AI SDR questions, answered straight
What an AI sales development rep actually does, what it costs, how it stays compliant, and how it works alongside the reps you already have.
What is an AI SDR?
An AI sales development rep is a software agent that calls, emails and messages leads, qualifies them against your criteria, books meetings and writes every outcome back to your CRM. It runs the repeatable top-of-funnel work so human reps spend their day on live conversations and closing. Unlike a dialer or a single-channel chatbot, it holds the whole conversation itself across voice, SMS, email and chat and decides the next action from what the prospect actually said.
How much does an AI SDR cost?
Jobix.AI charges $9.99 per agent hour, all-inclusive of standard model usage, telephony orchestration and channel handling. Premium model tiers are an optional paid add-on. A fully loaded human SDR in the US costs roughly $70,000 to $95,000 a year before tooling, so most teams model AI as capacity that scales up and down instead of a headcount replacement. New accounts start with $10 in free credits and no credit card.
Do AI SDRs replace human sales reps?
No. The pattern that works is hybrid: agents handle speed-to-lead, follow-up sequences, qualification and after-hours coverage, then warm-transfer buying-intent conversations to a human closer with the full transcript and qualification answers attached. Human reps keep the relationship work, the negotiation and the complex discovery; agents remove the queue.
Are AI sales calls TCPA compliant?
They can be, if you build for it: prior express written consent for regulated outbound, clear AI and recording disclosure at the start of a call, honoured do-not-call suppression, calling-window rules per state, and retained audit logs of consent and call records. Disclosure is built into the opening of regulated outbound scripts and can be enforced across every agent.
How is our data handled?
Tenant isolation, encryption in transit and at rest, configurable retention on recordings and transcripts, role-based access control and regional data residency options. SOC 2 Type I is underway with Type II to follow, and the control set supports GDPR, POPIA and HIPAA obligations for regulated buyers.
How long does setup take, and what does it connect to?
Most teams have a working agent the same day: describe the role to Ellie, review the generated script and qualification logic, connect a number and your CRM, then approve before anything dials. Native connections cover Salesforce, HubSpot and GoHighLevel, with 10,000+ integrations through Zapier and a documented REST API with signed webhooks. The platform runs up to 100,000 calls per day at sub-500ms average voice latency with a 99.5% uptime SLA, in 50+ languages.