About Us

Experts and entrepreneurs deserve an assistant. That’s why we built Sally.

Online-Meeting Aufzeichnung & Transkription
50,000

Users worldwide

30+

Team members

2015

Founded

Our Story

How it all started...

Sally started in 2018 with a simple goal: to reduce the admin overload for people who build things - entrepreneurs, consultants, project leads. What began as a chatbot evolved into a smart assistant trusted by over 25,000 professionals today.

We're not chasing hype - we’re solving real problems. Sally automates the tedious parts of your meetings and connects seamlessly into your existing tools, helping teams work faster and more transparently.

Julian Kissel • Founder & CEO of Sally AI

Our headquarters • Mannheim, Germany

Our Mission

Less admin.
More impact.

We believe great minds shouldn’t waste time on busywork. Sally is your AI assistant that takes care of meeting notes, tasks, and documentation - so you can focus on growth, not on writing things down.

Trusted by 50,000 professionals every day

Sally's origin story

February 2026

Sally reaches 50,000 users

More and more teams rely on Sally to automatically document their meetings and structure the follow-up. With over 50,000 users, Sally has established itself as a reliable AI meeting assistant for companies that want to make their meeting culture more efficient and transparent.

The growing feedback from real-world use continuously flows into the further development of the platform.

Sally AI Kunden Erfahrung

October 2025

Sally expands its meeting platform

🌍 100+ supported languages for international teams
🔗 More than 8,000 integrations with existing tools
🎯 Transcription accuracy of up to 98.8%
✍️ Custom prompts to tailor summaries to individual needs
🗂️ Meeting types for structured summaries
Continuous product improvements

This evolution is transforming Sally from a transcription tool into a comprehensive platform for structured meeting documentation.

Sally AI Kunden Erfahrung

April 2025

Collaboration with the University of Mannheim

Sally is working together with the University of Mannheim on a ZIM-funded research project to advance the next generation of AI-powered meeting transcription. The goal is to make transcriptions more precise and context-aware, even in complex meeting situations with multiple speakers or background noise.

Insights from this research are directly integrated into the ongoing development of Sally.

Sally AI Kunden Erfahrung

University of Mannheim

January 2025

We get the maximum out of it for you

We are constantly developing Sally to provide users with maximum added value: Sally now supports more than 99 languages, transcribes face-to-face appointments and links seamlessly into your tool environment.

Mafinex Mannheim

Mannheim, Germany • Our headquarters

September 2024

25,000 users are involved

Six years after the launch of the first version, more than 25,000 experts now rely on Sally to save their valuable time - without ever having to struggle with manual typing again.

The positive feedback encourages us in our mission: we know Sally can do even more. Our journey continues, step by step, towards a fully comprehensive AI assistant.

Sally AI Kunden Erfahrung

A small selection of our customers

May 2023

Manual notes are now history

The focus on efficiency led us to develop the meeting assistant into an AI transcription tool. Sally now automatically transcribes meetings and handles the follow-up, so users never have to take manual notes again, making it accessible and easier to use for small and medium-sized companies.

Sally in action

February 2023

AI hype - and we were right in the middle of it

Artificial intelligence was on everyone's lips. While many were just talking about it, we were already actively involved with our own AI assistant.

We knew that the market was now ready for our solutions, but we also knew that it would take a while for people to familiarize themselves with the new technology: Simplicity and real added value therefore always had to take center stage.

Management level of Sally

December 2021

We get the ball rolling

Sally has been integrated even more intelligently and seamlessly into CRM systems. With the new version, it was possible to prepare appointments efficiently for the first time by using AI to gather relevant customer information and provide it in a clear and concise manner.

This version laid the foundation for today's core functions, such as summarizing appointments or recognizing tasks arising from meetings.

Julian Kissel • Founder and Managing Director of Sally

April 2021

There's more to it

By using Sally at Freudenberg, we have significantly improved CRM user behavior. The feedback was positive, but it also showed that sales employees want more than a chatbot - they want a real assistant.

This insight led us to further develop Sally into an intelligent, supportive companion.

