The sales performance equation

Sales performance: the equation the best teams have solved.

In every sales organization, only 30% of reps hit their targets. That ratio has held steady for ten years. In the organizations that have solved the problem, 60 to 70% beat their quota. They didn't hire better. They organized better.

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The sales performance equation

Why 70% of your reps miss their quota, and what it really costs you.

30% of your reps generate as much as the other 70 combined.

It isn't a talent problem. It's an organization problem.

Three reflexes that no longer cut it.

01 Not enough

Hiring stars

High performers struggle to reproduce their results elsewhere. And turnover on sales roles runs above 20% a year.

Turnover > 20% / year
02 Not enough

Investing in tools

CRM, sales enablement, analytics. Tools measure and organize, but they don't change selling behavior.

< 40% still update their CRM after 1 year
03 Not enough

Training once a year

The annual seminar builds cohesion, but 80% of the skills fade within 30 days. Roughly €1,500 a year, gone.

80% of skills forgotten within 30 days

Three solutions that work together.

The strength of each comes from how it interacts with the other two. The first feeds the second, the second makes the third precise, and the third enriches the first. It's a loop, not a list.

1

The process of your best reps, available to everyone.

Your top performers have worked out a process that wins, on their own and often without ever formalizing it. That process is locked inside their heads. When they leave, it leaves with them. Everyone else keeps improvising.

Marvin.ai identifies what makes top performers win and turns it automatically into tailored practice for the rest of the team.

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2

Coach on data, not on instinct.

The sales manager's problem isn't the will to coach. It's that they don't have the data to do it with precision. So they coach on impressions. "Listen more." "Negotiate price better." Generic advice the rep has already heard ten times.

Marvin analyzes every sales conversation automatically, calls, video meetings, and in-person field visits. Your manager sees, for each rep, the exact stage where they get stuck. They coach on facts, not impressions.

Teams whose manager coaches with data reach 107% of quota vs 85% for teams where the manager improvises. (CSO Insights)

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3

The weekly practice that replaces the annual seminar.

Your reps prepare for a €50,000 meeting in 20 minutes in their car before walking into the client's office. They discover objections in real time. They improvise. And 80% of what they learned at the last seminar is already gone.

Marvin is their practice simulator. Before the meeting: an AI simulation calibrated on your market and your real objections. After the meeting: precise feedback on what actually happened.

+20 to 25%Conversion rate
6 wks vs 6 monthsMastering a technique
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They solved the equation
AXA
Loréal
Legrand
Porsche
Vinci
Loxam
Essity
Pierre Fabre
Groupe Atlantic
Fidal
Bouygues
The complete equation

Process × Coaching × Practice = Predictable performance

Process
The method of your best reps, passed on to everyone.
Marvin identifies · The rep replicates
Coaching
Every manager coaches on data.
Marvin analyzes · The manager coaches
Practice
Every rep practices every week.
Marvin simulates · The rep improves
= Predictable performance
50 to 60% of your reps at quota in 12 to 18 months, vs 30% today.
How Marvin works

The continuous practice that's missing between two training sessions.

SIMULATION · ROUND 4
"Your price is 30% above the competition. Justify it."
LISTEN / TALK62 / 38
Discovery
78
Objection
64
Closing
42
LIVE · 18:42
Meeting · ACME Industries
Weak signal
Budget hesitation
Objection dodged
"We're already set up"
TOP PERFORMERS · PATTERN
Found in 3 top performers, absent in 12 others.
"Before we talk price..." + 87%
4s silence after objection + 64%
Reframing the problem + 52%
TEAM · WEEK 14
Skills mapping
Camille D.75
Pierre M.47
Leïla R.78
Marc V.59
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The demo

Process × Coach × Practice = Predictable performance.

+20%
conversion rate
Over the first 6 months of rollout.
÷ 2
ramp-up time
Sales onboarding cut in half.
± 10%
forecast accuracy
No more guesswork forecasts.
Your role

AI for those who want to stop observing
and start steering.

Marvin.ai speaks the language of your role. Choose yours, and we'll show you what it changes for you, concretely.
Sales Director

The behaviors of your top reps, finally replicated.

70% of your team underperforms and your forecast is a fiction at ±40%.

Marvin.ai identifies what makes top performers win and turns it automatically into tailored practice for the rest of the team.

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Team
Mapping
Simulations
Calls
Reports
Cockpit
Team performance · Q2
Updated 4 min ago
+37%
close rate
±10%
forecast accuracy
÷ 2
onboarding
Forecast vs actual
Forecast Actual
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Head of L&D / HR Director

Prove the ROI of every euro spent on training.

You invest heavily in training and most of it evaporates within a month. Your CFO is asking you for proof of ROI.

