We Found the Gong Killer (And 3 Other Tools That Make Enterprise Software Look Broken)

Your B2B sales stack is bloated, outdated, and charging you $50K/year for capabilities built for 2019 playbooks. Meanwhile buyer behavior shifted, ChatGPT replaced Google, and your website became backend infrastructure for LLMs. Most growth-stage companies don't even know they have these problems yet.These four GTM tool founders saw the gaps the big platforms aren't solving — and built something new.What broke in your current stack: Your AI search visibility is broken — LLMs can't find you and you don't know it. Your CRM data decays the minute you upload it (ZoomInfo took 5 years to update one founder's job change). Your sales intelligence tool is analyzing transcripts while missing actual buying signals. Your sales enablement pages take weeks to spin up instead of minutes.What actually works in 2026: Steve Krull (Be Found Online / AIQ) — Why AI can't find you and how to fix your visibility in LLM search and conversational AI before your competitors do.Toni Hopponen (LandingRabbit) — How to create brand-aligned sales enablement landing pages in minutes using voice notes and existing brand assets instead of copying outdated templates.Saumya Bhatnagar (Involve.ai) — Why B2B data decays in real time, why ZoomInfo and legacy data tools can't keep up with 18-month job changes, and how AI agents fix data quality automatically.Trent Ballard (SalesEQ) — Why Gong analyzes the wrong signals, what video and audio analysis reveals about buyer sentiment that transcript tools miss entirely, and why this changes your entire sales intelligence strategy.The ecosystem reveal: These four tools stack together to create a modern GTM engine purpose-built for growth-stage B2B companies scaling from $5M to $20M ARR. Traditional enterprise software wasn't built for where you're going.Who this is for: Founders, CROs, CMOs, and revenue leaders at growth-stage B2B SaaS, fintech, professional services, and consulting firms who are scaling past founder-led sales and need a GTM stack that doesn't slow them down.CONNECT WITH THE FOUNDERS:Steve Krull🔗 LinkedIn🌐 WebsiteToni Hopponen 🔗 LinkedIn🌐 WebsiteSaumya Bhatnagar🔗 LinkedIn🌐 WebsiteTrent Ballard🔗 LinkedIn🌐 WebsiteIf you're running GTM at a growth-stage company and something feels stuck—revenue plateaued, teams pointing fingers, tools not solving the actual problems—that's what Summer's diagnostic uncovers.Linkedintheriseofus.com