AI BDR for Developer Tools Companies — Autonomous Outbound
Strides Agent helps developer tool companies reach CTOs, engineering leaders, and technical founders. Signal-driven outreach for DevTools and infrastructure SaaS companies.
Developers and engineering leaders are the most spam-averse buyers in B2B. Strides researches their tech stack, open source activity, and infrastructure decisions to send outreach that is genuinely relevant — not another tool trying to book time.
By the Numbers
- 6.1× — More engineering leader meetings booked
- 0 — SDR headcount required
- 24/7 — Technical pipeline motion
- 48h — From tech stack signal to first outreach
Built for Developer-Led Sales Motions.
Tech stack monitoring, GitHub signal intelligence, and engineering persona outreach for developer tool companies.
Prospect Research
Finds, scores, and qualifies your ideal customers from 6 live data sources — hiring signals, funding rounds, intent data, and more.
Personalized Outreach
Writes and sends emails that reference the prospect's specific context. Not templates with merge fields — genuinely unique messages for every person.
AI Phone Calls
Real phone conversations with real objection handling. The AI books meetings on the call, detects voicemail in 2 seconds, and leaves a perfect message every time.
Inbound Handling
Responds to every inbound inquiry in under 60 seconds, qualifies them against your ICP, and books a meeting before your team even opens their laptop.
Autonomous Pipeline
Stranger to booked meeting without a single human touchpoint. The full outbound motion runs on its own, 24/7, across every timezone.
CRM Sync & Reporting
Every interaction logged to your CRM automatically. Calls transcribed, scored, and summarized. Full pipeline visibility without any manual data entry.
Why DevTools Sales Requires Technical Intelligence — Not Just Contact Data
Developers and engineering leaders are among the most spam-averse buyers in B2B. They get dozens of outreach messages per day from vendors claiming to be "developer-first" and "built for engineers." The ones that get responses are the ones that demonstrate they actually understand the recipient's technical context — their stack, their current tooling decisions, their infrastructure direction.
Strides monitors technical signals that indicate DevTools buying readiness: stack changes visible in job postings (indicating evaluation of new tooling), open source adoption patterns, conference talks and blog posts by engineering leaders (revealing priorities and pain points), GitHub activity indicating exploration of alternative tools, and funding events that trigger infrastructure investment.
Technical outreach has to be specific and credible. A message that references a specific technical challenge the engineering team is working through, or a recent infrastructure decision visible in public job postings, demonstrates that the sender has done the homework. Strides generates this level of context for every prospect.
Developer tool companies using Strides typically see the most impact in expansion — identifying companies in their existing user base or free tier who have grown to the point where an enterprise conversation makes sense — and in competitive displacement, reaching companies using a competing tool who are showing signals of dissatisfaction.
What Customers Say
We were spending 3 hours a day on list building. Strides does it overnight while we sleep. We wake up to 200 verified, signal-qualified leads every morning.
Daniel Frey, Head of Sales at Paigo — 200 signal-qualified leads delivered every morning
Our previous tool sent the same email with the name swapped. Strides writes something different for every single person. Prospects actually respond saying they were impressed.
Jordan Lee, Director of Sales at Resend — Reply rate up 3.7× in the first 30 days
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Frequently Asked Questions
What technical signals does Strides monitor for DevTools outreach?
Job posting technology requirements (revealing stack decisions), GitHub repository language and tooling, conference presentation topics, engineering blog posts, tech stack tools listed on company websites, and funding events that indicate infrastructure investment.
Can Strides reach CTOs, VPs of Engineering, and technical founders?
Yes. Strides identifies CTOs, VPs of Engineering, Staff and Principal engineers in technical leadership roles, and technical co-founders — with messaging calibrated to their specific stack context and engineering priorities.
How does Strides handle the product-led growth model common in DevTools?
Strides integrates with your product usage data (via Strides Build) to identify free or self-serve users who have crossed the expansion threshold. It triggers outbound to convert individual users to team plans or enterprise agreements at the optimal moment.
Does Strides work for both developer tool startups and established platforms?
Yes. Startups use Strides to build initial pipeline from scratch, targeting engineering leaders at the right-sized companies for their tool. Established platforms use Strides for enterprise expansion and competitive displacement campaigns.
Can Strides support a developer-community-led GTM alongside traditional outbound?
Yes. Strides can specifically target community members who have shown deep product engagement but haven't converted to paid — or people who have attended your DevRel events and would benefit from a direct conversation.