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The right prospects land on your team’s calendar.

An AI SDR finds companies that match your ideal client from publicly available business records, opens the conversation by voice call, email and text, qualifies fit and intent, and books discovery calls straight onto your team's calendars - so your strategists walk into a calendar of prospects worth pitching, while the rest of the team stays billable.

You get only the hot ones. We do the prospecting and outreach; a real person on your team runs the discovery call and closes. Sourcing is B2B-only, from publicly available business data, on a legitimate-interest basis, with opt-outs honored on the spot. Hear the voice agent your prospects would hear.

Example
OG
Public web · hiring signal
Oliver Grant
Founder · Fettle Skincare, Brighton
92%
fit
SignalHiring a Head of Growth, ad spend rising
  1. Call
  2. Email
  3. SMS
  4. Qualified
  5. Booked
AI call · disclosed

"Hi Oliver, this is Jessica, an AI assistant for Northlight Media. I saw you are hiring for growth. Is paid social something you would hand to an agency?"

Email · sent
A two-minute teardown of their Meta ads, with two slots
SMS · follow-up
Oliver: "Tuesday works, bring the numbers"
HubSpot · qualifiedMonthly budgetScope fitDecision-makerStarts in November
Google Calendar
Tue 11:30 · Discovery call with Priya (Client Services)
Brief attached: £15k a month on Meta, CPA climbing, wants a test in November

Books Straight Into the Tools You Already Use

HubSpot, Pipedrive, Salesforce, Google Calendar, Cal.com - qualified discovery calls and their notes land in your CRM and calendar automatically.

  • Bitrix24
  • Google Calendar
  • Make
  • Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Odoo
  • Pipedrive
  • Sage
  • SAP
  • WhatsApp Business
  • Zapier
  • Zoho CRM
  • Docusign
  • Freshsales
  • Google Sheets
  • Kommo
  • Scoro
  • ClickUp
  • Exact Online
  • Google Drive
  • Instagram
  • Telegram
  • Zoho Books
  • Agnum
  • Cegid
  • DATEV
  • Holded
  • Lexware Office
  • Rivilė
  • Symfonia
  • wFirma
  • Directo
  • Fakturownia
  • InsERT Subiekt
  • Labbis
  • SimplBooks
  • weclapp
  • Axonaut
  • Merit Aktiva
  • Calendly
  • HubSpot
  • Microsoft Dynamics 365
  • Microsoft Outlook / Microsoft 365
  • n8n
  • Oracle NetSuite
  • QuickBooks Online
  • Salesforce
  • Slack
  • Xero
  • Zendesk
  • Cal.com
  • Freshdesk
  • Gmail / Google Workspace
  • Intercom
  • monday CRM
  • Airtable
  • ERPNext
  • Facebook Lead Ads
  • HighLevel
  • Messenger
  • Viber
  • a3
  • B1.lt
  • Comarch ERP
  • Fatture in Cloud
  • inFakt
  • Pennylane
  • sevDesk
  • TeamSystem
  • Zucchetti
  • enova365
  • Finvalda
  • JTL-Wawi
  • Sellsy
  • Stekas Plius
  • Aruba Fatturazione Elettronica
  • EBP
  • Teamleader Focus
+ Any system with an API

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Agencies Win in a Discovery Call - the Hard Part Is Booking Them

Your work speaks for itself once you are on a call - but the people who could prospect are the same ones delivering client work, so nobody does it. Lean on referrals alone and you swing between overloaded and empty. The bottleneck is never your pitch - it is reach, speed, and a steady flow of the right calls.

Billable
the same people who deliver client work are the ones who should prospect - so prospecting stops
Feast/famine
agencies that rely on referrals swing between overloaded and empty, with no steady pipeline
21x
more likely to qualify a lead when you call within 5 minutes instead of 30
The call
agencies win in a discovery call, not a checkout - the whole game is booking the right ones

The 21x figure is from the Lead Response Management Study (Dr. James Oldroyd) and Harvard Business Review. The billable-team and feast-or-famine patterns are the everyday reality of agency new business - an AI SDR holds the prospecting layer your team drops when delivery gets busy.

What Is an AI SDR for a Marketing Agency?

An AI SDR for a marketing agency is an autonomous system that runs your new-business motion: it finds companies that match your ideal client, contacts them across voice, email and text, qualifies fit and intent against your criteria, and books the qualified ones as discovery calls onto your team's calendars. “Appointment setting” here means the outbound job of sourcing the right prospects and opening the conversation - the part that never happens when everyone is billable.

