No Slides Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:48:15 -0400 en-us © 2026 No Slides yes da98821d-1aa3-533c-a5ad-08a2556af588 nish@beacongtm.com Nish & Michelle episodic false Most conversations about AI and revenue sound like someone read the same three newsletters and built a presentation around them.


No Slides is different. It's Nish and Michelle, two operators who spend their days inside early stage revenue teams, talking honestly about what's actually happening. What AI is changing, what it isn't, what's working with real clients right now, and what founders and revenue leaders should be paying attention to before everyone else catches up.


No frameworks for the sake of it. No thought leadership performance. Just two people who do this work every day, figuring it out in real time.

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We'll call this the Trench Test: can this VP of Sales still do the job they’re asking their team to do? Not perfectly, not full-time, but can they run a discovery call? Write a cold email that gets a reply? Look at a pipeline and tell you what’s real versus what’s hope? It’s not about micromanaging it's actual managing and more importantly translating strategy and insight into execution across a team.

]]> We were on a call recently with a sales leader and we asked them to walk us through a cold email their team sent. Not write one. Just explain why it worked. And they couldn’t. And that’s kind of the whole episode.

We'll call this the Trench Test: can this VP of Sales still do the job they’re asking their team to do? Not perfectly, not full-time, but can they run a discovery call? Write a cold email that gets a reply? Look at a pipeline and tell you what’s real versus what’s hope? It’s not about micromanaging it's actual managing and more importantly translating strategy and insight into execution across a team.

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