AI sales agents
What an agent can genuinely take off your plate in prospecting, where it still needs you, and how to spot one that is a mail merge in a new coat.
OpenClaw and LinkedIn: what an agent runtime can actually reach, and which outreach tools plug into it
OpenClaw ships 31 messaging channels and LinkedIn is not one of them. This is the job-by-job map of what an agent can reach on LinkedIn, which routes spend your own account to get there, and what to check in an outreach tool before you give an agent standing permission to act as you.
Alexandre Sarfati
AI agents for LinkedIn lead generation: what works, what doesn't
The all-in-one AI SDR was supposed to replace your sales team. By early 2026, most companies that tried it have gone back to hybrid models. Here's what AI agents actually do well for LinkedIn prospecting - and where the hype still outpaces reality.
Alexandre Sarfati
Best AI sales agents for B2B prospecting: choose by bottleneck, not by brand
Every ranked list of AI sales agents ages badly, because it ranks vendors instead of problems. There are five categories of agent, each one built for a different place where pipeline stalls. Work out which place is yours, and the shortlist writes itself.
Alexandre Sarfati
How much does an AI SDR cost, and what actually drives the bill
Published AI SDR plans run from $250 a month to quote-only enterprise contracts, set by four pricing models that scale in four different ways. Here is what each model charges for, which of the category's favourite statistics survive being traced to a source, and the denominator that decides whether any of it is cheap.
Alexandre Sarfati
What is an AI SDR, and how does it work?
An AI SDR is software that performs the repeatable half of a sales development rep's job: research, personalisation, sequencing and follow-up. Here is the plain definition, the mechanics of how one actually runs, the ceiling every vendor page leaves out, and the three parts of the job it cannot take off your hands.
Alexandre Sarfati
AI LinkedIn outreach tools: assisted, autonomous, or human-approved
AI LinkedIn outreach tools fall into three camps that fail in different ways: AI-assisted sequencers that still make you drive, autonomous AI SDRs that send on their own, and human-approved agents that do the judgement work then wait for your yes. Here is the field, verified live, and which camp fits which team.
Alexandre Sarfati
Claude for sales: what it does well, and the one thing it cannot do alone
Claude is excellent at the research, synthesis and drafting half of selling. It cannot act on LinkedIn by itself. Here is what works today, the exact wall it hits, and how an MCP connector completes the sentence: Claude drafts, you approve, BeReach sends.
Alexandre Sarfati
AI agent for LinkedIn outreach: what it actually does
The term hides two very different products: an autonomous sender that decides on its own who to message, and an agent that finds and drafts, then waits for you to approve. Here is the six-job breakdown, what each job actually needs from you, and one honest end-to-end session.
Alexandre Sarfati
LinkedIn MCP server for Claude: what they are, how they compare, and how to run outreach
A developer's map of the LinkedIn MCP servers that exist, a table of what each one can actually do, and a worked transcript of finding, qualifying and drafting outreach inside Claude with BeReach.
Alexandre Sarfati