A human new-business rep does exactly this work by hand; the AI does it at machine speed and consistency, then hands every hot, ready-to-talk prospect to a person on your team to run the discovery call and close. The AI is the mechanism. The product is a calendar of qualified discovery calls. Under the hood it is the same voice stack as our AI voice agent, wired to prospect sourcing, email and SMS. For the general definition, see what AI appointment setting is and what an AI SDR does.

How Does an AI SDR Find and Contact Your Ideal Clients?

It starts from your ideal client profile - industry, company size, region, and the marketing gap you close - and builds a target list from publicly available business data. Then it runs a coordinated multichannel sequence: a natural-sounding AI voice call to open the conversation with the founder or marketing lead, a personalised email, and an SMS follow-up, so your pitch reaches each prospect on the channel they actually answer. Every touch is logged, every reply is captured to your CRM, and the sequence stops the instant a prospect asks to opt out. If you already have a list of companies you want worked instead of sourcing new ones, that is AI outbound calls on your own list.

How Does the AI SDR Book Discovery Calls for Your Agency?

  1. 1
    Step 1

    We find companies that fit your ideal client

    You describe who you win with - industry, company size, region, and the marketing gap you close (paid media, SEO, brand, web). We build a target list of matching companies from publicly available business data: company registries, business directories, and professional web sources. B2B only, no consumer data, no scraping of private accounts.

  2. 2
    Step 2

    We open the conversation across voice, email and text

    Each prospect gets a coordinated sequence aimed at the founder, CMO or head of growth: a natural AI voice call that opens the conversation, a personalised email, and an SMS follow-up, so your pitch lands on whichever channel that decision-maker actually answers. The AI discloses that it is an AI and honors any opt-out immediately.

  3. 3
    Step 3

    The AI qualifies fit and intent

    On the call and in the replies, the AI runs your qualifying questions - marketing maturity and current spend, who owns the decision, whether they are actively looking, and rough budget fit - so a discovery call only lands when the prospect is a real match. Companies that are not a fit are logged and dropped; prospects worth a strategy conversation move forward. Your strategists never sit through a call that was never going to close.

  4. 4
    Step 4

    We book the discovery call and hand off the hot ones

    Qualified prospects are booked straight onto your team's calendars, with the notes attached, so whoever runs your discovery calls walks in prepared. The moment someone is ready for a real strategy conversation, the meeting goes to a person on your team. Every call is logged and recorded, so you see exactly who booked, who opted out, and why.

Which Agencies Is This For?

Performance and paid-media agencies

Your case studies close deals, but only if you get the discovery call. The AI SDR fills your calendar with prospects who fit your ideal ad account, so your media buyers stay on client campaigns instead of cold prospecting.

SEO and content agencies

You know exactly which companies are leaving organic traffic on the table - the hard part is getting the decision-maker on a call. The AI SDR sources and opens the conversation with those companies, and books the discovery call for your strategists.

Branding and creative studios

Rebrands and identity work sell in a conversation, not a form. The AI SDR reaches companies at the moment they are scaling or repositioning, qualifies real interest, and books the ones worth a creative discovery call.

Web design and development studios

A new site or platform build is a considered purchase that starts with a scoping call. The AI SDR sources companies with an ageing or underperforming web presence, opens the conversation across channels, and books qualified scoping calls for your team.

Social and influencer agencies

Brands that need to show up on social know it - reaching the person who owns that budget is the friction. The AI SDR sources matching brands, opens the conversation, qualifies who decides and whether they are looking now, and books the discovery call.

Full-service and growth marketing agencies

A retainer is worth months of revenue, so a steady flow of the right discovery calls is your whole growth engine. The AI SDR is the new-business team you never hired - finding, contacting and qualifying prospects so you only ever get on the calls worth taking.

Related for sales-led teams

AI SDR vs Pulling Your Team Off Client Work to Prospect

Every hour a strategist spends prospecting is a billable hour lost - and the moment delivery gets busy, the prospecting stops. An AI SDR replaces the repetitive prospecting layer, not the person who runs your discovery call. See the full breakdown of AI SDR vs human SDR.

Side by side
AI SDRYour team prospecting
Ramp timeRamps once on your offer, then productive immediately~3 months before a new-business hire produces pipeline
Who does the prospectingThe AI - your team stays billableA strategist pulled off client work, or nobody
Follow-up speedSeconds after a triggerHours or days, when someone finally gets to it
ConsistencySame pitch whether you are slammed or slowStops the moment client delivery gets busy
Pipeline shapeSteady flow of qualified discovery callsFeast-or-famine on referrals and word of mouth
LanguagesMultiple, nativelyUsually one
The closeHands hot prospects to your teamHuman - runs the discovery call and pitches

We don't publish a flat price for the AI SDR - the right scope depends on your ideal client and target volume, so we scope it on a call. For the raw numbers behind outbound, see every cold-call conversion-rate study, compiled.

