Ibarra: SaaStr's hyper-customized AI emails usually get replies on the first send
Amelia Ibarra · How to Use AI to Hyper-Customize Go-To-Market at Scale with SaaStr's CEO and Chief AI Officer · Dec 10, 2025 · at 8:35
Amelia Ibarra explains the efficacy and response patterns of SaaStr's AI-driven outbound outreach compared to traditional human SDR sequences.
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“And a majority of these target accounts are receiving, you know, highly customized messages and reply on the first send. So that's something I think that is also a big learning, is if you do this right and train the agents the right way, not only is it different from a human AI, like a human SDR, but I think in most human sequences it takes a few messages, whereas on ours, because it's so custom, Usually on the first email or first message, we get a reply.”
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