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If you’re shopping for a sales engagement platform, Salesloft keeps coming up—and for good reason. It’s loaded with features built to help revenue teams manage their entire sales process, from first contact to closed deals.

But is it right for your team? This review breaks down what Salesloft actually does, who it’s for, where it excels, and where it falls short. We’ll also show you how tools like La Growth Machine can fill gaps in your tech stack when you need stronger multichannel prospecting.

What is Salesloft?

Salesloft is an AI-powered revenue orchestration platform built for sales teams who want to manage their entire sales process in one place. Picture a command center for selling: it combines sales engagement, conversation intelligence, deal management, and forecasting on a unified platform.

The platform centers around what Salesloft calls the “Modern Revenue Workspace,” which puts all your digital selling activities under one roof. Sales reps can manage buyer communication, plan next steps, and access coaching insights without juggling a dozen tabs.

Salesloft serves SDRs, account executives, customer success teams, and their managers. It’s designed for mid-market to enterprise companies that need sophisticated sales orchestration and have the budget to pay for it.

The platform integrates with major CRMs including Salesforce, HubSpot, and Microsoft Dynamics 365, syncing data in real-time so your sales activities stay aligned with customer records.

Salesloft key features

Cadence: multichannel sales automation

Salesloft Cadence is the backbone of the platform’s sales engagement. It automates your communication workflows across channels, keeping you consistent with prospect touchpoints without the manual work.

You can build sequences that combine emails, calls, LinkedIn tasks, and other touchpoints. Set up triggers and conditions that adapt based on prospect behavior. If someone opens your email but doesn’t respond, the cadence can automatically schedule a follow-up call.

The value is consistency at scale. Your team can execute proven outreach strategies repeatedly, so no lead slips through. Sales managers can share high-performing cadences across the team, spreading what works.

Conversations: call recording and coaching

This is Salesloft’s conversation intelligence feature. It records, transcribes, and analyzes your sales calls and meetings, surfacing insights that help managers spot coaching opportunities.

The AI analyzes talk time, keyword mentions, competitor references, and other conversation patterns to show what’s working and what’s not. Managers can review calls, tag specific moments for training, and scale best practices across the team.

For reps, you can focus on the conversation instead of taking frantic notes. The platform captures everything so you can review key moments later and improve over time.

Deals: pipeline and opportunity management

Salesloft Deals gives you a clear view of where every opportunity stands in your pipeline. It tracks deal progress, highlights risks, and uses AI to recommend next actions that could speed up the sales cycle.

You get predictive analytics that help forecast which deals are likely to close and which ones need attention. The platform pulls in data from activities, conversations, and engagement patterns to give you a fuller picture than CRM fields alone.

For account executives juggling multiple opportunities, this helps you prioritize where to spend your time and which actions will actually move deals forward.

Forecast: AI-powered revenue forecasting

Forecast turns your sales forecast from a spreadsheet exercise into a strategic action plan. It combines real-time deal data, AI insights, and your team’s input to improve forecast accuracy.

Sales managers can see roll-up forecasts across their team, track changes over time, and identify gaps before they become problems. The AI flags deals that might be at risk and suggests actions to get them back on track.

Instead of calling your number and hoping for the best, you get a data-driven forecast that shows you what needs to happen to close the gap.

Rhythm: AI-powered seller guidance

Rhythm is Salesloft’s AI layer that turns buyer signals into recommended seller actions. Think of it as your AI co-pilot for prioritizing what to do next.

It analyzes first-party signals (like email opens and website visits) plus third-party intent data to surface your hottest opportunities. Instead of guessing which leads to contact, Rhythm tells reps exactly who to reach out to and why.

This helps sellers work smarter by focusing their energy on activities most likely to generate revenue.

Drift: AI chat agents for website visitors

After acquiring Drift, Salesloft now includes AI-powered chat agents that engage website visitors in real-time. These bots qualify leads, answer questions, and book meetings automatically.

The chat experience is personalized based on who’s visiting your site, making it feel less robotic and more helpful. Qualified conversations get routed directly to the right sales rep.

For companies with high website traffic, this turns passive visitors into active pipeline without adding headcount.

Analytics: revenue intelligence and reporting

Salesloft Analytics centralizes reporting across your entire buyer lifecycle. You get visibility into sales performance, activity metrics, pipeline health, and rep productivity in one dashboard.

The platform tracks everything from email open rates to call connection rates to deal velocity, helping you identify what’s driving results and where there’s room to improve. You can create custom reports, track team performance, and make data-driven decisions about your sales strategy.

Instead of stitching together reports from multiple tools, you get a single source of truth for your revenue operations.

Integrations

Salesloft integrates with a wide range of sales and marketing tools:

  • CRMs: Salesforce, HubSpot, Microsoft Dynamics 365, SugarCRM
  • Communication: Slack, Microsoft Outlook, Gmail, Zoom, GoTo Meeting, Webex
  • Sales intelligence: ZoomInfo, Cognism, LinkedIn Sales Navigator
  • Sales enablement: Highspot, Seismic
  • Dialer: Aircall, Truly

The Salesforce integration is particularly strong, with automatic activity logging and real-time data sync. Some users report occasional glitches with integrations, though these typically get resolved quickly.

