EN Aug 9, 2026 · 15 min AI SDR vs Human SDR: What a Meeting Actually Costs in 2026 A loaded US SDR costs $110,000–$130,000 in year one. An AI SDR stack costs $1,400–$1,750 a month in cash. Category churn is 50–70% a year and 11x's own CEO says AI SDRs don't work in their current form. Three scenarios, costed, with every assumption shown. ai-sdroutboundresearch
EN Aug 9, 2026 · 14 min We Priced 17 AI SDR Tools for a Team of One. Nothing Exists Under $99. Every pricing page read on 9 August 2026, priced against one scenario: 500 prospects a month on email and LinkedIn, one person. The cheapest workable stack is $111.34/month across three separate vendors. Median gap between the price shown and the price paid: 3.1×. ai-sdrpricingresearch
EN Aug 9, 2026 · 12 min The Cold Outreach Paradox: Why Founders Who Sent Fewer Emails Got More Customers Fifteen documented cold outreach campaigns from solo founders. Reply rates are bimodal, not continuous: 14–58% under 50 hand-qualified messages, 1–1.6% above 300 scraped ones. Almost nobody sits in between. outboundcold-emailresearch
EN Aug 9, 2026 · 17 min How 70 Solo Founders Actually Got Their First 10 Paying Customers (2024–2026 Dataset) We read 70 public first-customer stories and recorded the channel, the delay and the numbers for each. Zero founders got their first paying customer from paid ads. 34% got it inside a community someone else built. first-customersresearchoutbound
EN Aug 9, 2026 · 10 min How to Get Clients Without an Audience: What 15 Founders Who Started at Zero Actually Did Fifteen founders in our dataset explicitly started with no audience. Eleven of them got their first paying customer inside an audience somebody else had built — and the ones who went straight to mass cold outreach got nothing. first-customersresearchoutbound
EN Aug 9, 2026 · 10 min The Pricing Pages That Lie to Robots We read 17 AI SDR and outreach pricing pages the way an agent would, on 9 August 2026. Six vendors contradict themselves on their own site. One publishes $3,750/month on a URL its homepage does not link. Two of seventeen publish a price a machine can read. pricingai-sdrresearch