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The SE Leader's Field Guide to AI Transformation in Sales
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The SE Leader's Field Guide to AI Transformation in Sales A No-BS Manual to Lead Your Organization into the AI Era

The Perfect Storm

Three forces are colliding so hard that pretending not to notice is no longer an option

Products Are Getting Ridiculously Complex

AI everywhere. Multi-tenant everything. Platform architectures that look like NASA mission diagrams.

68% of sellers say their solution got more complex in the last 12 months alone

Buyers Show Up Hot

Armed with AI research assistants, on-demand product tours, and community answers. They don't want the overview—they want the truth. Right now.

SE Ratios Are Stuck

Ratios stuck at 4:1–8:1. Deal complexity exploding. And sellers waiting. And waiting.

64% of sellers lost or delayed deals because they were waiting on technical resources

What Your Sales Team Just Told Us

We surveyed 201 B2B sellers across industries and motions. Here's what they said:

01

SEs Are More Valuable Than Ever

  • 87% say SEs are critical to closing deals
  • 76% rely on SEs more than they did last year
02

AEs Want You Higher in the Stack

They want competitive intelligence, strategic partnership, tailored solutions for big deals, and real-time support—not another generic walkthrough

03

Demos Aren't the Star Anymore

When sellers described what SEs do, demos came in fifth. The value is in technical discovery, solution architecture, and reducing purchase risk

04

Capacity Is the Crisis

64% of AEs have lost or delayed deals waiting on SEs—not because you're bad at your job, but because the job has become impossible under old models

Inside the Field Guide

This is NOT a guide about replacing Sales Engineers with AI

What makes SEs great—the trust, the nuance, the ability to read the room and architect reality—AI couldn't dream of touching. This guide has one job: to equip you, the Sales Engineering leader, to drive the AI transformation your sales organization needs right now.

The Inflection Point

Why Sales Engineers are at the center of the blast radius—and how you choose to become the hero or the bystander

From Doer to Strategic Force Multiplier

What stays sacred vs. what AI should swallow whole—and the 4 new mandates for modern SEs

The New Charge for SE Leaders

Your job isn't to build AI or compare 47 vendors. It's to train, govern, and scale the AI Sales Teammate

Making the Case for Change

How to increase capacity, reduce costs, improve execution, and scale your team's expertise infinitely

Your Next 90 Days

The simple 5-step path from theory to real impact—no 47-step nurture flow required

Real Leader Examples

How Jennifer Jones at Dayforce and Christian Eberle at Gladly built the bridge and brought their orgs across

Who Should Read This Guide

VP/Director of Sales Engineering

Lead your team through transformation and become the architect of leverage

Chief Revenue Officers

Understand how SE leadership drives revenue transformation

Sales Operations Leaders

Learn how AI transforms SE capacity and sales execution

Senior Sales Engineers

See the future of your role and how to thrive in it

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Get the complete no-BS manual for SE leaders ready to step up, take charge, and lead their organization into the AI era

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SPOILER ALERT: You don't strike me as the bystander type.