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How Knock Transformed Kili’s Sales Cycle

Results

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  • 39% faster sales cycle
  • 3+ hours saved per lead
  • Improved lead qualification, ensuring  stornger conversations and customers

Problem

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Kili’s back-and-forth emails with technical buyers, traditional forms and slow follow-ups created constant frictions and delays in the sales cycle. As a result, high-intent prospects disengaged before meaningful sales conversations could even begin.

Solution

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Knock accelerated Kili’s sales process by enabling real-time, continuous chat that led to instant engagement, precise lead qualification and faster deal progression.

About
Kili

Kili Technology is a leading provider of high-quality data solutions for frontier AI. The company specializes in helping enterprises and scale-ups structure, annotate, and manage large datasets efficiently. By streamlining data labeling and collaboration, Kili empowers businesses to build reliable AI models faster and with greater accuracy.

Selling to:

Data and R&D teams

Sales Motion:

Sales-Led

Company size:

Scale-ups | Enterprise

Tools:

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"Knock has been a game changer in helping us understand our audience better and removing the friction caused by traditional forms. "

Nadine Pacis
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Marketing Manager at Kili

The challenge

Shortening a Complex Sales Cycle

Kili’s audience—machine learning engineers, data scientists, and R&D teams—have intricate buying processes that require multiple discussions on security, budgets, and implementation before making a decision. Despite strong inbound traffic, this led to:

  • Slow process –Friction due to traditional forms and slow email outreach the
  • Missed high-intent leads –  Delayed conversations caused potential customers to lose interest.
  • Inefficient qualification – Sales reps struggled to quickly qualify leads and move them through the funnel.

Kili needed a solution to reduce friction, engage high-intent prospects faster, and significantly shorten the sales cycle.

The solution

Instant Chats and Lead Qualification with Knock

To accelerate the sales cycle, Kili adopted Knock to replace static forms with real-time chat, allowing direct and immediate conversations with prospects. This shift enabled Kili to:

  1. Engage leads instantly, eliminating delays and accelerating initial interactions.
  2. Qualify leads in real time, ensuring sales reps only focused on high-potential prospects.
  3. Gain data-driven insights, helping Kili understand visitor behavior, refine messaging, and proactively address concerns.
  4. Speed up decision-making, enabling seamless transitions from first contact to scheduled meetings and closed deals.

The results

Faster Sales, Higher Conversions, and More Deals

Since implementing Knock, Kili has seen significant improvements in their sales process:

  1. 3+ hours saved per lead, eliminating manual lead filtering and wasted outreach.
  2. Sales cycle reduced by 39% enabling faster progression from initial inquiry to deal closure.
  3. More precise lead qualification, leading to higher-quality conversations and better-fit customers.

By leveraging Knock, Kili has streamlined its sales process, reduced friction, and ensured high-intent leads move through the funnel faster than ever.

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"With Knock, we can immediately qualify leads and adjust our messaging based on real-time data. This has helped us attract the right prospects, create better content, and improve our overall sales process."

Nadine Pacis
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Marketing Manager at Kili
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Real Success, Real Results

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