Artisan

0 statements across 0 episodes · 11 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Sep 23, 2025 by Jason Lemkin · said 89 times in 16 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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Sep 23, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lemkin: SaaStr gets top results among all Artisan and Qualified customers
“On two of the ones we use artisan for outbound and qualified for inbound of all their customers, this is the most important thing. We're the number one vendor. Number one results.”
Jason Lemkin Sep 23, 2025 ▶ 3:06 SaaStr's Top 10+ AI Agents: AI SDR, AI BDR, AI RevOps + More: The How, The Who, The Why
Sep 23, 2025 positive
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Lerutte: Artisan plans to automate campaign pitch ingestion by year-end
“I do know Jasper from artisan says that's coming by end of year, but right now you just put it in yourself, you know, pick the best pain points, improve points.”
Amelia Lerutte Sep 23, 2025 ▶ 21:24 SaaStr's Top 10+ AI Agents: AI SDR, AI BDR, AI RevOps + More: The How, The Who, The Why
Sep 23, 2025 neutral
Insight
Lemkin: Vibe-coding cannot replace complex SaaS platforms like Salesforce
“There's no way you're going to build an artisan, a Salesforce, a gamma. You could build the little bits of it. I mean, there's just no way there's too many man hours”
Jason Lemkin Sep 23, 2025 ▶ 53:09 SaaStr's Top 10+ AI Agents: AI SDR, AI BDR, AI RevOps + More: The How, The Who, The Why
Sep 23, 2025
Disclosure
Lerutte: SaaStr's AI SDR sent 15,000 messages in 100 days
“So in the last hundred days, It's done about 15,000 messages.”
Amelia Lerutte Sep 23, 2025 ▶ 11:26 SaaStr's Top 10+ AI Agents: AI SDR, AI BDR, AI RevOps + More: The How, The Who, The Why
Nov 21, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ibarra: SaaStr AI outbound hits nearly 7% response rate
“Overall our outbound with the AI is almost a seven percent overall response rate, which is, you know, kind of double just overall averages across anything you'll see from all any, you know, tool that does sequences and outreach of four percent positive respons…”
Amelia Ibarra Nov 21, 2025 ▶ 17:58 6 Months Later, How Our AI SDRs Actually Work as AI Runs GTM with SaaStr's CEO and Chief AI Officer
Nov 21, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Ibarra: 99% of SaaStr's AI SDR outreach uses first-party contacts
“To this point, if we're six months in, I have, 99% of the contacts are ours.”
Amelia Ibarra Nov 21, 2025 ▶ 1:16:41 6 Months Later, How Our AI SDRs Actually Work as AI Runs GTM with SaaStr's CEO and Chief AI Officer
Nov 26, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Lemkin: SaaStr Runs 20 AI Agents in Active Production
“We have 20 in production. Here's the thing. This includes Replit. This includes Opus. This includes Agent Force and Artisan and Qualified, all the tools we love to death.”
Jason Lemkin Nov 26, 2025 ▶ 31:24 How We Use 20+ AI Agents for Marketing & Go-to-Market with SaaStr's CEO and Chief AI Officer
Dec 10, 2025 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ibarra: SaaStr's Artisan AI achieves a 6% response rate versus 2-4% human average
“For artisan, that one has, it actually went up, it's about a six percent overall response rate now. You know, average for normal SDR is two to four.”
Amelia Ibarra Dec 10, 2025 ▶ 11:46 How to Use AI to Hyper-Customize Go-To-Market at Scale with SaaStr's CEO and Chief AI Officer
Dec 10, 2025 positive
Insight
Ibarra: Companies selling low-ASP products should let AI agents close autonomously
“I think for self-serve models or things that have a lower ASP, I think it's a big oversight that I see a lot of companies, they roll out things like a qualified even, or like an artisan, and they don't let it sell. They're like, oh, you know, I'm gonna book a …”
Amelia Ibarra Dec 10, 2025 ▶ 38:40 How to Use AI to Hyper-Customize Go-To-Market at Scale with SaaStr's CEO and Chief AI Officer
Jan 21, 2026 neutral
Disclosure
Lemkin: SaaStr segments Salesforce database across three outbound AI tools
“We are using, for example, for outbound, we use Asian force artisan and qualified. We use three and we may add more. We're just basically taking our Salesforce database and giving each of them a portion of it.”
