Deelan reduces training time from days to minutes and significantly lowers costs, enabling SMEs and enterprise companies to build high performing teams effortlessly.
After years of working with Luxembourg’s most promising startups through his consulting firm, Dealsup, Panos Meintanis saw a glaring gap in the market. Traditional sales training was either inaccessible to smaller startups or required massive budgets and time investments that most early stage companies couldn’t afford. “Sales training shouldn’t be a luxury. Startups move fast, and they need a solution that’s just as agile,” said Meintanis.
Deelan is designed to cut training time from weeks to minutes, making elite level sales training available to startups of any size. By leveraging AI, Deelan personalizes training, ensuring that each salesperson receives the coaching they need when they need it. This approach makes training not just faster but far more effective.
“AI doesn’t replace coaching, it supercharges it.”
Panos Meintanis, founder of Deelan
Traditional sales training challenges
Startups scaling their sales teams face three main issues: lack of time, high costs, and inconsistent training quality. Only about 20% of small and medium businesses even conduct structured sales training, and those that do often spend tens of thousands of dollars annually. Larger companies invest hundreds of thousands into dedicated training teams and platforms.
“In my previous roles at large companies, we had six people dedicated to training, and the cost, including salaries and platforms, was upwards of half a million a year, and that’s just not feasible for most startups,” said Meintanis. Deelan eliminates these barriers, slashing costs by up to 80% while delivering high quality, scalable training instantly. Unlike traditional training methods, which rely on “one size fits all” approaches, Deelan adapts to individual salespeople.
The platform analyzes real sales conversations, providing real time feedback and guidance to sales reps. This ensures that training isn’t just theoretical, it’s embedded in the salesperson’s daily workflow, making learning seamless and practical. “Everyone learns differently. A Gen Z salesperson and a veteran in their 40s don’t absorb information the same way. Deelan tailors training in real time, just like having a personal coach available 24/7,” said Meintanis.
Enhancement, not replacement
One of the biggest concerns about AI driven training is whether it will replace human coaching. Deelan handles the repetitive, foundational training tasks, freeing up managers to focus on higher value coaching. Founders and sales leaders don’t have time to train every new hire from scratch, Deelan takes care of the fundamentals, so leaders can concentrate on strategy and relationship building.
Despite launching just weeks ago, Deelan is already proving its worth. One SaaS company that provides software for hotels and restaurants was struggling with onboarding new sales reps. Previously, the process took anywhere from three weeks to three months. With Deelan, onboarding now happens in just two days.
Deelan may just become the Canva of sales training, an essential tool that founders and sales leaders can’t imagine working without. “When I think about making a presentation, I don’t think PowerPoint, I think Canva. That’s what Deelan will be for sales training,” said Meintanis. With AI powered, real time, personalized training, Deelan isn’t just a tool, it may become a revolution in the way startups build and scale their sales teams.
