How can AI help a manufacturer or distributor handle sample requests from prospects?

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title: "How to handle product sample requests with AI"
description: "AI can read sample requests from web forms and emails, check each one against your CRM and your own sample policy, and sort them into likely buyers, existing customers, repeat requests and requests that look like they come from competitors or students. It drafts a short reply and a shipping request for the ones that fit your policy, notes which sales rep owns the account, and schedules a follow-up after the sample arrives. A sales or customer service lead approves each shipment, so samples go to people most likely to buy and every one gets a timely follow-up."
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# How can AI help a manufacturer or distributor handle sample requests from prospects?

AI can read sample requests from web forms and emails, check each one against your CRM and your own sample policy, and sort them into likely buyers, existing customers, repeat requests and requests that look like they come from competitors or students. It drafts a short reply and a shipping request for the ones that fit your policy, notes which sales rep owns the account, and schedules a follow-up after the sample arrives. A sales or customer service lead approves each shipment, so samples go to people most likely to buy and every one gets a timely follow-up.

## What this means in practice

- Write a short sample policy covering who qualifies and how many samples per account.
- Have AI check each request against the CRM and policy and group it by likely fit.
- Ask AI to draft the reply, the shipping request and a follow-up date for each approved sample.
- A sales or service lead approves each shipment and assigns the follow-up.
- Review which samples led to orders so the policy keeps improving.

## How Lid Vizion approaches it

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