Consensus vs. Homerun Presales Platform

Within the last 6 months, I've run a personal A/B test on opportunities with and without Consensus videos being sent after every meeting. Those opportunities where I sent Consensus videos after every meeting had a >50% likelihood of closing and/or progressed past the Proposal phase. Those opportunities where I did not send Consensus video, I was left unanswered more often than not

Homerun Presales Platform enables sales teams and sales leaders to better qualify opportunities by taking the SE's perspective and sentiment into account. This leads more open conversations between sales teams and helps reveal gaps. Homerun Presales Platform also acts as a workbench for SEs to stay more organized, leading to more clarity on deals, allowing those same gaps to be identified early and often.

Incentivized

• The ability to tailor demos and demoboards to show various functionality of the product.
• We appreciate the features Consensus has to customize demos in various forms.
• The customer service and post-sales trainings the Consensus team has held for our company have been extremely beneficial. I personally appreciated learning how demos are better received when they're not 'perfect'

Incentivized

• My team LOVES the latest activity tracking integration with Google Calendar - makes it so easy.
• Before Homerun, we had limited insight into our mid-funnel. Now it's very easy to see our SE pipeline at a glance, including anywhere we are blocked or where there's concern.
• Jira integration for Feature Requests is a great way to share field insights with our product teams.

• The front-end UX could be improved to look and feel more like a mature SaaS solution
• There's a limited amount of help resources to assist throughout the video building process
• I'd like to see more integrations with broader SaaS solutions to unlock more use cases (i.e. Engaging in group formats, long-form webinars, etc)

• Mobile App
• Charts and reporting are powerful but clunky
• Custom Kanban views so that I can prioritize my deals and get the info I need at a glance

Incentivized

Consensus has been a valuable and vital sales tool at every stage of our sales cycle. In the very early stages of prospect education, you can send videos to get them familiar and up to speed with our product without a solution consultant's involvement. It is also a very powerful tool at the later stages of the sales cycle, with the ability to tailor demos and intro videos and record exec alignment itro videos, which we have had great success with

Incentivized

I think it is pretty easy to use, but the UI is not as straightforward as I would like. Also when the UI was updated recently I didn't know where certain old features lived. But overall I really like using it and it has been effective for me and my team members.

Incentivized

We did not find a similar solution that could provide the prospect experience Consensus provides. We did not seriously evaluate any other platform like we did with Consensus. Consensus allows your prospects to select their interests and only show them the relevant parts of your product. No other software we evaluated could do it like Consensus

Homerun Presales Platform is head a shoulders above Salesforce from a Sales Engineering perspective. Homerun Presales Platform independently tracks deal stages, allowing SE leadership to accurately understand the technical side of the opportunity. Homerun Presales Platform provides a clean, easy to use workspace where the important aspects of an opportunity are front and center, and not bogged down inside an outdates, bloated CRM platform.

Incentivized

• I closed 3 deals last year by prospects using Consensus and finding additional modules they wanted to purchase.
• Consensus speed up the buying process in 6 of my deals last year to close in quarter.
• Consensus saved me time from doing additional live demos.

• Helped return more time in my day by reducing duplicate work.
• Reduced manual processes.
• Allows me to be consistent in my sales pitches/demos.