AI Sales Calls: How AI Calling Agents Are Transforming Sales in India

Sales teams have always faced the same basic challenge: there are more prospects to call than there is time to call them. Every new website enquiry, advertising lead, old CRM contact, exhibition database, missed call and inbound sales enquiry represents a potential opportunity - but someone still needs to make the first call, understand the requirement, explain the offering, ask qualification questions, handle basic objections, schedule a meeting, follow up, update the CRM and call again if the customer does not respond.

At small volumes, human sales teams can manage this manually. At hundreds or thousands of leads, the system begins to break. This is where AI Sales Calls are changing how modern businesses approach telephone sales. AI Calling Agents can make and receive sales calls, hold two-way conversations, qualify prospects, answer approved questions, schedule appointments, follow up with leads and transfer serious buyers to human sales representatives - while AI separately analyses human sales conversations, generates transcripts, identifies objections, summarizes calls and updates CRM records automatically.

The result is a new model of selling: AI handles speed, scale and repetition, while human salespeople focus on persuasion, relationships, negotiation and closing. Troika Tech, founded in 2012 and now serving 5,000+ clients across 47 cities and 9 countries, builds AI voice agent solutions designed to help Indian businesses automate repetitive sales communication while keeping valuable opportunities connected to human sales teams.

What Are AI Sales Calls?

AI Sales Calls are sales conversations supported or conducted using artificial intelligence. The term covers two major applications: AI conducting the sales call itself, and AI assisting a human salesperson before, during and after the call.

1. AI Conducts the Sales Call

An AI Calling Agent can initiate or answer telephone calls and directly communicate with prospects. It may introduce the company, ask qualification questions, understand customer requirements, explain products or services, answer common questions, handle predefined objections, identify buying intent, book meetings, schedule demonstrations, arrange callbacks, capture requirements, transfer qualified prospects and update CRM records.

This is often called AI sales calling, AI outbound calling, AI cold calling, an AI sales agent, an AI calling agent, a Voice AI sales agent, or automated sales calling.

2. AI Assists Human Salespeople

AI does not always have to conduct the conversation itself. It can also support human representatives before, during and after sales calls with call preparation, lead information, script recommendations, real-time coaching, objection suggestions, call transcription, call summaries, sentiment analysis, conversation scoring, CRM updates, follow-up recommendations and deal intelligence. This makes AI valuable throughout the entire sales call lifecycle.

Why AI Sales Calls Are Growing

Traditional outbound sales is difficult to scale. A human sales representative has a finite number of working hours, and even a productive salesperson spends significant time on activities that do not directly generate revenue:

• Dialling numbers
• Waiting for customers to answer
• Speaking with low-intent prospects
• Repeating the same introduction
• Asking basic qualification questions
• Writing call notes
• Updating CRM records
• Scheduling callbacks and sending follow-ups

AI allows businesses to automate many of these repetitive activities. The goal is not necessarily to remove salespeople - it is to use their time better. Instead of asking "How can our salespeople make more calls?", businesses can ask "Which calls actually require a salesperson?" That is a much more powerful question.

How AI Sales Calls Work

An AI sales conversation may sound simple to a prospect, but several technologies work together behind the scenes. A typical AI Sales Call follows this process: Dial → Listen → Understand → Decide → Respond → Act → Record.

Step 1: AI Initiates or Receives the Call

For outbound sales, an AI voice calling agent can contact prospects according to an approved campaign workflow. For inbound sales, the AI can immediately answer calls from interested customers.

Step 2: The Prospect Speaks Naturally

Instead of requiring customers to select rigid menu options, modern Voice AI can process natural conversation - for example "I saw your website and wanted to know your pricing" or "Mujhe demo chahiye, but pehle batao ye kaise kaam karta hai." The AI attempts to understand the intent behind the response.

Step 3: Speech Is Converted Into Information

Speech-recognition technology converts the prospect's voice into data that the AI can process. A sales-focused implementation should also account for different accents, different speaking speeds, background noise, interruptions, Hinglish, regional languages, product terminology and brand names. For Indian sales teams, language handling can be particularly important.

Step 4: AI Understands Sales Intent

The AI analyses what the prospect means. Sentences like "Abhi budget nahi hai," "I need to discuss it with my partner," "Can you send me the details first?" or "Call me after ten days" are not merely sentences - they represent different sales signals. A properly designed AI workflow may classify them as a budget objection, a decision-maker objection, an information request or a callback request. That classification can determine what happens next.

