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Sales AI acquisitions and rebrands. We opened 44 vendor URLs by hand on 8 October 2026. Six brands no longer reach their own product, and the login page of Clari Copilot is now titled "Salesloft CI".

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What this page measures, and what it refuses to claim

We sell a competing product, so there is no ranking here and no "best value" column. This is a census of one narrow, checkable fact: if you type the vendor's own domain today, do you arrive at that vendor's product?

Every row is an HTTP request we made ourselves on 8 October 2026 with a desktop Chrome user-agent. Redirect handling was set to manual, which is the one methodological choice that makes this page different from a link checker: each Location header is recorded as its own hop with its own status code instead of being collapsed into a single final page. We recorded the URL requested, every hop, the final URL, the final status code, the response byte length, the document title, and any meta http-equiv="refresh" target found in the returned HTML.

What we do not claim: who bought whom, for how much, or when. We did not verify a single acquisition date or price, and this page contains none. A redirect tells you where a domain points today. It does not tell you the deal history, and two of the six cases here are consistent with either a sale or a rename. Where a destination page states the relationship itself, we quote it; otherwise we report the redirect and stop.

The six brands that no longer reach their own product

Clari Copilot: the product name is gone, the login still works

The whole of clari.com now points at Salesloft. The detail worth having is which Salesloft page it points at. clari.com/products/clari-copilot does not redirect to a Salesloft product page; it redirects to the home page. So does clari.com/products/conversation-intelligence. An old link to the product therefore lands a buyer on a company home page with nothing on it about the product they clicked for.

On that home page the capitalised string "Copilot" appears zero times. The two lowercase occurrences are both the same thing, the href copilot.clari.com/login sitting inside the login menu. The product itself now appears in Salesloft's platform navigation as Conversation Intelligence Software, and the only place the Clari name survives as a product is Clari Forecast.

And the login, which is the part a current customer actually cares about, is untouched: copilot.clari.com/login returns HTTP 200, a 783-byte document, titled "Salesloft CI". That title is the cleanest single piece of evidence on this page. The marketing name is gone; the application was renamed in place.

If your shortlist carries Clari Copilot from a 2025 article, see Clari Copilot alternatives, Clari Copilot vs Gong and Objeq vs Clari Copilot. Those pages predate this redirect and we are updating them.

Chorus.ai: 503 bytes, and no redirect at all

This is the case that a normal link check gets wrong, and it is worth understanding because it is the shape that hurts answer engines most.

chorus.ai returns HTTP 200. Not 301, not 302. The document is 503 bytes, its title is the single word "Chorus", and its entire body is one anchor. The move to the acquirer is carried two ways, neither of them an HTTP redirect: a meta http-equiv="refresh" with content="1; url=https://www.zoominfo.com/products/chorus?ch_source=chorus", and the same URL assigned to window.location.href in a script tag.

A browser handles that fine. Something that reads HTML without executing JavaScript and without honouring meta-refresh does not: it gets 503 bytes and a one-word title. That is the page a crawler sees if it goes to the source. The destination, when you do follow it, is titled "ZoomInfo Chorus AI: Conversation Intelligence for Sales" and sends existing customers back to chorus.ai/my-profile, which 302s to hello.chorus.ai. Same pattern as Clari: pitch on the new domain, account on the old one.

Second Nature: a 301 into 94 characters

second-nature.ai returns a clean 301 to colosseums.ai. A 301 is the strongest statement a domain can make that it has deliberately moved somewhere. Here is what it moved to: 16,015 bytes of HTML containing 94 characters of visible text once scripts, styles and tags are stripped. In full, that text is "Colosseums AI Colosseums AI Blog X Blog X contact@colosseums.ai Privacy © 2026 Colosseums AI".

The strings "Second Nature", "second-nature", "formerly" and "rebrand" each appear zero times. There is no product, no pricing and no sentence explaining what happened. Of the six cases on this page, this is the worst one for a buyer: the signal is maximally confident and the destination is empty.

Refract: the one that was handled properly

It belongs on this page as the control. refract.ai 301s to allego.com/refract-allego-conversation-intelligence/, and the destination's title is "Refract AI Software is now Allego Conversation Intelligence". One redirect, to a page whose first job is to explain the redirect. That is four years of goodwill preserved for the cost of one landing page, and five of the six vendors above did not do it.

Wingman: the brand name went to a drone company

Wingman was a conversation-intelligence product for sales teams. Today wingman.ai returns 200 and the title is "Wingman | Autonomous Robotics". The site's own description reads "Wingman builds the T2, an autonomous drone you command by voice or a tap on the map." Different company, different industry, same domain.

The sales product's old marketing domain, trywingman.com, is the only genuinely dead host in the census: DNS A records still resolve to 76.223.27.102 and 13.248.155.104, and nothing answers on either port. A resolving DNS record is not a live site, which is why we record the response and not the lookup.

The pattern: the marketing moves, the login stays

Three of the six acquisitions show the identical split, and we found it by accident while chasing the redirects rather than by looking for it.

