Ava

Artisan's Ava is the most complete turnkey AI SDR on the market, in the sense that it tries to own every step a human SDR would touch rather than bolting AI onto one of them. It sources from a bundled B2B database, enriches and researches each account, writes personalised email and LinkedIn sequences, manages the inbox for replies and objections, and books the meeting on a rep's calendar. The differentiator is less the writing quality — which is now table stakes — and more the email infrastructure underneath it: mailbox provisioning, domain warm-up and deliverability monitoring are handled in-product rather than sold as a separate stack. Autonomy is configurable, which matters: teams typically start Ava in approve-before-send mode and loosen it once messaging is trusted. It is priced for funded startups and mid-market teams, not for solo founders, and pricing is sales-gated.

The most vertically integrated AI SDR available — owning deliverability rather than outsourcing it is the reason Artisan outperforms tools with comparable copy quality. It is genuinely L3, not the autonomous employee the marketing implies, and the annual commitment plus opaque pricing makes it a poor fit for anyone testing the category.