AI SDR

Independent coverage of every major vendor in the AI SDR category — no affiliate incentives, no paid placements.

Bland AI
Bland AI is the cleanest voice-AI bet in the GTM stack today. The product works, the pricing is…
$$  · Companies running outbound or inbound voice at scale
Crescendo
Crescendo is the most contrarian bet in the AI customer support space. While Sierra and Decagon argue ‘replace…
$$$  · Mid-market and enterprise customer support orgs
Actively AI
Actively AI is in the second wave of AI SDRs — past the prototype stage, raising $45M Series…
$$$  · Mid-market B2B sales orgs running ABM motions
Monaco
Monaco is too early to call — $35M Series A, undisclosed founders, no public ARR. The story is…
$$$  · B2B sales orgs piloting agentic outbound
Sierra
Sierra is the highest-stakes bet in agentic GTM right now. The $950M Series C at $15.8B post is…
$$$$  · Fortune 500 / Global 2000 with high-volume customer interactions
Decagon
Decagon is the most credible alternative to Sierra in AI customer support — and the right pick for…
$$$  · High-volume B2C and prosumer support orgs (Notion, Eventbrite, Duolingo class)
11x
11x builds AI sales development representatives — Alice (outbound email and LinkedIn) and Mike (inbound call handling) —…
Enterprise  · Mid-market and enterprise sales organizations seeking to replace or augment SDR headcount with autonomous AI agents
Artisan
Artisan is an AI sales development representative platform centered on Ava, its AI BDR, which handles prospect research,…
Enterprise  · Mid-market B2B companies seeking to automate the outbound SDR function with an AI agent that can be deployed without building a custom AI stack, targeting organizations with a defined ICP and the budget to replace or augment 1–2 SDR headcount