SHOTGUNShotgun vs Vivun Ava
Vivun's Ava is an AI sales engineer for enterprise presales teams; it can join live calls by voice or avatar. Serious product, enterprise focus. The differences that matter: who it's built for, how fast you're live, and whether anyone can prove afterward what the AI claimed.
| Shotgun | Vivun Ava | |
|---|---|---|
| Format | Named AI participant, speaks out loud, rep first chair | AI sales engineer by voice or avatar |
| Built for | SMB & vertical sales teams | Enterprise presales organizations |
| Pricing | ✓ Published: $597/seat/mo | ✗ Enterprise, quoted |
| Provable record of AI claims | ✓ Signed ledger + verifiable receipt | ✗ Not offered |
| Turn-taking discipline | ✓ Hard rules: never interrupts, never negotiates; live mute/override | ~ Not publicly documented |
| Time to live | Days — vertical KB packs pre-built | Quarters — enterprise rollout |
When Vivun is the right call: you run an enterprise presales org and want an AI SE woven through the whole presales workflow. When Shotgun is: you need your best technical answer spoken on SMB sales calls this month, per-seat, with a verifiable record of every claim. Ava answers questions; nobody can prove afterward what it claimed. Every claim Shotgun makes is logged with its source and cryptographically signed — and that record goes to your buyer after the call.
Proof, not promises
The category's open question is accountability. Shotgun's answer is a signed receipt anyone can verify with a public key — try to forge one.