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Capabilities
One page per thing the General actually does. Each one states the problem, the mechanism, what you can check for yourself, the limits, and when to choose something else.
AI that researches a prospect and writes the first approach
The General reads public sources about a specific company and person, decides whether they actually fit the brief, writes an approach grounded in what it found, and then owns the follow-up sequence.
AI that uses a real browser on your own accounts
The General drives a real Chrome session rather than an API, so it can work inside portals, directories and tools that have no API and would otherwise need a person.
AI that attends the meeting and then does what was agreed
The General joins the call, keeps the recording, transcript and write-up, and then turns what was committed to on the call into actual queued work rather than a list of bullet points.
AI that works your inbox and never drops a follow-up
The General reads the mailbox you already have, triages what actually needs you, drafts what does not, and keeps chasing the threads that went quiet.
AI that answers the phone and books the job
The General answers a real phone line, handles the conversation, and completes the thing the caller rang about, then writes the outcome into your systems.
AI that keeps the CRM current without data entry
The General writes what it did into the CRM you already have, so the record reflects the work rather than somebody's memory of it.
Comparisons
Every comparison here contains at least one criterion the alternative wins, and a real recommendation to choose it. That is enforced by a test, not by good intentions.
The General vs hiring a sales development rep
An SDR is better when the job needs judgement in a live conversation and you can afford the ramp; the General is better when the constraint is that nobody is doing the follow-up at all.
AI agent vs AI copilot: what the difference actually is
A copilot makes the person at the keyboard faster; an agent removes the requirement that somebody is at the keyboard. Neither is better in general and they fail in opposite ways.
The General vs a workflow automation tool
Use a workflow tool when the steps are known and stable; use an agent when deciding the steps is the work.
AI notetaker vs an AI that acts on the meeting
A notetaker is a better archive and costs less; an acting agent is worth it only if the failure you are fixing is that nothing happens after the call.
The General vs a browser-only agent
A browser agent completes a task in a tab; an operator owns an outcome across several surfaces and keeps going tomorrow.
Original research
Research DFX produced because we ran the measurement, with the method, the sample and the limitations published alongside the finding. Where a dataset exists, it is downloadable.
2026-08-19
Which sources AI answer engines cite when buyers ask about business software
For commercial software buying questions, AI citations are extraordinarily fragmented, not concentrated. Across 3,952 citations we recorded 2,031 distinct domains, 71% of which were cited exactly once, and the top 25 domains together accounted for 13.7% of all citations. Reddit, the domain most often described as the single biggest source in AI answers, was 0.71%. Wikipedia was 0.18%. Capterra was zero.
2026-08-19
How often AI assistants actually search the web before answering a buying question
38.5% of answers to commercial buying questions involved no web retrieval at all, and it depends enormously on how the question is phrased: 91.5% of category questions ("what are the best AI sales agents") triggered a search, against 32.4% of problem questions ("how do I stop losing deals to slow follow-up"). The answers that skip retrieval are drawn entirely from what the model already believes about the market, and no amount of work on your own website reaches them.
Machine-readable
The same facts, as data. These exist because a person building something against our public record should not have to scrape a page to get it, and because a record that is served in two formats from one source cannot disagree with itself.
The General by DFX Intelligence. DFX Intelligence is the operating brand for the General platform. It is not affiliated with DFX Holdings Group, with Deal Flow Xchange, or with any audio-processing product using the DFX name. This section was last verified on 2026-08-19.