ConvinceIQ vs Exec: Which AI Sales Training Platform Is Right for Your Team?

ConvinceIQ and Exec both put a rep in a spoken conversation with an AI buyer, score how it went and give a manager something concrete to coach from. Both publish their prices. If you are comparing the two, you have already decided that practising a hard conversation beats hearing about one.

They differ in how much of the training programme each one wants to own.

Exec is a learning platform with AI roleplay at its centre. Around the roleplays sit call scoring for real recorded calls, courses and certifications, and a marketplace of human executive coaches — and it sells to customer service, leadership and HR teams as well as to sales.

ConvinceIQ is narrower on purpose. It is built around one sales conversation: a buyer persona you define, a fixed six-dimension scorecard that updates while the call runs, and a read on whether the buyer was actually convinced — with learning modules, training plans and 19 practice languages around it.

The difference is scope. If you want one platform for roleplay, call scoring, courses, certification and human coaching across the company, Exec covers more of it. If you want sales practice that works in the languages your team actually sells in, on a scorecard that compares rep to rep, ConvinceIQ is built for exactly that.

ConvinceIQ vs Exec: Quick Comparison

What is Exec?

Exec describes itself as AI-powered training for high-stakes conversations, built to certify sales, service and support teams. Sales training is one use among several: it also lists manager effectiveness, leadership development, customer service, onboarding, change management, interview training and performance management. (Exec)

Its AI roleplays are voice by default. You describe the conversation and an AI agent drafts the scenario, or you point it at a recorded call, a knowledge hub page, a Notion document or a URL. A scenario can include up to four AI characters, and Exec trains in nine languages. (Exec AI roleplays)

Exec also reaches real conversations. Call Scoring imports recorded calls and grades them against custom scorecards for each call category, with an AI Coach on every call. (Exec Call Scoring)

Unusually for this category, it also runs a human coaching marketplace: live one-to-one executive and sales manager coaching from more than 300 coaches, paid for with credits and with no employee minimum. (Exec coaching)

What is ConvinceIQ?

ConvinceIQ is an AI sales practice platform. A rep holds a spoken conversation with an AI buyer, and the platform scores the conversation, transcribes it, keeps the recording and files it for manager review. (ConvinceIQ)

The buyer is the configurable part. Buyer personas carry a role, mood, company context and their own decision criteria; product and company profiles hold the messaging and proof points the rep is expected to use. Upload a datasheet or a deck and ConvinceIQ suggests those details for you to approve, and the same persona can be shared across a team. (ConvinceIQ)

Every call is scored on the same six dimensions — discovery, value proposition, objection handling, structure, next step and tone — and the score updates while the call is still running. Alongside it sits a buyer-belief read: trust, openness, fit, urgency and next-step readiness, grouped into momentum, friction and context.

Around the practice sit learning modules on every plan, training plans and Team Insights on Team and above, and support for 19 languages. (ConvinceIQ)

The Biggest Difference: A Learning Platform or a Sales Practice Workspace?

Exec wants to run the whole training programme

Exec positions itself as a learning platform, with courses, programmes, certifications, call scoring and coaching in one place. (Exec platform)

That breadth is the point for an L&D function training several departments at once, and sales is one audience among several.

ConvinceIQ goes deep on one sales conversation

ConvinceIQ does not try to be a company-wide learning platform. Everything in it is built around a rep persuading a buyer: personas with their own decision criteria, product profiles, a scorecard designed for sales calls, and a buyer-belief read that asks whether the buyer's trust, urgency and readiness for a next step actually moved.

That makes it the narrower choice, and the more specific one for a sales team — particularly one selling across Asia-Pacific in languages Exec does not list.

Scenario Creation and Product Knowledge

Exec is fast to author. An AI agent drafts a scenario from a short description, and since July 2026 a recorded call can be turned into a practice scenario. (Exec)

For onboarding, Exec generates courses and scenarios from content you already keep in Notion, Google Drive, OneDrive or SharePoint. (Exec sales onboarding)

ConvinceIQ asks you to define the buyer once, then reuse them, with document upload drafting the first version of a profile. The payoff is consistency:

• Everyone practises the same buyer — the persona is shared, so scores compare across reps rather than across whichever scenario each rep happened to be given.
• The buyer has decision criteria of their own, so the conversation turns on whether the rep addressed what that buyer actually cares about.

Product knowledge sits in learning modules — written pages, video, slide decks, documents, PDFs and SCORM packages, with progress tracked per chapter — and a training plan can require a module before it unlocks the practice level that follows.

