Artisan
AI SDRAI BDR agent that sources, enriches, emails and books meetings, sold by quote
A full stack AI BDR that owns the whole outbound loop including its own contact data, sold through a sales conversation rather than a price list.
Best for
Sales teams that want one vendor to own list building, data, outreach, reply handling and booking, and are comfortable buying through a sales conversation.
Not great for
Small teams that want to self serve on a published price, or LinkedIn first outbound where the direct message is the main channel.
Starting price
Custom
Pricing model
Custom quotes
Free trial
Not advertised
Platforms
Web app
Founded
2023
Headquarters
United States
Artisan, in plain terms
Artisan sells Ava, an AI BDR the company positions as a digital worker rather than a sequencing tool. Ava builds target lists from an in house contact database that Artisan claims holds more than 250 million verified B2B contacts across 200 plus countries, enriches each prospect through waterfall lookups across multiple data sources, writes and sends multichannel outreach, reads replies with sentiment analysis, answers questions from an uploaded knowledge base, qualifies interest and books meetings on Google Calendar or Microsoft Outlook. Signal based plays are central to the pitch: hiring patterns, new funding, champion job changes, technographics, CRM field changes, Bombora intent, website visitor identification and custom webhooks. Deliverability is handled by the platform, including domain warm up, infrastructure rotation, send throttling and bounce and complaint monitoring, while buyers keep control through approval modes, locked tone, CTA and length, budget caps and banned phrases. Salesforce and HubSpot sync in both directions. Email and social are the automated channels, and a built in dialer queues leads for human reps as a per seat add on, since their own pages state Ava does not place calls. Artisan does not publish prices in August 2026: the Team, Scale and Enterprise tiers all route to a sales conversation and are scoped by leads contacted per month, with no free trial or free plan published. LinkedIn is referenced as social outreach without detail on their public product pages.
Key features
- Ava, an autonomous AI BDR running sourcing through booking
- In house B2B contact database, 250M+ contacts claimed across 200+ countries
- Waterfall enrichment across multiple data sources with verified emails and direct dials
- Buying signals: hiring, funding, job changes, web visitors, Bombora intent and custom webhooks
- Managed deliverability with domain warm up, infrastructure rotation and send throttling
- Autonomous reply handling with sentiment analysis and knowledge base answers
- Meeting booking onto Google Calendar and Microsoft Outlook after qualification
- Approval modes, budget caps, banned phrases and locked tone controls
Pros
- One agent covers the full loop: list building, enrichment, outreach, reply handling, qualification and booking
- Contact data is included rather than bought separately, with 250M+ verified B2B contacts claimed across 200+ countries
- Broad signal coverage including hiring, funding, champion job changes, CRM field changes, website visitor identification, Bombora intent and custom webhooks
- Deliverability is managed by the platform: domain warm up, infrastructure rotation, throttling, bounce monitoring and complaint tracking
- Real human in the loop controls: approval before sending, locked tone, CTA and length, budget caps, reply sensitivity and banned phrases
- SOC 2 Type II certification and GDPR readiness claimed, with SSO, SAML, SCIM, role based access and audit logs
Cons
- No published prices at all, every tier including the entry tier routes to a sales conversation (their pricing page, August 2026)
- Plans are scoped by contact volume, about 2,500 leads contacted per month on Team and about 6,000 on Scale, so cost scales with reach rather than seats (their pricing page, August 2026)
- No free trial length, self serve signup or free plan is published as of August 2026
- LinkedIn is referenced only as social outreach, with no connection request, DM or InMail detail on their public product pages, and their outreach page states Ava cannot legally make calls, with the dialer sold as a per seat add on
- Headline customer results such as 4.4 percent positive reply rate and tripled monthly leads are the company's own published case study figures, and their Stop Hiring Humans billboard campaign drew wide public reaction that the CEO later clarified (TechCrunch, April 2026)
