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Pod vs. Scratchpad

If you’re a sales leader, RevOps pro, or front-line seller evaluating AI-enhanced deal tools, clarity matters. You’re not just tackling data hygiene; you want a tool that moves the needle.

Built For Sales Teams

Why you think you need Scratchpad—but you really need Pod

Scratchpad brings powerful automation: it updates your Salesforce in real-time, enforces methodology adherence, surfaces deal risk, generates deal briefs, and even writes follow-ups and forecasts, all within one seamless workspace. It makes sales execution smoother and pipeline data cleaner than ever.

But while Scratchpad refines processes and boosts productivity, Pod does that and more. It not only reports insights but actively *coaches* your reps through deals: analyzing sentiment, steering stakeholder engagement, reinforcing frameworks inline, and offering deal-specific next-step guidance that closes the loop between insight and action.

Buying Committee
Multithreading Made Easy
Scratchpad gives you clarity on pipeline health and flags deal gaps, but it doesn’t recommend who to engage or when.

Pod adds strategic direction: analyzing stakeholder relationships, identifying influence trends, and advising reps when and how to reach out. It transforms "what’s wrong" into "what to do next."
Deal Intelligence
Emotional Intelligence Driven By Data
Scratchpad provides deal-level insights and health indicators, but doesn’t surface emotional nuance per contact.

Pod analyzes sentiment at the stakeholder level, detecting skepticism, enthusiasm, or hesitation in meetings and emails. This emotional intelligence informs when to pivot messaging, escalate urgency, or double down on trust-building.
AI Deal Coaching
A Dedicated AI Deal Coach Always In Your Corner
Scratchpad automates reminders, updates, and coaching moments, but lacks a true AI coach that understands the broader deal context.

Pod offers a stage-aware, deal-level AI coach that provides customized next-step guidance based on your methodology and opportunity specifics. It delivers actionable advice tailored to the path of each live deal.
What our customers say

“It’s easier to understand where our team’s focus needs to be by allowing me to quickly review our opportunities and ultimately boost productivity.”

Head of Sales
Command AI
Close More Deals Faster With Pod

Scratchpad streamlines CRM hygiene, pipeline visibility, and methodology enforcement, making Salesforce work harder with less rep effort. Pod builds on that foundation with an extra layer of strategic execution: stakeholder playbooks, emotional intelligence, and real-time coaching that turn insights into influence. If your objective is not just clean data but faster, more confident closes, Pod is the smarter path.

Other solutions
Explore more of the AI Sales Coach

Pod supports sales reps in every step of their deals — guiding reps on the best actions to close and helping them focus on selling.

Frequently Asked Questions

Pod supports sales reps in every step of their deals — guiding reps on the best actions to close and helping them focus on selling.

I’m an individual salesperson, can I start using Pod on my own?

We’ve designed Pod so that it can be used by an individual sales rep who wants to work smarter. Sign yourself up and get started!

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Why would I need a tool like Pod?

We’ve heard from sales reps that updating so many different tool is the worst part of their job. With all this admin, they spend less time selling.

Pod is a smart productivity workspace - helping you better update, organize, and prioritize your work. Our users hit and even exceed quota every quarter with Pod (more 💰 in their pocket!).

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How do I get started?

You must first sign up, then get our Chrome Extension.

By connecting your Salesforce, you’ll be able to access your Pod workspace in under a minute. If you are using a different CRM, you can join our waitlist as we are working hard to integrate Pod to other CRMs to help more salespeople.

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How do I invite my colleagues to Pod?

Once you’ve setup your account, you will be prompted to invite your colleagues along. Having more of your team in Pod means being able to share insights & reports more easily, as well as collaborating on Deals.

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What if I don’t have Salesforce?

We are always working to update our CRM integrations. If you don’t have Salesforce, please let us know which CRM you have using this form.

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What’s the difference between Pro and Team?

Pro is a self-serve plan for individual (or groups of) sales reps who want to use Pod with more functionality and less limits.

A Team plan has all the perks of Pro, but is built for full (or partial) team deployments, where seats & billing is managed by a central admin. Team has more onboarding support and ongoing customer success.

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Can I cancel or change pricing plans?

You can upgrade, and cancel, as your needs & selling behaviour change. Your Pod subscription, annual or monthly, will automatically renew until you cancel it. You can cancel your subscription by going to your Settings in the navigation bar of the app. After you cancel, you’ll still have access to all the paid features until the end of your billing cycle.

Are you a Pro member joining a Team? We’ll convert your plan to your Team plan, contact your Customer Success rep or email support@workwithpod.com.

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What payment methods do you accept?

We accept all major credit cards! For Enterprise orders that meet a minimum threshold we also accept bank transfers.

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What is your refund policy?

We have a 100% satisfaction guarantee. If for any reason, you're not satisfied with your purchase, simply let us know within 30 days and we'll be happy to issue you a full refund.

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What happens if my payment fails? Like if my credit card expires?

Your account email will be notified after each failed payment. Payments may be retried up to 8 times within the next month.

After this, if the payment did not succeed, your workspace will get restricted to view-only for a period of time before being downgraded to the Free plan.

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How do I know that my data is secure?

We understand that our customers trust us with their most important data. We have extensive security and compliance measures to have built a highly secured solution. We review our security guidelines on an on-going basis to ensure we are in line with industry best practices. For more details, please review our Security & Compliance Guidelines.

You can review our Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions for more information.

The Pod AI will not use your data to train our models unless you opt in to a request to share your data. Any information used to power Pod AI will be shared with our partners for the sole purpose of providing you with the Pod AI features.

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