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There were two potential outcomes when we started testing AI in Close: 1. The robots took over, ousted our founders, and made us all worship them. 2. AI became super useful and could summarize a lead’s history with our company in just one click. 😱 Today, we find out which one it was ... Meet AI Lead Summaries 🤖 🎉 Get an instant recap of your lead's recent activity, helping you cut through the noise and focus on what matters most. (Available now on Professional and Enterprise plans.)

As a small and impact-driven team, our culture emphasizes ownership. Joe Kemp, our Director of Backend Engineering, talks about what that means our for engineering team in this article from BuiltIn. 💻 He touches on our product development methodology, rotating project leads, and a customer-first mindset! Sound interesting? Give it a read...and then check out our open Sr./Staff Backend Engineering role on close.com/careers!

CRMs that are clunky, complex, and expensive? not very mindful. not very demure. see how we look presentable? see how easy we are to use? very intentional. very demure. (are we doing this right?)

Me when someone says they spend countless hours updating their CRM

Last, but far from least, is the value that’s the cornerstone of how we live and operate here at Close — Build a house you want to live in. 🏠 This year’s recipient of this Value Award is Alec Rosenbaum, who (unsurprisingly) builds a killer house on the engineering team.  We’re lucky to have you, Alec! Congrats! Here’s what his team had to say about it.

Underrated work hack? Keeping your word to yourself and others. 🙏 That’s the core of our value, “Discipline equals freedom,” and we’re stoked to honor the ultimate discipline pro, Lauren Weisenthal for her daily embodiment of this value. Congrats, Lauren! And thank you for your model leadership. Hear more about Lauren from her team.

If there’s a marketing project to be slayed, you can trust that Emily’s on it. 💪 “Strive for greatness,” is one of our favorite values and it just so happens to be Emily McGuire's middle name. So it’s only fitting she received this year’s corresponding Value Award. Help us celebrate her today. 🎉 Go, Emily! Here’s what her team had to say. 

Has a recruiter ever been one of the reasons you joined a company? Sounds rare but here it’s a pretty common occurrence. All week we’re celebrating the recipients of our 2024 Annual Value Awards… Join us in celebrating our magical recruiting mastermind, Maddie Tierney who is being recognized for our value, “Invest in each other.” Well done, Maddie! 🎉

Company values are often vague adjectives that few really know how to embody or employ. But not here 💅 Not only do we create clarity on what values should actually do within our company, we consistently highlight each other for exhibiting these values and annually celebrate team members who go above and beyond in living them. All week we’ll be recognizing the 2024 recipients of our Annual Value Awards. 🎉 To kick things off, please join us in celebrating the one and only, Guilherme Saraiva Martins! G is this year’s recipient of the “No BS” award. Here’s what our crew has to say about it. Congrats, G!

Internally, we ask folks to make hiring videos to tell the team about their open roles. Our Backend Engineering Manager, Todd Lewellen... well, he went the distance...into the woods...to a sea of ferns. 🌿 After all, not everybody can have office ferns like Chelsea Castle! Go ahead and watch his very ferny video about our Sr./Staff Backend Engineer opening at close.com/jobs. P.S. Do you want to be the one telling the world about how much fun we have at Close? You're in luck: we're also hiring a Senior Social Media Manager!