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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Responsive

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AResponsive (formerly RFPIO), headquartered in Beaverton, offers their proposal management and automation software, featuring import and export, proposal knowledgebase and answer library, evaluation intake forms, and project management tools (e.g. Gantt chart) associated to proposal tracking.N/A
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    OutreachResponsive
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    OutreachResponsive
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    96%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
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    Happy with the feature set
    94%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    88%
    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    OutreachResponsive
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (263 ratings)
    9.3
    (33 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.5
    (11 ratings)
    9.5
    (27 ratings)
    Usability
    8.4
    (213 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Performance
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    9.5
    (25 ratings)
    9.8
    (17 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Implementation Rating
    4.5
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Product Scalability
    8.4
    (62 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    OutreachResponsive
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Responsive (formerly RFPIO)
    Good use cases: - Responding to RFP's especially generic questions that are asked frequently (company size, product info, security posture) - Delegating approvals or questions to appropriate teams where the AI solution is not well positioned to provide a thorough or complete answer - Reviewing previous RFP documents that have been submitted by previous account teams Bad Use Cases: - Struggles compared to other AI tools with contextual deep questions about product functionality - Doesn't seamlessly integrate with tools where our clients submit RFP and require sign ons.
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    Pros
    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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    Responsive (formerly RFPIO)
    • Live collaboration - the ability for multiple experts to simultaneously work on the same RFP.
    • Artificial intelligence - the ability for the product to continually learn what the best answers are and serve them up to our teams.
    • Dynamic branding - the ability for custom brand different templates by vertical, line of business, local branding, etc. with seamless transition.
    • Content review & moderation - the ability for our national content team to bulk review, edit and share content with our teams in a methodical way.
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    Cons
    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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    Responsive (formerly RFPIO)
    • Reporting and Analytics is basic, you can purchase advanced analytics though
    • It would have been nice to have a set structure in mind or a example/case study to structure our responses in the most appropriate way, but we are working through that with their stellar support team
    • Really great new features, but expensive
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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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    Responsive (formerly RFPIO)
    We'd be sunk without Responsive. The sales motion would slow way down in several places, and that's just unacceptable. AND I love the product. It helps me do my job efficiently. The Responsive team is GREAT. Support is getting better. The Product and Customer Experience Team is so knowledgeable and willing to help with new features and troubleshoot what's going on. It's an all-around great experience. Not to mention starting over - I can't even get my head around that.
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    Usability
    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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    Responsive (formerly RFPIO)
    Very easy to navigate and use. Very intuitive user interface
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    Reliability and Availability
    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
    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
    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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    Responsive (formerly RFPIO)
    If I cannot solve a problem, then I reach out to Support and they are ON IT. They always solve the problem and get back to me immediately with an answer. Our customer support person who is assigned to us (we have had several) are responsive and helpful. We have asked them to sit in on meetings and help socialize the tool.
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    In-Person Training
    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
    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
    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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    Responsive (formerly RFPIO)
    We were able to complete an RFP during our free trial. We were already leaning toward RFPIO but that pushed us over the edge.
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Responsive (formerly RFPIO)
    While others have had a good experience with Qvidian, we unfortunately did not. Our questions were never answered by our Qvidian rep, as we used it the platform had no AI capabilities, and we had very low usage. It didn't serve our needs. Responsive has been incredible in their communication, responses, partnership, and willingness to get our feedback in order to improve the platform
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    Scalability
    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
    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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    Responsive (formerly RFPIO)
    • Client Confidence: the use of RFP360 has allowed us to deliver a demonstrably robust process to our clients, providing them a very high level of confidence in the quality of our work.
    • Time Efficiency: RFP360's services provide a great deal of time-saving in the management of virtually the entire RFP process.
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    ScreenShots

    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.

    Responsive Screenshots

    Screenshot of a view of the platformScreenshot of an AI generated responseScreenshot of some of the available customer resourcesScreenshot of some of the available integrationsScreenshot of a promotional flyerScreenshot of an example of the AI augmented content management feature