Salesloft pricing

Salesloft doesn’t publish pricing on their website, which is common for enterprise sales platforms. Based on user reports and industry sources, here’s what we know:

Essentials Pricing not publicly available. This tier includes:

  • Pipeline generation with automated workflows
  • Engagement analytics and pipeline performance tracking
  • Rep coaching with tailored insights and team trends

Advanced Pricing not publicly available. Includes everything in Essentials, plus:

  • Full customer lifecycle workflows
  • Conversation intelligence (call recording, transcription, and analytics)
  • Opportunity management with deal intelligence

Premier Pricing not publicly available. Includes everything in Advanced, plus:

  • Forecasting and revenue management
  • Automatic forecast roll-up and AI-driven next actions

According to some user reports on forums, pricing ranges from approximately $75-125 per user per month depending on the plan and contract terms. There’s typically a minimum seat requirement (often 3-5 seats), and contracts are usually annual commitments.

Free trial: Salesloft does not offer a free trial, which makes it hard to evaluate the platform before committing.

Salesloft pros and cons

User ratings:

  • G2: 4.5/5 (based on 5,495 reviews)
  • Capterra: 4.3/5 (based on 229 reviews)

Pros ✅

All-in-one platform Salesloft brings together sales engagement, conversation intelligence, deal management, and forecasting in one place. This consolidation can save you money and headaches compared to stitching together multiple point solutions.

Strong Salesforce integration The platform syncs seamlessly with Salesforce, automatically logging activities and keeping data in sync. Users consistently praise this integration as one of the best in the category.

Powerful automation and cadence management Building and managing multi-touch cadences is straightforward, and the ability to share high-performing sequences across your team helps scale best practices. The automation saves reps hours of manual work each week.

Conversation intelligence delivers coaching value Call recording and analysis features provide real coaching insights that help managers develop their teams. The AI surfaces specific moments worth reviewing, making coaching more targeted and effective.

User-friendly interface Despite being feature-rich, most users find Salesloft easy to navigate. The organized layout and clear workflows help new reps get up to speed quickly.

Cons ❌

No free trial or transparent pricing You can’t test Salesloft before committing, and you’ll need to go through a sales process to get pricing. This lack of transparency can frustrate smaller teams trying to evaluate options.

High cost for smaller teams Salesloft is priced for mid-market and enterprise companies. Small businesses and startups often find it too expensive, especially with minimum seat requirements and annual contracts.

Performance issues and bugs Some users report occasional platform instability, slow email sending, clunky interfaces, and glitches with certain features. Call quality can also be inconsistent.

Limited email deliverability features Unlike some competitors, Salesloft doesn’t include built-in email warm-up or advanced deliverability optimization. This can lead to inconsistent email performance if you’re not managing sender reputation separately.

Steep learning curve for advanced features While the basic interface is user-friendly, getting the most out of advanced features like forecasting and analytics can require significant training and ongoing management.

Have you thought about multichannel prospecting?

If you’re investing in Salesloft for pipeline management and conversation intelligence, you’ve got the enterprise infrastructure covered. But here’s something worth considering: where does your actual outreach happen?

Salesloft excels at orchestrating your sales process, managing deals, and providing coaching insights. But when it comes to the nuts and bolts of multichannel prospecting—especially on LinkedIn—there’s an opportunity to supercharge your results.

This is where La Growth Machine fits perfectly into your tech stack.

While Salesloft handles your overall sales orchestration, La Growth Machine specializes in automated multichannel prospecting across LinkedIn, email, and X (Twitter). We’re talking 3.5x more replies than email-only campaigns because you’re meeting prospects on their preferred channels.

Here’s what makes LGM a powerful complement to Salesloft:

LinkedIn voice messages: Record your voice once, and our AI personalizes it to say “Hi {{Firstname}}” to each prospect. This feature alone can double your reply rates, bringing more qualified conversations into your Salesloft pipeline.

True multichannel sequences: Build campaigns that automatically switch between LinkedIn connection requests, voice messages, emails, and X based on prospect behavior. Your leads get reached wherever they’re most active.

Lead enrichment at scale: LGM automatically enriches your leads with verified emails, phone numbers, and social profiles. This means cleaner data flowing into Salesloft and more ways to reach your prospects.

LinkedIn intent signals: Import people who engaged with your LinkedIn posts, signed up for events, or follow your company page. These warm leads convert at much higher rates than cold outreach.

The value of this combo? Salesloft manages your opportunities, forecasts your pipeline, and coaches your team to close deals faster. La Growth Machine fills the top of that funnel with more qualified conversations from multichannel outreach.

You’re not replacing Salesloft. You’re amplifying what it can do by feeding it better pipeline from smarter prospecting. And with LGM’s 14-day free trial (no credit card required), you can test this approach risk-free.

Conclusion

Salesloft is a powerhouse platform for revenue teams that need comprehensive sales orchestration. Its combination of sales engagement, conversation intelligence, deal management, and forecasting makes it a legitimate all-in-one solution for mid-market and enterprise sales organizations.

The platform really shines with Salesforce integration, cadence automation, and providing coaching insights from conversation analysis. If you’re managing a larger sales team and need visibility across the entire revenue lifecycle, Salesloft delivers.

That said, it’s not for everyone. The high cost, lack of a free trial, minimum seat requirements, and occasional performance issues mean smaller teams or those with tighter budgets might find better value elsewhere. And if your strategy relies heavily on LinkedIn prospecting or multichannel outreach at the top of funnel, you’ll likely need to supplement Salesloft with specialized tools.

If you’re looking for a platform that excels at the prospecting and lead generation stage (particularly across LinkedIn, email, and social channels), La Growth Machine is worth exploring. We specialize in filling your pipeline with qualified conversations through automated multichannel outreach, and we integrate seamlessly with sales orchestration platforms like Salesloft.

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