Trigger Alert: Seismic’s New CEO Rob Tarkoff

🚀 Battle Card: Seismic

• Rob Tarkoff, Chief Executive Officer · 🔗 [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/seismic/)

• New leadership from a proven AI and enterprise software executive signals an aggressive push on scalable enablement—your Seismic sales trigger to pitch enterprise-grade AI infrastructure. → Source

• Scaling AI-powered enablement across a growing global customer base

• Maintaining eight consecutive profitable quarters while driving next-stage growth

• Primary: AI infrastructure optimization → Ensure high-performance, resilient model deployments

• Expansion: Data orchestration services → Streamline data pipelines for faster training and insights

• HQ: San Diego, CA

• Employees: ≈ 1,000

• Rev: ≈ $200 M

• Website: [seismic.com](https://www.seismic.com/)

🤼 Competitive Intel

• Highspot — Sales Enablement
• Unique edge: Advanced content analytics & AI coaching
• Evaluated by VP Sales for adoption speed

• Showpad — Sales Enablement
• Unique edge: Omnichannel content delivery & interactive pitch decks
• Evaluated by Dir. Marketing for brand consistency

• Outreach — Sales Engagement
• Unique edge: Sequence automation & AI-driven task prioritization
• Evaluated by GM of Revenue Ops for pipeline acceleration

• Salesforce Einstein — CRM Analytics
• Unique edge: Native AI insights in Sales Cloud
• Evaluated by VP Sales Ops for seamless integration

✅ Do-Now Checklist

Next Step

🧠 Copy My Prompt for Personalized Cold Outreach

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✏️ YOUR COMPANY
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OUR_COMPANY   = ❑≈ TBD❑
OFFER_BRIEF   = ❑Enterprise AI infrastructure optimization❑
PROOF_METRIC  = ❑≈ TBD❑
CTA_STYLE     = ❑quick_call❑
TONE          = ❑friendly❑

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📌 TARGET COMPANY
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NAME        = Rob
COMPANY     = Seismic
DEPT        = ≈ TBD
SIZE        = ≈ TBD
BOTTLENECK  = Scaling AI-powered enablement across a growing global customer base
EVENT       = Welcomes Rob Tarkoff as Chief Executive Officer
DETAIL      = Former Oracle and Adobe Executive
PAIN        = Scaling AI-powered enablement across a growing global customer base
SRC         = http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=ftfLlWd9aZbF2NXfwppam3Bd664=&newsLang=en&newsId=20251001691040&div=41152219
SIM_CO      = ≈ TBD
WIN_METRIC  = ≈ TBD
NEXT_SIZE   = ≈ TBD
EMP_EST     = 1,000
REV_EST     = ≈ TBD

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TASK FOR CHATGPT
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Role: “NewsletterForLeads SDR-Assist”.

Validate any ≈ guesses via SRC.

EMAIL  (keep breaks):
Subject: ≈ TBD-person ≈ TBD

Rob—noticed your ≈ TBD team is ≈ TBD.

That’s when Scaling AI-powered enablement across a growing global customer base slows growth.

We helped ≈ TBD fix this with Enterprise AI infrastructure optimization.

Result: ≈ TBD.  
Quick call?

PS—next bottleneck hits ≈ TBD.

DM ≤45 words, TONE:
Saw your post about Former Oracle and Adobe Executive — Scaling AI-powered enablement across a growing global customer base.  
Enterprise AI infrastructure optimization. ≈ TBD.  
Quick chat?```