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Gong

Score9.1 out of 10

981 Reviews and Ratings

What is Gong?

Gong helps people and companies reach their potential.

The Gong Revenue Intelligence Platform™ enables customer-facing teams to take advantage of their most valuable assets – customer interactions, which the Gong platform automatically captures and analyzes. Gong then delivers insights at scale, to empower revenue and go-to-market teams to determine the best actions for winning outcomes.

The vendor boasts companies like Morningstar Inc., Paychex, LinkedIn, Shopify, Slack, SproutSocial, Twilio, and Zillow use Gong to power their customer reality. Gong is a private company headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Coach reps into sales superstars. Replicate what works by turning objective, data-based guidance into coachable moments for managers, peer-to-peer coaching, and self-driven improvements — without any drama.
Find the truth in your pipeline. There are risks hiding in your pipeline, deals, and customer interactions. Get true visibility from contact to close so you can address them and call the right forecast every time.
Bet big. And win. Gong’s early insights into what’s working — and what's not — gives your team the confidence to take big-bet initiatives to market successfully.

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Top Performing Features

  • Call Recording Playback

    Enables users to listen to recorded conversations for additional context and verification of the transcribed content.

    Category average: 9.4

  • Keyword Search & Retrieval

    Allows users to search for specific keywords or phrases within the conversation transcripts for efficient information retrieval.

    Category average: 8.8

  • Call Tagging

    Enables users to tag conversations with labels or categories for organization and easy retrieval based on specific criteria.

    Category average: 8.9

Areas for Improvement

  • Conversion Metrics

    Tracks and measures conversation metrics such as talk time, silence duration, and engagement levels to evaluate communication effectiveness.

    Category average: 8.1

  • Integration with CRM Systems

    Integrates with Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems to automatically log conversation details, update customer records, and track follow-up actions.

    Category average: 8

  • Sentiment Analysis

    Analyzes the tone and sentiment of the conversation to determine the overall mood and sentiment of the participants.

    Category average: 7.2

Gong is the the MVP for our business and understanding customers

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Gong is used for recording all calls with our customers, which includes sales team members, customer success team members, researchers, and marketing. Sales leverages it for providing coaching, AI summaries and follow-ups. CS uses it for the same. Researchers for being able to pull short snippets to support internal research projects. Marketing for building inventory of customer references and advocates. Gong is helpful for anyone in the company that wants to better understand our customers and the people we are designing our solutions for.

Pros

  • Gong has one of the best AI on the market. It accurately summarizes what was was said on the call.
  • Gong search is great and there are a lot of filters that you can use to help you find what you need.
  • Helping to manage follow-ups and using AI to generate emails.

Cons

  • Gong needs to think more about folks throughout the business that use Gong. It is so heavily sales focused.
  • Better integrations. I'd love to connect Gong to gifting platform.
  • Be able to ask questions across all calls like you can ask the AI for an individual call.

Return on Investment

  • We save a ton of time in terms of being able to produce customer advocates. Not sure of the ROI b/c I wasn't here before we had Gong.
  • Increased alignment between sales and CS. CS can join calls aware of the customer's problem, whereas before sales wouldn't share the notes or didn't have them.
  • I'm sure it has increased revenue, but I haven't taken the time to do the analysis.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Clari Copilot

Other Software Used

Slack, Reachdesk

Gong can be a helpful assistant

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Gong to record zoom calls and provide a summary. It can draw from our Salesforce data to enhance the summary and also captures action items from the meeting to ensure follow up. Customer facing and even internal meetings benefit from this tool and the cogent summary it delivers

Pros

  • summarize call
  • callout action items
  • shows up as a participant

Cons

  • didn't rejoin a meeting when others left
  • privacy concerns can disrupt the flow

Return on Investment

  • Not sure of the measurable ROI, more a tool to upgrade the quality of meeting follow up.
  • How does one measure how many action items would be missed without this tool? Might be zero, but my confidence is higher that none were missed.
  • Some time savings possible, more as I trust the tool to take the notes

Usability

Other Software Used

Salesforce CMS, Atlassian Jira, GitHub

Can't live without Gong

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Gong to record my calls with prospects. It helps me to work faster and smarter. I don't have to take notes as Gong transcribes and also summarizes. I also use it to listen to other people's calls to learn from them.

Pros

  • record
  • transcribe
  • summarize

Cons

  • nothing I can think of, very happy

Return on Investment

  • It makes me work a lot faster

Usability

Other Software Used

Outreach, Salesforce CMS

Bang the Gong get actionable insights

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Personally, I use it to review transcripts of my call recordings and refine things like my talk track and the subjects that I focus on. If Gong tells me that I'm talking too much and not asking enough questions, I use that feedback to refine my demos.

I know that the AE team I work with also uses it to help with forecasting and the likelihood of closing a deal, thanks to the intent scores.

Additionally, our leadership team uses Gong to watch recordings, or stream a live call directly to themselves without intruding on the actual Zoom meeting.

Pros

  • Quick call processing
  • Easy to share internally and externally (full recording or specific clip)
  • Coherent transcript with talk time and recommendations
  • AI helps with talking points and key takeaways

Cons

  • Potential for AI use to edit full video, rather than simply share clips
  • Can it help me write a follow up email yet? I'm not sure

Return on Investment

  • I don't have specific metrics since this feature isn't used in my job personally, but I do know that our sales and CS teams use Gong with SFDC opportunities to help with forecasting closed won opportunities based on intent captured within the call.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Fathom AI and C-Meeting by Chorus Call

Other Software Used

Salesforce Sales Cloud, HubSpot Marketing Hub, Outreach

Gong with AI is a gamechanger

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Gong to record our customer communication from calls to e-mails all in one place. We rely heavily on the artificial intelligence to research circumstances or interactions with our customers that aren't pro-actively logged by users. Coaching our team-members using scorecards is also a crucial feature we currently use.

Pros

  • Transcription
  • AI Recaps
  • Scoring
  • Keywords

Cons

  • Admin Settings

Return on Investment

  • time savings
  • understanding customer sentiment
  • customer research

Usability

Other Software Used

Salesforce Sales Cloud, Slack