Tenali AI vs Clari: Live Deal Execution vs Forecast Governance

Brutally honest: Clari is for forecast control. Tenali AI is for winning the actual conversation where revenue decisions happen.

Overview

Tenali AI is a real-time sales enablement AI and AI sales engineer assistant for live buyer calls.

Clari is a revenue intelligence and forecasting platform for leadership visibility and deal inspection.

Both can coexist, but if your immediate pain is call performance, Clari is the wrong first tool. Tenali is the right one.

Aspect	Tenali AI	Clari
Primary Job	Help reps perform live on calls	Help leaders forecast and inspect pipeline
Real-time answer support during calls	Yes	No
AI Sales Engineer capability	Yes	No
LIVE support for Sales/GTM/CS	Yes	No
Competitive handling in-call	Yes	No
GTM agents that take actions (HubSpot/Salesforce/Gmail)	Yes	Limited
Core User	AEs, SEs, CS, frontline GTM	RevOps, sales leaders, finance

Improves the moment of truth: real buyer conversations.
Delivers instant answers on technical, security, and pricing objections.
Acts as an AI sales engineer for teams without enough SE bandwidth.
Supports frontline sellers and CS in real time, not just managers after the fact.
Converts intelligence into action via GTM agents in HubSpot, Salesforce, Gmail, and related systems.

Use Clari when your biggest need is:

If your reps are losing momentum in calls because they can’t answer in real time, buy Tenali AI first.

If your execution is strong but forecast hygiene is weak, layer in Clari.

Need	Best Choice
Real-time sales enablement AI	Tenali AI
AI Sales Engineer support	Tenali AI
LIVE on-call support for sales/GTM/customer success	Tenali AI
Forecast governance and pipeline inspection	Clari
GTM action-taking agents	Tenali AI

Bottom line: Clari explains revenue outcomes. Tenali AI improves them while calls are still live.