How a disaster restoration company in Walla Walla, WA went from a 30–40% close rate to 70–80% and saved a struggling sales rep using SalesAsk's AI coaching tool, Coach Dean.
5 Star disaster services doubled their close rate with Salesask
Like most growing service companies, 5 Star Disaster Services faced a problem that's almost universal in field sales: limited visibility into what's actually happening during inspections and sales calls. Anthony, the owner, was already aware of the value AI sales tools could bring. He'd even experimented with a few before finding SalesAsk. But the core problem remained unsolved.
"I simply can't listen to every call or inspection, and neither can my sales manager."
Without that visibility, coaching was reactive at best — and mostly guesswork. Sales meetings were built around assumptions rather than real patterns. And when a team member was underperforming, the only playbook available was the one most companies default to:
"Try to get them to do what the naturally good salesperson does."
Anthony knew that wasn't scalable. And it wasn't working. The situation came to a head when one of their inspectors was consistently falling short of expectations. The team was running out of patience and options.
"We were very close to letting him go because we weren't getting the results we needed, and honestly, we didn't know how to help him improve."
The numbers speak for themselves: A close rate that nearly doubled and a team member who went from almost being let go to becoming a contributor the company can count on.
After implementing SalesAsk, the biggest shift wasn't just the recordings it was what happened because of those recordings.
SalesAsk's AI coaching feature, Coach Dean, automatically analyzed conversations, identified the steps that should have happened, and surfaced specific, actionable areas for improvement — all without requiring Anthony or his sales manager to manually review every interaction.
"What SalesAsk has done is pull out the steps that should have happened, highlight areas we can improve, and give us real-time feedback we can actually act on."
The feedback loop transformed how quickly corrections could be made. Anthony found himself reviewing insights between appointments and making small adjustments that immediately impacted the very next stop on the route.
"That kind of rapid feedback loop just didn't exist before SalesAsk."
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