AI Sales Calls vs Traditional Cold Calling

Traditional cold calling depends heavily on individual sales representatives.

Traditional Sales Calling

A salesperson typically: receives a lead, calls manually, introduces the company, qualifies the prospect, handles objections, takes notes, updates the CRM, schedules a follow-up and calls again later. Multiply that process by 1,000 prospects and the administrative workload becomes significant.

AI Sales Calling

An AI Calling Agent can automate selected stages: initiating the call, introducing the business, verifying interest, asking qualification questions, capturing the requirement, handling approved FAQs, scheduling a meeting, transferring the prospect, generating a call summary and updating the CRM. The salesperson enters only when their expertise adds greater value.

AI Sales Calls vs Robocalls and Auto Diallers

AI Sales Calls should not be confused with traditional robocalls or basic auto diallers. A robocall usually plays a prerecorded message, follows fixed options, provides little conversational flexibility and cannot deeply understand unexpected replies. An auto dialler primarily solves the dialling problem - it helps sales teams contact more numbers, but when a prospect answers, a human salesperson generally takes over. An AI Sales Calling Agent goes further: it can potentially conduct the first part - or sometimes much more - of the sales conversation itself. The major difference is conversation: a robocall broadcasts, an auto dialler connects, an AI Sales Agent interacts.

The Biggest Benefits of AI Sales Calls

1. Scale Outbound Sales Without Scaling Headcount at the Same Rate

A human representative can handle only one conversation at a time. AI infrastructure can support multiple simultaneous calls depending on deployment architecture, which can help businesses process large databases faster.

2. Faster Lead Response

Lead generation and lead conversion are different problems. A business may generate hundreds of leads successfully but still lose opportunities because nobody calls quickly enough. AI can help reduce this gap by triggering a workflow the moment a qualified enquiry enters the website, CRM, landing page, advertising platform or lead portal, so the prospect enters the sales process sooner.

3. Automated Lead Qualification

Not every lead deserves the same amount of salesperson time. AI can ask predefined questions such as what the prospect is looking for, their budget, their city, when they plan to purchase, whether they are the decision-maker, whether they would like a demonstration, and when the team should contact them. The responses can then be used to classify prospects, so human teams can focus on the most promising opportunities.

AI Sales Calls Across the Lead Lifecycle

Cold Calling

Cold calling is one of the most obvious applications of sales Voice AI. Traditional SDR teams may spend significant time attempting to reach prospects who do not answer, are unavailable, are irrelevant, are not interested yet, need a callback or want basic information. AI can handle first-level outreach - introducing the business, explaining why it is calling, checking relevance, asking qualification questions, answering basic objections, identifying interest, booking a meeting and transferring the conversation. The objective is not simply to make more cold calls - it is to convert large prospect databases into a smaller number of meaningful sales conversations.

Warm Leads

Warm leads behave differently from cold prospects. These customers may already have submitted an enquiry, downloaded information, clicked an advertisement, requested pricing, visited an exhibition, asked for a callback or spoken with the company previously. Because some level of interest already exists, response speed becomes extremely important. An AI Sales Agent can conduct the initial follow-up and identify requirement, buying timeline, budget, location, product interest, meeting preference and decision-maker status, so a human salesperson can then continue with more context.

Inbound Lead Response

Not every sales call needs to be outbound. An AI Sales Agent can also respond when prospects call the company - answering immediately, asking what the customer needs, explaining products, answering FAQs, capturing contact details, qualifying the enquiry, booking a demo, routing the caller and transferring high-intent customers. This can be especially valuable outside normal working hours.

Lead Reactivation

Most businesses have forgotten revenue sitting inside their CRM - previous enquiries, unconverted leads, lost prospects, old website leads, exhibition contacts, event attendees, previous customers and dormant B2B accounts. Manually calling thousands of old leads can consume enormous salesperson time, so AI can conduct the initial reactivation conversation, for example: "You had previously enquired about our service. Are you currently evaluating a solution?" Interested prospects can then be returned to the active pipeline, letting companies explore revenue opportunities from existing data before spending more money generating new leads.

