How Pipeline Pulse works in Dynamics 365 Built for the sales conversation and the IT review.

See how Pulse surfaces timely account signals inside Dynamics 365, then review the AppSource install, tenant permissions, data flow, and security model your IT team will evaluate.

For IT & admins · 03

Zero custom code. Zero integration headaches.

IT teams dread sales tools that require months of custom engineering, invasive tenant permissions, or fragile sync jobs. Pulse installs in about 2 hours as a Microsoft signed AppSource managed solution. All schema updates are packaged in that solution, so there is no custom schema work in your environment.

In your tenant

Dynamics 365

Solution imported. Three new views appear in the sitemap. No core tables modified.

OAuth · scoped

Pulse Service

Reads four read-only fields per record (name, website URL, city, and state) from your Leads and your Accounts, including the parent account of each opportunity. Runs the AI scoring job on the cadence you pick.

Back into Dynamics

Pulse Views

Scored cards, ranked lists, and AI-written angles written back to your Pulse entities.

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The data model is small, by design.

For external sales-signal research, Pulse uses Leads and Accounts, including the parent account of each opportunity, and reads four fields on each: name, website URL, city, and state. Leads use the same read-only permissions as Accounts. Nothing about your contacts, conversations, opportunity values, or pipeline activity ever leaves your Dynamics tenant.

Pipeline Insights also uses opportunity data inside Dynamics 365 across four views: Pipeline Health, Needs Attention, Won vs Lost, and Opportunity Sales Cycle. The table below describes the external research data flow, rather than all data used by the product.

Zero retention. The four fields we read are used to run the research pass, then discarded. We don't keep a copy of your account list on our side. The scores, news URLs, and insights we generate are written back into your tenant. That's where they live.

Field Used for external research? Leaves your tenant?
Account name & Lead nameYesYes, for lookup
Account website URL & Lead website URLYesYes, for lookup
Account city & Lead cityYesYes, lookup & signal matching
Account state & Lead stateYesYes, lookup & signal matching
Contact recordsNoNever
Opportunity values, stages, datesNoNever
Email or activity historyNoNever
Notes, attachments, filesNoNever
Pulse score, news URL, and insightsYes, written backStored in your tenant
For sales leaders · 01

What the AI actually looks at.

For every Account and Lead record we receive (name, website URL, city, and state), Pulse runs a focused research pass against public sources. City and state ground each signal to the right location, so a plant expansion in Ohio doesn't get matched to a same-named entity in Texas. The model isn't summarizing the internet. It's looking for a specific class of signal that sales teams actually act on.

Reads

Public news & press

Earnings calls, press releases, business-news coverage, regional trade publications. We index the sources, the AI doesn't crawl them itself.

Reads

Regulatory & financial filings

SEC filings, public M&A announcements, funding rounds, public-tender awards.

Reads

Leadership & org changes

Executive moves, role changes, named hires in functions you care about (we map your ICP roles up front).

Reads

Operational signals

Plant openings, capacity expansions, layoffs, technology stack changes mentioned in public sources.

Does not read

Social media DMs & private content

We don't scrape LinkedIn DMs, private Slack channels, or anything behind a login. Only public surfaces.

Does not read

Your CRM activity

Pulse doesn't know who your reps emailed or what they said. The scoring is about the world, not about your team.

For each signal that survives the relevance filter, the model writes a short "why this matters" paragraph in plain English and tags one or two source links. That's the artifact your rep sees on the card.

For sales leaders · 02

Eliminating friction for every role in your revenue engine.

Pulse combines sales-signal views with four Pipeline Insights views inside Dynamics 365. Reps can prioritize relevant outreach, while managers and revenue leaders review Pipeline Health, Needs Attention, Won vs Lost, and Opportunity Sales Cycle.

Lands in · Opportunity Pulse / Lead Pulse · Mobile first

Reps stop guessing who to call and stop wasting hours digging for news.

Instead of starting the morning wondering which accounts are active or scrolling LinkedIn for context, reps open Dynamics 365 to a prioritized kanban of hot accounts. Every card delivers the exact news trigger, the AI written selling angle, and verified bullet highlights so outreach is relevant on the very first touch.

  • Mobile native: uses the Dynamics 365 mobile app reps already have on their phone
  • Eliminate blank screen cold calls with instant AI written talking points
  • One tap jump to verifiable source articles cited on each card
  • Dismiss irrelevant alerts with one click to keep the pipeline clean
  • Never let an active buying window slip past to a competitor
Lands in · Pulse Summary

Turn defensive status meetings into proactive coaching sessions.

Managers waste hours every Monday interrogating reps for deal status. Pulse rolls every rep's pipeline into one prioritized view, flagging high value deals that have fresh market triggers so you can raise them in coaching before momentum dies.

  • Spot high priority accounts with new market triggers this week
  • Pinpoint stalled deals with fresh external momentum before they slip
  • Replace vague verbal status checks with source-linked signals and pipeline data
  • Export a focused pipeline agenda directly from the view
  • See which market triggers are driving wins across the entire team
Lands in · Pulse Summary (exec view)

Catch revenue risk while you still have time to protect your number.

Revenue executives usually discover deal decay only after a quarter is already lost. Pulse aggregates external market pressure, deal velocity, and pipeline risk across segments so leaders can spot forecast vulnerabilities weeks before the close.

  • Segment level signal heatmaps across industry, region, and target ICP
  • Identify stalling pipeline stages before they impact revenue projections
  • High priority executive watchlist tracking top strategic accounts
  • Objective pipeline health signals without invasive rep activity spying
For IT & admins · 05

Security model, in one paragraph.

Pulse is a Microsoft-signed AppSource solution. The connection between your Dynamics tenant and our service is OAuth 2.0, read-only, scoped to four fields on Accounts and Leads. We operate a strict zero-retention policy: those fields are read for a research pass and discarded. No copy of your account list lives on our side. Your Microsoft 365 admin can revoke the connection at any time, and the solution can be uninstalled cleanly, with no orphaned records and no residual data.

OAuth 2.0

Scoped, revocable connection

Read-only scope on four fields (name, website URL, city, and state) on both Accounts and Leads. Revoke from Microsoft 365 admin in two clicks.

AppSource signed

Microsoft-reviewed solution

The solution package is signed and listed on Microsoft Marketplace. Same install pattern as any other AppSource product.

Region pinned

Data residency, by request

By default, Pulse runs in US-East. EU-West and APAC regions available for enterprise tier on request.

Zero retention

Nothing is stored on our side

The four fields we read are used for the research pass and discarded. We don't maintain a copy of your account list, your pipeline, or anything else outside your tenant.

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What your IT team will need to do.

Plan for about 2 hours of IT/admin time on install day, plus up to 24 hours for the first Pulse run to complete against your Accounts and Leads. Most teams are viewing live Pulse insights by the next business day. For Dynamics admins, the key details are below: what gets installed, which fields Pulse reads, how OAuth access works, and what needs to happen before the first run.

IT install checklist

  • Confirm your Dynamics 365 environment is hosted online. We support 9.2+ and will confirm this on the call.
  • Schedule a 2-hour window with an admin who can import managed solutions.
  • Install the signed Pulse solution from its Microsoft Marketplace listing.
  • Approve the OAuth scope: account.name, account.websiteurl, account city, account state, lead name, lead website URL, lead city, and lead state. All read-only.
  • Assign the three new Pulse security roles to the sales-team Dataverse roles.
  • Allow up to 24 hours for the first Pulse run to complete against your Accounts and Leads. We monitor the first run and reach out if anything needs attention.

Our implementation engineer is on the line for all of the above. You don't need to do it from a documentation page.

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