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AI employees called Artisans, starting with an AI BDR
At Artisan, we’re building real AI employees - not copilots, not assistants, but autonomous teammates. Our first, Ava, is an AI BDR. She finds and researches leads, writes emails in customers’ tone of voice, runs outbound sequences, self-optimizes, and manages email deliverability infrastructure. She learns, adapts, and improves over time - just like a human would. Human team members use Artisan as their primary working platform, replacing a sprawling stack of sales tools, and have Artisans working alongside them. We went through Y Combinator (W24) and have raised $35M+ from top investors. We’re at $6M+ ARR, with hundreds of customers including Remote, Quora, and SumUp. We’re currently working on Ava 2.0, pushing the boundaries of what an AI employee can do. And we're hiring.
Artisan provides AI employees, starting with an AI BDR named Ava, to automate outbound sales. The platform functions as an all-in-one AI-first outbound tool that identifies leads, runs multi-channel campaigns, and books meetings autonomously.
Ava acts as an autonomous AI BDR that finds leads from a large set of B2B contacts, enriches them with 22+ data sources, prioritizes by intent signals, then launches personalized multi-channel outreach (email, social, and calls via a built-in dialer). It tests variations with A/B testing, handles replies, qualifies leads, and books meetings directly on calendars, with escalation rules to hand off to humans as needed. The system integrates with your CRM, calendar, and data tools with no migration required, enabling multi-stage campaigns from lead discovery to meeting booking.
Who it’s for: Startups, SMBs, and enterprises looking to scale outbound sales and automate BDR activities
Marketing and product traction evident from case studies, customer stories, pricing trial offers, and a dedicated pricing page; mentions of enterprise SMBs and startups using Ava; hiring information available on site
Consolidating and automating software, starting with outbound sales.
Meet Ava, the AI BDR with 270M leads who gets you sales meetings on autopilot.
Artisan launches Ava, an AI BDR that automates outbound demand generation for B2B SaaS startups. Ava guides onboarding, builds a knowledge base from your site, scrapes a 270M-contact database, writes and sends tailored emails, and responds to replies to book meetings (beta requires manual review).
From the original launch (Jan 2024) — may be outdated.
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