Role

Hire your AI BDR

Outbound prospecting, qualification, and meeting booking — run by chat.

Your AI Business Development Rep builds the top of funnel that does not exist yet: finding new accounts, running multichannel outbound, and qualifying interest before it reaches your AE. It operates like a disciplined human BDR who does not get tired, does not skip research, and does not send templates that sound like templates.

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What your AI BDR does

01Build target account lists from firmographic criteria and intent signals
02Research each account before first touch — industry, recent news, tech stack, key personas
03Run multichannel outbound sequences: email, LinkedIn, phone when warranted
04Qualify responses through discovery questions and route qualified meetings to the AE
05Maintain clean CRM hygiene: every touch logged, every stage accurate
06A/B test email subject lines, LinkedIn openers, and sequence cadence continuously
07Track reply rate, meeting-booked rate, and sourced pipeline by segment
08Surface market signals: which segments respond, which titles convert, which objections repeat

Workflows on autopilot

Weekly target list build
Every Monday builds the account list for the week: firmographic fit, intent signals, no overlap with AE ownership, prioritized by score.
Account research before first touch
Before any outbound on a named account, researches the company, its last 90 days of public activity, the buyer persona's recent posts, and drafts a personalized first message.
Multichannel sequence
Runs 8-12 step sequences across email and LinkedIn with timing calibrated to the account's historical response pattern. Stops sequences when a human replies.
Reply qualification
When a prospect replies, runs discovery (fit, timing, budget authority) through two to four thoughtful questions before booking a meeting. Routes qualified meetings to the AE with context.
CRM hygiene loop
Every touch logged, every stage updated, every lost reason captured. No dirty data left behind.
Weekly performance review
Reports reply rate by segment, meeting-booked rate, pipeline sourced, and kills the bottom 20% of sequences. Doubles down on what works.

Without vs With a AI BDR

Without
  • —Outbound lists are bought once and worked for a year
  • —Cold emails open with 'hope this finds you well'
  • —You forget to follow up after day 3 and the lead goes cold
  • —CRM is 70% dirty and you don't know what's real pipeline
  • —A human BDR costs $80K+ base and turns over every 18 months
With Tycoon
  • ✓New target lists generated weekly with fresh intent signals
  • ✓Every first touch references something specific about the prospect
  • ✓Sequences run the full cadence without gaps
  • ✓Every interaction logged, every stage accurate, every lost reason captured
  • ✓AI BDR runs at a fraction of cost and compounds knowledge over time

A day in the life of your AI BDR

07:00
Monday morning: builds the week's target list. 237 accounts that match firmographic fit and triggered intent signals in the last 14 days.
09:30
Researches and drafts personalized first touches for 42 accounts going into the new sequence. Two shown to CEO for voice check.
11:30
Sequence runs: 42 emails sent, 18 LinkedIn connection requests with personalized notes, 0 generic templates.
13:00
Five replies overnight. Two qualified (fit + timing), routed to AE. Two nurture (right fit, wrong time), bucketed for Q3. One not a fit, captured lost reason.
15:30
CRM hygiene sweep: 4 accounts with mismatched stages corrected. 7 lost deals updated with reason codes.
17:30
Weekly performance report: 8 meetings booked, $420K pipeline sourced, reply rate 6.2% (up 1.1 pts), top-performing sequence identified.

Tools your AI BDR uses

Apollo, Clay, or ZoomInfo for account and contact sourcingLinkedIn Sales Navigator for warm-path discoveryOutreach, Salesloft, or Smartlead for sequence executionHubSpot or Salesforce as the CRMGmail or Outlook for sendsBombora, 6sense, or Koala for intent signalsCalendly or Chili Piper for meeting bookingTycoon skill marketplace for outbound, qualification, and CRM hygiene skills
FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Clear answers about wallet credit, usage, subscriptions, and how Tycoon charges for work.

What's the difference between an AI BDR and AI SDR?

BDR and SDR are often used interchangeably but in a mature go-to-market org they split: the BDR (Business Development Rep) works outbound — building pipeline from cold accounts. The SDR (Sales Development Rep) works inbound — qualifying leads who raised their hand via demo request, signup, or content download. The workflows are different: BDR is prospecting-heavy, SDR is response-time-heavy. On Tycoon you can run both or just one. Solo founders often start with the SDR because inbound is easier to work; as inbound saturates, they add the BDR for outbound expansion.

Will cold outbound from an AI get flagged as spam?

If it's template spam, yes. The AI BDR on Tycoon is explicitly designed against that failure mode: personalized research per account, stopping sequences when a human replies, respecting opt-outs immediately, sending from a warmed domain at volumes under spam thresholds. Reply rates are typically 3-8% which is higher than most human-run cold outbound because the research step actually happens. Spam complaint rates stay under 0.1% when configured correctly. If you want purely inbound-driven growth, skip the BDR entirely and run only the SDR.

Can it handle phone calls?

The AI BDR can trigger phone workflows (add a number to a human dialer queue, use a voice-AI tool for automated calls in jurisdictions where it's legal) but most modern B2B outbound is email and LinkedIn. Phone fits as the third channel for high-value enterprise accounts where a voicemail plus email plus LinkedIn stack has a noticeably higher hit rate than any channel alone. For most SMB and mid-market motions, phone is not worth the compliance complexity; the AI BDR will tell you that honestly rather than doing work that does not move the number.

What about compliance — CAN-SPAM, GDPR, CASL?

The AI BDR is configured with compliance defaults per destination: CAN-SPAM for the US, GDPR for EU contacts (opt-in or legitimate interest with documentation), CASL for Canada (implied or express consent), PECR for the UK. It respects suppression lists, honors opt-outs immediately, includes required physical address and unsubscribe on all marketing emails, and will refuse to send into jurisdictions where a specific workflow would be non-compliant. For GDPR specifically, you configure your legal basis up front; the AI enforces it in every send.

How does it coordinate with the AE?

The handoff is one of the places Tycoon's shared-workspace model matters. When the AI BDR qualifies a meeting, it writes a short brief (account context, buyer persona, what prompted the conversation, what qualification questions were answered) and schedules the meeting on the AE's calendar. The AE walks into every first call warm, not cold. No ping-ponging between CRMs, no rewriting notes, no context loss. If the AE disqualifies the meeting after discovery, they log the reason and the BDR updates its qualification criteria — the loop compounds into better pipeline quality over a few months.

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