AI website SDR for inbound
Can't scale inbound with SDR headcount.
2X meetings first month; $5.3M influenced pipeline
Vendor-claimedJim Sinai, Vanilla
Oct 11, 2026
Prospecting and first touch
Research, list building, and the first note a human still sends. The point is a reason to write, not a bigger list.
Find the right people and open with something that is true about them.
Replace most SDR work with AI agents (operator test)
Human SDR team cost and churn.
1.25 humans + 20 AI agents closed 140% of prior all-human team (author notes caveats in title)
IndependentJason Lemkin, SaaStr
Oct 10, 2026
ProspectingEasy
Parallel dialing to lift connect rates
Low cold-call connect rates.
Connect rate 5.5% to 8%
Vendor-claimedInstabug
Oct 4, 2026
ProspectingEasy
Global cold-call scale-up
Few cold-call meetings.
206% more meetings, 2x connects
Vendor-claimedIntercom
Sep 29, 2026
ProspectingEasy
More live conversations per day
Low SDR conversation volume.
266% more daily conversations; 207% more pipeline
Vendor-claimedIntelAgree
Sep 24, 2026
ProspectingModerate
Waterfall enrichment for inbound leads
Low enrichment coverage.
Coverage from low 40% to high 80%
Vendor-claimedOpenAI
Jul 26, 2026
ProspectingAdvanced
Enrichment for new-country expansion
Poor EU data coverage.
Coverage 50% to 80%+; reply rates doubled; £80,000+ saved/yr
Vendor-claimedVerkada
Jul 21, 2026
ProspectingModerate
Warm outbound from product/community signals
Cold outbound underperforms.
Qualified pipeline +74% in one quarter
Vendor-claimedSemgrep
Jul 16, 2026
ProspectingModerate
Signal-orchestrated outbound
Need pipeline fast.
$1.7M pipeline in first 3 months
Vendor-claimedPerplexity
Jul 6, 2026
ProspectingEasy
Custom GPT for prospect research
Huge catalog, slow lead analysis.
'cut our lead analysis time by 1-4 hours per prospect'
Vendor-claimedFranchestia Flennory, Promega
Jul 1, 2026
ProspectingModerate
Overnight book-wide account research
100+ accounts per BDR.
Covers 100+ accounts per rep (qualitative; no conversion metric published)
Vendor-claimedJohn Albert, Anthropic
Jun 16, 2026
ProspectingAdvanced
Domain-to-account-brief in Claude Code
90-minute manual research.
'90 minutes... completed in a matter of minutes' (no conversion metric)
IndependentBenjamin Aaron Reed
Jun 11, 2026
ProspectingModerate
Website-visitor to enriched leads (n8n)
Manual daily research.
~280 enriched leads/day; 4-5 hours/day saved
Vendor-claimedFreelance builder for BORNEMANN
Jun 1, 2026
ProspectingCaution
Autonomous AI SDR on an unclear ICP
Hoped AI would replace prospecting.
'Ava messaged 7,000 leads... 0 qualified meetings'
IndependentTom FitzGerald, Foxcove
Apr 27, 2026