A companion reads your week out of email, calls and notes, then stages every change on an approval card. Friday takes eleven minutes instead of an hour of remembering.
CRM entry is five recurring writes: contacts after meetings, call notes, field updates, follow-up tasks, and the hygiene sweep. Each is easy. Each competes with selling and loses.
Reviewing a proposed write takes seconds where composing one takes minutes. So a companion composes and you review.
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What should “automated” CRM entry mean?
The system proposes and you approve.
A staged diff is the unit that works: six field changes and two new contacts, each showing what will hit the record, each editable before it does.
Strawberry works that way by default. Every proposed change is on screen with the field, the old value and the new one, and rejecting it costs one click.
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Every write arrives staged, never silent
Attio, Salesforce, Close and Twenty are native integrations, and the write tools pause: create contact, update record and log note each appear as an approval card. A companion assembles those changes from your logged-in accounts, which is where the week actually happened.
One rep’s week, staged and approved in eleven minutes
A rep with 22 external calls: 22 drafted call notes, 31 proposed field updates (14 next-steps, 9 close dates, 8 stage moves), and 6 new contacts it met in email threads. Two updates get rejected because a hedge was read as a commitment, which is what the card is for. The Salesforce record enters Monday true.
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What does a companion see that a call recorder cannot?
Everything between the calls. Gong captures what happened inside a call; a companion reads the thread afterwards, the follow-up nobody logged, the contact who changed title, the pricing page opened twice. Give it a rubric for what each stage means and it holds the whole book to it, every week.
Let deterministic events flow through your existing automation, then put a companion on everything in between: email threads, web research, meeting outcomes. It proposes staged updates and you approve them in one pass.
A Strawberry companion creates contacts, logs notes and updates fields in Salesforce natively, and every one of those writes pauses on an approval card first. Attio, Close and Twenty work the same way.
Because it is retrospective typing that competes with selling. Change the unit of work from composing the update to approving it and it takes seconds instead of minutes, weekly instead of never.
Record creation and updates stop for approval by default, and Ask Always mode in Settings, AI permissions tightens it further. You see the exact change before it lands. Free to download; paid plans from $20/month.