--- title: "GTM Signal: Buying Signals We Filtered While Building a Sales Agent (Sep 15, 2026)" description: "Weekly GTM news and real-time buying signals: AI sales funding, agent launches, adoption metrics, and live buyer intent from DeepSales." image: https://blog.deepsales.com/hubfs/blog_image_01_1x1%20(4).png --- [Skip to content](https://blog.deepsales.com/gtm-signal-2026-09-15#main-content) [![DeepSales](https://blog.deepsales.com/hs-fs/hubfs/DeepSales_Logo_Black_PNG.webp?width=863&height=149&name=DeepSales_Logo_Black_PNG.webp)Homepage](https://deepsales.com/en) - [Press Releases](https://blog.deepsales.com/tag/press-release) - [Case Studies](https://blog.deepsales.com/tag/case-study) - [Insights](https://blog.deepsales.com/tag/insight) - [GTM Signal](https://blog.deepsales.com/tag/gtm-signals) English - United States Select a language ✕ - [한국어](https://blog.deepsales.com/ko/gtm-signal-2026-09-15) - [English - United States](https://blog.deepsales.com/gtm-signal-2026-09-15) - 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orchestration platform Clay [doubles](https://blog.deepsales.com/LINK_02?hsLang=en-us) its valuation to $3.1B Real-time sales assistant Winn.ai [raises](https://blog.deepsales.com/LINK_03?hsLang=en-us) an $18M Series A Schematic, a pricing-strategy tool for the AI era, [raises](https://blog.deepsales.com/LINK_04?hsLang=en-us) $6.5M Salesforce [acquires](https://blog.deepsales.com/LINK_05?hsLang=en-us) inbound AI SDR Qualified Global VC funding in sales, marketing, and CRM [reaches](https://blog.deepsales.com/LINK_06?hsLang=en-us) $3.7B in 2026 so far Launches / Updates Japan's Bellface [deploys](https://blog.deepsales.com/LINK_07?hsLang=en-us) Salesforce data-entry agent bellSalesAI at Nakamura-Tome Japan's Mazrica [launches](https://blog.deepsales.com/LINK_08?hsLang=en-us) autonomous sales AI agent Mazrica Engage Japan's CyberAgent AI Shift [unveils](https://blog.deepsales.com/LINK_09?hsLang=en-us) AI Worker SalesAgent, covering the full sales conversation Japan's SOBA Project [opens](https://blog.deepsales.com/LINK_10?hsLang=en-us) early access to SOBA Sales AI for sales-ops automation Korea's Evolve [runs](https://blog.deepsales.com/LINK_11?hsLang=en-us) an open beta of AI sales solution SellDay Korea's Salesmap [previews](https://blog.deepsales.com/LINK_12?hsLang=en-us) features that turn its CRM into a "sales agent" Results / Metrics Autonomous outbound AI SDRs [fail](https://blog.deepsales.com/LINK_13?hsLang=en-us) to replace human sales teams at scale The best-funded autonomous AI SDR ($74M raised) [fails](https://blog.deepsales.com/LINK_14?hsLang=en-us) to retain its own customers AI and human hybrid teams [drive](https://blog.deepsales.com/LINK_15?hsLang=en-us) about 2.3x the revenue of fully autonomous setups 75% of B2B sales organizations [will adopt](https://blog.deepsales.com/LINK_16?hsLang=en-us) AI sales development by the end of 2026 40% of enterprise apps now [embed](https://blog.deepsales.com/LINK_17?hsLang=en-us) AI agents, up from under 5% a year ago 94% of sales leaders using agents [call](https://blog.deepsales.com/LINK_18?hsLang=en-us) them essential to meeting business needs Leads answered within 5 minutes are 21x likelier to qualify, but the average SDR [takes](https://blog.deepsales.com/LINK_19?hsLang=en-us) 42 hours 91% of CRM data is incomplete, a gap analysts [blame](https://blog.deepsales.com/LINK_20?hsLang=en-us) for weak AI returns Bellface case in Japan: logging a sales meeting [drops](https://blog.deepsales.com/LINK_21?hsLang=en-us) from 30 to 5 minutes, an 80% cut China's full-funnel AI GEO acquisition market [grows](https://blog.deepsales.com/LINK_22?hsLang=en-us) 169.7% to CNY 94.2B 72% of industrial buyers in China [shortlist](https://blog.deepsales.com/LINK_23?hsLang=en-us) suppliers with AI models first The AI sales market [is forecast](https://blog.deepsales.com/LINK_24?hsLang=en-us) to grow from $8.8B in 2025 to $63.5B by 2032, a 32.6% CAGR Insights / Content Kyle Poyar [publishes](https://blog.deepsales.com/LINK_25?hsLang=en-us) his 2026 B2B GTM playbook, "Signals, Motions, Pricing" ZoomInfo [argues](https://blog.deepsales.com/LINK_26?hsLang=en-us) weak AI returns come from "broken processes," not tools Waveup, after analyzing 800 funding rounds, [declares](https://blog.deepsales.com/LINK_27?hsLang=en-us) "no founder-led sales, no funding" Tool Directory [finds](https://blog.deepsales.com/LINK_28?hsLang=en-us) funding, acquisitions, and real deployments shifting to inbound and orchestration Japan's Members [pushes back](https://blog.deepsales.com/LINK_29?hsLang=en-us): SaaS is not ending, its value is being redefined In Japan, talk of a Y Combinator-sparked "B2A (Business to Agent)" era [spreads](https://blog.deepsales.com/LINK_30?hsLang=en-us) China's Fxiaoke [emerges](https://blog.deepsales.com/LINK_31?hsLang=en-us) as an AI-native CRM after passing a national smart-marketing certification Buying Intent Oman buyer [seeks](https://deepsales.com/en) suppliers of wheat bran for animal feed, 1,000 MT per month (CIF, L/C) Qatar buyer [requests](https://deepsales.com/en) quotes for turmeric, masala, and other powders, 20ft container Saudi buyer [sources](https://deepsales.com/en) Indian Cavendish bananas, 40ft container (L/C) Kuwait buyer [requests](https://deepsales.com/en) quotes for GCC-origin cardamom and cumin, 20ft container (L/C) UAE buyer [seeks](https://deepsales.com/en) basmati and long-grain rice for distribution, 20ft container Hong Kong buyer [sources](https://deepsales.com/en) Korean and European color cosmetics, 20ft container (T/T) Nepal buyer [requests](https://deepsales.com/en) quotes for Korean-brand sun care and skin care, 250 units per SKU UK buyer [seeks](https://deepsales.com/en) an anti-aging peptide serum supplier, 500 units with bulk orders to follow France buyer [sources](https://deepsales.com/en) a long-term B2B supplier of in-store display panels for cosmetics DeepSales runs Selly, a sales agent that does the selling for you. 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