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Launch HN: Nomi (YC X25) – Copilot for Sales

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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=CGnPM1zT4wxAvadJ

Most 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: founders@heynomi.com

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!

Re: Launch HN: Nomi (YC X25) – Copilot for Sales

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just 2c on the tagline but there was a time when this would be called "Copilot for Sales"... mixed feelings about what a better shorthand tagline would be but "Cursor for X" when there is no IDE, you're not forking anything, and you're forcing the user to do the comparison between actual competitors like Granola or Monterey... just a tough start

features sound great though, i would actually check it out if i were doing sales.

Re: Launch HN: Nomi (YC X25) – Copilot for Sales

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just 2c on the tagline but there was a time when this would be called "Copilot for Sales"... mixed feelings about what a better shorthand tagline would be but "Cursor for X" when there is no IDE, you're not forking anything, and you're forcing the user to do the comparison between actual competitors like Granola or Monterey... just a tough start features sound great though, i would actually check it out if i were doi…

Appreciate you calling out the tagline.

You're spot on about "Cursor for X" potentially confusing people. Our thinking was to evoke an AI deeply embedded in your sales workflow, helping get stuff done, kinda like how Cursor (the IDE) assists developers. Definitely --not-- aiming for an IDE vibe, more the "AI-native assistant" part. "Copilot for Sales" certainly has that instant clarity.

We're still figuring out the best way to phrase this, this kind of feedback is super helpful.

Glad the actual features sound promising though! If you (or anyone reading) ever do give it a spin, we'd love to hear more thoughts, especially if a better way to describe it comes to mind. Naming things in engineering is actually one the hardest issues ahah!

Re: Launch HN: Nomi (YC X25) – Copilot for Sales

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Very cool, this could be incredibly helpful to salespeople

Love the simplicity of the website

The video could be improved, it starts great, then there's too much technical detail

Congratulations on the traction, having it live with 30 teams is quite the feat. It seems like you are on the right track

How are you getting the call data? Are you integrating with video call tools? Do you have a phone app? Are you integrating with cloud phone platforms like RingCentral?

Re: Launch HN: Nomi (YC X25) – Copilot for Sales

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Congrats on the launch! We are building something in this space as well https://closer.so

IMHO if you're going to shill your wares on someone else's Launch HN you could at least say why anyone would prefer you. Saying "me, too" is worse than nothing because you're rolling the dice on being rude but also not trying to inform anyone in exchange for the risk

Re: Launch HN: Nomi (YC X25) – Copilot for Sales

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> Nomi joins your video calls How will you obtain consent for this from everyone participating in the call?

Good question,

When Nomi is invited to a meeting:

1. It always clearly identifies itself by name in the participant list (e.g., "Nomi.so Notetaker" or "Nomi.so [Host's custom name]'s Notetaker") so everyone can see it's present.

2. It also posts a message in the chat at the start, informing all participants that it's there to take notes and that the call is being recorded/transcribed.

If you're the host initiating Nomi, for instance through our desktop app integration, there's an additional step: you're required to explicitly confirm that all participants have consented before Nomi will join and start recording.

These in-meeting notifications and host confirmations are designed to ensure transparency. We're primarily focused on use cases, especially with enterprise clients, where trust and ethical recording practices are mandatory to make a deal. We have a strict policy against any covert use and have taken action, including banning accounts, when misuse is identified.

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