Strides is the AI BDR that prospects, writes personalized emails, makes real phone calls, and books meetings autonomously. From stranger to booked meeting with zero human reps.
Everything a BDR Does. None of the Headcount.
One platform replaces your entire outbound stack and the team that runs it.
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.
How Strides Closes the Loop
Step 01: Define your ICP
Describe your ideal customer in plain English or let Strides infer it from your closed-won deals. Set once, runs forever.
Result: ICP locked in under 2 minutes
Step 02: AI researches and qualifies
Strides monitors 47 signal types — hiring, funding, intent, competitive signals — and surfaces only the accounts that match right now.
Result: Signal-qualified prospects, not raw lists
Step 03: Personalized outreach launches
Emails written from scratch for each prospect using their specific context. Real phone calls made with objection handling. Replies handled autonomously.
Result: Multi-channel outreach, zero human time
Step 04: Meeting booked, CRM updated
When a prospect is ready, Strides books the meeting directly — on the call or via email — and logs everything to your CRM automatically.
Result: Meeting on calendar. Nothing to do.
What Is an AI BDR — and How Is It Different from Sales Software?
A traditional BDR — business development representative — is responsible for the top of the funnel: finding prospects, sending outreach, making calls, and booking qualified meetings for account executives to close. It's high-volume, repetitive, and expensive. A fully-loaded BDR costs $80–120k per year, takes 90+ days to ramp, and produces 8–15 booked meetings per month when performing well.
An AI BDR does the same job — at a fraction of the cost, without ramp time, and around the clock. Strides monitors 47 live signal types across 6 data sources to identify your best-fit prospects at the exact moment they're likely to buy. It then writes a genuinely personalized email for each one — not a template with a name field — based on their role, their company's recent activity, and your specific value proposition for them.
Where Strides diverges from traditional sales software is in its end-to-end autonomy. Most tools are point solutions: one for list building, one for email sequences, one for dialing, one for CRM logging. Strides closes the entire loop. It researches the prospect, writes the outreach, sends it, handles the reply, places a real phone call with live objection handling, books the meeting directly, and logs everything to your CRM — without a human touching any step.
The result is a pipeline motion that runs 24/7 across every timezone, scales linearly without headcount, and never has an off day. Teams using Strides see a 22% cold-call-to-meeting rate and an 11% email reply rate — 3.7× higher than industry averages for template-based tools. When your AI BDR is booking meetings while you sleep, your AEs wake up to a full calendar.
Strides is not a replacement for great salespeople — it's a replacement for the high-volume, low-judgment work that keeps great salespeople from closing. Let the AI fill the top of the funnel. Let your team own the deal.
Frequently Asked Questions
How is Strides different from an AI email tool?
Email tools write messages. Strides closes the loop — it researches prospects, makes real phone calls, handles replies, books meetings, and updates your CRM. It's a complete AI rep, not a single-channel automation.
Does Strides really make actual phone calls?
Yes. Strides places real calls to real phone numbers and holds natural conversations with objection handling, voicemail detection, and in-call meeting booking. It's not a robocall — it's a full conversation.
What does it cost compared to a human BDR?
A fully-loaded BDR costs $80–120k/year and books 8–15 meetings per month. Strides costs a fraction of that and books meetings around the clock. Most customers see payback within the first month.
How long does it take to set up?
Most customers are running live outreach within 48 hours of signing up. There's no complex configuration — describe your ICP, connect your CRM, and Strides handles the rest.
What data sources does Strides use to find prospects?
Strides monitors 6 live data sources covering hiring signals, funding events, intent data, competitive movements, news and press releases, and product usage signals. It surfaces prospects at the moment they're most likely to buy — not from a static database.
Can I control what the AI says and does?
Yes. You set the guardrails — your ICP, messaging guidelines, approved sequences, and tone. Strides operates within those parameters. You can also add approval gates on specific actions if you want a human to review before anything goes out.
How does Strides handle prospects who say they're not interested?
Strides respects opt-outs immediately and permanently marks those contacts as do-not-contact. For softer objections — wrong time, wrong person, send more info — the AI handles the reply intelligently and either continues the conversation or sequences them for future outreach.
Does Strides integrate with my CRM?
Yes. Strides integrates natively with Salesforce, HubSpot, and Pipedrive. Every contact, interaction, call transcript, and booked meeting is logged automatically with full context. No manual data entry required.
What's the typical time to first booked meeting?
Most customers see their first booked meeting within 24–48 hours of going live. The AI starts outreach immediately and can work through your entire ICP list in parallel — it's not constrained by one rep's daily capacity.