In the People.ai case the new site links back to the old login five times on its own home page, so this is not neglect. It is a deliberate split, and it is cheap for the vendor because migrating an auth domain is risky while pointing a marketing domain is not.

It is not cheap for the buyer, and it is worse for anyone reading about these tools rather than using them. The one URL a person is most likely to type, the vendor's own domain, is in every one of these cases the URL with no page explaining what happened. That is also why review sites, comparison articles and AI answers about these products are stale: there is no canonical page saying "this product is now called X" for five of the six.

Four that changed domain and kept the company

No acquisition, no rename, just a different hostname. These matter because a cached hostname in a comparison article or an answer engine is now one redirect behind.

Convin is the interesting one. That is not only a hostname change, it is a market change: a conversation-intelligence vendor whose home page now sells to home-services businesses. Which brings us to the largest finding in the census, and it has nothing to do with redirects.

Where the real-time coaching vendors went, read off their own titles

Three vendors in this category genuinely put a line on a rep's screen during a live conversation: Cresta, Balto and Observe.AI. All three return a healthy 200 and all three are thriving. Here is what their home pages were titled on 8 October 2026.

Seven vendors, zero mentions of sales. A home page title is the most deliberate sentence a company owns, so this is not an accident of wording. In the same pass on 8 October 2026 we requested each of their pricing paths too, and Cresta, Balto and Observe.AI all returned HTTP 404, so two independent measurements point the same way: the live-coaching end of this category now sells to contact-centre buyers on annual contracts, not to a sales rep with a company card.

That is the honest reason a page like this exists on our site. We are not claiming those three are worse products. We are pointing out that a B2B sales team of four reps is no longer who they are built and priced for. Detail per vendor: vs Cresta, vs Balto, vs Observe.AI, and the three-way measurements in Balto vs Cresta, Cresta vs Observe.AI and Balto vs Observe.AI.

The 31 that are exactly where you left them

Reported in full, because a census that only lists the broken rows is a headline, not data. All of these returned 200 on 8 October 2026 at their canonical hostname, with the hop noted where www or a locale path was added.

One vendor sits outside both groups and we are not going to file it under either. substrata.me returned HTTP 202 with a 167-byte body and a meta-refresh to /.well-known/sgcaptcha/. That is a bot wall, not a verdict on the company. We could have defeated it with a headless browser and chose not to, because the moment this census starts rendering JavaScript it stops being reproducible in one command.

What's the right way to evaluate ExecVision vs Outreach Kaia?

Start with the domain, then with when the help arrives. On 8 October 2026, execvision.io returned HTTP 301, and the document title at the end of that hop was "ExecVision | Conversation Intelligence That Drives Behavior Change." Outreach Kaia is a different product: it joins the live call and shows battlecards written in advance, quoted on Gong vs Outreach. Re-request both domains before you treat either row as current.

If you are shortlisting, three things this changes

One. Any comparison article older than about six months has dead rows in it and does not know. Six of 41 domains in one category, measured on a single day. If your shortlist came from a "best tools of 2025" listicle, Clari Copilot, Chorus, Second Nature, Refract and Wingman are five rows that need a request before they need a demo.

Two. If you are a current customer of an acquired product, your login is probably fine and your renewal is with somebody else. All three acquired logins we tested still return 200. The thing to pin down in writing is not access, it is who holds the contract, what the product is called now, and whether the feature you bought survived the merge.

Three. "Still has a live website" and "still sells to you" are different questions. Cresta, Balto and Observe.AI are the proof: three healthy companies, 200 on every request, and not one of their home page titles is addressed to a sales team any more. That is the question worth asking on a demo call, and it is a cheaper question than pricing because the answer is already on their home page.

Check any vendor yourself in about a minute

Three steps, and the order is the point.

First, request the bare domain with redirects set to manual. Automatic following collapses the chain and hides the interesting part. A whole-domain 301 to a different company is the clearest signal in this whole exercise, and you only see it as a hop.

Second, read the final document title. A title is the one field a company rewrites when it repositions, and leaves alone when it has not. "Contact Center AI Software" is a complete answer to "do they still sell to sales teams".

Third, look for meta http-equiv="refresh" in the returned HTML. This is the step everyone skips and it is the one that catches Chorus.ai, where following redirects automatically shows you a 200 and tells you nothing. If the body is under about a kilobyte, you are looking at a stub and the real destination is inside the markup.

We will re-run this census and date the next version on the page. Figures above are from 8 October 2026 and nothing on this page is carried over from an earlier pass without being re-requested.

Where Objeq sits in this

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We are a competitor to several vendors above, which is exactly why this page has no ranking in it. What we will claim is narrow and checkable: we are in the small group in this category that publishes a price, and we are addressed to a sales rep rather than a contact centre. Both of those are facts about us that you can verify in the same minute it takes to check anyone else.

Next: the comparison of all 8 tools, the 20 Chrome Web Store listings opened and checked, our own numbers on the facts page, and how it works. Broader comparisons: all comparisons, best real-time tools, Gong alternatives, Salesloft alternatives, Cresta alternatives and Zoom Revenue Accelerator alternatives.

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