eqai8, AI prospecting for B2B sales teams

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    Create more value for your customers. Give your sellers time to hunt.

    Your chosen AI. Guided by eqai8.

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    HPE’s worldwide standard for Advanced Hunting.

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    AWS
    NetApp
    Ricoh
    CDW
    Softcat
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    TCS
    Sungard
    AWS
    NetApp
    Ricoh
    CDW
    Softcat
    Trend Micro
    Siemens
    TCS
    Sungard

    The growth you need is there.
    Creating value at scale is the unlock.

    Your sellers need time to hunt and a repeatable method to unlock that growth using the AI they already have.

    Your team has value

    Expertise
    Customer successes
    Useful services

    Where it gets stuck

    Your seller

    Too little time

    to hunt.

    Struggles to show the business value for this customer.

    What they’re thinking

    Existing customer

    “You haven’t explained the value in my language.”

    New target account

    “I don’t have time to talk to you.”

    AI alone isn’t a sales strategy.

    Tools and training only help when they change how sellers work. The missing piece is a repeatable method sellers can apply to real customers, in the AI they already use.

    OVER-ADOPTION

    Activity without value.

    AI generated. AI sent. AI ignored.

    UNDER-ADOPTION

    Capacity left unused.

    Too much manual work. Too little time to hunt. Opportunities go unexplored.

    TRAINING DOESN’T STICK

    Training without change.

    Tools bought. Training completed. Old habits return.

    Turn your team’s value into a reason to engage.

    eqai8 is a live sales enablement programme that combines customer intelligence with a structured selling method. It helps sellers connect your team’s value to the customer’s priorities—and earn the trust to start a conversation. For winning new customers and growing existing accounts, whatever your team sells.

    Human EQ. AI capability.A stylised side-on brain connects human emotional intelligence and AI capability as a visual metaphor. Your seller reads people, builds trust and makes judgement calls. Your chosen AI provides deep customer intelligence and translates findings into a bespoke hunting motion. The seller stays in charge. This illustration is a metaphor, not a map of brain functions. Your seller HUMAN EQ Reads people. Builds trust. Makes judgement calls. Your chosen AI AI IQ Deep customerintelligence. Translates findingsinto a bespokehunting motion. eqai8
    Human EQ. AI capability.A stylised side-on brain connects human emotional intelligence and AI capability as a visual metaphor. Your seller reads people, builds trust and makes judgement calls. Your chosen AI provides deep customer intelligence and translates findings into a bespoke hunting motion. The seller stays in charge. This illustration is a metaphor, not a map of brain functions. HUMAN EQ AI IQ eqai8 Your seller Reads people. Builds trust.Makes judgement calls. Your chosen AI Deep customer intelligence. Translates findings into abespoke hunting motion.

    eqai8 runs in the AI you already have.

    Your chosen AI guides sellers through the eqai8 method as they work on a real account. Sellers bring customer context, apply their judgement and decide what to do next.

    Your chosen AI. Guided by eqai8.Your seller leads a human-to-human relationship with your customer. The seller gives their chosen AI customer context and judgement. Their AI returns customer intelligence and guided next steps. The chosen AI is the seller’s single pane of glass, where they do the work. Closely alongside it, eqai8 Mission Control is their client resource centre, providing methodology, resources and support. The plus sign means complementary support, not an automated integration. AI does not communicate directly with the customer. Your seller The orchestrator. Your customer Their priorities. Their outcomes. HUMAN TO HUMAN Customer context+ seller’sjudgement Customer intelligence+ guided next steps Your chosen AI The seller’s single pane of glass. eqai8 Mission Control Your client resource centre. Methodology · Resources · Support
    Your chosen AI. Guided by eqai8.Your seller leads a human-to-human relationship with your customer. The seller gives their chosen AI customer context and judgement. Their AI returns customer intelligence and guided next steps. The chosen AI is the seller’s single pane of glass, where they do the work. Closely alongside it, eqai8 Mission Control is their client resource centre, providing methodology, resources and support. The plus sign means complementary support, not an automated integration. AI does not communicate directly with the customer. Your seller The orchestrator. Your customer Their priorities.Their outcomes. HUMAN TO HUMAN Customer context+ seller’s judgement Customer intelligence+ guided next steps Your chosen AI The seller’ssingle pane of glass. eqai8 MissionControl Your clientresource centre. MethodologyResourcesSupport

    Is it another app?

    No. Sellers apply eqai8 in the AI they already use, such as Copilot or ChatGPT. The prompts guide their AI through the method, while sellers bring customer context and judgement. There’s nothing to build or install.

    Isn’t this just clever prompt writing?

    The prompts carry a structured selling method: how to understand the customer, build trust, use relevant evidence and decide what to do next. Your chosen AI guides sellers through that method, with human judgement built into the process.

    How do sellers get started?

    Bring a real customer account to a live virtual or in-person session with Ben. Your sellers put the method to work in their chosen AI, with guidance as they apply it to that account.

    What is Mission Control?

    Your client resource centre for the eqai8 methodology, prompts, resources and support. Your chosen AI remains where sellers do the work.

    Your sellers can use eqai8 with any of these AI tools.

    Copilot
    ChatGPT
    Gemini
    Grok
    Claude

    Running Cowork? Excellent. Put it to work for your sellers with the eqai8 Cowork module.

    Bring an account. Put eqai8 to work.

    Live virtual sessionsIn-person workshops

    Your sellers learn by applying eqai8 to a real account, with Ben guiding the work live—virtually or in person.

    We can build your team’s priorities, relevant customer stories and services into the method—so sellers are guided to use them where they create value for each customer.

    Ben Drakes delivering an eqai8 session, working at a flip chart with a customer team

    Real accounts.

    An existing customer to grow, or a prospective customer to win.

    Guided application.

    Ben helps sellers apply the method in the session. Their chosen AI continues to guide them as they work.

    Keep putting it to work.

    Sellers return as the account develops, with methodology, resources and support in Mission Control. Managers can review the work and coach the next move.

    Ben explains the eqai8 approach.

    Watch Ben explain how eqai8 brings customer understanding, human judgement and your existing AI together to help sellers create more customer value.

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    The thinking behind eqai8.

    A 10-page eqai8 briefing for sales leaders on the thinking behind eqai8 and connecting your team’s value to customer priorities.

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    Where could your team create more customer value?

    Bring one target account and the expertise, customer stories or services your team can offer. We’ll explore how eqai8 could help your sellers turn that value into a reason to engage.

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    Ben Drakes

    Meet Ben Drakes.

    Ben brings 30 years of experience in sales and sales enablement. Across his selling career, he closed more than $2 billion in B2B technology and outsourcing partnerships. He helps your sellers apply that experience to the customers they want to grow or win.

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