Freudenberg Weinheim

Freudenberg Sealing Technologies • Headquarters Weinheim

June 2020

Screwing, filing, improving

We released Sally for testing for the first time, gathered experience and continued to develop our platform.

We realized that we still had a long way to go - but at the same time we knew that Sally offered real added value!

Julian Kissel CEO Sally

2020 • Julian Kissel presents Sally

November 2018

The journey begins

The first version of Sally has little to do with today's powerful AI transcription software. Sally 1.0 was a chatbot that supported sales representatives by asking specific questions about the progress of customer meetings and automatically transferring the answers to the CRM.

This first step laid the foundation for our mission: promoting growth through less bureaucracy.

The Kissel brothers in front of the old Sally logo

Would you like to test Sally live?

After signing up, you can invite Sally to your appointment via invite@sally.io and try out all features.

Die Entstehungsgeschichte von Sally

Dezember 2015

Unser Gründer Julian Kissel gründete als renommierter Microsoft- & CRM-Experte 2015 das Unternehmen, das bis heute hinter Sally SalesAI steht: Aliru.

Seine Mission: Komplexe Vertriebsprozesse von Unternehmen auf einfache und effektive Weise im CRM abzubilden, um so die Verkaufsziele mühelos zu erreichen - mit Erfolg.

Seit jeher verwirklichte er für Unternehmen wie Freudenberg, Deutsche Bahn oder Lichtblick Milliardenumsätze, indem er deren Vertriebsstrategien optimierte und effizient umsetzte.

Julian Kissel, CEO bei Aliru
November 2018

Nach monatelanger Arbeit entstand Sally 1.0

Getrieben von der Mission, entstand die erste Betaversion von Sally. Sally fing als kleiner Chatbot an, der bei der Erstellung von Besuchsberichten half, indem er nach einem Meeting relevante Fragen zum Termin stellte. Die Antworten der Außendienstler wurden direkt in das CRM eingepflegt.

Der Vorteil: Durch Sally vergisst man keine relevante Themen mehr in das Besuchsbericht einzupflegen, da die KI kundenspezifische Fragen stellte, was zu einer höheren Datenqualität führte.

April 2021

Die Resultate des Projektes bei Freudenberg und unsere Learnings

Nach der Implementierung bei Freudenberg haben wir intensiv analysiert und wertvolle Erkenntnisse gewonnen. Obwohl wir die Nutzung des CRMs steigern konnten, stellten wir fest, dass viele Außendienstler keinen konkreten Mehrwert in Sally sahen. Die Herausforderung bestand darin, einen klaren Nutzen zu schaffen und Zeitersparnis zu bieten. Diese Erkenntnis trieb uns an, Sally zu einem umfassenden Tool weiterzuentwickeln, das nicht nur Daten sammelt, sondern den Arbeitsalltag der Außendienstmitarbeiter erleichtert.

Februar 2022

Wir nehmen Kurs auf die aktuelle Sally Version.

Im Februar 2022 hatten wir einen bahnbrechenden Moment. Unser Team erkannte die Möglichkeit, Besuchsberichte nicht mehr manuell verfassen zu müssen. Die Idee, Sally in Meetings zu integrieren, um Gespräche präzise zu transkribieren und Agendapunkte automatisch festzuhalten, war geboren. Diese Idee wurde durch die Erkenntnis beflügelt, dass bisherige Tools nur in der englischen Sprache gut funktionierten. Unser Team mobilisierte all sein Wissen und Know-how, um diese Vision in die Realität umzusetzen. Dabei entstand die Idee zum Premium Transkriptions-Tool, das nicht nur Besprechungen mitschreibt, sondern auch als hochwertiges Tool dient, um Meetings produktiver zu gestalten.

April 2023

So performt Sally heute.

Bis dato nutzen über 25.000 Vertriebsmitarbeiter weltweit Sally SalesAI und optimieren damit ihre administrativen Tätigkeiten. Aliru, die Firma hinter Sally, zeichnet eine Mitarbeiterzahl von über 25 eifrigen Mitarbeitern, die Sally stetig optimieren.

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