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How to Build Frontline Trust in AI Agents (And Why Coaching Beats Prospecting as the Starting Point)

Outreach, Wednesday, October 21st, 2026

A Resi revenue leader explains on Outreach's blog why AI adoption started with coaching to build frontline trust.

In a guest post on Outreach's blog, a Resi revenue leader explains why the company began AI adoption with coaching rather than prospecting.

Positioning AI as a 'coach in your pocket' framed it as a source of value rather than surveillance, and continuous rep feedback built trust.

A human-in-the-loop model kept empathy and intuition with people while agents took on account research and first-pass personalization.

Centralized workflows and clear safeguards then helped Resi scale adoption.

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