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Dreamforce 2026: Salesforce opens its CRM to any AI agent and adds its own CRM model
Salesforce's Dreamforce 2026 takeaways, published on 24 September 2026, centre on two changes for anyone who sells with Salesforce. AIforce opens Salesforce data and actions to any AI interface without the Salesforce screen, and Koa, announced on 15 September, is Salesforce's first CRM reasoning model.
What Salesforce announced
With AIforce, Salesforce makes the capabilities beneath its screens, the APIs, metadata, permissions and business logic, available to agents through any AI interface. "Agents need a different entrance into the enterprise," said Khushwant Singh, SVP of Product Management for Platform. In practice, updating a record or building a simple app no longer requires knowing the Salesforce interface, while permissions and governance still apply.
Koa was built by post-training NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super on synthetic scenarios modelled on nearly three decades of CRM deployments, covering work such as generating leads and qualifying opportunities. Salesforce hosts the model and runs it inside its own trust boundary. Salesforce also presented Slack as the place where teams and agents work together on Salesforce data.
What it means for B2B sales teams
A rep's daily work may move out of the CRM screen. Updating an opportunity or pulling account context could happen from Slack or an AI assistant, with Salesforce still enforcing who can see and change what. That makes clean data and clear field definitions more important than before, because agents act on exactly what is in the CRM.
Koa's performance figures come from Salesforce's own benchmark. They are worth testing on your own sales process before you trust an agent with pipeline updates, especially if your stages and qualification rules differ from the standard setup.
What to do now
- Clean up opportunity stages, required fields and permissions before you connect agents to them.
- Pick one admin-heavy task, such as logging calls or updating next steps, and pilot it through an agent.
- Ask your Salesforce account team which AIforce and Koa features are in your edition and what they cost.
- If pipeline discipline is the gap rather than tooling, fix the sales process first; agents scale whatever process they find.
Sources
- Five Big Ideas Coming Out of Dreamforce 2026 Salesforce, September 24, 2026
- Salesforce and NVIDIA Announce Koa Salesforce, September 15, 2026
By Emre A. · Published