AI BDR for IT Services & MSPs — Autonomous Outbound
Strides Agent helps managed service providers and IT consulting firms reach IT directors, VPs of IT, and CIOs. Autonomous outreach and meeting booking for MSP pipeline.
IT services and MSP sales is relationship-driven and competitive. Strides monitors tech stack gaps, infrastructure events, and IT leadership changes to reach CIOs and IT directors when they are actively looking for a new services partner.
By the Numbers
- 4.8× — More MSP and IT services meetings booked
- 0 — SDR headcount required
- 24/7 — Pipeline motion without manual cold calling
- 72h — From IT event signal to first outreach
Built for MSP and IT Services Pipeline Generation.
Tech gap monitoring, IT leadership targeting, and meeting booking for managed services and IT consulting firms.
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.
IT Services Sales Is About Finding the Right Moment — Strides Monitors for It
MSP and IT services sales depends on timing. Companies switch IT vendors after a major incident, when their current provider fails to scale with their growth, when a key IT leader changes, or when they hit a compliance or security deadline they're not prepared for. Being in conversation at the right moment is the difference between winning and losing the account.
Strides monitors IT-specific signals that indicate services switching readiness: IT director and CIO appointments (new leaders evaluate vendor relationships), company headcount growth that indicates IT infrastructure scaling needs, compliance certification timelines (SOC 2, ISO 27001), security incident disclosures at peer companies, cloud migration announcements, and office expansion events.
IT services outreach has to demonstrate technical credibility without overwhelming the prospect. Strides generates messages that reference the company's current tech environment, their growth trajectory, and a specific capability gap or infrastructure challenge — positioning the conversation as relevant help rather than a vendor pitch.
MSPs and IT consulting firms that deploy Strides see the most impact in geographic territory expansion — reaching companies in markets where the firm has no existing relationships — and in mid-market upmarket moves, systematically reaching companies that have grown past the point where their current IT support model is adequate.
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
Frequently Asked Questions
What signals does Strides monitor for IT services and MSP outreach?
CIO and IT Director appointments, rapid headcount growth (indicating IT scaling needs), compliance deadline signals (SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA), security incidents at peer companies, cloud migration announcements, new office openings, and M&A events requiring IT integration.
Can Strides reach CIOs, IT Directors, and VPs of IT?
Yes. Strides identifies and contacts CIOs, IT Directors, VPs of Infrastructure, IT Operations leads, and technical decision-makers with messaging calibrated to their specific IT environment and challenges.
Does Strides work for both fully-managed MSPs and project-based IT consulting firms?
Yes. Fully-managed MSPs use Strides to find companies that have outgrown their current support model. Project-based IT consultancies use Strides to reach companies with specific project needs in their areas of expertise.
How does Strides handle the long relationship-building process in IT services?
Strides manages multi-touch nurture sequences that keep the firm top-of-mind over months, providing value through each touchpoint before directly asking for a meeting. When the trigger event occurs, the relationship is already established.
Can Strides support both SMB-focused and mid-market IT services providers?
Yes. SMB-focused MSPs configure Strides for high-volume outreach to small businesses in specific geographies. Mid-market IT services firms configure it for more targeted, deeply personalized outreach to larger companies.