The best sales teams in 2026 have one human SDR managing ten AI SDR workflows — each running thousands of personalised sequences simultaneously. We build AI SDR systems on Clay, Claude and your sequencer stack that prospect, enrich, personalise and book meetings without human involvement on every touch.
An AI SDR is an automated system that performs the prospecting, research, personalisation and outreach tasks traditionally done by a human Sales Development Representative. Unlike a traditional SDR who might send 50 personalised emails per day, an AI SDR can process 500–5,000 contacts daily. The AI handles routine outreach; human SDRs focus on replied conversations and closing.
Modern AI SDR systems using Claude or GPT-4o with Clay enrichment produce outreach that is genuinely personalised — referencing recent news, job changes, company milestones, tech stack and content the prospect has published. This is fundamentally different from merge-tag personalisation. Reply rates from well-configured AI SDR systems typically match or exceed manually written outreach.
Email compliance (CAN-SPAM, GDPR) requires unsubscribe mechanisms and truthful sender identification — all of which our systems include. LinkedIn automation requires careful design to stay within LinkedIn's terms of service. We build AI SDR systems that operate within legal and platform constraints and advise on compliant volume and sequencing limits.
A typical AI SDR stack: Clay for prospect sourcing and enrichment, Claude or GPT-4o for personalisation, Instantly or Smartlead for email infrastructure, HubSpot or Salesforce for CRM sync, and n8n or Zapier for orchestration logic. We design the optimal stack for your existing tools and budget.
A fully operational AI SDR — from ICP definition through to automated sequences running with CRM sync — typically takes 3–6 weeks to build and test. The first two weeks involve data pipeline and enrichment setup; weeks three and four cover AI personalisation and sequence configuration; final weeks cover testing, refinement and team training.
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