Appointment Booking

Sales teams frequently spend unnecessary time exchanging messages simply to find a convenient meeting time. AI Calling Agents can help with demo scheduling, consultation booking, site-visit scheduling, sales appointments, callback scheduling, product presentations and test-drive bookings. When connected with a calendar system, the AI may be able to offer available slots and capture the customer's preference.

Follow-Ups

Many sales do not happen during the first conversation, and follow-up is where opportunities are often lost. A prospect may say "Call me next week," "Send details first," "Speak after the 15th" or "I need to check internally." Human representatives may forget or become busy, so AI-assisted workflows can make follow-up more systematic - scheduling the next call, creating CRM reminders, sending information, triggering WhatsApp communication, generating follow-up tasks and reattempting contact according to campaign rules.

Product Demonstrations and Discovery

Sales is not only about identifying whether someone is interested - good selling requires understanding why they are interested. AI Sales Agents can conduct basic discovery conversations by asking what problem the prospect is trying to solve, what they currently use, how large their team is, what volume they handle, which features matter most, their current challenge, and when they intend to implement. This gives human salespeople valuable context before joining the conversation.

How AI Handles Sales Objections

Objection handling is one of the most interesting areas of AI Sales Calls. Prospects may say "It's too expensive," "I already use another provider," "Send details," "I don't have time now," "I need approval," "Call later," "How are you different?" or "I want to think about it." An AI sales workflow can categorize the objection and provide an approved response rather than improvising commitments simply to keep the conversation alive.

Human Handoff in AI Sales Calls

The strongest AI Sales Calling systems understand when to bring a human into the conversation. A good handoff should preserve context - the salesperson should ideally receive the prospect's name, requirement, qualification answers, objections raised, products discussed, budget information, a call summary and lead status, so the customer never has to repeat the entire conversation.

AI Sales Calls + CRM Integration

AI becomes much more powerful when the phone conversation connects directly with the sales system. CRM integration can allow the workflow to create leads, find existing contacts, record call outcomes, update lead stages, store qualification answers, add call summaries, save transcripts, schedule follow-ups, assign sales representatives and trigger automation. Common CRM environments may include HubSpot, Salesforce, Zoho, GoHighLevel and other API-enabled systems - see which AI calling apps offer CRM integration for a closer look. The important principle is that the call should not become an isolated data point - it should move the sales process forward.

Example AI Sales Call Workflow

Imagine a company receives 3,000 new leads. Instead of sending the entire database directly to the sales team, a typical workflow looks like this:

• Step 1: AI calls each eligible prospect according to campaign rules.
• Step 2: The AI introduces the business and confirms the person's requirement.
• Step 3: It asks three or four important qualification questions.
• Step 4: The customer answers.
• Step 5: The system classifies the lead.
• Step 6: Interested prospects are transferred immediately, scheduled for a callback, booked for a demo, or assigned to a salesperson.
• Step 7: The CRM is updated automatically.

Human salespeople now begin with prospects who have already completed first-level qualification. That changes the salesperson's job from "Who should I call?" to "Which qualified opportunity should I work on next?"

AI Sales Calls + WhatsApp

Voice and WhatsApp can work together particularly well for Indian sales workflows. A customer may say during an AI call, "Send me the brochure on WhatsApp." The system can record that request and trigger the appropriate workflow: AI Call → Customer Interest → WhatsApp Details → Sales Follow-Up. Follow-up content may include brochures, product catalogues, meeting confirmation, demo links, property details, course information, location and application links. This makes the conversation more useful than a phone call that disappears after disconnecting.

Sales Call Transcription, Summaries and Intelligence

AI can create searchable transcripts of sales calls, removing one of the biggest weaknesses of traditional calling - important customer information that would otherwise remain only in the salesperson's memory. Transcription allows teams to review customer requirements, objections, competitor mentions, pricing discussions, questions, next steps and commitments, so the conversation itself becomes searchable sales data.

AI Sales Call Summaries

A 10-minute sales conversation may contain hundreds of sentences, and sales managers rarely need to read the entire transcript. AI can summarize the important information, for example:

• Customer requirement: AI Calling for lead qualification
• Lead volume: Approximately 10,000 leads monthly
• Current process: Manual telecalling
• Main problem: Slow follow-up
• Interest: High
• Next step: Product demo
• Preferred callback: Friday afternoon

That summary can be pushed directly into the CRM.