Last round
$25 million Series A led by Glade Brook Capital, April 2025 (reported by Forbes), with participation from Y Combinator, Day One Ventures, HubSpot Ventures, Fellows Fund and angel Oliver Jung
Total funding
More than $35 million (reported, their own careers page, August 2026)
Users claimed
6,000+ sales teams claimed on their homepage, August 2026
| Plan | Price | Limits | Includes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Team | Custom quote | Scoped at about 2,500 leads contacted per month on their pricing page, August 2026. Price quoted by their sales team. | Every campaign type, Autonomous replies and meeting booking, 250M+ verified B2B contacts claimed, Salesforce and HubSpot sync, CSM support and onboarding |
| Scale | Custom quote | Scoped at about 6,000 leads contacted per month on their pricing page, August 2026. Price quoted by their sales team. | Everything in Team, Dedicated CSM, CRM setup included, AI dialer available as a per seat add on |
| Enterprise | Custom quote | Custom volume, security and rollout support, quoted. No published seat or contact caps. | Forward deployed strategist, Full onboarding buildout, Advanced security controls, Custom CRM integration via API |
Artisan does not publish prices. All three tiers on their pricing page say pricing is scoped on your plan and route to a sales conversation, checked August 2026. Check their pricing page.
API access
Custom CRM integration via API is advertised on their enterprise page. No public API documentation is linked from their site
Compliance
SOC 2 Type II certification and GDPR readiness claimed, plus SSO, SAML and SCIM, role based access and audit logs
Data export
Not advertised. Data movement is described as two way CRM sync into Salesforce and HubSpot
Automation platforms
Webhooks for custom signals and Slack performance notifications. Zapier, Make or n8n support is not advertised
Integrations
Salesforce
HubSpot
Google CalendarMicrosoft OutlookBombora
SlackCustom CRM via APICustom webhooksSSO, SAML and SCIM identity providers- HQ
- San Francisco, California, with an office in New York (their about page)
- Founded
- 2023 (reported by Forbes), and their careers page lists the Y Combinator W24 batch
- Employees
- 51-200 (LinkedIn). Their about page says 50+ team members, and TechCrunch reported about 40 people in April 2026
- Leadership
- Jaspar Carmichael-Jack, co-founder and CEO, with co-founder Sam Stallings leading product and engineering
- Company page
AI digital workers for outbound prospecting and inbound phone qualification
AI SDR that prospects, writes and sends across email and LinkedIn, then books the meeting
Platform for building AI agent teams, with prebuilt GTM and AI SDR agent templates
Autonomous AI SDR that runs LinkedIn and WhatsApp outreach and replies for you
Artisan does not publish prices. Their pricing page lists three tiers, Team, Scale and Enterprise, and each says pricing is scoped on your plan with a talk to sales button, checked August 2026. Team is described as about 2,500 leads contacted per month and Scale as about 6,000, so cost is scoped to contact volume rather than a per seat list price. Any dollar figures you find elsewhere are third party reports, not published rates. Check their pricing page.
No free trial length, self serve signup or free plan is published on their site as of August 2026. Every tier, including Team, routes to a sales conversation or a demo request.
Ava builds a lead list from Artisan's own contact database, enriches each prospect, writes and sends personalized outreach across email and social, tests messaging variables such as subject lines, openers, personas, CTAs and send times, reads replies with sentiment analysis, handles objections using an uploaded knowledge base, qualifies interest and books the meeting on a rep's Google or Outlook calendar. It runs autonomously by default, and approvals can be required at any stage.
Social is listed as an automated channel alongside email, but specific LinkedIn actions such as connection requests, DMs or InMail are not detailed on their public product pages as of August 2026. Email is described as the primary channel, sent from team members' addresses.
No. Their outreach page states Ava cannot legally make calls. Instead she queues leads in a built in dialer with talking points, account context and engagement history for human reps, and the AI dialer is listed as a per seat add on.
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