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  "license": {
    "name": "CC BY 4.0",
    "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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  "cite_as": "Newsprint, \"Backstory: what it sells, price and AI features\", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/backstory/, updated 2026-11-11",
  "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
  "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/backstory/",
  "markdown_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/backstory.md",
  "title": "Backstory: what it sells, price and AI features",
  "opening_answer": "Backstory is on the AI revenue operations software map. We record 3 dated launches and events for it. The latest is dated July 21, 2026.",
  "period": "Feb. 18 to July 21, 2026",
  "methodology_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/updates/pr-software/#methodology",
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    "slug": "backstory",
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    "site": "https://www.backstory.ai/",
    "summary": "Backstory, formerly People.ai, sells \"a direct answer on every deal, surfaced where you work.\" It reads every call, email and CRM record, then gives revenue teams deal summaries, risk headlines, forecast waterfalls, automated account plans and an AI sales coach. An MCP server brings the same answers into Claude, ChatGPT and Copilot. It prices by connected people and answers used, not by login.",
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    "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
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      "Revenue intelligence and forecasting"
    ]
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  "summary": {
    "text": "Backstory, formerly People.ai, sells \"a direct answer on every deal, surfaced where you work.\" It reads every call, email and CRM record, then gives revenue teams deal summaries, risk headlines, forecast waterfalls, automated account plans and an AI sales coach. An MCP server brings the same answers into Claude, ChatGPT and Copilot. It prices by connected people and answers used, not by login.",
    "source": {
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      "url": "https://www.people.ai/"
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      "section": "companies",
      "name": "Backstory",
      "site": "https://www.backstory.ai/",
      "category": "Revenue intelligence and forecasting",
      "what": "Backstory, formerly People.ai, sells \"a direct answer on every deal, surfaced where you work.\" It reads every call, email and CRM record, then gives revenue teams deal summaries, risk headlines, forecast waterfalls, automated account plans and an AI sales coach. An MCP server brings the same answers into Claude, ChatGPT and Copilot. It prices by connected people and answers used, not by login.",
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        "name": "people.ai",
        "url": "https://www.people.ai/"
      },
      "price": "not published; usage-based by connected people and answers used, sales-led",
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        "label": "AI capabilities",
        "items": [
          "Activity capture and CRM updates",
          "Call and meeting analysis",
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          "AI forecasting",
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          "MCP or agent API"
        ]
      },
      "scale_tier": 2,
      "scale": "Established: a public parent, or a disclosed customer base (Backstory says its platform serves more than 100,000 sellers. People.ai raised a $100M Series D in 2021.)",
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          "name": "backstory.ai",
          "url": "https://www.backstory.ai/pricing"
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        {
          "name": "backstory.ai",
          "url": "https://www.backstory.ai/newsroom"
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          "name": "backstory.ai",
          "url": "https://www.backstory.ai/newsroom/people-ai-brings-complete-revenue-intelligence-to-ai-workflows-through-model-context-protocol-mcp-integration"
        },
        {
          "name": "cmswire.com",
          "url": "https://www.cmswire.com/the-wire/peopleai-becomes-backstory-redefining-how-revenue-teams-get-answers-about-their-deals/"
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  "timeline": [
    {
      "id": "event-1",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/backstory/#event-1",
      "on": "2026-07-21",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Backstory launches Situation Search",
      "summary": "Sellers describe a deal situation in plain language and Situation Search returns the most comparable deals from their own company history, with what the team did next and how each ended. It is available through the Backstory MCP server.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI revenue operations software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/revenue-operations-software/#co-backstory"
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    {
      "id": "event-2",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/backstory/#event-2",
      "on": "2026-04-21",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "People.ai becomes Backstory",
      "summary": "People.ai changed its name to Backstory and repositioned as a Revenue Answers Platform that connects signals, applies revenue reasoning and delivers decisions into AI workflows.",
      "kind": "Rebrand",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI revenue operations software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/revenue-operations-software/#co-backstory"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "CMSWire (press release)",
        "url": "https://www.cmswire.com/the-wire/peopleai-becomes-backstory-redefining-how-revenue-teams-get-answers-about-their-deals/"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-3",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/backstory/#event-3",
      "on": "2026-02-18",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Backstory launches an MCP integration",
      "summary": "Backstory launched an MCP integration that connects Claude, Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT and custom agents to its structured CRM data and unstructured call, email and meeting data.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI revenue operations software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/revenue-operations-software/#co-backstory"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Vendor release",
        "url": "https://www.backstory.ai/newsroom/people-ai-brings-complete-revenue-intelligence-to-ai-workflows-through-model-context-protocol-mcp-integration"
      }
    }
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