The Superhuman AI Agent - with Amanda Kahlow, CEO & Founder, 1Mind

About this episode

Amanda Kahlow discusses the evolution of buyer engagement and the role of AI agents in modern sales processes.

In this episode of the AI to ROI Podcast, host Ray Rike sits down with Amanda Kahlow, founder and CEO of 1Mind. Prior to 1Mind, Amanda was the founder and former CEO of 6sense, an early pioneer in intent data. The Vision Behind 1Mind: Amanda founded 6sense to help companies find buyers; she founded 1Mind to close them. 1Mind builds what she calls "go-to-market superhumans", AI agents that take on multiple roles across the full customer lifecycle, from inbound qualification and live demo delivery to deal closing for SMB/commercial accounts, and even post-sale onboarding, upsell, and cross-sell motions. Why the Buyer Journey Has Fundamentally Changed: Amanda argues that traditional intent data and one-way marketing are becoming obsolete. Buyers no longer follow a linear path of Google searches and form fills; they expect real-time, two-way, solution-oriented conversations, much like they get from interacting with large language models today. The old model of blasting outbound emails or routing inbound leads through a sequential SDR → AE → SE handoff chain is increasingly misaligned with how modern buyers want to engage. Top Use Cases: How Customers Deploy 1Mind: The most common…

People in this episode

Host: Ray Rike

Guest: Amanda Kahlow

Topics covered

• AI agents
• customer lifecycle
• buyer journey
• intent data
• sales process

Keywords

• AI
• customer engagement
• sales
• intent data
• 1Mind

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: 1Mind, 6sense

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