP.

In Marketing: Tailor outreach with relevant context, enrich audience lists with ICP-confirmed companies, and eliminate low-fit ones.

You can also save notes or add tags directly in your CRM to ensure insights are easily shared and referenced later.

Step 5 – Keep asking and exploring

AI Company Insights isn’t limited to one question; use it as an ongoing discovery tool. Ask multiple questions to build a complete understanding of each company. Example follow-ups include:

  • “Do they sell to enterprise customers?”

  • “What markets are they targeting next?”

  • “Have they launched any new products recently?”

Step 6 – Save prompts for repeated use

If you find yourself asking similar questions across companies or campaigns, save those prompts for quick access. Reusing proven queries ensures consistency, speeds up research, and helps new team members adopt best-practice workflows from day one.

Over time, your saved prompt library becomes a powerful internal resource: a living playbook of questions that surface the most valuable insights for your team’s unique goals.

Best practices & tips

To get the most accurate and actionable results from AI Company Insights, think in terms of clarity, intent, and application. The more thoughtful your questions and consistent your process, the more powerful your insights will become. These best practices will help you make AI Company Insights a daily advantage for both Sales and Marketing teams.

Ask specific, purposeful questions

The clearer and more focused your question, the sharper and more useful the insight. Instead of asking broad prompts like “Tell me about this company,” try framing your queries around what you need to decide. For example, “Does this company sell to enterprise customers?” or “Is this business expanding into EMEA markets?” Precision leads to clarity, and clarity accelerates action.

Here are some examples of good and bad questions to ask:

Validate ICP fit first

Start every interaction by confirming a company’s relevance to your Ideal Customer Profile. Ask about their industry, size, region, or customer type before you invest more time. This simple step ensures every prospect or account you touch is a genuine opportunity, helping you focus on fit rather than volume.

Personalize with purpose

Utilise the insights generated by AI Company Insights to craft context-rich outreach that resonates. Tailor your emails, social messages, and ad copy with specific details like company growth trends, customer types, or market focus. Personalization grounded in verified data feels natural, not forced, and it’s what builds credibility fast.

Actito uses trigger-event signals and behavior data to personalize outreach, helping them turn identified companies into opportunities at a 61% success rate.

Collaborate across teams

AI Company Insights isn’t just a tool for individual contributors, it’s a shared resource. When sales and marketing teams collaborate around the same data, your go-to-market efforts stay aligned. Encourage your teams to share key discoveries, ICP patterns, and new market opportunities directly within your CRM or Slack channels.

Leverage follow-up questions

The first question often opens the door, but the second and third provide the real intelligence. Use follow-ups to explore deeper layers, for example: “Who are their main customers?” → “What industries do those customers belong to?” → “Have they expanded into new sectors recently?” Each answer compounds your understanding and sharpens your strategy.

Here are some examples of good follow-up questions to ask:

Document and share learnings

Don’t let valuable insights disappear into chat threads or personal notes. Save key findings in CRM fields, account records, or team dashboards. Over time, this builds a powerful shared knowledge base that improves alignment, consistency, and decision-making across your entire revenue organization.

By following these practices, you’ll move from surface-level data collection to strategic company understanding, transforming AI Company Insights into a daily driver of revenue efficiency.

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Expected results: what you’ll achieve with AI Company Insights

When integrated into your sales and marketing motion, AI Company Insights delivers measurable impact from day one. Here’s what you can expect:

Faster, more confident lead qualification

Replace hours of manual company research with instant, AI-powered insights that tell you exactly who’s worth your time. No more toggling between tools or making guesses about company fit. You’ll know within seconds whether a company aligns with your ICP, helping you prioritize high-quality opportunities and move them into pipeline faster.

Smarter, more relevant outreach

Armed with verified company context, every message becomes more meaningful. Whether you’re a rep writing a cold email or a marketer crafting campaign copy, you’ll speak directly to what matters to that company: their market, customers, and growth signals. Expect higher engagement, stronger response rates, and improved conversion across every stage of the funnel.

Greater team alignment and efficiency

Because insights live directly inside your Dealfront workspace, everyone (from SDRs to campaign managers) works from the same trusted source of truth. That consistency reduces redundancy, speeds up collaboration, and ensures both sales and marketing are focused on the same high-fit targets.

Together, these outcomes help teams close the gap between research and action, replacing guesswork with clarity, and busywork with progress.

With AI Company Insights, your teams can stop spending hours on manual research and start acting on intelligence. Qualify leads in seconds, enrich campaigns with confidence, and personalize every conversation using verified company data, all without ever leaving Dealfront.

Steal our free templates: example questions to ask AI Company Insights

Get started faster with these ready-made questions designed to surface meaningful company context immediately.

For marketing teams

  • “Is this company active in EMEA or North America?”

  • “Which industries or markets does this company serve?”

  • “Has this company recently launched new products or services?”

  • “What market segments make up the majority of their customers?”

For sales teams

  • “Does this company have a VP of Marketing or Growth?”

  • “What signals suggest they’re expanding or hiring?”

  • “Who are their primary customers, and what size are they?”

  • “Is this company investing in new technologies or regions?”

For cross-team collaboration

  • “Who are their main customers, and what markets do they focus on?”

  • “What products or services are core to their business model?”

  • “Are they currently growing, stable, or downsizing?”

Pro tip: Keep refining your questions as you go. Each insight builds on the last, helping you develop a deeper, data-backed understanding of your target companies, and a stronger, more aligned go-to-market motion.

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