Is This Booking Our Discovery Calls or Answering Inbound?

Booking your discovery calls - outbound - and the difference matters. This AI SDR goes and finds net-new companies that fit your ideal client, reaches out, qualifies them, and sets the discovery call. You start with no list; we source it. That is a prospecting job, not a reception one.

If instead you want to handle incoming enquiries - people who already found you and filled a form or called in - and book them without a person on the phone, that is inbound: see our AI appointment booking by phone and AI appointment booking for service businesses. This page is for filling your calendar with prospects you have not spoken to yet.

What Makes a Discovery Call “Qualified”?

A qualified discovery call is a prospect that matches the rules you set - the right kind of company, a real marketing need, a workable budget, and the person who can actually decide - not just anyone who agreed to a chat. You define the qualifying criteria; the AI asks those questions in conversation, records the answers, and only books prospects who clear the bar. Everyone else is logged with a reason and dropped, so your strategists never sit through a call that was never going to close. The result is fewer calls, but the right ones. For the underlying booking-rate benchmarks, see our round-up of every B2B meeting-booking-rate study.

Is Sourcing B2B Prospects From Public Records Legal and GDPR-Safe?

We build the program around a clear, defensible basis - not around loopholes. We contact businesses only, using publicly available business data (company registries, business directories, and professional web sources), on a legitimate-interest basis for B2B outreach. Every AI call discloses that it is an AI, every message carries a clear opt-out, and opt-outs are honored immediately and logged. We do not process consumer or private-individual data for cold outreach, and we keep to the calling windows and rules of each market we run in.

What we will not tell you: that any of this is “fully compliant” or “zero risk” for your specific case. Lawful B2B outreach depends on your jurisdiction, your sector, and how you handle objections and data, so we design for transparency and honored opt-outs rather than promising a blanket green light. For where automated outbound is greener or stricter, read is AI cold calling legal in the EU, country by country, and we point clients to the relevant regulators before any campaign goes live.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can AI really book sales calls for a marketing agency?
Yes - that is exactly what this is. An AI SDR finds companies that match your ideal client from publicly available business data, contacts them by voice call, email and text, qualifies fit and intent against your criteria, and books the qualified ones as discovery calls on your team's calendars. The AI does the prospecting and the outreach; a person on your team runs the discovery call and closes.
Why an AI SDR instead of pulling a strategist off client work to prospect?
Because in an agency the people best placed to prospect are the ones billing hours, so prospecting is always the first thing to slide. An AI SDR runs the outbound motion continuously - whether you are slammed or slow - so your pipeline stops swinging between feast and famine and your team stays on the client work that pays.
How does it know which companies fit our ideal client?
You define the profile - industry, size, region, and the marketing gap you close - and we build a target list from publicly available business data to match it. The AI then confirms fit in the conversation, asking about marketing maturity, current spend, who owns the decision, and whether they are actively looking, so only real matches get booked. Everyone else is logged with a reason and dropped.
Where do you get the prospects you contact?
We build a target list from publicly available business data - company registries, business directories, and professional web sources - matched to the ideal client you define. It is B2B only. We do not buy consumer lists or scrape private accounts, and you approve the targeting before any outreach begins.
Is this legal, and is it GDPR-compliant?
We contact businesses only, using publicly available business data, on a legitimate-interest basis for B2B outreach. Every AI call discloses that it is an AI, every message includes an opt-out, and opt-outs are honored immediately. We will not claim it is "fully compliant" or "zero risk" for your specific situation, because lawful B2B outreach depends on your jurisdiction and sector - so we design around transparency and honored opt-outs, and we flag the relevant regulator rules before any campaign runs.
Which channels does the AI SDR use - just calls?
No - it runs a coordinated sequence across voice call, email and SMS, so each prospect is reached on the channel they actually respond to. The voice call opens the conversation, the email adds context and a paper trail, and the text is an easy, low-friction follow-up. Everything is logged and pushed to your CRM.
Does the AI run the discovery call or close the deal?
No. The AI SDR does the finding, contacting, and qualifying, and it books the discovery call - but the moment a prospect is ready for a real strategy conversation, the handoff goes to a person on your team. The discovery call and the close stay human. You get a calendar of qualified prospects; your team does what it is best at.
How is this different from your general AI appointment setting service?
It is the same AI SDR, tuned for the agency motion. The targeting is built around companies that fit your ideal client, the qualifying questions focus on marketing fit and buying intent, and the handoff is designed for a discovery call. For the broader overview across every B2B market, see our main AI appointment setting page.

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