Scoring and Coaching

Exec scores roleplays against custom rubrics and scorecards, rates each skill gold, silver or bronze, and follows sessions with an AI Coach debrief. A rubric can mirror whatever methodology your team already teaches. (Exec AI sales roleplay)

Its certification is more developed than ConvinceIQ's: certification gates tied to roleplay scores, verifiable certificates and expiry rules, so a rep can be required to recertify. (Exec certifications)

ConvinceIQ scores every call on its fixed six-dimension scorecard, live, with the buyer-belief read alongside — a different question from a skills score, because it asks whether the buyer moved. Custom scorecards are available on Enterprise. Training plans on Team and above set ordered levels that unlock in turn, and a level can require manager review before the rep moves on.

The trade-off runs both ways. Exec's configurable rubrics fit your methodology and its certificates can be verified outside the platform. ConvinceIQ's fixed scorecard is less flexible, but a score means the same thing for every rep and every month, which is what makes it comparable.

Real Calls and Deal Execution

Exec scores real calls from its free plan upwards (Exec pricing). Calls are imported from a connected recorder — its documentation names Fireflies, Fathom, Sybill, Clari Copilot, Gong, Zoom and Microsoft Teams — and graded against custom scorecards (Exec docs).

On Team and above, ConvinceIQ scores a recording you import: it is transcribed, split into seller and buyer turns you can tidy up, and scored with the same six dimensions and buyer-belief read as a practice call — labelled separately so it never inflates practice numbers.

On Enterprise, ConvinceIQ also connects to Microsoft Dynamics 365. Calls your sellers make through the Dynamics dialer and record with Conversation Intelligence are discovered automatically, queued for review or imported unattended, matched to the right seller, and enriched with the buyer's contact, account, lead or opportunity from the CRM. ConvinceIQ transcribes those calls itself rather than reusing the Dynamics transcript, which holds up better on multilingual calls. Beyond Dynamics there is no recorder integration, so if your calls live in Gong, Zoom or Fireflies, Exec is the easier way to get them scored automatically.

Neither is built for deal execution. ConvinceIQ reads from Dynamics 365 but never writes back to it, and Exec's documentation does not list a Salesforce or HubSpot integration. If coaching inside the live pipeline is the priority, a conversation intelligence platform is a better starting point than either.

Integrations, Languages and Security

Exec integrates more. Its roleplays can run inside an LMS over LTI 1.3 with grade passback (Exec), API access comes with the Professional plan, and SSO and SCIM are Enterprise features (Exec pricing).

ConvinceIQ is more self-contained. Microsoft Entra SSO is included on every plan, Starter included, while the Dynamics 365 connection, other enterprise integrations and API access are reserved for Enterprise. For a team already selling on Dynamics 365, that connection is the integration that matters; for a Salesforce or HubSpot team, neither platform names a CRM connector.

Languages are ConvinceIQ's clearest advantage. Exec lists nine: English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Dutch, Japanese, Chinese and Korean (Exec). ConvinceIQ supports 19, including Mandarin, Cantonese, Malay, Indonesian, Filipino and Italian, and a manager can turn on live English translation to follow a call in a language they do not speak (ConvinceIQ). For a team selling across Southeast Asia, that list can decide it.

On security, Exec is SOC 2 Type II and SOC 3 certified, and states that customer data is never used for AI training or model improvement. (Exec enterprise privacy)

ConvinceIQ is GDPR compliant, uses Microsoft Entra SSO with role-based access, encrypts data in transit and at rest on Microsoft Azure, and never uses customer data to train AI — but does not hold a SOC 2 or ISO certification. If your procurement process requires SOC 2, Exec clears that bar today and ConvinceIQ does not. (ConvinceIQ security)

How Does Pricing Compare?

Both publish prices, so the comparison is unusually direct.

Exec has a free plan with up to three basic seats, five roleplay sessions per user per year and two custom scenarios. Starter is US$20 per seat per month billed annually, with a five-seat minimum and ten sessions per user per month. Professional is US$39 per seat per month billed annually, with a 15-seat minimum and unlimited sessions, and adds AI Coach, analytics, API access and LTI. Enterprise is quoted, and human coaching is bought separately with credits. (Exec pricing)

ConvinceIQ is US$59 per seat per month, or US$49 billed annually, on Starter for 1 to 9 seats, and US$39, or US$33 billed annually, on Team for 10 to 49 seats, with Enterprise by quotation. Voice practice is included by the minute: 100 minutes per seat per month on Starter and 200 on Team. (ConvinceIQ pricing)

On list price, Exec is cheaper at every team size. A ten-rep team pays US$200 a month on Exec Starter against US$330 on ConvinceIQ Team, and Exec has a free plan to try first. What differs is what the seat includes. Exec Starter allows ten practice sessions per rep per month, and AI Coach and roleplay analytics start on Professional, at US$39 a seat with a 15-seat minimum. ConvinceIQ includes scorecards and manager review on every plan, 200 voice minutes a seat on Team, and training plans and Team Insights from Team up. Exec counts practice in sessions and ConvinceIQ in minutes, so check how long your practice calls actually run before comparing the allowances.

