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Simmie, the AI sales readiness platform, is now available as a plugin in the Cursor Marketplace and can be called by Grok Bot. Learn what this means for sales teams and how to download the Simmie plugin at cursor.com/marketplace/simmie.
Read articleA practical guide to objection handling practice with AI roleplay: the six objections every rep hears, how to drill each one against an AI buyer, what a scored response looks like, and industry-specific scenarios for pharma, contractors, real estate, and pest control.
Read articleA guide for sales managers on running mock sales calls: the five mock call formats, a simple scoring sheet, and how an AI buyer can replace the manager playing the prospect so every rep gets more practice.
Read articleA week-by-week 30-day sales onboarding plan using AI roleplay, with the simulations to run each week, a pass or no-pass certification gate before live accounts, how to measure ramp, and variants for staffing, home services, insurance, and wealth management.
Read articleA practical guide to practicing sales calls: what good practice looks like, why most reps skip it, how AI roleplay tools compare, and why Simmie Practice is the fastest way to run realistic, customized reps on your own.
Read articleOur first G2 review is in, and it's a 5 out of 5. Here is what a validated reviewer said about training with Simmie Practice, the parts that stood out, and the one piece of feedback we're taking to heart.
Read articlePeer roleplay, recorded-call review, and AI simulation each teach something different, and each has a blind spot the others cover. Here is a neutral breakdown of what each method is good for, where it falls short, and why most strong teams end up using all three.
Read articleSimmie now runs inside ChatGPT, connected to live data. Your team can practice against today's market - not last quarter's scenarios - without leaving the tool they already have open. Here are the use cases, how to connect, and a few prompts to get started fast.
Read articleSales and entrepreneurship programs teach conversations, but most students only get a handful of graded reps before they graduate. AI role-play gives every student unlimited practice against realistic buyers, scored against your own rubric, so professors can measure readiness instead of guessing at it.
Read articleWhen you run dozens of locations, every rep becomes your brand in the moment they open their mouth - and most of them were never taught the same standard. Simmie lets you define one standard, turn it into practice every location runs, and score every conversation against it, so compliance stops being a hope and becomes something you can measure.
Read articleGeneric roleplay trains reps for a buyer who doesn't exist. Simmie connects to your CRM through an MCP server and turns each rep's actual pipeline into personalized practice - so they rehearse the real deal in front of them, and get coached in the flow of work instead of in a classroom weeks later.
Read articleMost readiness programs die the same way: they pull reps out of selling to prove they can sell. Simmie flips that with an MCP server that lets your team train in the flow of work - simulations arrive by email, Slack, or Teams, and reps just click the link and treat it like a phone call. Under 10 minutes a day keeps them measurably ready.
Read articleAnyone can learn the pitch. The thing that separates a consultative seller from a talking brochure is the ability to ask the question that changes the conversation - and that skill is almost impossible to build on live deals. Here's how Simmie gives your reps a space to practice it, plus exactly what a manager sets up and how long it takes.
Read articleThe deals didn't disappear - they show up in shapes your team doesn't recognize: the skeptic, the ghost, the committee, the incumbent-loyal buyer. The question isn't whether opportunity is knocking. It's whether your reps have heard enough knocks to know what to do. Here's how Simmie makes sure they have.
Read articleProduct, pricing, and marketing get copied within a quarter. The one edge competitors can't clone is a team that consistently out-executes them in the conversation. Here's why better training compounds into a durable advantage - and how Simmie makes it measurable.
Read articleLMS platforms are adding AI roleplay and calling it readiness. But bolting a turbo onto a minivan doesn't make it a race car - the chassis was never built for the track. Here's why roleplay-as-a-feature falls apart under pressure, and what an actual readiness system does differently.
Read articleCoaching every rep on every call doesn't scale, so most of it never happens. Simmie's AI Coach turns coaching into microcoaching reps can run themselves - short, targeted drills aimed at one goal: passing your organizational rubric threshold. Your team self-coaches to the standard while managers get their time back.
Read articleSales readiness is your team's ability to have the right conversation the moment it matters - not last quarter's conversation. Simmie keeps teams ready as the market shifts, turns breaking news into practice in minutes, and lives inside the workflow through an MCP server so readiness actually happens.
Read articleInsurance is sold in conversations, and every one of them is regulated. Simmie lets brokerages give producers unlimited, realistic practice with objective scoring - while enforcing the disclosures, suitability standards, and compliance language a roomful of role plays never could.
Read articleRubrics used to be static scorecards a manager applied by hand. Simmie's Rubric Builder turns two sentences of plain English into a working evaluation framework that scores every practice rep and every live call against the same bar - automatically.
Read articleCold calling is a skill that decays without reps, but practice almost never happens at the moment it matters. Simmie's MCP server makes on-demand cold calling practice callable from the tools you already use - so you can run a realistic dial right before you pick up the phone.
Read articleThe hardest part of rolling out AI isn't the model - it's getting people to actually use it. Simmie's MCP server makes coaching callable from the tools your team already lives in: Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, and your CRM. No new tab, no new habit.
Read articleMost AI tools fail not because they don't work, but because they don't fit. Here's why workflow integration is the difference between AI that gets used and AI that gets abandoned - and how Simmie's subagent architecture makes adoption effortless.
Read articleSalesGame.ai looks like a marketing stunt. Buried inside it is the cleanest demonstration of how Simmie embeds into Seismic, Degreed, Cornerstone, and any LMS that supports LTI.
Read articleGolf simulators don't replace golf courses—they make golfers better on golf courses. The same principle applies to sales. Here's why practice changes everything.
Read articleYou just invested in the best tech for sales. Here's how to get the most out of it—from loading your first scenario to mastering the AI Coach.
Read articleMost sales managers know roleplay is valuable. So why do reps dread it? The problem isn't roleplay itself—it's how we've been doing it.
Read articleSales leaders know coaching matters. But proving it to the CFO? That's where things get complicated. Here's a framework that works.
Read articleAfter analyzing thousands of discovery calls, patterns emerged. Here's the framework that separates top performers from the rest.
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