Continuous, measurable practice between two in-person training sessions. Individual and collective progress data. The proof that the training budget produces lasting skills.

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Cockpit
Team
Mapping
Simulations
Calls
Reports
Skills mapping
Sales force · 240 reps
+ 18% this week
× 4
skills retention
100%
reps in practice
24/7
access to simulations
Heatmap by skill
Discovery
Objection
Closing
Price nego
W1W8
Sales Manager

Become a coach again. No more firefighting.

You spend 60% of your time on reporting and "rescuing" deals instead of coaching.

Conversation analytics identify in 5 minutes what used to take hours of listening. You know who to coach, on what, right now.

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Cockpit
Team
Mapping
Simulations
Calls
Reports
Calls to coach
Detected this week
14 / 14 calls analyzed
5 min
to spot a focus area
+ 8h
coaching regained / week
100%
calls analyzed
Camille D.
Price objection dodged
To revisit
Pierre M.
No budget question asked
To revisit
Leïla R.
Exemplary close
To replicate
Marc V.
Discovery too rushed
To revisit
The Marvin difference

25 years on the ground,
not 25 months of fundraising.

Marvin.ai was born from b-flower, a sales performance consulting firm since 1999. Every AI scenario, every analysis grid, every lever indicator was built from real field data. No theory. Lived experience. 6,000 sales reps trained per year for 25 years produces a knowledge base no algorithm can invent.

100+
Companies trained
25 years
of field data
6,000
Reps / year
Equity partnership · 2026
Marvin
SalesApps

SalesApps took an equity stake in Marvin.ai in 2026: the French leader in Sales Enablement and the AI sales performance platform built by b-flower, joining forces to cover the entire field sales performance cycle.

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b-flower client reviews
Essity
5/5

"In 3 years we tripled our profitability and set the BU up for its next stage."

Fidal Avocats
5/5

"They immediately understood our challenges and adapted easily to our specific context."

AXA
5/5

"Innovative and impactful, client-focused, agile, positive, attentive, expert, personable, creative."

Louboutin
5/5

"Matthieu and his team quickly grasped the need and understood our environment to design a tailored program. I am delighted with this collaboration."

Bouygues
5/5

"A real wake-up call for the teams, memorable role-plays, and b-flower's ability to think outside the box and work in depth. The teams loved it."

Saverglass
5/5

"The training gave the teams a welcome breath of fresh air, letting them step back from a situation they had to manage as best they could but were not responsible for."

Adecco
5/5

"A team of experts who adapt to their audience and spark motivation. Our impact is far more targeted and effective."

BNP Paribas
5/5

"The team building was a real success in building connection and strengthening the group."

Legrand
5/5

"Very positive feedback from directors and frontline managers on understanding their management and communication style through DISC and self-assessment."

Hyundai
5/5

"On-time delivery, flexibility, creativity, technical mastery, and professionalism throughout."

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like your best reps?

Enough training. Time for the practice that actually changes results.

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FAQ

Your questions,
our answers.

A question that isn't listed? The Marvin.ai team replies in under 24 hours.

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Marvin.ai is an AI sales-training platform. It plays the role of your customers, analyzes your real meetings, identifies the winning behaviors of top performers, and trains the rest of the team to replicate them. In practice: less blind coaching, more measurable progress.
No. Marvin.ai is the tool that was missing between training sessions. Onboarding and ongoing training provide the methodological framework, and Marvin.ai turns what is learned into lasting reflexes through continuous practice and analysis of real sales meetings. The two complement each other.
A pilot with 30 reps can launch in 2 to 3 weeks, the time for Marvin.ai to adapt to your organization and for your training agents to be operational. A full rollout across several hundred reps and multiple countries usually takes 6 to 10 weeks, including calibration of the AI scenarios. After that, you control the creation of additional agents: the more you create, the more sales performance you gain.
Yes. Marvin.ai is 100% GDPR-compliant, hosted in France and the European Union. No sales data leaves European territory. Security audit available on request.
Marvin.ai connects to all your tools via API: CRM, LMS and business applications. The open REST API enables custom integration in days.
Marvin.ai natively speaks 5 languages: French, English, German, Spanish, and Italian. Other languages can be enabled on request for international clients.
Three metrics: deal conversion rate, time-to-productivity for new reps, and forecast accuracy. Marvin.ai produces a quarterly ROI report, compared against your pre-deployment baseline.
Quite the opposite. Marvin.ai treats the manager as a pillar of sales performance. Where they spent 8 hours a week analyzing calls, Marvin.ai does the groundwork in 5 minutes and provides a dashboard of coaching priorities per rep, so they can focus their actions. The manager becomes a coach again and stops firefighting.