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    Dovetail

    Score8.6 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Dovetail, headquartered in Sydney, aims to enable the world to create better products and services through deep customer understanding. Dovetail states they empower 45,000+ people, from agencies to universities to Fortune 100 companies, to make sense of their customer research in one collaborative research platform.

    $0

    for a single individual, channel, and research project

    Outreach

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AOutreach is an agentic AI platform for revenue teams that infuses purpose-built agents, conversation intelligence, and assistive insights to power use cases across revenue motions, from new logo prospecting to expansions, deal acceleration, driving retention, and forecasting.N/A
    Pricing
    DovetailOutreach
    Editions & Modules
    Free
    $0
    for a single individual, channel, and research project
    Professional
    $15
    per month
    Enterprise
    Contact Sales
    per year
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    DovetailOutreach
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
    Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual billing on the Professional plan.—
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    User Ratings
    DovetailOutreach
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.4
    (50 ratings)
    8.5
    (263 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.1
    (4 ratings)
    8.5
    (11 ratings)
    Usability
    6.7
    (49 ratings)
    8.4
    (213 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    7.1
    (2 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.9
    (2 ratings)
    9.5
    (25 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.5
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    5.6
    (2 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    5.6
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Product Scalability
    6.9
    (2 ratings)
    8.4
    (62 ratings)
    Professional Services
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Vendor post-sale
    5.9
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Vendor pre-sale
    5.2
    (2 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    DovetailOutreach
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Dovetail
    Well suited for: A product team with one FT person dedicated to research and operations to ensure the DT stays up to date, since its automated connectors are not that robust for lower plans. Eg., Salesforce doesn't work great without an enterprise plan, and you have to use outside automated workflows to feed in data from other sources of user feedback (e.g., Google Docs, Sheets). An enterprise team with more engineering time to dedicate to customizing their user research workflows.
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    Outreach
    Outreach is very useful for all aspects of work organization. I can keep my tasks organized and complete them quickly and efficiently. I'd like to see an app-based tracking feature to keep my tasks up-to-date with reminders, which would make things much more efficient and eliminate the need to constantly check the website. Outreach es muy útil en todo lo que refiere a organización de trabajo, puedo mantener un orden de actividades y me permite completarlas de manera ágil y rápida. Quisiera un seguimiento desde aplicativo para tener siempre al dia las tareas con recordatorios lo que haría mucho más eficiente y así no ingresar todo el tiempo a la pagina This review was originally written in Spanish and has been translated into English using a third-party translation tool. While we strive for accuracy, some nuances or meanings may not be perfectly captured.
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    Pros
    Dovetail
    • I really like the User Interface, how easy it is to have all your research data in one project and how visual it is to understand where are things. It does have a good User Experience.
    • I like how nice and easy it is to create categories or use the ones auto generated as a starting point. It is very easy to create a color coded set of categories that help make sense of the data.
    • I like how easy it is to see the video snippet of a specific highlight.
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    Outreach
    • Outreach is great at managing my data to day tasks and reminders for next steps with prospects
    • The click to dial works great from Salesforce, and I love the integration with Salesforce where I can upload contacts into Outreach to start a sequence
    • Outreach Kaia is perfect to capture calls and search provide actionable next steps. I also like going in and listening to other reps calls
    • I like the overview section for reports where I can see how I am doing compared to my peers. Especially on all metrics
    • The accounts tab is great to see at a glance which accounts have had the most engagement
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    Cons
    Dovetail
    • As mentioned up top, the contextual errors that occur in AI analysis.
    • Your IA and discovery routes were better before; this overhaul was unnecessarily complex and frustrating to navigate.
    • I find assigning names clunky. Batch uploading data, or even agentic API plugins for drive or user testing, would make this more seamless.
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    Outreach
    • The Salesforce-to-Outreach connection can be weak if a record is converted; Outreach holds onto stake values.
    • Outreach can be hard for new hires to grasp, ongoing training in platform would help.
    • Customization in report views from Salesforce into outreach could be enhanced.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Dovetail
    Because we are really happy with the tool and it’s capabilities at the moment. The price increase is the main issue we can have but the features are getting better and better. It really saves a lot of time for our team and allow us to collaborate more efficiently with certain stakeholders that often did not réalise how much research we conduct. Now they can just have a look to it by themself!
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    Outreach
    It's a strong tool that helps our sales development team manage a large number of qualified leads. The sequence framework ensures that every lead receives enough contact attempts that we have confidence that we're not abandoning our prospecting too early without the overhead of managing those activities manually.
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    Usability
    Dovetail
    it is relatively intuitive but it does take some practice to get used to the platform and understand the capabilities and limitations. There are also times that we have run into issues where the people we are sharing reports with either cannot view them or access is not provided. Additionally, the ability to export any of the video clips or snippets has created some frustration since we want to include the great findings that Dovetail helps put together, but need to bounce between screens or share after-the-fact rather than embedding it directly into a readout deck.
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    Outreach
