Hey HN, we’re Swan and Ethan, and we’re building
https://heynomi.com, a real-time AI that helps you sell better while you're actually in the call.
Demo:
https://youtu.be/XFxDCP8jdY8?si=CGnPM1zT4wxAvadJMost of us aren’t trained in sales. We weren’t either. But in the early days, it’s the founders who have to sell, and learning that on live calls is brutal. After one particularly painful deal we lost, we joked that we needed an AI cofounder who could talk in our ear and save us from ourselves. That joke turned into a prototype, then a product.
Nomi joins your video calls and gives you phrase suggestions when it matters most:
– when someone pushes back,
– when there’s a hidden signal worth digging into,
– when it’s time to close (and how to do it without sounding pushy).
Then after the call, it auto-generates clean CRM notes, action items, and sends you a short email breaking down what went well, what didn’t, and how to improve next time—based on your actual conversation.
We’re also rolling out some features to make every call a learning opportunity and unlock revenue potential:
– A/B testing different sets of objections during calls and comparing results in real time
– Auto-update of your company’s sales playbook based on what’s actually working
– Upsell opportunity spotting and predictive revenue estimates driven by what people say on calls
The real-time part was the hardest. If advice shows up 2 seconds late, or it's off-topic, it's worse than useless. So we built a system with:
- a Thinking Model to track the call’s momentum;
- a tactic selector trained with reinforcement learning;
- a lightweight LLM (boosted with RAG) that delivers custom phrase suggestions under 500 ms.
Each user gets a private copilot trained on their own calls (with permission), plus simulated data and sales best practices. It gets sharper with every interaction, no manual tuning needed.
Right now, we’re live with 30 teams. One company went from $200K to $360K in just a few weeks. Another brought on a new rep who closed their first deal with Nomi on week one.
We also offer a free AI note-taker and free sales-coaching post-call emails. Just shoot us an email if you want to try it: [email protected]
We’re launching on HN to meet other folks who’ve felt this pain, founders doing sales, builders figuring things out on the fly. If that’s you, we’d love your feedback. Or if you just want to geek out about fast-inference LLMs, streaming RAG, or real-time UX, happy to go deep.
Let us know what you think!
1) I don't understand your product based on your demo. It looks like a simulated thing, but it doesn't tell me about _my_ user experience. How much eye to eye contact would I break using your app? Where is the video? How does it look if the bot is with me instead of calling through your app? Those type of questions are unanswered by this quite lackluster 15 second demo.
1.5) The demo also feels very scripted. A call is way more messy.
2) Your "investors" page shows 3 types of products: transcription, in sales call, and sales training. I'm curious, do you really need all three right now?
3) Your logo should be remade. When sized down (to the size of your homepage) its not clear what it is. I had to zoom ni to understand it's an ai generated oil painting of a sunset (I presume). I believe a logo should be clearly identifiable in all presented format, otherwise it doesn't fulfill the purpose of a logo. (Look on appicon designs. Apple has a lot of guidelines on how to rerender your logo for lower pixel environments if needed, just for this purpose. A simple initial fix is just to remove complexity from it).
Cool job though! I can definitely understand the potential.
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