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AI SDR: Outbound Sales Agents for Service Businesses
An AI SDR is a software agent that builds a target list, researches each company, writes a personal first message, follows up on schedule and books meetings into your calendar. CyberGipsy installs one for contractors and B2B service firms in about 30 days, with compliance rules set for each city we operate in.
Definition. An AI SDR is an automated sales development representative: an agent that handles prospect research, first contact and follow-up, and hands a warm, booked conversation to a human closer.
The problem this removes
- Your best commercial jobs came from relationships, and nobody has time to build new ones.
- You bought a list once, sent one campaign, got nothing, and decided outbound does not work.
- Follow-up stops after the second attempt because everyone is busy on site.
What we actually build
Target definition
The exact profile of the accounts worth winning: property managers, developers, GCs, facility firms, hotel groups, agencies.
List building
Continuously refreshed lists from public sources, permits, tenders, job boards and maps, deduplicated against your CRM.
Research agent
Reads each company's site, recent projects and news, and extracts the one relevant hook.
Message generation
Short, specific first messages. No templates that read like templates.
Multichannel sequencing
Email, LinkedIn, WhatsApp or phone, in whatever order is legal and effective in that market.
Reply handling
Classifies replies, answers simple questions, books the call, escalates the rest.
Compliance layer
Opt-out handling, suppression lists, per-country rules for GDPR/PECR, CAN-SPAM, CASL and PDPA.
How the install works
Five steps. Nothing here is a workshop.
Pick the beachhead
One segment, one city, one offer. Broad outbound fails.
Build and clean the list
Verified contacts only. Bad data is the number one cause of outbound failure.
Write the angle
One hypothesis about why this segment should care, tested on 200 accounts.
Run and measure
Reply rate, positive rate, meeting rate. We change one variable at a time.
Scale what works
Volume is added only after a segment proves out.
What changes, in numbers
Honest ranges from installs of this type. Your baseline is measured during the diagnostic so the comparison is yours, not an industry average.
| Measure | Typical before | After install |
|---|---|---|
| Accounts researched per week | 5-20 manually | 500-2,000 automatically |
| Follow-up touches per prospect | 1-2 | 5-8 across channels |
| Time your team spends prospecting | 6-10 h/week | Under 2 h/week reviewing |
| Meetings booked without human involvement | 0 | Most of them |
| List hygiene | Manual, stale | Continuous, deduplicated |
What AI will not do here
Outbound is not legal everywhere in the same form. Cold email to individuals is restricted in much of the EU, and cold calling is restricted in several of our cities. We configure per market and we will tell you plainly when a channel is closed. Outbound also does not fix a weak offer: if the segment does not have the problem you solve, no amount of personalisation will help.
AI SDR & Outbound Sales: questions we get asked
Is this spam?
No, and it must not be. We run permitted channels only for each jurisdiction, we suppress anyone who opts out, we identify the sender clearly, and we target businesses with a genuine reason to hear from you. Volume-first spraying gets domains blacklisted and we do not do it.
How many meetings should I expect?
It depends on segment, offer and city. A well-built B2B sequence in the trades usually returns a low single-digit percentage of positive replies. We report the real numbers weekly rather than promising a figure up front.
Will it damage my domain reputation?
Not if it is set up properly. We use separate sending domains, warm them gradually, cap daily volume, authenticate with SPF, DKIM and DMARC, and monitor deliverability. Your main domain is never used for cold outreach.
Can it call people?
Voice outbound is available where it is legal and appropriate, usually for reactivating your own past customers rather than for cold lists. See our voice AI agents page.
Who writes the messages?
The agent drafts, a human reviews the angle. You approve the first message and the follow-up ladder before anything sends.
What happens when someone replies?
The agent classifies the reply, answers simple factual questions, offers times from your real calendar, and escalates anything sensitive to you with the full thread attached.
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