Product Hunt July 16: 'River' Ships AI Account Executives That Demo and Close B2B Deals

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River launched on Product Hunt July 16 (264 points) as 'AI account executives that demo and close B2B deals' — going after the AE seat itself, not the SDR top-of-funnel that earlier AI sales tools targeted. This lands directly against the counter-narrative from three days earlier that fully-autonomous AI SDRs had largely reverted to hybrid: the same week the SDR pitch cooled, a new entrant moved one rung up the org chart to the higher-value, harder-to-automate role. Worth watching whether it repeats the SDR retrenchment.