Velocity AI Shut Down: What Happened and the Best Alternatives in 2026
Velocity AI wound down operations in 2026: service ended March 9, data deleted March 16. If you used Chase for real-time sales coaching, here are the live-coaching alternatives and how to migrate.
Velocity AI shut down in 2026: the company officially wound down operations, kept the service available until March 9, 2026, and deleted all customer data on March 16, 2026. Its product, an AI assistant called Chase, coached reps live on calls, automated follow-up busywork, and offered multilingual real-time guidance on Zoom, Teams, and Meet. As of mid-2026 it still appears in several "best real-time sales assistant" listicles, which is presumably how you got here.
Disclosure: we build SalesGhost, one of the alternatives below. The shutdown facts are from Velocity's own notice.
What Velocity AI Users Lost
Velocity's pitch was live coaching plus automation: real-time guidance during calls, multilingual support, and post-call busywork handled automatically, reportedly priced around $40-100/user/month. With data deleted in March, there is nothing to export anymore; if you were a customer, the migration is a fresh start rather than a transfer.
Live-Coaching Alternatives in 2026
The real-time category Velocity competed in is healthier than ever. The honest map:
- SalesGhost: live answers retrieved from your own docs, battle cards on objections, recaps and scorecards after. Native Mac + Windows desktop app, no meeting bot, invisible during screen shares. $29/month personal, $49/seat teams, 7-day self-serve trial. Closest match if what you valued in Velocity was in-call help.
- Nomi: enterprise real-time copilot (YC X25) with playbook adherence and CRM sync, $89-129/user/month, sales-led. See SalesGhost vs Nomi.
- Salesken: live cue cards and talk-track prompts aimed at high-volume inside sales teams; custom enterprise pricing.
- Winn.AI: real-time playbook tracking with CRM autofill, $69/user/month.
- Clari Copilot: trigger-based battlecards inside the Clari revenue platform, reported $120-160/user/month.
- Fireflies Live Assist: light live prompts on a budget notetaker, $10-19/user/month, if your Velocity use was mostly notes.
The full field, including post-call tools, is in our 10 best real-time AI sales assistants comparison.
Migrating in an Afternoon
Whatever you pick, the setup work is the same: reconnect your knowledge sources (pricing docs, security pages, battle cards), run one test call, and check the two things that vary most between tools: whether a bot joins your meetings (Velocity used a Zoom app; several alternatives are bot-free desktop apps) and whether answers are grounded in your material or generic. Our guide to choosing an AI sales copilot covers the four tests worth running in any trial.
A Note on Vendor Risk
Velocity's wind-down is the second real-time sales tool to disappear in twelve months (Aside pivoted away from sales in mid-2026). It is fair to ask any vendor, including us, about staying power. Practical hedges: prefer month-to-month or short annual terms, keep your knowledge sources in formats you own (documents, not only in-app configuration), and favor tools where export is trivial.
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