Why Revenue Teams Need Orchestration, Not More Tools
Today's go-to-market (GTM) teams are often held back by what many revenue leaders ruefully call a "Frankenstein stack." Sales and marketing orgs have bolted together specialized point solutions for every task – conversation intelligence with Gong, outbound sequencing with Apollo, data enrichment via Clay, contact databases like ZoomInfo, custom automations in n8n, and so on. Each tool excels at a narrow function, but together they form an expensive patchwork of siloed apps. The result? A disjointed workflow that frustrates reps and drains budgets. In fact, 71% of sales reps feel overwhelmed by the number of tools they use (often 10–13 daily!), and nearly 40% of their time is lost just toggling between apps and doing manual admin work. Instead of making teams more efficient, an overgrown tech stack bleeds productivity.
The financial toll of this tool sprawl is sobering. Companies pour money into numerous subscriptions and licenses, yet much of that spend goes to waste. Studies show roughly one-third of software budget is wasted – often on redundant or underutilized tools. Gartner has noted that the typical business now uses hundreds of different SaaS applications, creating duplication and data fragmentation. All these disconnected systems don't just incur fees; they impose hidden costs in the form of missed opportunities and effort. One report found sales organizations with more than 12 tools in their stack miss revenue targets 35% more often than those with leaner setups. In other words, beyond a certain point, each additional app actually hurts performance rather than helping.
It's increasingly clear that the fragmented GTM tech stack is undermining sales productivity and outcomes. Despite record spending on sales tech – over $10,000 per rep per year on average – only about 53% of salespeople say their tools truly improve productivity or results. Reps are drowning in complexity: they now spend as little as 16% of their workday actively selling, with the rest eaten up by internal tasks and "swivel-chair" work between apps. One study even found 82% of employees lose up to an hour every day just managing the various applications they use. That's time that should be spent engaging customers or strategizing deals, but instead it's wasted wrestling with tech friction.
All this inefficiency directly impacts the bottom line. When reps are less productive, customer acquisition costs (CAC) inevitably soar. In fact, over half of B2B sales professionals say their CAC has increased in the last year, and market data shows the average CAC is up ~15% since 2020. It's getting more expensive to hit the same revenue targets, partly because teams are spending too much time and money on juggling tools rather than closing deals. It's no surprise, then, that quota attainment has plummeted industry-wide – a staggering 73% of reps missed their sales quotas in the second half of 2023, and 69% were still falling short in 2024. These trends should alarm any GTM leader: the status quo "best-of-breed" stack isn't delivering the ROI or growth we were promised.
If the first era of sales tech was defined by proliferation, the next era will be defined by orchestration. The answer isn't just buying fewer tools – it's making your tools work in concert through a unified platform that automates end-to-end workflows. Think about how modern engineering teams have embraced orchestration: rather than manually stitching together dozens of dev tools, they use integrated systems (the way Cursor does for devs) that coordinate the entire pipeline from code commit to deployment. Revenue teams deserve a similar "single brain" for their go-to-market motion.
GTM orchestration means having one AI-powered system of action that spans the entire revenue funnel, rather than a dozen disconnected point solutions. Instead of siloed apps for prospect research, intent signals, email personalization, outreach sequences, meeting prep, call coaching, data entry, etc., an orchestrated platform handles all those steps seamlessly under one roof. The goal is to eliminate the "swivel chair" syndrome – no more exporting leads from one tool only to import into another, no more copy-pasting call notes into the CRM, no more building hacky zaps or n8n flows to force integration. With true orchestration, data flows freely across the workflow, and AI-driven automations ensure nothing falls through the cracks.
Crucially, orchestration is not just consolidation or integration for its own sake – it's about coordination. A unified platform can actually make smarter decisions by seeing the whole picture. For example, an orchestration engine could monitor all touchpoints and automatically trigger the next best action: if a target account clicks your content (marketing system), opens your email (sales engagement system), and visits the pricing page, the platform might instantly alert the rep with a personalized talking point and schedule a follow-up – all without the rep lifting a finger. That kind of cross-functional responsiveness is virtually impossible when your intent data lives in one tool, your emails in another, and your tasks in yet another. It's clear that to regain leverage, GTM teams need "production-grade" automation that unifies tools, data, and process – very much like how DevOps orchestration revolutionized software delivery.
This is exactly the vision behind Dhisana AI. We built Dhisana to be an end-to-end orchestration platform that automates GTM workflows across every stage – from the first touch with a prospect to closing the deal and beyond. Instead of five different apps for five different tasks, Dhisana provides one cohesive solution. Its autonomous AI agents handle pre-funnel research and ICP targeting, intent scoring, multi-channel outreach and personalization, lead qualification, meeting intelligence, CRM updates, and even post-sale expansion signals. In other words, Dhisana serves as the connective tissue for your entire revenue engine, ensuring that each part of the process flows logically into the next without manual effort or data loss.
What does this look like in practice? Imagine your sales development reps (SDRs) coming in each day to find that Dhisana has already scoured the web and your internal databases overnight to research new target accounts and contacts that fit your ideal customer profile. The platform's AI has scored their intent signals (website visits, engagement with content, etc.) and queued up a prioritized list of high-potential leads. For each prospect, Dhisana has written a hyper-personalized cold email or LinkedIn message, tailored to their industry and pain points, and even suggested the optimal send time. With one click, an SDR can review and approve a week-long sequence of outreach that is personalized at scale – something that would have taken hours of manual work across tools like Apollo and Gmail.