    It's not as simple as it used to be -- getting pretty bloated, and I'm not a fan of the UI. I think it could be a far more usable product (and indeed, at one point it was) if the most important things for a seller were the most prominent. Take cold emailing, for example: the window where messages are being composed is tiny, and it's frustrating to use—maybe that's just me, though.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Dovetail
    I’ve never had any access issues with Dovetail, so I don’t see any problems in that area.
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    Outreach
    In our years as Outreach customers, I can count the number of outages we've experienced on one hand. Generally, outages have been very brief and have not completely frozen our access to the platform. Scheduled maintenance is always proactive communicated and the hours never interfere with standard business hours or scheduled sequences.
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    Performance
    Dovetail
    Regarding performance, I would say it’s satisfactory. Adding data and transcriptions is really fast and efficient, and can be done in the background, so I’m never hindered by these aspects. However, all the new AI-generated features are still somewhat slow to run. It’s nothing major, but it should improve in the future.
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    Outreach
    Outreach's performance overall is very high quality. Pages load right away. Occasionally it might take a minute to generate a report, but not any slower than in other platforms I've used. Outreach is integrated into many of our other tools and seems to be a very clean integration. Everything runs very quickly.
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    Support Rating
    Dovetail
    Support was good, especially when it comes to the capability of your support agents and engineers. But as i am located in Europe, the difference in the time zone made it hard to communicate with your offices and kept my work way back
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    Outreach
    There is almost zero customer support. What they do offer is a live chat feature which is active during "normal" business hours which is nice for instant inquiries if someone is available. However, you do not have a dedicated representative to address questions or concerns and their billing process is confusing and messy without any support.
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    In-Person Training
    Dovetail
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    Outreach
    We were trained in person and it was very easy to understand. And if we missed any pointers there was more training given to us. So i always like this tool. The drafts were also prepared for us to sync outreach with our devices so it was straightforward. Highly recommend
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    Online Training
    Dovetail
    The training went very well, and we co-built it to really address our needs. I also think it was beneficial to have feedback coming from someone other than myself (since I manage the tool), as it helped reinforce the points I wanted to highlight. The team’s feedback on the training was very positive.
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    Outreach
    Lots of attention from the Outreach training team, with a great willingness to customize to our needs. To be clear, you get out what you put in. If you don't work with them, you'll get cookie-cutter training. But we asked for a lot of customization, and they delivered what we asked for.
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    Implementation Rating
    Dovetail
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    Outreach
    I expected more assistance in connecting Outreach with Salesforce. We have a basic connection, but many fields were left without a sync. We can apparently sync data without adding the app into Salesforce, but believe we could get more functionality with a better integration. The basics of setting up our sequences and using Outreac to run them was was fine.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Dovetail
    We looked at a few other options, Marvin and Reforge Insight. They were both pretty cool platforms that operate largely or entirely on AI, but neither quite fit our needs. Reforge Insight was cool, but it did not have all the features we needed from Dovetail, and switching to Marvin felt like a massive undertaking. We have so much data in Dovetail that the "cost" of leaving feels monumental. Besides, Dovetail fits our needs right now.
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    Outreach
    They're not direct competitors, but they share many of the same functionalities. Gong has a greater focus on spoken communications, such as calls and demos, rather than emails. I think Gong also has stronger AI capabilities at the moment. However, I don't believe so, Gong would be ideal for prospecting and mass outreach, as Outreach is. Outreach is more suitable for exploration and outbound communications management, whereas Gong is better suited for deal and pipeline management and analysis.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Dovetail
    It’s very expensive, and we use a lot of features in beta. I think we could also be rewarded for our usage and frequent feedback on the tool.
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    Outreach
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    Scalability
    Dovetail
    Management is quite straightforward; it’s easy to change access if certain stakeholders need to use it. The repository features are accessible to all teams, making it a good entry point into the tool. The more people use it, the more powerful the tool becomes, so it seems truly scalable to me. The limits are more financial, in terms of accessing additional features.
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    Outreach
    As a business of 100+ people, we are on the smaller side. We took it on when we were 50 people overall with 15 sellers. We are now double that it has scaled brilliantly. We would completely trust the system to scale with us if we doubled in size
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    Return on Investment
    Dovetail
    • Having a centralized research space is a game changer. Makes it so much easier to hand over research if working with new people and have system in place (using the templates). Saves so much time. We don't have hard numbers on the hours saved but we are much more efficient using Dovetail than without.
    • The tagging system in general is amazing and allows for consistency in topic marking. This was non-existent for our team before Dovetail and now we can do much more granule reports with exact # of times something was said with accuracy.
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    Outreach
    • Increase in meetings booked
    • Increase in call metrics as it is easy to make more calls using Outreach features. Basically cutting down admin work time before the call.
    • Prospect journey and experience has been a positive flowing through a set amount of emails and calls rather than just being blasted with random emails. Helps BDRS stay focused on more important parts of the job.
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    ScreenShots

