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Philippine small business teams are under pressure to move fast, often wearing multiple hats and juggling customer conversations across sales, service, and marketing. Salesforce is helping businesses act faster with Agentforce in Salesforce Suites and manage customer relationships where they work with Slack CRM. Together, these solutions help Filipino business owners spend less time on admin work and more time on what matters most — building relationships and growing their business.
Why this matters
Despite accounting for 99.6% of Philippine businesses, SMEs contribute only about 40% to the country’s GDP, according to the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas. To increase the economic value-add and scale their business, MSMEs need to boost their productivity. While there is high optimism to adopt digital tools, adoption remains low at 20%. To overcome budget constraints and limited technical expertise, small businesses need AI tools that are easy to learn and use right away — without straining resources.
Agentforce in Salesforce Suites
To help growing teams turn context and customer data into action faster, Salesforce has brought AI directly into Salesforce Suites, the CRM designed for small businesses and startups. Built into Free, Starter, and Pro Suites with no setup required and no extra costs, the new AI capabilities allow teams to instantly summarize records, draft personalized emails, and stay on top of customer activity, all from the same platform they already use to run their business. In Starter and Pro Suites, small businesses can activate the Employee Agent. This AI assistant works alongside teams to provide instant context, draft communications, and log activities through simple conversational commands.
With no required setup, small businesses can use AI to stop managing tedious tasks and start focusing on the big picture right away:
- Walk into every meeting fully briefed: Get an instant, high-level summary of exactly where a deal stands without digging through tabs or old emails. With one click, all the key details of a record surface—recent activity, next steps, potential risks, and what matters most.
- Send the perfect follow-up in seconds: AI drafts personalized emails using customer data and business context. Starting from a template or custom instructions, teams receive a ready-to-send draft instantly — freeing them to focus on meaningful conversations instead of starting from scratch.
- Eliminate busywork: Records stay current and pipelines accurate with an Employee Agent that works alongside sales teams. Through a simple conversational command, it delivers instant summaries, drafts personalized communications, and logs activities automatically.
Salesforce Suites offers AI where customer information lives—unifying sales, service, marketing, and Slack into one cohesive platform. AI in Salesforce Suites is powered by Agentforce 360, Salesforce’s AI platform that connects humans, data, and AI. With the Agentforce infrastructure, AI adapts to your business needs wherever they are in the Salesforce journey. Whether businesses stay intentionally lean or scale up operations (and adopt more autonomous agents), the platform grows with the business.
Agentforce ensures customer data stays protected and governed across all AI features in Salesforce. Businesses’ data stays theirs — no copy-pasting into third-party AI tools, no wondering what’s being shared. Permissions, security, and trust are built in, so teams can move faster with confidence and peace of mind.
CRM where employees work with Slack
Salesforce is introducing Slack CRM for small businesses that want to manage their customer relationships where they work. Slack CRM brings lightweight customer relationship management capabilities natively into Slack. With Slackbot, organizations can create and update contacts, track leads and deals, and log activity inside Slack conversations where work already happens. By centralizing customer data and activity in one place, teams stay organized, aligned, and responsive.
Additionally, Slack CRM is built on Salesforce and allows businesses to scale seamlessly as they grow. They start with simple tasks, such as contact and deal tracking in Slack, and later expand to more advanced Salesforce features without migrating their data.
“SMBs are the backbone of the country’s economy. Agentic AI provides these organizations the means to make exponential impact without the time and effort typically required for enterprise-scale transformation,” said Vernon Cheo, Head of Emerging Small and Medium Business, Salesforce ASEAN. “This is a pivotal moment for SMBs to carve their competitive niche.”
“Across ASEAN, SMBs need technology that drives their growth whilst being flexible enough to meet local market and customer expectations. This requires intelligent, connected solutions that feed directly into workflows, enabling speed and simplicity,” said Phil Hassey, CEO, capioIT.
Getting started
Filipino small businesses can get started today:
- Explore embedded AI features in Free Suite and how AI assistants help you get more done in a Starter Suite
- Slack CRM is included with the Business+ subscription at no extra cost.