Jason Lemkin Jan 21, 2026 ▶ 4:56 The Present and Future of AI in Sales and GTM with SaaStr's CEO and Owner's CRO
Feb 15, 2026 neutral
Assertion Contradicted
Lemkin: AI SDR startups like Artisan and Clay start at $100K
“Startups like artisan and qualified and clay, they're expensive, man. They're like a hundred grand to start.”
Jason Lemkin Feb 15, 2026 ▶ 33:32 Software Stocks Have Massively Crashed. Here's What Founders Need to Know.
Mar 4, 2026 negative
Assertion Supported
Lemkin: No master orchestration product exists for multi-vendor AI agents
“We haven't found anyone that can integrate Asian force artisan qualified Monaco. Momentum. Attention. Attentive. Like we don't, there's nothing out there today, even with Tentay, which we built ourselves that at some magical API or other level can integrate ev…”
Jason Lemkin Mar 4, 2026 ▶ 13:44 The Top 5 Issues Managing Multiple AI Agents in Production
Mar 4, 2026 bullish
Disclosure
Lemkin: Artisan, Monaco, and Qualified AI agents each replaced two human roles
“Or take over all of like two people did for like each of Artisan and Monaco and qualified. They replaced like two, two people each, right? That's high ROI.”
Jason Lemkin Mar 4, 2026 ▶ 49:36 The Top 5 Issues Managing Multiple AI Agents in Production
Mar 4, 2026 neutral
Insight
Ibarra: AI agents idle and waste money without daily human management
“You can't, you, it just can't afford to wait a whole week, or like you're, or you're probably just wasting, honestly, you're probably wasting your money if you don't spend the time to do it daily, because a lot of these are waiting for you to give it inputs, r…”
Amelia Ibarra Mar 4, 2026 ▶ 15:44 The Top 5 Issues Managing Multiple AI Agents in Production
Mar 18, 2026 neutral
Disclosure
Ibarra: SaaStr sent roughly 340,000 messages across Artisan, Qualified, and Salesforce
“I will tell you, we've sent this is just artisan, but it's sent 40,000 messages. Okay, I think our qualified is later on this deck that's sent like a 100,000 messages because that's an inbound. And then with Salesforce, we're probably close to like 200,000 mes…”
Amelia Ibarra Mar 18, 2026 ▶ 21:25 10 Things to Know Before You Deploy Your First AI SDR
Mar 18, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Lemkin: SaaStr uses Agentforce, Qualified, Artisan, and Monaco for AI SDRs
“For the most part, we are using the current four third-party agents that we use, right? We are using Agent Force from Salesforce, Qualified, which Salesforce is buying. We're using Artisan, which we use all the time as a core outbound agent. And recently we've…”
Jason Lemkin Mar 18, 2026 ▶ 15:06 10 Things to Know Before You Deploy Your First AI SDR
May 6, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Lemkin: SaaStr runs four to five AI SDR tools including Artisan and Agentforce
“Until we deployed our own, and we're going to talk more about whether this is too many, our four to five AISDRs, Artisan, Qualified, Monaco, Agent Force, and probably more to come.”
Jason Lemkin May 6, 2026 ▶ 8:14 Why Your Next Hire Should Report to an AI, Tragedy Apps, and Too Many AI SDRs? | The Agents #004
Jun 11, 2026 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lemkin: New AI Sales Startups Are Generating Millions per Week
“Some of these vendors here guys are doing millions per week and didn't even exist last year or barely existed last year. Okay. They're doing millions per week in new revenue, not because that the leads contacts and opportunity tabs are prettier or have purple …”
Jason Lemkin Jun 11, 2026 ▶ 3:03 $4 Trillion in IPOs, $100B in M&A, and Why B2B Spend is Booming
Aug 28, 2026 positive
Opinion
Lemkin: AI SDR emails beat 99% of humans but lack deep context
“The artisan Monaco agent force emails. They're all better than a human, which is all that really matters today as we record this, right? They're better than 99% of humans. But they're not great like that RepliDeck. None of them are great.”
Jason Lemkin Aug 28, 2026 ▶ 36:17 Who Owns Your Data Now? Agents vs. Systems of Record on The Agents #013
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