    Dovetail Screenshots

    Screenshot of an automate workflow with AI: Agents track every customer signal and act on what’s important before they turn into problems.Screenshot of an example of an automated transcript with structured note-taking that anchors insights in the voice of the customer. This uses AI-powered Chat and Search to offer instant answers grounded in data—whether it is in Dovetail, Slack, or Teams.Screenshot of the AI Dashboards that help spot risks before they escalate, act on new opportunities.Screenshot of the dashboard to connect Dovetail to an existing tech stack, including Slack, Linear, and various meeting recording tools.Screenshot of where to automatically clustering customer issues into prioritized themes and trends. Useful for surfacing actionable product opportunities from high-volume ticket data.Screenshot of real-time dashboards that aggregate sentiment, NPS, and app reviews into a unified view of the customer experience.

    Outreach Screenshots

    Screenshot of Outreach’s pipeline management capabilities, which help sales and revenue operations leaders assess pipeline quantity, quality, and maturity. Built-in win modeling helps leaders spot risk early for every team and seller to ensure there is enough coverage to deliver on their goals.Screenshot of Kaia, Outreach’s conversation intelligence solution, used to automatically take notes, flag action items, summarize meetings, and receive in-the-moment product and competitive information so you can nail every sales meeting.Screenshot of Outreach Research Agent, which automatically uncovers targeting signals from conversations, engagements, and public sources to drive your account strategy and ensure every touchpoint is timely, relevant, and focused on the right accounts.Screenshot of the Revenue Agent, which helps sales leaders optimize team efficiency, generate more conversations and improve pipeline predictability.Screenshot of the Outreach Deal Agent, which eliminates the burden of manual updates by surfacing AI-recommended changes to opportunity fields. AI deal management helps maintain pipeline health while keeping reps focused and sales teams aligned.Screenshot of the Personalization Agent, used to turn research and buyer context into simple, effective messages that convert, then deliver messaging that resonates across every channel.