When a prospect responds or books a meeting, Dhisana shifts into the next gear: it researches the prospect in depth and generates a briefing for the Account Executive, complete with recent news on the company, LinkedIn insights on the buyer, and recommended talking points to address likely objections. During the sales call, Dhisana's AI can join as an silent assistant – transcribing the conversation in real time and highlighting key moments (a competitor mention, a budget question, etc.), much like Gong's call intelligence but fully integrated into the workflow. After the call, it automatically logs notes and follow-up tasks in the CRM, ensuring nothing is missed. It will even alert the rep when the prospect shows new intent signals (say, forwarding the proposal internally or spiking in product trial usage), so your team can respond instantly at the moment of interest. All of this happens through one platform – Dhisana – without the team juggling five different UIs or manually stitching data together.
Under the hood, Dhisana's "Agentic Flows" cognitive architecture is what makes this possible. It's not just a static algorithm; it's a cognitive engine with large-language models and reasoning capabilities that can autonomously execute tasks across your stack. We often describe it as having a digital GTM co-worker – one who can follow standard operating procedures, communicate in natural language, and make intelligent decisions under your guidance. Dhisana's agents work 24/7, handling the grunt work and coordination so that your human team members can focus on high-value interactions. As our FAQ puts it, Dhisana "fuses predictable business workflows with autonomous AI Agents to turn complex processes into self-driving, always-on operations". This is a fundamentally different approach from simply adding "yet another sales tool" to your stack – it's about upgrading the entire system of execution for revenue generation.
One of the most compelling benefits of an orchestration platform like Dhisana is the dramatic efficiency gain – not just in time saved, but in pure cost savings. By replacing a tangle of point solutions (and the integration projects between them) with a unified platform, companies can eliminate redundant fees and lower their total cost of ownership. Dhisana's pricing model is usage-based and value-aligned: there are no per-seat licenses for "idle" users – you simply pay for the work the AI agents actually perform. This means your spend scales directly with the outcomes delivered, and you're never stuck paying for tools or seats that sit unused.
For many organizations, adopting Dhisana leads to an order-of-magnitude cost improvement. Instead of paying for Apollo, Gong, ZoomInfo, enrichment APIs, and various automation tools (which together can run well into five or six figures annually for a mid-size team), Dhisana often delivers the same capabilities at 3–10x lower cost. For example, one customer replaced three separate vendors with Dhisana and found that their annual GTM tech expenses dropped by roughly 70%. Another team calculated that Dhisana's usage fees were about one-tenth of what they would have spent to hire additional BDR headcount to achieve similar prospecting volume. While individual results vary, the pattern is consistent: a consolidated intelligent workflow not only boosts output, it does so far more cost-effectively than the Frankenstein stack ever could.
The ROI is visible in top-line metrics as well. Since deploying Dhisana, teams have reported a +38% lift in prospect engagement, thanks to more timely and tailored outreach, and over 10 hours saved per rep per week on manual tasks eliminated by automation. Sales cycles accelerate when AI keeps deals moving – users have seen deal cycles shorten by 25% or more with Dhisana's proactive nudges and follow-ups. All these improvements mean reps can hit higher quota attainment and marketing can drive better pipeline without ballooning the budget. It's the ultimate win-win: more productivity and revenue impact, for significantly less spend.
As a CEO who works with enterprise GTM leaders every day, I fundamentally believe we're at an inflection point. The old approach of adding more point tools to solve each new sales and marketing challenge has run its course – it leads to diminishing returns, frustrated teams, and inflated costs. The data is clear that consolidation alone isn't enough either; simply cutting tools without a smarter process will only get you so far. The real game-changer is orchestration. By unifying your GTM workflow on an AI-driven platform like Dhisana, you transform your revenue engine from a clunky, fragmented machine into a streamlined, self-driving powerhouse.
Imagine a go-to-market organization where your best plays and processes are running automatically in the background, where every rep is supported by an intelligent co-pilot, and where your systems are so coordinated that nothing falls through the cracks – no lead un-researched, no follow-up forgotten, no insight lost in translation. That's the vision we're delivering to forward-thinking sales and marketing teams. And we're doing it in a way that frees up budget rather than consuming more: by replacing the bloated tool stack with a single, smart platform that grows with you.
The bottom line for enterprise GTM leaders is this: you no longer have to tolerate the trade-off between capability and complexity. With Dhisana AI, you gain production-grade orchestration for your revenue operations – akin to what world-class DevOps teams have in their domain – without the massive price tag or maintenance burden. In a world of rising CAC and pressure to hit ambitious targets, this approach is not just nice-to-have, it's increasingly necessary for staying competitive. The companies that embrace end-to-end GTM automation will enjoy leaner tech stacks, more agile teams, and better sales outcomes. Those that don't will keep feeling the pain of the Frankenstein stack – higher costs, lower efficiency, and stalled growth.
It's time to break free from the old model. By bringing your go-to-market processes into a unified, intelligent workflow, you empower your team to focus on what they do best: building relationships and driving revenue. Dhisana AI was built to make this transformation easy, impactful, and cost-effective. The future of GTM belongs to organizations that orchestrate, not just automate. Let's retire the Frankenstein stack for good and usher in a new era of revenue acceleration. Your team – and your CFO – will thank you for it.
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