Sentiment and Intent Analysis

AI can analyse more than words. Depending on the technology used, it may identify conversational signals relating to interest, confusion, objection, purchase intent, frustration and urgency, and classify customer intents at scale. For example, after analysing thousands of calls, a sales leader may discover that 32% ask about pricing first, 18% already use a competitor, 14% request a demo, 9% want WhatsApp information, and that a particular objection frequently causes drop-off. Those insights can improve both sales strategy and marketing.

AI Sales Intelligence

Every sales conversation contains valuable business intelligence that would otherwise remain buried inside thousands of call recordings. AI can help surface common objections, competitor mentions, product complaints, pricing resistance, buying signals, industry trends, customer terminology, frequently requested features and successful talk tracks - turning sales calls into a source of market intelligence.

AI Sales Call Coaching

AI can also improve human representatives. Instead of a sales manager manually reviewing a small sample of calls, AI can analyse a much larger number of conversations to identify talk-to-listen ratio, questions asked, objection handling, script adherence, important missed questions, conversation length, common failure points and strong sales behaviours. Managers can use this information for more targeted coaching.

Real-Time AI Sales Coaching

Some AI systems can also support reps while the call is happening - identifying a competitor mention, a pricing objection, a missed qualification question, a compliance statement or a possible next step, and then suggesting an appropriate response to the representative. This creates an AI sales copilot model: the human conducts the conversation, and the AI helps behind the scenes.

AI Sales Call Simulations for Training

New sales representatives require practice, but using real customers as training opportunities can be risky. AI simulations can create realistic practice conversations against simulated prospects who are interested, price-sensitive, skeptical, busy, comparing competitors, demanding or confused, with the rep receiving feedback afterward. This can help new team members become comfortable with real-world objections before speaking with high-value prospects.

Personalized AI Sales Calls

Generic cold calling often fails because every prospect receives the same pitch. AI can use approved contextual information to personalize conversations - prospect name, company, industry, previous interaction, product interest, lead source, existing CRM notes, location and customer segment. Instead of "Hello, we provide business automation," the conversation may become "You had recently enquired about automating outbound lead follow-ups. I wanted to understand your current calling process." Relevant personalization can improve conversation quality, but businesses should also use customer data responsibly and within applicable privacy rules.

Multilingual AI Sales Calls in India

India creates a unique sales challenge. A national business may receive prospects who are more comfortable speaking English, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Hinglish or other regional languages. Traditional multilingual sales operations require recruiting and coordinating different language teams. AI Voice technology creates another option: a multilingual AI agents company in India can build a Sales Agent that communicates across multiple Indian languages while following the same qualification workflow - particularly useful for real estate, education, healthcare, financial services, automobile, e-commerce, consumer services and national lead-generation campaigns.

AI Sales Calls by Industry

Real Estate

Real estate is highly dependent on telephone sales. AI Sales Calls can support property enquiry qualification, budget qualification, location and configuration preference, investment interest, site-visit scheduling, project introduction, brochure requests, follow-up and old lead reactivation. AI handles the repetitive first conversation, letting property consultants focus on serious prospects, site visits and negotiations - see how an AI calling agent for real estate fits into this workflow.

Education

Education institutions often experience large lead volumes during admission season. AI can help with course interest, eligibility questions, student qualification, campus visit scheduling, counselling appointments, admission follow-ups, webinar invitations and application reminders, freeing admissions counsellors to spend more time with students who genuinely require guidance.

B2B Sales

B2B sales databases often contain hundreds or thousands of companies, and calling them manually is expensive. AI can conduct initial outreach and identify relevant companies, decision-makers, current pain points, existing solutions, interest level and meeting availability, so qualified accounts can then move to human B2B sales representatives.

Automobile

AI can assist automobile sales teams with new vehicle enquiries, test-drive booking, lead qualification, model preference, budget range, showroom appointments, old enquiry reactivation and customer follow-up.

Financial Services

Where permitted and appropriately controlled, AI can support selected sales workflows such as lead qualification, appointment scheduling, renewal reminders, customer follow-up and product-interest capture. Financial services require stronger compliance, data-security and script controls than many general sales applications, and AI should not make unauthorized financial commitments or recommendations.

