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What is detective.io?

Imagine if before every cold call and email you had insight into the pains, projects, and priorities of your target accounts? What if you had the intel to craft powerful, relevant messaging without spending hours doing manual research? Detective's sales research platform empowers sellers by automating their account research and enabling them to send the right message at the right time. Unlike most sales intelligence platforms that focus on static attributes like size and industry, Detective casts a wider net and sifts through the mountains of unstructured data found in your prospects' websites, press releases, financials, job posts, etc to surface sales triggers and intent signals that you can use to capture your buyer's attention with a compelling business case.

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Product Description

Charlie automatically researches the people you meet with, before you see them.


Seller Details
Year Founded
2012
HQ Location
Chicago, IL
Twitter
@detectiveio
1,920 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
132 employees on LinkedIn®

Christopher C.
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Verified UserMid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Streamlined Prospect List Building Tool"
the ability to personalize messaging is key
Erik Z.
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Erik Z.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"A need perfectly met. Detective.io is going to become a standard tool in the SDR belt (and beyond)"
-User Friendly -Easily Digestible -Web Clipper -Snooze Mode doesn't mess with CRM -Allows you to come off like you did 2 hours of work in 5 Min...
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Navindra R.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
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Detective.io has the potential to add value to all parts of the sales function. From enriching your CRM to quickly prioritize accounts/personas, fi...
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4.7 out of 5
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4.7 out of 5
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Erik Z.
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What do you like best about detective.io?

-User Friendly

-Easily Digestible

-Web Clipper

-Snooze Mode doesn't mess with CRM

-Allows you to come off like you did 2 hours of work in 5 Minutes (selling as a colleague not a stranger)

-It focuses on intel that not only works perfectly with our market intelligence solution for outreach, but allows you to make more warm and human connections with the prospect on the phone which leads to more meetings

-Has AI to bridge the gaps in intel your brain cannot

-Detective.io team is a group id put my life savings on. Beyond the impeccable product a solutions strength is built on its people and they have some amazing employees. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about detective.io?

Not in a posh way, but I truly do not dislike anything, especially with its age it's only getting better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is detective.io solving and how is that benefiting you?

Being able to talk about news-driven company momentum. Such as a C-suite award or something industry specific the company is doing. It's solving that need alongside mitigating time wasted (so it can be done on the fly while cold calling) and thats where the impact is insane. It also lets you customize your searches so you can build a talk track around the intel you find. It's filling the gap that market intel tools and CRM's don't have in my opinion. Since we got logins, our team has been top the last 2 weeks after the detective-driven meetings came in. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about detective.io?

Detective.io has the potential to add value to all parts of the sales function. From enriching your CRM to quickly prioritize accounts/personas, finding relevant information to use in outreach, finding initiatives to tie back to objection handling, and increasing efficiency and reducing research time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about detective.io?

Nothing I disliked. Curtis was very helpful and hands-on in ensuring that my team and I had everything we needed and worked to provide us with data points that would be important to us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is detective.io solving and how is that benefiting you?

Detective's biggest solution is giving time back. Throughout the outreach process, it is very easy to spend too much time conducting research, navigating between tabs, and prioritizing leads to reach out - but with detective, the time saved allows for quick, easy outreach and ensures that you have a variety of specific talking points to speak about with each individual company/persona. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ray C.
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What do you like best about detective.io?

Quick and easy access to relevant company info/news with the click of a button that I can utilize while making cold calls or writing tailored emails to prospects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about detective.io?

I found that not all of the dates were correct on Detective. When clicking on the news article, you can see it was published on a different date than what it says on Detective. Easily fixable, and I don't think this is a huge issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is detective.io solving and how is that benefiting you?

Detective is saving me time from doing my own research on a company before reaching out to them. Gaining quick access to relevant news/topics that they are focused on to utilize in my outreach. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about detective.io?

Detective saves me at least 5 minutes of my time when I am about to call a prospect. And I usually use it 20 times a day, which adds up to about an hour and a half each, allowing me to focus on other priorities!The best part of Detective.io is how accessible it is while working with it! Simply download the extension, and it will be at the tip of your fingers, at all times, for any task you wish to complete. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about detective.io?

Absolutely nothing! Making calls and emailing would be 10x harder without it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is detective.io solving and how is that benefiting you?

Detective.io is allowing me to be better educated on a prospect when I call or send an email to a prospect. It provides me with key and relevant information that I can speak upon while articles on their company are right in front of me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nathan C.
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What do you like best about detective.io?

It allows me to get up to speed on a company's initiatives directly related to the problems I am solving for my clients and is very easy to use! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about detective.io?

At the moment, nothing has been. All value added to my process thus far! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is detective.io solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is saving me time when having to search through a company's website to find articles or mentions regarding the problems my company solves for. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Yael S.
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What do you like best about detective.io?

I liked how organized the platform was; from the color-coded tags to the chronological order, the platform was organized and easy to incorporate into my workflow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about detective.io?

I didn't expect it to since each account is so nuanced, but there wasn't up to date content on a few of the accounts I was working Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is detective.io solving and how is that benefiting you?

saving time, organizing the relevant info Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about detective.io?

the ability to personalize messaging is key Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about detective.io?

initial change management felt clunky and disorganized Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is detective.io solving and how is that benefiting you?

the ability to prospect quickly with messaging that resonates Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Montana R.
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What do you like best about detective.io?

When trying to get quick knowledge and initiatives from a company, it delivers fast and relevant information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about detective.io?

If I had to change one thing, it would be the bar at the top. If it went away on its own when there is no movement, and you can hover mouse on it to bring it down. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is detective.io solving and how is that benefiting you?

When completing cold calls, I can get access to information faster before calling prospects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Market Research
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What do you like best about detective.io?

Quick, Insightful, Impactful - helped me get information quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about detective.io?

Liked it all. Did not have to worry about googling aimlessly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is detective.io solving and how is that benefiting you?

Quick and Actionable insights. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about detective.io?

Detective was instrumental in automating prospecting and call research. The team is very friendly and responsive and did a great job implementing it in a way that worked for us. The customization ability they have is amazing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about detective.io?

Because it is a manual implementation process, your team has to accurately communicate what they need from Detective. Also, since it relies on Salesforce data it can struggle due to poor data integrity in your SFDC instance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering detective.io:

Really communicate with the team during implementation to make sure you have everything you need from it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is detective.io solving and how is that benefiting you?

Detective has helped us save time prospecting and finding unique account triggers to make prospects willing to take a meeting. This has streamlined our processes and made us more efficient Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.