What is sales automation?
Sales automation is the automation of recurring sales tasks such as lead routing, data completion, reminders and reporting.
The benefit does not lie in the automation itself but in the room it creates: sales people who no longer copy data, juggle reviews and assemble reports have more and better conversations. Sales automation is therefore not a replacement for sales but its infrastructure.
The boundary matters just as much: whatever builds trust, meaning conversation, consulting and negotiation, is not automated.