E-commerce and Retail

AI sales workflows can support high-intent enquiries, product questions, cart-related follow-up, existing customer upsell, feedback, promotions and repeat-purchase campaigns. Voice may be particularly useful for higher-value purchases where customers want reassurance before buying.

What Makes a Good AI Sales Call?

The best AI sales experience does not come from simply choosing the most realistic voice. Several factors matter:

• Natural conversation: the agent should not sound like it is reading an endless script
• Low latency: long pauses immediately make conversations unnatural
• Interruption handling: real customers interrupt, and the AI must respond appropriately
• Strong knowledge grounding: the AI should use approved business information rather than invent answers
• Proper qualification: questions should match the actual sales process
• Clear guardrails: the system must know what it cannot promise
• Human handoff: high-value conversations need a route to the sales team
• CRM integration: information should flow automatically into the sales pipeline
• Analytics: sales leaders need visibility into outcomes

Knowledge Base and Guardrails for AI Sales Calls

Knowledge Base

An AI Sales Agent should be trained or grounded using relevant business information such as product details, service information, FAQs, pricing guidelines, sales scripts, company information, product documents, websites, objection responses, qualification rules and policies. The knowledge base should be reviewed regularly - outdated knowledge can create incorrect sales conversations.

Guardrails

Sales AI must not become an uncontrolled negotiator. Businesses should define clear boundaries regarding pricing, discounts, guarantees, availability, delivery dates, refunds, contract terms, legal promises, financial commitments and competitor claims. When the AI does not have an approved answer, the correct action may simply be to transfer the prospect to a human representative - reliability is more important than improvisation.

How to Implement AI Sales Calls

A successful AI Sales Calling project should begin with a specific sales objective:

• Step 1 - Choose the sales use case: start with one workflow such as new-lead qualification, cold prospecting, old-lead reactivation, demo scheduling, inbound enquiry handling or follow-up calls
• Step 2 - Define qualification criteria: decide what makes a prospect worth transferring, such as budget, location, requirement, timeline, company size, product need or decision-making authority
• Step 3 - Build the conversation: design the greeting, reason for calling, qualification questions, product explanation, objection responses, CTA, transfer logic and closing
• Step 4 - Prepare the knowledge base: add approved sales and product information
• Step 5 - Integrate CRM and business tools: connect the systems required to complete the workflow
• Step 6 - Test: run multiple scenarios covering interested prospects, busy customers, questions, objections, interruptions, wrong numbers, language switching, human-transfer requests and unsupported questions
• Step 7 - Launch with controlled volume: do not immediately send tens of thousands of calls - start with a smaller campaign and listen to real conversations
• Step 8 - Optimize: continuously improve the script, knowledge, qualification, timing, voice, pronunciation and transfer rules using real campaign data

AI Sales Call Metrics That Matter

Do not judge success only by total calls made - track meaningful sales metrics instead:

These metrics allow businesses to evaluate AI against actual sales outcomes.

ROI of AI Sales Calls

The ROI of AI Sales Calls should not be calculated only as "AI software cost vs telecaller salary" - that comparison is too simplistic. Consider the wider picture: number of leads processed, response speed, follow-up completion, qualified opportunities, salesperson productivity, meetings booked, conversions, cost per opportunity and revenue generated. Suppose sales representatives currently spend 60% of their time on first-level qualification and only 40% on serious opportunities. If AI can shift that balance significantly, the company may generate more revenue without necessarily reducing its sales team. The larger ROI is often better allocation of human sales capacity.

AI Sales Calls vs Human Sales Representatives

The answer therefore is not AI or humans - it is AI plus humans, each doing what they do best.

Common Mistakes With AI Sales Calls

• Trying to automate everything: not every stage belongs with AI
• Using a long monologue: sales calls should feel conversational
• Asking too many qualification questions: customers should not feel like they are completing a 20-field form over the telephone
• No human transfer: high-intent customers need a clear next step
• Poor product knowledge: incorrect information destroys trust
• No CRM integration: useful sales data becomes disconnected
• Ignoring call analytics: AI should improve based on real conversations
• Launching without testing: a great demo does not guarantee a great campaign

Compliance and Security for AI Sales Calls in India

Sales automation does not remove the company's compliance responsibilities. Businesses should evaluate applicable requirements around customer consent, DND restrictions, calling categories, promotional communication, calling windows, opt-out mechanisms, data privacy, call recording, sector-specific regulations, TRAI requirements and DLT-related processes where applicable. Different campaigns can have different regulatory requirements, and financial services, healthcare and political communication may require especially careful controls. Compliance should be part of campaign design, not something added after deployment.

