Strategy question
You have 30 minutes to demo Sierra to a prospect with a VP of Support, a CIO, and a solutions architect in the room. How would you choose the scenarios, business narrative, and technical proof points so executives leave with confidence in ROI while the technical evaluators get enough detail on integration, control, and safety?
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What this question tests
Ability to tailor a single demo to multiple stakeholder personas with different concerns in a tight time window.
How to approach it
- Open with a business narrative framed around the VP of Support's priority, for example resolution volume and cost per ticket, to earn attention in the first few minutes.
- Choose two to three demo scenarios that are realistic to this prospect's actual support volume, not generic examples, so the ROI story feels concrete rather than staged.
- Build in a technical proof point for the CIO and solutions architect mid demo, such as showing how the agent integrates with their existing systems and where human escalation and guardrails sit.
- Show a safety or control moment deliberately, for example the agent correctly declining or escalating an ambiguous request, since that builds more trust with technical evaluators than only showing successful resolutions.
- Close with a clear ROI framing tied back to the VP's metric, alongside a short technical next step, like a security review call, for the CIO and architect.
- Time box strictly, since 30 minutes forces prioritizing the two or three scenarios and proof points that matter most to this specific audience rather than a generic feature tour.
What a strong answer includes
- Sequences the demo to hit each persona's priority explicitly, business narrative first, technical proof mid demo, rather than a generic linear feature walkthrough.
- Chooses scenarios grounded in the prospect's actual context instead of stock examples.
- Deliberately demonstrates a safety or escalation moment, which is what technical evaluators specifically look for.
- Ends with a concrete next step tailored to the technical stakeholders, not just a generic follow up.
Common mistakes
- Running one generic feature demo that does not speak differently to the VP, CIO, and solutions architect.
- Only showing success scenarios, missing the trust building value of showing safe failure handling.
Likely follow-up questions
- What would you cut first if the demo were running over time?
- How would you adjust the demo if the CIO seemed more skeptical than engaged?
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Chapters of the AI PM course that teach what this question tests.
- Chapter 4: Discovering and Sizing AI Opportunities
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