Company profile
Artisan
Artisan builds AI employees to automate outbound sales.
- Category
- Marketing & sales AI
- Headquarters
- San Francisco
- Sells to
- Mixed
- Business model
- SaaS subscription
- Deployment
- Cloud / SaaS
- Pricing
- Not published
- Builds own models
- Yes
- Modalities
- Text
What Artisan does
Artisan builds AI employees, starting with Ava, the AI BDR. Ava autonomously manages the entire outbound sales process, including sourcing leads from over 350 million verified B2B contacts, enriching data from 22+ sources, writing personalized outreach sequences, handling replies, and booking meetings directly into sales representatives' calendars. Artisan aims to consolidate fragmented sales tools into one autonomous platform, replacing multiple tools like ZoomInfo, Clay, Outreach, and Instantly. The company's vision is to redefine the future of work by creating specialized AI collaborators that handle repetitive tasks across various industries, enabling human teams to focus on more complex problems and interactions.
Products
- Ava, the AI BDRAn autonomous AI BDR that finds leads, sends personalized outreach, handles objections, and books meetings. It integrates B2B data, enrichment, signals, multi-channel sequences, and meeting booking into one platform. Ava can run intent-driven cold outbound, signal-triggered campaigns, re-engage MQLs, conference leads, closed-lost deals, and churned accounts, and grow existing accounts through upsell, expand, and add-on campaigns.
Key capabilities
- Autonomous lead sourcing and prioritization from 250M+ verified B2B contacts
- Enrichment using 22+ data sources and intent signals (e.g., funding rounds, leadership hires)
- Personalized multi-channel outreach across email and social
- Native dialer for call steps
- Automated A/B testing and optimization of messaging (subject lines, structure, CTAs, tone)
- Autonomous reply handling, qualification of leads, objection handling, and meeting booking
- Integration with CRM (Salesforce, HubSpot, custom CRMs via API), calendar, and data tools
- Support for various campaign types: intent-driven cold outbound, signal-triggered, MQL/event lead re-engagement, closed-lost/churned account reactivation, upsell/expand/add-on campaigns
- Account-aware personalization using CRM and product usage data
- Self-healing mailboxes and built-in deliverability tools
- Enterprise-grade security: SOC 2 Type II certified, SSO/SAML, audit logs, compliance controls
- Customizable plans based on lead volume, mailboxes, and dialer seats
- CSM support and onboarding
- AI dialer add-on
- Dedicated CSM and priority support for Scale plans
- Forward-deployed strategist and full onboarding buildout for Enterprise plans
- Advanced security controls and audit logs for Enterprise plans
- Ability to approve before sending, lock tone and CTAs, set banned phrases, and coach Ava's writing
- Sends in reps' names from their own sending domains
- Bi-directional CRM sync
- Custom webhooks for data integration
- Slack integration for performance monitoring
- Outbound in over 50 languages
Use cases
- Generating pipeline for sales teams
- Automating outbound sales motions
- Finding and prioritizing high-intent leads
- Launching personalized multi-channel outreach campaigns
- Testing and optimizing messaging automatically
- Handling replies and booking meetings autonomously
- Intent-driven cold outbound
- Signal-triggered campaigns on autopilot
- Re-engaging MQLs and event leads
- Reactivating closed-lost and churned accounts
- Running upsell, expand, and add-on campaigns for existing customers
- Scaling outbound without increasing headcount
- Automating output for BDRs
- Local SMB outreach using rich local business data and third-party signals
AI approach
Artisan builds AI employees, specifically an AI BDR named Ava, that autonomously handles outbound sales motions. This includes sourcing leads from over 350M+ verified B2B contacts, enriching data from 22+ sources, writing personalized multi-channel sequences, handling replies, and booking meetings. Ava uses intent signals, A/B testing for messaging optimization, and can re-engage MQLs, event leads, closed-lost deals, and churned accounts using CRM data. The company emphasizes that Ava replaces multiple disconnected tools and operates as an autonomous platform.
Tech named: AI BDR, AI employees, AI dialer, AI collaborators
Industries served
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Financial Technology (FinTech)
- Food Service (Meal Platforms)
- Events
- Virtual Assistant Services
What it says sets it apart
- One autonomous platform replacing multiple disconnected sales tools
- AI BDR (Ava) handles the entire outbound motion autonomously
- Deep personalization using 22+ data sources and real-time prospect research
- Continuous A/B testing and optimization of messaging
- Autonomous reply handling and meeting booking with human escalation rules
- Scalability without increasing headcount
- White-glove rollout and dedicated support (CSM, strategists, engineers) for larger plans
- Enterprise-grade security and compliance (SOC 2 Type II, GDPR in progress)
- Ability to integrate with existing GTM stack or replace it entirely
- Focus on specialized AI collaborators for specific tasks, starting with sales
- Outperforms human BDRs in open rates and efficiency
- Cost-effective lead generation compared to traditional SDR teams
Funding rounds we track
Oliver Jung, Y Combinator, HubSpot Ventures, Day One Ventures, Fellows Fund, Soma Capital, BOND, 10x Founders Fund, Bayhouse Capital, Sequoia Scout
Y Combinator, Bayhouse Capital
From the AI funding tracker — rounds as reported by the linked publications.
This profile was compiled from Artisan's own public pages in July 2026 and reflects what the company states about itself — not an endorsement or an independent audit of those claims. Facts are extracted with AI and filtered by an automated check that drops any named product, customer or certification missing from the source pages. Full method. Something out of date? Tell us.