# Marcus Delgado, Director of Sales Enablement at Fieldvine (CRM for field service, ~130 employees) — read of voice-sales-coach-ai, May 13 2026 > 9 years in sales enablement, currently managing a stack that includes Gong, Salesforce, and Outreach. Two kids, 7 and 10. I listen to every sales podcast known to man during a 38-minute commute on I-405. I've evaluated probably 60 tools in the last four years. --- ## How I got here Someone dropped a link in the Sales Enablement Collective Slack under the thread "AI coaching tools that aren't Gong." I was half-eating lunch and clicked without much intention. I wasn't actively shopping but I'm always passively watching this space because I have two new BDRs ramping right now and my coaching bandwidth is thin. ## What I clicked first The hero pulled me in. "Stop Fumbling on Sales Calls" is the right energy. It's direct. It sounds like something a rep would actually say after a bad call. I liked it. Below that: "Real-time coaching piped directly to your ear during every call." Okay, I know what this is. Heard of Poised, Wingman (now Clari Copilot), Second Nature. So I kept reading to figure out what makes this one different. ## Where I paused The section titled "Real Results From Sales Teams" stopped me. There's a quote from Rachel Klein, VP Sales at Manifest Growth: "After 6 months, our close rate jumped from 22% to 31%. Deal size went up 34%." Specific numbers, named person, named company. That's the right format for a testimonial. I was about to go look up Manifest Growth to see if they're real. Then I scrolled further down and hit this: "Honest disclosure: we don't have live customers on this idea yet." So. Rachel Klein doesn't exist, or she's fabricated, or this is a placeholder. That's a significant thing to put AFTER a testimonial, not before it. I'm not angry about the honesty, I actually respect that they disclosed it. But the order of operations here is backwards. You put a testimonial on the page and then two sections later you tell me there are no live customers. That's going to confuse or alienate most people who aren't reading carefully. ## What I distrusted Three things. First, the testimonial problem I just described. If there are no customers, the Rachel Klein quote should not be on the page. Full stop. Even if it's a "projected" or "illustrative" result, that is not clear at all in the way it's presented. Second, this page is not what I thought it was. This is Wishdeal Studio selling me a blueprint to BUILD this product, not the product itself. I had to read through pricing twice to figure that out. The tiers are "Browse Free / Unlock the dossier $5 / Adopt the build $99-$199 / Operator partnership Custom." I came here thinking I was evaluating a SaaS tool to buy. I was actually looking at a business idea for sale. Those are completely different purchasing conversations and the page doesn't make that shift explicit early enough. Third, the scoring section reads like it was written for someone who already knows what Wishdeal is. "The Wishdeal Factory scores every idea against 10 Adoptability axes." I don't know what a Wishdeal Factory is. "Financial upside: 2/10" on your own product page is a strange signal to feature prominently. ## What would convince me If I understood the page correctly and this is a buy-the-blueprint offering, the thing that would move me is: show me one person who bought a Wishdeal strategy package, actually built it, and has 10 paying customers. Not a close rate stat. Not an ARR estimate. One named operator, company, six-month update. Even a blog post. Even a Loom. Just evidence that the output of this process has produced something real. If this is supposed to be the actual product page for Voice Sales Coach, what I'd need is a short video of the whisper coaching UI working during a real call. Not a 30-second explainer with animations. A screen recording of a rep on a call, the coaching bubble appearing, them using it. ## What I'd ask in an email reply 1. The page says there are no live customers yet, but the Rachel Klein quote has specific performance numbers. Can you help me understand where those numbers came from? 2. If I pay $99 to adopt the build, what exactly do I get as a deliverable, and what does "working code starter" mean in practice? Is this a GitHub repo, a deployed demo, or something else? 3. Is the go-to-market strategy in the dossier actually mapped to how someone like me would sell into mid-market B2B companies, or is it generic? Who's the assumed buyer profile? --- ## Verdict: on-the-fence The underlying concept is real and I'd pay attention to a polished version of this. But the page is trying to do two things at once (sell me the product AND sell me the idea of building the product) and it does neither cleanly. The testimonial-before-disclosure ordering is a real trust problem that would cause most people to bounce. --- *Memo by skeptic persona, generated 2026-05-13. Studio breaks own self-grading loop.*