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6.7%
6.7% -- outbound response rate for SaaStr AI SDR cold outbound campaigns (five specialized agents) (2025)
SaaStr's AI SDR cold outbound campaigns achieved a 6.7% response rate across a 6-month trial sending 19,847 messages.
- Requires 15–20 hours/week of oversight, clean RevOps, and defined ICP
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6.7%
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Data Vintage
2025
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Sample Size
19,847
Evidence Quality
B
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Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
60
Freshness
95
Source
SaaStr (Jason Lemkin)
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Tier B
https://deathtocoldemails.com/ai-sdr-post-mortem/ ↗
Source Article
AI SDR Post-Mortem: What 11x and Artisan Cost the Category | Death to Cold Emails
AI SDR Post-Mortem
The AI SDR Post-Mortem
By Peter Korpak · 14 min read · April 2026
Direct answer: The AI SDR category bet the industry on autonomy and delivered a force multiplier for operators who already knew what they were doing. 11x's customers churned at 70–80% within three months (TechCrunch…
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SaaStr (Jason Lemkin)
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Methodology
Best-case result from Jason Lemkin's published six-month AI SDR case study; author caveats that it reflects SaaStr's defined ICP, clean RevOps, and 15–20 hrs/week of human oversight, not a generalizable cold-outbound benchmark.
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SaaStr AI SDR cold outbound campaigns (five specialized agents): 6.7% outbound response rate. Source: SaaStr (Jason Lemkin) (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/saastr-ai-sdr-outbound-response-rate
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