Ava scales the sending. We scale the working.
Ava is an email BDR with a contact graph. We put six named specialists on your leads. Alex calls. Mia emails. Zara texts. You approve. The work is built to go past the meeting.
250 leads worked across calls, email and SMS, with booking included. Public ladder, monthly billing, $8.00 per worked lead and extras at the same rate.
Scoped tiers (Team / Scale / Enterprise). Artisan runs a low-cost self-serve door on the email motion, with paid plans reported as annual. Their dialer is a human add-on, not an AI caller. Check artisan.co for the current tiers before you compare.
What Artisan gets right
- A published email-BDR ladder with a low entry point
- End-to-end email workflow: discovery, enrichment, campaigns, replies, booking
- Named account management and customer success support
- A built-in contact database for teams that do not have a list
Where it breaks for you
- Not an AI caller: the dialer is a human add-on
- No native SMS
- Annual on paid plans
- The mascot-hire pitch is the category cliche we refuse
What each product actually does.
| Feature | AI Sales Console | Artisan |
|---|---|---|
| AI Voice Calls Their dialer is a human add-on. Alex is the caller. | AI Sales Console: Yes | Artisan: No |
| AI Email Both. Mia writes from Sage's research on your lead. | AI Sales Console: Yes | Artisan: Yes |
| SMS/Text | AI Sales Console: Yes | Artisan: No |
| Feature | AI Sales Console | Artisan |
|---|---|---|
| Works the lead for you Email only on their side | AI Sales Console: Yes | Artisan: Partial |
| Brings its own contact database They sell 300M+ contacts. We do not. You bring the list. | AI Sales Console: No | Artisan: Yes |
| Meeting Scheduling | AI Sales Console: Yes | Artisan: Yes |
| Carries on past the meeting Both can book. We keep working after. | AI Sales Console: Yes | Artisan: Partial |
| Feature | AI Sales Console | Artisan |
|---|---|---|
| You approve the campaign You see it before it goes | AI Sales Console: Yes | Artisan: Partial |
| Earned Autonomy Keep rewriting a kind of reply and it brings you that kind every time | AI Sales Console: Yes | Artisan: No |
| Research before the first touch | AI Sales Console: Yes | Artisan: Yes |
| Live stacked-objection call | AI Sales Console: Yes | Artisan: No |
| Feature | AI Sales Console | Artisan |
|---|---|---|
| Published price ladder Team $1,999/mo, 250 leads worked, extra worked lead $8.00 | AI Sales Console: Yes | Artisan: Yes |
| Monthly billing Annual on their paid plans; our public ladder is monthly, annual -17% | AI Sales Console: Yes | Artisan: No |
| Voice, email and SMS on one lead | AI Sales Console: Yes | Artisan: No |
| Speed to lead Under 60 seconds on an inbound reply | AI Sales Console: Yes | Artisan: Partial |
The honest verdict.
You want a low-cost, self-serve email-only BDR and you do not need phone or SMS. That is a real, narrower job.
You need the phone, the text, through-close, and a supervision model. Mia writes from Sage's research on your lead and you see the campaign before it goes. Team $1,999/mo for 250 leads worked. First 30 days on your own pipeline.
Longer read: Artisan Alternative Without a Bundled Database
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