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Software review sites vs win-loss interviews

Comparison of software review sites and win-loss interviews: testimony from past buyers against conversations that reach lost deals.
Review sites are a census of your wins. Losses need a conversation.

A side-by-side view of what B2B software review sites can tell you and what only win-loss interviews can. Reviews come from buyers who purchased, so they help with discovery and shortlists but say nothing about lost deals. Interviews with won and lost buyers find the objection, the competitor claim and the false belief behind each decision. Koji runs those interviews with an AI moderator, by voice or text.

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Review sites

  • Testimony from buyers who already bought
  • Good for finding categories and a shortlist
  • Check whether a feature really ships
  • Trial reviews miss what fails in month nine
  • Blind to every buyer who chose someone else

Win-loss interviews

  • Reach the buyers who chose a competitor
  • Find the objection that killed the deal
  • Show which competitor claim landed
  • Show what your champion could not defend
  • Surface what buyers believed that was not true

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