Artisan
An AI BDR (Ava) that finds leads, sends personalized multi-channel outreach, handles replies and books meetings for your reps.
By Artisan AI, Inc. · HQ San Francisco, US · 4.0/5 Value-Position score (estimate)
Positioning guardrails
Best for
- B2B sales teams with an existing outbound motion that want more pipeline per rep
- Startups building their first pipeline without hiring a BDR
- Mid-market teams consolidating data, sequencing, dialing and meeting booking
- Enterprises needing approval, escalation and DNC guardrails around autonomous outreach
Ideal size: 2–50 sellers (SDR/AE) people · Startup to enterprise with a defined ICP and outbound motion
Not for
- Inbound-only or product-led teams with no outbound sales motion
- Buyers who require published, self-serve per-seat pricing
- Teams that must keep every outbound message human-written
- Consumer/B2C marketers, since the contact database is B2B
Value metrics scorecard
Time-to-Value
1–2 weeks with guided onboarding
~14 days to first production value
Total Cost of Ownership
On request
Quote-based: plans are scoped to lead volume, mailboxes and dialer seats; no public list price or self-serve checkout.
Implementation Friction
3/5
Engineering + admin effort required
Value-Position score
out of 5 · model estimate
Full cost breakdown
Mandatory implementation fee
None
Seat tiers
No published seat minimum; Team sized near 2,500 leads contacted/month, Scale near 6,000.
Add-on costs
- AI dialer add-on, billed per seat
Company & support
Who is behind Artisan, and how your team gets help once it is live.
Company
- Founded
- Not recorded
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, US
How you get support
- PhoneNot listed
- EmailNot listed
- Live chatAll plans
- Support portal / ticketsNot listed
- Community forumNot listed
- Help centre / docsAll plans
- Dedicated account managerAll plans
- In person / on-siteNot listed
- Hours
- Not recorded
- Response time
- Answers in minutes via shared Slack channel with your CSM; no formal SLA published.
Every plan includes CSM support, guided onboarding and a shared Slack channel; Scale adds a dedicated CSM; Enterprise adds a forward-deployed strategist and full onboarding buildout. Self-serve help centre at support.artisan.co. No phone or email support line is published.
“Not listed” means the vendor’s public pages don’t mention that channel, not that it is unavailable. Ask about it during evaluation.
Market position
Where Artisan sits against its closest alternatives. Pick any two of cost, speed, friction and buyer score, and up to 9 companies to compare.
Quadrant view
Typical annual cost × Time-to-value
The lines cross at the median of the solutions shown, so about half sit on each side of each line.
Companies on the chart 6 / 10
- Artisan
- EveryoneSocial
- Lusha
- DealHub
- Outreach
- Arphie
Add or change companies
Up to 10 companies including Artisan. Listed closest first.
Stack fit signal
Compatibility with standard B2B ecosystems.
Ships an official MCP server. Connects to Claude Code, Claude Desktop, ChatGPT connectors and Cursor out of the box.
AI & MCP readiness
What Artisan ships in AI, and what it asks of your ecosystem.
AI features shipped
Ava autonomously sources and enriches leads (250M+ contacts, 22+ sources), runs multi-channel sequences with automated message testing, handles replies and books meetings. Approval mode, escalation rules, DNC lists and per-campaign guardrails are configurable; an AI dialer for reps is a per-seat add-on.
Your data & models
- Trains on your data
- Only if you opt in
- Runs on
- Not recorded
- AI pricing
- Included in the plan
In your ecosystem
- AI connection
- Official MCP server
- Model key
- Not recorded
- AI usage audit
- Not recorded
Compliance attestations
* IAPP AIGP certifies individuals, not products. It means named staff hold the credential — not that the platform does.
Bottom line
Artisan AI sells Ava, an autonomous AI BDR that finds leads in a 250M+ contact database, runs personalized email and social sequences, handles replies and books meetings. It can sit alongside existing reps inside Salesforce or HubSpot, or replace the outbound stack entirely, with approval, escalation and DNC guardrails. Pricing is quote-only, scoped to lead volume and dialer seats; every plan includes CSM onboarding plus SOC 2 Type II, SSO/SAML and audit logs. Best for B2B teams with an existing outbound motion.
Frequently asked questions
How does Artisan price its plans?
There is no published list price. Plans are quoted and scoped to your lead volume, mailboxes and dialer seats: a Team tier around 2,500 leads contacted per month, a Scale tier around 6,000, and a custom Enterprise tier. Every plan includes the full platform (all campaign types, autonomous replies and meeting booking, 250M+ contacts, Salesforce/HubSpot sync, CSM support and onboarding). The AI dialer for reps is a per-seat add-on. Request pricing and Artisan builds a plan with you after a demo.
What does implementation and onboarding involve?
Every plan starts with onboarding sessions and CSM support in a shared Slack channel, with sending infrastructure sized to your motion. Scale adds a dedicated CSM and includes CRM setup; Enterprise adds a forward-deployed strategist who builds and launches the rollout with you plus full onboarding buildout and advanced security controls. A quickstart guide covers launching your first campaign from a fresh workspace, including connecting Google or Microsoft mailboxes.
Does Ava replace our BDR team?
Artisan positions Ava as running the repetitive outbound work: finding and enriching leads, writing and testing outreach, handling replies and booking meetings, so reps spend time on live conversations. You set the guardrails, including approval mode (draft-and-approve or autonomous sending), escalation rules for when a human steps in, account-owner respect and exclusion/DNC lists. Some customers report replacing their outbound team; others plug Ava into their existing stack and keep reps dialing.
Which tools does Artisan integrate with?
Salesforce and HubSpot sync bi-directionally, so there is no CRM migration. Ava connects to Google or Microsoft mailboxes and calendars so she sends as your reps and books meetings, and Slack keeps the team on top of performance. Custom webhooks bring in your own data, and the in-product dialer lets reps click and dial with call briefs and follow-ups.
Is Artisan secure and compliant enough for enterprise review?
Artisan states SOC 2 Type II certification and GDPR alignment, and lists SSO, SAML and SCIM, role-based access with audit logs, workspace isolation per brand, AI guardrails and policy controls, plus MSA and custom terms. A trust center hosts security policies, a pentest report and subprocessor details behind access request. No HIPAA, ISO 27001, FedRAMP or ISO 42001 claims appear in the material reviewed.
How is our data used to train AI models?
Artisan's privacy policy says disclosed or automatically collected personal information may be processed to train, fine-tune and evaluate its language models and AI systems, but only (i) after de-identification and aggregation, or (ii) where de-identification is not possible, with your prior express consent and only for the model tied to your account. For Google account data it states Gmail and Calendar access is used to run campaigns and that Artisan's models are not trained on Google user data.