Accio launches AI sales challenge

Accio Work is using a time-limited sales challenge to show that its artificial intelligence agents can do more than answer prompts. The company is offering free Pro access through April 15 as part of a campaign called #VibeSellingChallenge. (accio.com) Accio Work is an enterprise product from Alibaba International that launched on March 23, 2026 as a “plug-and-play” artificial intelligence taskforce for small and medium-sized businesses. Alibaba said the service can handle procurement, compliance, marketing and logistics with no coding or setup. (prnewswire.com) On its product site, Accio says the software can connect to Gmail, Google Drive, Slack and Notion, browse the web, schedule tasks, and let multiple agents work together in a shared team workspace. The company also says users can switch among Gemini, GPT-4o, Claude and Qwen models for different agents. (accio.com) The pitch is aimed at a specific problem in business software: chatbots answer questions, while sales and sourcing teams need tools that can actually send follow-ups, compare suppliers, track inventory and keep long-running workflows moving. Accio Work says its agents are built for those business-to-business operations rather than general chat. (accio.com) (accio.works) Alibaba has been moving Accio in that direction for more than a year. The company first introduced Accio in November 2024 as an artificial intelligence-powered business-to-business sourcing engine, then added an “Accio Agent” for global trade in August 2025 before expanding to the broader Accio Work platform in March 2026. (alibabagroup.com) (prnewswire.com 1) (prnewswire.com 2) Alibaba said on launch day that Accio had grown to more than 10 million monthly active users globally. Reuters separately described Accio Work as part of Alibaba’s push into “agentic” artificial intelligence, with the international commerce unit targeting small and medium-sized enterprises that want automation without building custom systems. (prnewswire.com) (finance.yahoo.com) The product claims are broad. Accio says the platform can automate value-added tax filings, tax refund documents and customs paperwork across more than 100 markets, and can generate requests for quotations and run multi-round supplier negotiations. (accio.works) (prnewswire.com) That makes the challenge less like a consumer-style social media giveaway and more like a live sales demo with a deadline. The free-access window ending on April 15 gives Accio one day to convert curiosity around its agent team into trial usage and customer leads. (accio.com)