Opine Introduces Opine Bets™

Opine Introduces Opine Bets™
‍The World's First Prediction Market for Sales Teams

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Opine, the leading revenue intelligence platform trusted by sales teams who technically care about winning, today announced the general availability of Opine Bets™ — a first-of-its-kind feature that allows employees, stakeholders, and frankly anyone with an opinion, to place real-money wagers on individual sales rep deal outcomes.

Because if your forecast is going to be wrong anyway, you might as well make money on it.

The Problem We Set Out to Solve

For years, sales leaders have stared at pipeline reviews wondering one thing: "Is Dale actually going to close this?" The answer, historically, has been no. Dale has not closed it. Dale has never closed it. Dale is very optimistic about it, though.

Traditional CRM tools have tried to solve this with AI-powered probability scores, coaching nudgets, and activity tracking. We tried those too. They didn't stop Dale.

So we asked ourselves: what if, instead of trying to fix Dale, we just let the market decide?

Introducing Opine Bets™

Starting today, every deal in your Opine pipeline is also a live betting market.

Here's how it works:

• Bet to Win — Back a rep to close a deal. Payouts scale with deal size, cycle length, and the rep's historical close rate. Betting on Dale closes at -400 odds.
• Bet to Lose — This is where things get interesting. Bet against a deal closing. Lose the deal, win the bet. We've seen early testers describe this as "surprisingly cathartic."
• The Spread — Did the rep say it would close by end of quarter? Bet on when it actually closes. The over/under on "pushing to next quarter" is currently set at 1.5 times.
• Live In-Deal Wagering — As new activity signals roll in — a missed follow-up, a ghosted demo, a LinkedIn view from the Champion who just left the company — odds update in real time. Feel the tension. Feel alive.

The Results Speak for Themselves

In our closed beta with 12 revenue teams, Opine Bets™ delivered outcomes no sales methodology ever has:

• Forecast accuracy improved 94% — Turns out when money is on the line for everyone, people stop sandbagging.
• Pipeline hygiene reached an all-time high — Reps voluntarily moved deals to Closed Lost rather than let them linger, because colleagues were actively rooting against them and they wanted the dignity of doing it themselves.
• Team morale increased — Survey respondents described Monday morning pipeline reviews as "the most fun I've had at work," "better than fantasy football," and "I've started coming in on Saturdays."
• Collaboration is at an all-time high — Senior reps are now actively coaching junior reps, because they have $100 riding on the outcome and can no longer afford to be territorial about their playbooks.

A Word From Our Chief Betting Officer

"We looked at every lever available to drive forecast accuracy — MEDDIC, SPICED, weekly forecast calls, deal reviews, you name it. Nothing moved the needle like financial skin in the game. When a rep bet $200 against her own deal closing, she also somehow closed it out of spite. That's the Opine Bets™ effect."

— Chad Winsmore, Chief Betting Officer, Opine

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Additional quotes from what our early customers are saying:

"I'm making more money than I ever have in my career BY FAR, and I'm doing the least amount of work BY FAR!" - Beta test Account Executive

"My life as a GTM leader has never been easier! By betting on not hitting our Q1 numbers I've already made more than what I would have been bonused for!"  - Beta test Director of GTM

"Our SKO this year was the best yet... The whole team onboarded with Opine Bets and moral has never been higher" - Beta test VP of Sales

Compliance, Legal & HR Have Been Notified

We are pleased to report that Legal reviewed this product for approximately four minutes before asking to be included in the beta. HR has issued a single memo stating that "betting against your own deals for personal gain is not technically covered in the current employee handbook" and that they "will be updating the handbook." Finance has asked whether Opine Bets™ activity qualifies as a hedge and, if so, which line item it goes under.

We are working through it.

Pricing & Availability

Opine Bets™ is available today as an add-on to all Opine plans.

• Starter: $0/month — You can watch the markets. You cannot participate. (This is intentional. It's called "motivation.")
• Growth: $49/seat/month — Full betting access. 2% rake on all winning bets, reinvested directly into your company's Sales Excellence fund, which is a real fund that definitely exists.
• Enterprise: Custom pricing — Includes private deal markets, anonymous betting, a dedicated Odds Analyst, and one (1) complimentary grief counseling session per quarter.

Opine is a revenue intelligence platform that helps sales teams understand what's actually happening in their pipeline, not just what reps say is happening. We use AI, conversation intelligence, and now apparently gambling, to give revenue leaders the clarity they need to make better decisions.

We are based in Durham, NC. We are well-funded. We are having a great time.

To learn more about Opine Bets™, or to place a wager on whether this press release was a good idea, visit www.tryopine.com

Opine Bets™ is not a real product. Yet. Please do not contact your broker. Please do not forward this to your compliance team. Happy April Fools' Day from everyone at Opine.

Media Contact:closers@tryopine.com
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