Every vendor page about AI SDRs is written by someone selling one. We deliberately don't compete in this category, which makes us the rare vendor with no reason to lie to you about it.
The AI SDR pitch is seductive: an agent that prospects, writes, and books while you sleep. Sometimes it works. The category's own press also carries churn horror stories, and the pattern behind them is consistent: volume is the easiest thing to automate and the first thing buyers learn to ignore.
Our bet went the other way. The scarce moment in a revenue motion is not another email in an inbox. It is the live conversation, where deals are actually won and lost. So we built there: the front door, the meeting, the follow-through. If you want an AI SDR anyway, the honest field guide is below.
| Option | Strongest case | What to check first |
|---|---|---|
| 11x (Alice) | The full-replacement pitch: a digital worker doing the whole SDR job, at enterprise pricing reported at $60k+ per year. | The category's priciest bet. Ask hard for cohort retention data and reference customers past month six. |
| Artisan (Ava) | Outbound execution paired with a large built-in contact graph, priced in the $3k to $5k per month band. | You are buying their data quality as much as their AI. Test both on your ICP before the annual commit. |
| AiSDR | Transparent pricing from $900 per month and the easiest start in the category. | Lighter weight by design. Good for testing whether AI outbound works for your motion at all. |
| Regie.ai | The honest positioning in the category: AI for the SDR, not replacing the SDR, from about $59 per user per month. | Augmentation means your humans still do the job. That is a feature, not a gap. |
| Scoot | Not an AI SDR. Cleo qualifies the inbound your outbound creates, Live Advisor coaches the meetings it books, and the Brain remembers all of it. | If pure outbound volume is your bottleneck, we are genuinely not your tool. Come back when the meetings start. |
An AI SDR that runs for a year learns which messages land, which titles reply, which objections recur across your whole market. That learning is the real product. Ask every vendor where it lives, whether you can export it, and what leaves with you when you go.
It is the same question we build our whole company around: the intelligence your revenue motion produces should accumulate on your asset, not your vendor's.
Your bottleneck is genuinely top-of-funnel volume and you have the list quality and deliverability infrastructure to feed an outbound machine: test AiSDR or Regie cheaply before committing enterprise money.
Your bottleneck is what happens when a prospect actually shows up: qualification, the meeting itself, the follow-through. That is the part we automated, and the part where AI provably moves revenue.
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