Backstory vs. Accord

Backstory (formerly People.ai) is the Revenue Answers Platform for GTM leaders. Revenue leaders ask the same questions every day: Is this deal real? Where's my risk? What do I focus on next? Backstory gives you straight answers - grounded in 100% of actual revenue activity, not CRM guesses. With more than a decade of training AI models on billions of sales interactions, Backstory connects every signal to the right accounts and opportunities and delivers answers where you already work - whether that's your CRM, Claude, Copilot, or other AI tools you already use.

Accord is the AI-Powered Revenue Excellence Platform that transforms what top sellers do naturally—multi-threading, mutual action plans, and CFO-proof business cases—into unavoidable playbooks for every rep. Accord Intelligence handles the busy work by automating account research, stakeholder mapping, and more so your team can focus on selling. The result: Accord customers see an average 40% increase in deal size.