A sales management platform that uses gamification and coaching to drive high-performance cultures.
What it does
Creates real-time sales leaderboards and 'Sales Anthems' (triggered notifications).
Automates 1:1 and team coaching workflows with structured agendas and notes.
Provides customizable sales competitions and 'Fantasy Football' style leagues.
Features 'Scorecards' to track daily activity and objective-based KPIs.
Delivers robust analytics to identify coaching opportunities and efficiency ratios.
Why it works
Accountability: Pushes real-time visibility into Slack and TV screens, making performance public and celebrated.
Retention: Proven to reduce sales rep churn by fostering a more engaging, results-driven culture.
Consistency: Automates the 'check-in' process, ensuring coaching happens every week, not just at quarter-end.
ROI: Directly links daily behaviors (calls, emails) to long-term revenue outcomes.
A sales management platform that uses gamification and coaching to drive high-performance cultures.
Overview
Ambition is a leading sales enablement and performance management platform designed for high-growth revenue teams. It unifies sales data from CRMs (like Salesforce) to create real-time leaderboards, custom competitions, and automated coaching workflows. By using game mechanics to motivate daily activities, Ambition helps managers drive accountability and performance across remote and in-office sales floors.
Founded year:2013
Founder:Travis Truett, Brian Trautschold, Jared Houghton
Team size:78
Popularity:Voted G2 Leader in Sales Performance Management for 6+ consecutive years.
Founded in 2013 by Travis Truett, Brian Trautschold, and Jared Houghton in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The founders, who were part of the Y Combinator W14 batch, realized that sales management was still being done on whiteboards and spreadsheets. They built Ambition to bring modern, data-driven excitement to the sales profession.
Alternatives
Comparison overview
Spinify/SalesScreen: Similar gamification; Ambition is often preferred for its deeper enterprise coaching workflows.
Gong: Focused on call recording; Ambition is the specialist for pure sales floor motivation and scorecards.
Ambition is the premier choice for organizations that want to build a structured, high-energy sales machine.