Outreach earns 5 out of 5 in 15 of 22 Forrester Wave criteria
Outreach received the highest possible score of 5 in 15 of 22 criteria in Forrester’s Q3 2026 Wave for B2B revenue orchestration platforms. Beyond the headline count, the 5s include areas such as administration and pricing flexibility and transparency, and the report outlines four agent-governance capabilities that can serve as a checklist: autonomy controls, monitoring, usage management, and outcome reporting.
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Key facts, context, and what it means.
Key takeaways
For sales tech buyers, Forrester’s 5s in areas such as Administration and Configuration and Pricing Flexibility and Transparency add context beyond the headline count of 15 fives out of 22, alongside Forrester’s agent-governance checklist (autonomy controls, monitoring, usage management, outcome reporting).
Autonomy controls, monitoring, usage management and outcome reporting can serve as a requirements checklist for revenue operations and IT teams evaluating agentic sales tools that touch the CRM.
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Fifteen fives out of 22. That's Outreach's scorecard in The Forrester Wave: Revenue Orchestration Platforms for B2B, Q3 2026, which the Seattle company announced on September 24 through Business Wire.
The count is easy to repeat. Where the fives landed is more useful to anyone who owns a sales tech stack, because several of them grade what happens after the demo.
The fifteen top marks
The top scores covered criteria in both of Forrester's groupings, Current Offering and Strategy:
- Sales Forecasting
- User Experience
- Revenue Orchestration
- Revenue and Performance Analytics
- Revenue Context and Continuity
- Prospecting Workflow Design and Execution
- Opportunity Management
- Conversation Intelligence
- Content Generation
- Coaching Workflows and Analytics
- Administration and Configuration
- Innovation
- Roadmap
- Adoption
- Pricing Flexibility and Transparency
Outreach received the highest possible score of 5 in 15 of 22 criteria. The announcement names only the criteria that earned a 5, not the rest.
Governing agents that touch the CRM
For revenue operations and IT teams writing requirements for agentic sales tools, Forrester's four capabilities work as a ready-made checklist: autonomy controls, monitoring, usage management and outcome reporting. Outreach also highlights Agent Studio, which lets companies build agents around their own processes, and Omni Agent, which lets sellers and leaders ask questions and take action across revenue workflows.
From roadmap to rating
Adoption, counted two ways
Forrester reported exceptionally strong evidence of adoption across platform usage and business impact. Customers described large deployments, growing use cases and a rising strategic reliance on the platform.
The sources don't say whether that gate still exists in 2026, and agents make it harder to apply. A seat count tracks people logging in. It doesn't track an agent drafting follow-ups or updating opportunities overnight. Sales operations leaders who still report adoption as logins per seat will probably need a second number: what the agents completed and what came of it.
Ask any revenue platform vendor to show agent usage and outcome reports from a live customer deployment. Those are the capabilities Forrester singled out for agents in production.
Where the fit narrows
Forrester's profile draws the line itself. In its view, Outreach fits best where an organization wants better seller productivity, pipeline quality and forecasts at scale, and plans to get there through strong buyer engagement, conversation intelligence and workflows that are increasingly agentic. Nithya Lakshmanan, Outreach's chief product officer, made the case that revenue work is heading toward a single connected platform where sellers, leaders and agents share context, not toward one more point solution. A buyer with a single narrow need is asking something different from what a 22-criterion ranking answers, and Forrester states in its objectivity statement that it does not advise picking vendors on the basis of its ratings.
Agent Studio is the next test of this read. Forrester graded the controls on agents running today. The open question is whether agents that customers build around their own processes come with the same autonomy limits and outcome reporting.
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