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When SDR Meetings Don’t Convert, Don’t Blame the Sequence

HG Insights graphic reading “Don’t blame the sequence. Check the list.” Of 440,000+ U.S. companies with 50 to 500 employees, 1.4% run both a CRM and a sales engagement platform and 2.2% run a data intelligence platform. Airbase found 80% more serviceable market after adding HG Insights data to Salesforce.

Here’s the scenario. The pipeline projections look healthy at creation. The meetings are on the calendar. The SDR hit quota. Then the quarter closes and the numbers are short, and the post-mortem lands in the same place it always does: the sequence wasn’t tight enough, the pitch needs work, or the reps need coaching. None […]

When Everyone Has AI, Where Does Competitive Advantage Come From?

On October 6, we launched our Contextual Intelligence Platform. Here is why I think this launch matters to you. Every customer I speak with is investing in AI to improve GTM productivity and ultimately exceed their revenue growth plans. The speed of adoption is astonishing. Teams are using AI to research accounts, score opportunities, build […]

Best Sales Intelligence Platforms and Tools for B2B GTM Teams in 2026

Sales intelligence tools have become the connective layer between a company’s technology footprint, its buying signals, and the reps trying to act on both before a competitor does. B2B teams evaluating this category in 2026 aren’t comparing contact databases anymore. They’re comparing how well each platform turns technographic, intent, and spend data into an account […]

The List Isn’t the Strategy: Why Account Prioritization Fails on Paper

Account prioritization sounds simple until someone in a budget meeting asks why these specific accounts made the list and not the others. For most growth marketing managers at commercial and mid-market B2B SaaS companies, the honest answer is uncomfortable: nobody built a real one, they just kept working the list they inherited. This post covers […]

Demandbase Alternatives: Which ABM Platforms Actually Explain Their Scores?

Chart comparing whether ABM platforms let reps adjust account scores: 6sense (fixed model), ZoomInfo (no per-record reason), Demandbase (explains, can't adjust), and HG Insights (operator-adjustable weights), with a note that 61% of Demandbase installs are 24+ months old.

Teams shopping for Demandbase alternatives are usually past the “what is ABM” stage. They already run Demandbase, or they’ve sat through the demo, and now they’re asking a sharper question: when this platform tells a rep an account scored 87, can anyone say why? That single question, more than price or feature count, is what’s […]

Account Scoring Benchmarks: What Data Actually Predicts Which Accounts Convert

Chart titled 'What Data Actually Predicts Which Accounts Convert' comparing conversion rates: multi-signal AI scoring converts 2.4x better than manually curated lists, while intent alone drives only 24% exceptional ROI, untimed outreach gets a 5-10% reply rate, real-time triggered outreach gets 30% more replies, and combined fit, intent, and engagement scoring produces glass-box, weighted results.

Most B2B teams run an account scoring model already, but few can say with confidence which inputs in that model are actually earning their keep. Firmographic fit, technographic signals, buyer intent, and behavioral engagement all get scored, yet they do not predict conversion equally well, and some barely predict it at all. This piece looks […]