Artisan
ActiveHiringThe AI BDR for enterprise revenue teams, plus a full AI sales team
About
Artisan builds AI employees for revenue teams. Our first, Ava, is the leading AI BDR: she finds and researches leads across a database of 400M+ contacts, writes and sends personalized email in your tone of voice, runs dialer call steps, handles every reply, and books meetings on the right rep's calendar. Over 90% of our customers run her fully autonomously. Artisan is a complete GTM ecosystem, not a point tool. One platform consolidates the 5-8 tool stack most teams stitch together at $100K+/year: prospecting data and waterfall enrichment (ZoomInfo, Apollo), list building and signals (Clay), sequencing (Outreach, Salesloft), parallel dialing (Nooks, Orum), website visitor identification, and buyer intent. It runs on top of Salesforce and HubSpot with owner mapping, do-not-contact enforcement, and field-level sync controls. We're built for enterprise. SOC 2 Type II, GDPR and CCPA compliant, SSO/SAML, role-based access, workspace isolation per brand, and a full audit trail on everything Ava does. The common enterprise pattern: sales ops runs Ava centrally for a thousand-plus AEs who never log in. Beyond the BDR job, Ava Inbound qualifies and books website visitors from the same knowledge base, and our AI AE runs live product demos and progresses deals. Prospecting, inbound, and the demo on one platform, one knowledge base, one AI sales team. YC W24. $35M+ raised from investors including Y Combinator and HubSpot Ventures. Thousands of customers including DoorDash, Quora, SumUp, CookUnity and SaaStr. Raise sourced over $700K in ARR in six months with Ava. SumUp runs leads at $52 each. Teams in San Francisco and New York. And we're hiring.
Founders
Jaspar Carmichael-Jack· FounderConsolidating and automating software, starting with outbound sales.
Product launches · 1 launch
Meet Ava, the AI BDR with 270M leads who gets you sales meetings on autopilot.
Change history · 16 recorded
- August 23, 2026
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