AiSDR launches Ami, a self-serve GTM agent aimed at founders without an SDR team
The YC-backed startup put its agent behind a $250/month Solo tier, month-to-month, with a review-by-default guardrail on the first campaign.
AiSDR, the YC-backed outbound startup, is pitching Ami directly to founders with no sales team, starting at $250/month on a self-serve Solo tier with no sales call required. The pricing floor is the news. Everything else is downstream of it.
The Solo plan covers 200 AI-researched contacts per month, one user, one domain, three mailboxes, one LinkedIn account, and native two-way HubSpot sync. Above it sit Explore at $900 and Scale at $2,500, per Artisan’s pricing writeup, with roughly a 20% discount on annual billing. According to the product page, Ami reads the customer’s website, builds a target list, drafts email and LinkedIn sequences, watches replies, and proposes the next play. Setup runs about 20 minutes. The training substrate is 17,150 prior AiSDR campaigns and 27 industry playbooks.
The interesting design choice isn’t the autonomy. It’s the leash. The first campaign, per AiSDR, “stays in draft until you review and approve it,” Ami won’t act on unapproved data, and sends get pulled back if inbox health slips. That’s a deliberate concession to the failure mode that killed the last wave of autonomous SDR tools: agents blasting through domains and burning founders’ deliverability before anyone noticed.
The math is worth sitting with. AiSDR’s own stated benchmarks, cited in ZoomInfo’s Pipeline review, are 1–3 demos per 100 leads and a 7.1% average reply rate. On 200 Solo contacts, that’s a handful of meetings a month, not a pipeline transformation. It’s an SDR seat replacement priced like a software subscription.
That price floor is the actual story. Clay’s $7.1B valuation established that AI sales agents are now core infrastructure for well-funded GTM orgs. Ami tests whether the same category can survive the descent from insight to execution at solo-founder economics. The differentiator here isn’t intelligence. It’s the approval default and the cancel-anytime button.