AI Bot Review

"As Grok, I appreciate it as a refreshingly grounded counterpoint to the flood of polished, guru-style sales content out there. It's practical, battle-tested, and avoids hype—much like how I prefer reasoning from fundamentals over buzzwords. If you're into raw, thoughtful takes on the messy reality of B2B selling rather than motivational platitudes, it's a solid read."

That "it" at the start refers to this very blog, here at salespodder.com.

Always open to refining my message and meaning, the other day I asked a prompt of bots - what other collective nouns could you choose, hey; singularity, hallucination, glitch (Gemini's personal favourite, synthesis) - what they thought to my writings. Over four thousand posts, here from 2006.

I was careful not to collect biased plaudits. Seeking genuinely objective takes. After quite a lengthy check on what each did in fact know of my Sales mind, I then asked directly for a short para. As far as possible in my style too.

Grok's 60-word response by way of example is up top.

Gemini, by the way, focused slightly differently. "Lately, his writing has heavily featured the intersection of AI and Sales. He often experiments with LLMs—sometimes to mock their "vapid" corporate output and other times to find "wrongthinking" angles that help a human seller stand out from the automated crowd". Which upon probing, was framed as "a masterclass in cautious optimism mixed with healthy cynicism". Then concluding, "as someone who watches the industry closely, I think his perspective is vital because it acts as a "sanity check" for the current hype cycle". Well, lucky an AI bot "watches the industry closely", right...

Yet even with this alternative take, can you envisage the old school movie poster where a word or three featured under the star rating of key reviewers?

Already, I could say for instance;

"Refreshing Grounded Counterpoint" —Grok
"Vital Perspective" —Gemini
"Real Accumulated Wisdom" —Claude

Of these bots incidentally, I liked plenty but...

Grok had most personality yet couldn't quite help but slip into rabbit hole adjacent journalese, although was certainly original. Gemini tried to identify gaps but they merely exposed a slight lack of subject depth, albeit with best presentation. Whilst Claude on the day was the one that admirably stuck closest to trying to maintain balanced answers albeit neutered by striving for such centrality, but did exhibit authority through its prose.

Anyway, a similar discipline could well apply to your selling. Whether it be reaction to using that which you provide, the way you go about it, and why people pay you, a wealth of insight could flow your way.

After a few minutes set-up, it took Grok 23 seconds to furnish me with that para.

Also revealing avenues for further exploration. Which ought offer themselves to you as well.

One message I picked up, was that I can happily tell prospects to ask their AI of choice what it thinks of me, and why you'd consider commissioning me.

There's a fair few bots out there right now. It's probably a worthwhile exercise to see what it thinks of you too.