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DocsBattleground (Sales Coach)

Battleground

Your AI-powered Sales Coach - instant objection handling, discovery questions, and competitive guidance during live calls.

Overview

The Sales Coach is an AI-powered assistant that helps you handle objections, prepare for calls, and navigate competitive situations in real time. It uses your analysis data, knowledge base, and deal context to give tailored guidance.

Coach query limits

Recon: 5 queries/month · Overwatch: 50/month · War Room: Unlimited · Command Center: Unlimited

Adaptive AI

The Sales Coach uses Adaptive AI to automatically choose the best model for each query:

  • Simple questions - Uses our fast AI model for instant responses
  • Complex analysis - Uses our most powerful AI for deeper, more nuanced guidance

You don't need to do anything - the coach detects query complexity and routes accordingly. Simple objection lookups get sub-second responses, while complex strategic questions get the full power of our most capable model.

Response caching

Common questions are pre-computed when analyses run. If your question matches a cached response, you get an instant answer with zero API latency.

Coaching Modes

Battleground offers these coaching modes:

  • Deal Prep
  • Handle Objection
  • Landmine Questions
  • Talk Track
  • Discovery
  • Pricing Help

Each mode provides specialized guidance tailored to that sales situation.

Battleground sales coach
Battleground with coaching modes, deal context, and competitor selection

Live Call Mode

Instant 'Buying Time' Questions

All plans

During live calls, the coach generates instant buying-time questions you can ask the prospect while a more detailed response is being prepared. This ensures you never have an awkward silence when hit with a tough competitive question.

Example: If a prospect says "Company X is 50% cheaper," the coach immediately suggests a follow-up question like "Are you comparing at the same seat count and feature set?" while generating a full response in the background.

Deal Context & Threads

The deal context panel lets you set Prospect/Customer, Deal Size, Stage selector, and Notes. This context persists across your conversation.

Conversation threads appear in the left sidebar, letting you switch between different conversations.

Use the competitor selector dropdown (top right) to focus on a specific competitor.

Toggle the "Deep" toggle for greater analysis depth.

What the Coach Knows

The Sales Coach draws from multiple data sources to give you the best advice:

  • The Vault - all analyses in your library
  • Knowledge base - your uploaded competitive documents (War Room+)
  • Deal context - the specific deal details you provide
  • Win/loss history - patterns from your recorded deal outcomes
  • Real-time intelligence - the coach can reference recent news and competitor changes

Sales Context Personalization

You can set your industry and selling style in your profile, and the Coach AI adapts to match your approach. Whether you sell to enterprise or SMB, in SaaS or manufacturing, the coach adjusts its language, examples, and strategies accordingly.

  1. 1

    Open Battleground

    Click Battleground in the sidebar or press ⌘K and type "battleground".

  2. 2

    Set your deal context (optional)

    Provide the competitor name, deal size, and stage for tailored responses.

  3. 3

    Ask your question

    Type your question or describe the situation. The coach responds with streaming AI guidance.

Related

Scout

Run competitive analysis (creates cards for The Vault)

The Vault

Saved analyses library

Basecamp

Home dashboard with Pipeline tab

War Map

Competitive positioning matrix