B
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46%
46% -- data quality issue rate for sales professionals using AI agents (2026)
46% of sales professionals using AI agents reported that data-quality issues hurt their sales efforts.
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46%
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Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
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Evidence Quality
B
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Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Salesforce
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Tier B
https://bigwheelperformance.com/blog/ai-won-t-save-a-broken-gtm-but-it-will-scale-what-works ↗
Source Article
AI Won’t Save a Broken GTM
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Salesforce
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Methodology
Salesforce 2026 State of Sales report
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Industrymarketing
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sales professionals using AI agents: 46% data quality issue rate. Source: Salesforce (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/salesforce-data-quality-ai-agents-2026
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/salesforce-data-quality-ai-agents-2026" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>46%</strong> -- data quality issue rate for sales professionals using AI agents<br><small>Source: Salesforce (2026) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/salesforce-data-quality-ai-agents-2026" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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