When Exec May Be the Better Choice

Exec may be the stronger fit when:

• You are training more than sales — customer service, support, managers and leaders on one platform.
• You want human coaches alongside AI practice, for managers and executives.
• Procurement requires SOC 2 Type II.
• You want real calls scored automatically from a recorder you already use, such as Gong, Zoom or Fireflies.
• You need formal certification, with verifiable certificates and expiry rules.
• You want to start free, or need the lowest entry price for a small team.
• Video avatars or multi-character scenarios matter for the conversations you are training.

When ConvinceIQ May Be the Better Choice

ConvinceIQ may be the stronger fit when:

• Your team sells in languages Exec does not list, such as Cantonese, Malay, Indonesian or Filipino, or managers need live English translation to follow the call.
• You want scores that compare across the team, on a fixed scorecard with a read on whether the buyer was convinced.
• You want SSO without an Enterprise contract.
• Your sellers call through Dynamics 365 and you want those recorded calls scored and coached without anyone uploading a file.
• You want product learning and scored practice gated together in one training plan.
• You are buying for a sales team, not a company-wide learning platform.

Which Platform Should You Choose?

Start with scope. If the budget sits with L&D and the programme covers sales, service and leadership — with certification and human coaching in the mix — Exec covers more of that ground on one platform, holds SOC 2 and costs less to start.

If the buyer is a sales leader and the question is whether reps can win a specific conversation, in the language the deal happens in, ConvinceIQ is the more focused tool: one buyer shared across the team, one scorecard that compares rep to rep, and a read on whether the buyer was convinced.

Book a ConvinceIQ demo and we will set up a buyer persona from your own product, so you can judge the practice conversation rather than the pitch about it.

Still weighing the options? See how every platform compares in our guide to AI sales roleplay platforms.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do I need a full learning platform like Exec to run AI sales roleplay?

No. If what you need is sales practice — reps rehearsing buyer conversations and managers reviewing scored calls — a practice-focused platform such as ConvinceIQ covers it without the courses, certification and coaching marketplace you may not use. Exec is the stronger choice when you want those as well, across several departments.

Does Exec integrate with Salesforce or HubSpot?

Exec's documentation does not list a Salesforce or HubSpot integration, and its own comparison with Hyperbound recommends Hyperbound when deep CRM workflow integration is the top technical priority (Exec vs Hyperbound). ConvinceIQ's CRM integration is with Microsoft Dynamics 365, on its Enterprise plan: it imports calls recorded by Dynamics 365 Conversation Intelligence and fills in buyer details from the CRM, but does not write anything back.

Can revenue teams use Exec to develop executive conversation skills?

Yes. Beyond sales roleplay, Exec markets leadership development and manager effectiveness use cases, and runs a marketplace of human executive and sales manager coaches. ConvinceIQ is focused on sales conversations and does not offer human coaching.

How does Exec compare with Second Nature and Hyperbound?

Exec is broader than either, adding courses, certification, call scoring and a human coaching marketplace to AI roleplay, and its own Hyperbound comparison concedes that Hyperbound goes deeper on CRM workflow integration. Exec publishes its comparisons with both (Exec vs Second Nature, Exec vs Hyperbound), which are worth reading as the vendor's view. For how ConvinceIQ compares with each, see ConvinceIQ vs Second Nature and ConvinceIQ vs Hyperbound.

Which platform supports more languages?

ConvinceIQ supports 19 languages, including Mandarin, Cantonese, Malay, Indonesian and Filipino, with live English translation for managers. Exec lists nine: English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Dutch, Japanese, Chinese and Korean.

Is Exec cheaper than ConvinceIQ?

On list price, yes. Exec has a free plan and a US$20 Starter seat billed annually, against US$49 for ConvinceIQ Starter and US$33 for ConvinceIQ Team. The difference is the allowance: Exec Starter includes ten practice sessions per rep per month and keeps AI Coach and analytics for Professional, at US$39 with a 15-seat minimum, while ConvinceIQ includes scorecards and manager review on every plan and 100 to 200 voice minutes per seat.