AI Sales Agents also interact with CRM records, customer data, call transcripts, contact information, purchase history and appointment data. Businesses should therefore assess encryption, authentication, user permissions, role-based access, data retention, data residency, audit logs, API security and sensitive-data handling. Enterprise deployments should also evaluate whatever certifications or contractual safeguards their industry requires.

How to Choose an AI Sales Calling Solution

Do not choose an AI sales platform based only on a five-minute voice demo. Evaluate voice quality, response latency, interruption handling, inbound and outbound calling, lead qualification, Indian language support, Hinglish support, knowledge-base grounding, CRM integration, API integration, human transfer, call recording, transcription, summaries, analytics, concurrent calling, campaign management, guardrails and compliance controls. Ultimately, ask: can this system reliably move prospects through our actual sales workflow?

The Future of AI Sales Calls

AI Sales Calls are moving toward a much larger concept: AI Sales Agents. Instead of completing only the telephone conversation, future agents will increasingly manage multiple stages of the sales journey - receiving a website lead, retrieving approved CRM context, calling the prospect, qualifying the requirement, answering questions, scheduling a demo, sending information through WhatsApp, updating the CRM, notifying the salesperson, scheduling follow-up and analysing the eventual outcome. The telephone call becomes one component of an intelligent sales workflow.

Why AI Sales Calls Matter for Indian Businesses

India is particularly suited to conversational sales automation because phone calls remain central to customer acquisition, especially across real estate, education, healthcare, financial services, automobile, B2B services and consumer businesses. Indian sales conversations are also multilingual - a customer may begin in English, switch to Hindi and use industry-specific English terminology, all during one call. AI Calling solutions designed for Indian businesses therefore need to think beyond simply producing a realistic English voice - they need to support how India actually sells.

Troika Tech AI Sales Calls

Troika Tech develops AI Calling solutions that can help businesses automate and improve sales conversations. An AI Sales Calling workflow can be designed around use cases such as outbound sales calls, cold calling, new-lead qualification, inbound sales enquiries, lead follow-up, old-database reactivation, appointment booking, demo scheduling, CRM-connected sales workflows, multilingual calling, human call transfer and sales campaign analytics.

The objective is straightforward: let AI handle repetitive sales conversations so human salespeople can spend more time closing opportunities. Backed by 4.9/5 ratings from 282 Justdial reviews and experience across 40+ industries, Troika Tech typically deploys standard AI Calling and Bulk AI Call setups within about 48 hours.

Why Choose Troika Tech for AI Sales Calls?

India-Focused Sales Automation

Indian calling workflows need to account for local communication patterns, languages and customer behaviour.

Custom AI Sales Scripts

Different industries require completely different selling conversations - a real-estate sales agent should not sound like an education counsellor or B2B SaaS representative.

Multilingual AI Calling

Businesses can design calling workflows across 11+ Indian languages for different customer segments, powered by an AI voice agent platform built for India.

Lead Qualification

AI can identify which prospects deserve immediate human attention.

Human Call Transfer

Interested customers can move from AI automation to human sales experts.

CRM Integration

Sales conversations can become part of a connected lead-management workflow.

Analytics

Teams can analyse call outcomes and continually improve campaigns across Troika Tech's 5,000+ client base spanning 47 cities and 9 countries.

Frequently Asked Questions About AI Sales Calls

Final Thoughts: AI Sales Calls Are Changing the Economics of Selling

The biggest advantage of AI Sales Calls is not simply the ability to dial thousands of numbers - businesses could already do that with diallers. The transformation comes from combining calling, conversation, qualification, intelligence and automation. AI can initiate conversations, understand responses, capture requirements, identify buying signals, schedule meetings, update CRM and follow up - and when a prospect reaches the point where human selling creates more value, AI can hand the conversation to a salesperson.

That creates a more scalable sales model. The future sales team will not necessarily have fewer people - it will have less repetitive work. Salespeople will spend less time asking "Are you interested?" and more time discussing "How do we help you move forward?"