Generate & qualify leads on autopilot (AI Sales agents, BDR & SDR)
Use AI to complement or even replace a human workforce - in this case a Business Development Representative (=BDR, for outbound lead generation) or Sales Development Representative (SDR, for inbound lead qualification)
All B2B companies have some kind of lead generation and qualification process going on. At scale this is typically being done by specialized Business Development Representatives (BDR) for outbound leads (=you reaching out to them) or by Sales Development Representatives (SDR) for inbound leads (=potential leads reaching out to you, e.g. through your website).
The process of generating and qualifying the leads is costly and very work intensive. It is typically being done by junior sales people and may also have quality issues. Typical steps include: Researching the prospect, having initial discussion via email or chat with them etc.
Solution
Quite a few offerings exist to automate this specific part of the sales journey.
For example check out AVA - the AI Workforce here:
You basically get a dashboard to steer & control your virtual BDR agent: - see here https://artisan.co/ava-sales-rep/
Another player in the market is BOSH from relevance.ai here: https://relevanceai.com/bosh-sales-agent
or this one here: https://godmodehq.com/ or https://www.artisan.co/
And there are many more players here: https://www.lindy.ai/blog/best-ai-bdrs
If you are technically interested I recommend to watch this video here:
Evaluation
While you maybe should not fire all your BDRs & SDRs yet, it does seem viable to test them in your industry.
They will work in all relevant languages and you can always give them custom knowledge about your industry.
I would propose running a test with a small section of the market to see how they perform for you.