Xactly Unveils AI Agent to Automate Commission Disputes

Eleven months ago, Xactly announced a collaboration with ServiceNow to provide the sales industry enhanced visibility into Sales Performance Management by integrating it with ServiceNow Sales and Order Management (SOM). Today, Xactly announced the first product to emerge from that collaboration, the Dispute Management AI Agent.

The Agent operates between ServiceNow Now Assist and Xactly’s AI-powered revenue platform. It coordinates in real time to analyse and mediate commission investigations that are a manual burden for sellers and administrators. According to a 2023 survey by Palette, 56% of companies regularly experience commission errors. These lead to disputes which take up valuable time for both salespeople and admins, and can also demotivate salespeople.

The new Agent uses natural language to proactively interact with the user, quickly identifying the required data and surfacing responses, leading to faster resolutions. The Agent will validate the claims, confirming that the cited parameters are correct and relevant, and will quickly resolve disputes through its AI-guided workflow.

Importantly, disputes are resolved quickly, often in a single interaction, enabling both sellers and administrators to focus on generating even more revenue.

Chris Li, Chief Product Officer at Xactly, said, “This solution marks a shift beyond just AI to intelligent, autonomous revenue orchestration.

“By enabling our AI to securely collaborate with ServiceNow’s Now Assist, we eliminate the friction tax for sales teams and turn complex compensation data into an instant, conversational asset that drives measurable productivity.”

The first of many agents

The announcement unveils the first of several AI agents powered by the Xactly and ServiceNow framework. It is not the only Agent that Xactly is working on, though. In December, it launched its Incent Agent to transform management incentive compensation.

Also in December, it announced the Xactly AI Lab and revealed that it is working on a plan configuration agent that will reduce plan modelling cycle time from weeks to days. It will enable compensation teams to test multiple scenarios with greater confidence before rollout.

The collaboration with ServiceNow will create agents to improve efficiency through intelligent automation across business processes linked to revenue.

Anandan Jayaraman, Vice President, Product, Sales CRM at ServiceNow, commented, “Now Assist is designed to bring contextual, AI-driven insights directly into the workflows where work gets done. Xactly and ServiceNow’s Dispute Management Agent demonstrates how agent-to-agent orchestration can eliminate manual processes and accelerate resolution cycles for revenue teams.

“Together, we’re helping customers unlock what’s only possible when data, AI, and workflow converge – autonomous resolution at enterprise scale.”

Xactly Commission Agent

The Xactly Commission Agent is available now on the ServiceNow Store. The Agent provides sellers straightforward answers to commission-related questions and lets them raise compensation disputes directly in ServiceNow. By leveraging Now Assist, users can ask their questions naturally and receive consistent, secure information from Xactly via an MCP-based integration.

If a sales representative disagrees with their commission payment, the application will automatically open and create a Compensation Dispute in ServiceNow, collecting the necessary context and minimising manual work. Sellers can check the status of their dispute using the same conversational interface, while Compensation Support teams address resolutions through standard ServiceNow workflows.

This solution enhances transparency, reduces administrative tasks, and lays a strong foundation for AI-powered compensation support in ServiceNow.

Key features include:

• Enables sales representatives to retrieve commission information via ServiceNow Now Assist
• Uses MCP-based integration to fetch data from Xactly
• Allows users to raise Compensation Disputes when issues are identified
• Creates and manages dispute records in ServiceNow
• Provides dispute status updates through the same conversational interface

Enterprise Times: What does this mean

While customers have waited eleven months for the first agent to emerge from this collaboration, they hope they will not have to wait as long for the next one. However, there is no indication of what the Xactly team is working on with ServiceNow. What the Commission Dispute Agent does, though, is solve a problem that exists in many organisations.

Importantly, it reduces friction in sales administration and should enable sales teams and administrators to spend more time selling rather than on paperwork, which is bad for morale, even if the salesperson is successful in their dispute.

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