Fractional AI Engineers
for Sales Teams
Hire pre-vetted, highly autonomous AI engineers who start in days, scope the work, and build.
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Your reps are selling less than they should be
They're spending too much time on CRM updates, follow-ups, call notes, and admin. And you lack clean visibility into what's actually moving deals forward — or killing them.
The data is already in your stack — in Salesforce, HubSpot, Gong, Outreach. There's just no system connecting it or acting on it.
- ×Reps spending hours on CRM updates, call notes, and follow-up drafts after every call
- ×Stalled deals going unnoticed until the rep moves on or the buyer goes dark
- ×Inbound leads sitting for hours before anyone responds
- ×No visibility into which objections, stages, or behaviors are killing deals
- ×Pipeline reviews built on gut feel instead of activity and engagement data
- ×Call recordings sitting unreviewed in Gong or Chorus — coaching signals going unread
Four numbers from our own Sales Team.
We didn't sit around waiting. We embedded an engineer in our own ops, got deep in the workflows, and started shipping and iterating. The numbers below are what clients see when they build automations with us.
Inbound lead response time
Inbound calls taken per AE / month
Sales cycle, first call to signed
Close rate, calls had to contract signed
How it works
30-min call with one of our engineers
Not a sales call. They ask the right questions, listen to how your team operates, and tell you exactly what they'd build — before you commit to anything.
FreeWe discuss your biggest bottleneck
You map out where reps are losing the most hours or where deals are dying. The engineer shares how they'd solve it — what gets built, what it connects to, what it replaces.
You buy a package of hours
No retainer. No long-term commitment. Buy the hours you need and use them for the work you agreed on. Most teams start with a 40-hour block — enough to get a working automation live and see the impact before adding more.
Pay as you goYour engineer embeds with your team
They start in 2–3 days. They work in your stack — Salesforce, HubSpot, Gong, Outreach — alongside your people, on the workflows you identified together. Everything they build is yours to keep.
Starts in 2–3 daysWhat Near engineers build for sales teams
Calls and emails write back to Salesforce or HubSpot automatically. No rep input needed.
Flags deals that have gone quiet, missed next steps, or are moving slower than similar won deals.
Drafts outreach for stalled deals and surfaces them to the rep before the opportunity is gone.
Qualifies the lead, personalizes the reply, and books straight into a rep's calendar in under 5 minutes.
Surfaces deal health, rep activity, and engagement signals in one view — built on your CRM data.
Surfaces recurring objections, patterns in won vs. lost deals, and rep coaching signals automatically.
Why Our Clients
Choose Near
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Pre-vetted, highly trained engineers.
We leverage our local market expertise across Latin America to identify and screen the best AI engineering talent. Every engineer is vetted for technical depth, communication, and autonomy — with a proven track record to back us up.
Four ways teams try to solve this. One that ships.
Full-time AI hire
$150K–$180K/year
You need 40 hours a week of work for them. Most teams don't have that scoped yet.
Near
Start at 40-hour package. Pay for hours worked.
Start next week. Add hours as you go. Stop when you want.
AI consulting firm
Months before anything ships
Scoping alone takes 2–3 months. Working software doesn't arrive until month four or five.
Near
Engineer starts in 2–3 days
They scope the work and build at the same time.
Off-the-shelf tools
Built for average workflows, not yours
They require customization you don't have engineers to do. So your team works around them.
Near
Built on your stack, for your workflows
Your data stays where it is. No new platform to learn. No migration.
Doing it yourself
Unfinished projects
No time, no dedicated person. Good ideas, no follow-through.
Near
One dedicated engineer, autonomous
They scope, they build, they ship. You review the output, not the process.
FAQ
What have other sales teams built with Near engineers?+
CRM auto-update workflows for Salesforce and HubSpot, deal risk alert systems, follow-up agents that flag stalled deals and draft outreach, inbound lead qualification and booking automation, pipeline visibility dashboards, and interaction analysis tools built on Gong or Chorus data. Most teams start with whichever workflow is costing the most rep hours or killing the most pipeline.
Can clients hire the engineer full-time?+
Yes. You can start with a package or two to see how the engineer works with your team. If it's a good fit, you can convert them to a full-time hire. A lot of our clients go that route.
What does the engineer vetting process actually look like?+
Every engineer goes through Near's technical screening before they're placed. We test for engineering fundamentals, AI and automation tooling, and the ability to work independently on ambiguous problems — not just follow a spec.
Can we stop anytime? What are the commitment and package options?+
You buy a package of hours based on what you need. There's no long-term contract or retainer. Use the hours, see what gets built, and decide from there.
What's the average engineer background — experience level and tech stack?+
Our engineers have several years of software and automation experience, including the AI and workflow automation layer on top — Claude, ChatGPT, n8n, Make, Zapier, and Python. They're also fluent in the tools sales teams already run: Salesforce, HubSpot, Gong, Chorus, Outreach, Salesloft, and Apollo.
What teams say after hiring a Near engineer
The engineers Near provided are incredibly high quality. I worked at Google for 10 years, where the bar for talent is very high, and I would say the people I placed through Near are comparable to the people I worked with at Google.
Ashley Black
Ex-Head of Sales @ Google
Founder, Candid Consulting
Near was a game-changer for our business. We increased lead generation by 100% with automations built by talent we hired through Near.
Sumner Vanderhoof
Co-founder & CEO
Propensity
Near has allowed us to nearly double our caseload without doubling our in-office staff.
Kathy Patterson
Operations Manager
California Consumer Attorneys
Book the call. Walk us through your pipeline and your stack. We'll tell you exactly what we'd build — and what it would unlock.
Talk to one of our engineers