artificial intelligence technology
Business Wire
Published on : Jan 13, 2026
Highspot is sharpening its pitch to revenue leaders who are tired of dashboards that explain deals after they’ve already slipped. With its Winter Product Launch 2026, the company is rolling out a new wave of agentic AI capabilities designed to do more than surface insights—they actively guide sellers on what to do next, inside live deals.
At the center of the launch is Deal Intelligence, powered by a new Deal Agent that analyzes CRM data, buyer engagement, and meeting insights in real time. The goal: help sales teams improve deal execution, increase deal velocity, and win more consistently in an era where buying journeys are longer, messier, and harder to predict.
Most GTM teams are drowning in signals—CRM updates, email engagement, meeting notes, content views—but still struggle to answer basic questions: Is this deal healthy? Why is it stalling? What should the seller do next?
Highspot’s Deal Intelligence aims to consolidate those fragmented inputs into a single, unified view of deal health. Buyer activity, CRM changes, and meeting intelligence are brought together so sellers and managers can see what’s actually happening across every active opportunity.
This is where Deal Agent comes in. Rather than stopping at analysis, the agent recommends data-backed next steps tailored to each deal. That might mean flagging risk, suggesting a deal-specific AI Role Play, or prompting the seller to launch a Digital Sales Room (DSR) to re-engage stakeholders.
Crucially, Deal Agent is built on Highspot Nexus, the company’s unified AI and analytics engine, and connects directly to the organization’s CRM. That tight integration is meant to ensure recommendations reflect how the business actually sells—not a generic AI playbook.
Highspot is positioning this release as a shift away from AI that advises from the sidelines. Many sales AI tools today still function as copilots that generate summaries or suggestions sellers must interpret and act on manually.
By contrast, Highspot’s approach embeds agentic guidance directly into the flow of work. Deal Agent doesn’t just highlight risk; it nudges sellers toward concrete actions that can move the opportunity forward while it’s still alive.
That distinction matters as revenue leaders look for AI investments with measurable ROI. Insight without execution hasn’t proven enough.
The Winter Launch also expands Digital Sales Rooms, Highspot’s secure, branded spaces where sellers and buyers collaborate throughout the buying journey.
New mutual action plans, embedded directly in DSRs, allow both sides to align on roles, milestones, and timelines. For sellers, this reduces back-and-forth and late-stage confusion. For buyers, it provides clarity and structure from first meeting through close—an increasingly important factor as buying groups grow larger and consensus harder to reach.
In practice, Highspot is betting that clearer collaboration translates to shorter sales cycles and fewer deals that quietly die from inertia.
Execution depends on preparation, and Highspot is extending its AI-powered coaching to connect directly with live deals. AI Role Play is now available inside Deal Agent, allowing sellers to practice real scenarios using the actual context of an active opportunity.
Sellers can rehearse tough conversations or stakeholder objections anytime—on web or mobile—without waiting for scheduled coaching sessions. It’s a practical move in distributed sales environments where managers can’t always provide hands-on training at the right moment.
The Winter Launch also introduces broader enablement enhancements:
Highspot Skills, a GTM-tested framework for defining and measuring critical seller capabilities
AI-powered skill assessments to scale coaching and training programs
Automated AI Feedback for Training, which evaluates submissions automatically to reduce review bottlenecks and speed up seller readiness
Together, these features point to a more systematized approach to sales readiness—less reliant on ad hoc manager feedback and more grounded in consistent measurement.
Deals are getting more complex. Buying groups are larger. Budgets are scrutinized. And sellers are under pressure to execute flawlessly with fewer resources.
Highspot’s Winter Launch reflects a broader market shift toward AI that doesn’t just analyze performance but actively guides execution. Instead of adding another tool or layer of complexity, the company is embedding recommendations directly into daily workflows.
That aligns with what analysts are seeing across the revenue tech landscape. According to the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Revenue Enablement Platforms 2025, the market is moving away from episodic, generic tools toward connected, insight-driven solutions, with AI now viewed as business-critical rather than experimental.
Highspot is clearly positioning itself on the “prove it” side of that shift.
“Your go-to-market strategy lives or dies with the deal,” said Robert Wahbe, CEO of Highspot. “Our Winter Launch turns insight into action inside live deals, giving sellers the agentic platform they need to win more consistently.”
It’s a concise summary of the company’s bet: that execution, not analysis, is where AI can make the biggest difference for revenue teams
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