About us

Damit aus jedem Gespräch echte Ergebnisse werden

Seit 2015 entwickeln wir in Mannheim intelligente Software für die Arbeitswelt von morgen. Sally ist ein KI-Meeting-Assistent, der Dokumentation automatisiert und Teams die Freiheit gibt, sich auf das Wesentliche zu konzentrieren.

Heute ist Sally eine vollständige Plattform für Meeting-Intelligenz: genutzt von über 50.000 Fachleuten in mehr als 1.000 Unternehmen. Vom inhabergeführten Mittelständler bis zum internationalen Konzern.

Das Sally-Team

“Wir waren schon tief in KI-Technologie investiert, bevor der Hype begann. Nicht aus Trend, sondern aus Überzeugung – weil wir jeden Tag gesehen haben, wie viel Potenzial in Gesprächen verloren geht.”

Julian Kissel
Founder & Managing Director, Sally AI

Von der Beobachtung zur Plattform

Die Idee hinter Sally entstand nicht am Reißbrett, sondern in der Praxis: In unzähligen Kundengesprächen sahen wir, wie wertvolle Erkenntnisse im Alltag untergingen – nicht aus Nachlässigkeit, sondern weil die Werkzeuge fehlten. Heute setzen einige der anspruchsvollsten Unternehmen Deutschlands auf Sally.

50.000+
Kunden weltweit
30+
Mitarbeiter
2015
Gegründet

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

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Nach der Anmeldung kannst du Sally via invite@sally.io in deinen Termin einladen und alle Funktionen testen.

The origin story of Sally

December 2015

As a renowned Microsoft & CRM expert, our founder Julian Kissel founded the company that is still behind Sally SalesAI today: Aliru.

His mission: to map complex sales processes of companies in a simple and effective way in CRM so that sales goals can be achieved effortlessly - with success.

He has always generated billions in sales for companies such as Freudenberg, Deutsche Bahn and Lichtblick by optimizing and efficiently implementing their sales strategies.

Julian Kissel, CEO bei Aliru
novembre 2018

After months of work, Sally 1.0 was created

Driven by the mission, the first beta version of Sally was created. Sally started out as a small chatbot that helped create visit reports by asking relevant questions about the appointment after a meeting. The answers from the sales representatives were added directly to the CRM.

The advantage: With Sally, you no longer forget to include relevant topics in the visit report, as the AI asked customer-specific questions, which led to higher data quality.

Abril 2021

The results of the project at Freudenberg and our learnings

Following the implementation at Freudenberg, we analyzed intensively and gained valuable insights. Although we were able to increase the use of CRM, we found that many sales representatives did not see any concrete added value in Sally. The challenge was to create clear benefits and save time. This insight drove us to further develop Sally into a comprehensive tool that not only collects data but also makes everyday work for field staff easier.

February 2022

We're heading for the latest Sally version.

In February 2022, we had a groundbreaking moment. Our team recognized the option of not having to manually write visit reports anymore. The idea was born to integrate Sally into meetings to precisely transcribe conversations and automatically record agenda items. This idea was inspired by the realization that previous tools only worked well in the English language. Our team mobilized all their knowledge and expertise to turn this vision into reality. This gave rise to the idea for a premium transcription tool, which not only records meetings, but also serves as a high-quality tool to make meetings more productive.

Abril 2023

We're heading for the latest Sally version.

To date, over 25,000 sales employees worldwide use Sally SalesAI to optimize their administrative activities. Aliru, the company behind Sally, has over 25 dedicated employees.

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