AI Business Development — Autonomous BD Outreach
Strides is AI business development software that identifies partnership opportunities, reaches decision-makers, and books meetings — autonomously, without a BD team.
Business development requires identifying the right partners and customers, building relationships, and booking conversations. Strides automates the systematic part — finding and reaching the right people — so your BD team focuses on relationship development.
By the Numbers
- 4.8× — More BD conversations opened
- 0 — Outreach headcount required
- 24/7 — BD pipeline motion
- 48h — From configuration to first BD outreach
AI Business Development at Scale.
Signal monitoring, decision-maker targeting, and autonomous meeting booking for BD and partnerships teams.
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.
Business Development Requires Judgment and Scale — AI Provides the Scale
Business development has two distinct components: the high-judgment work of identifying the right partners, structuring the right deals, and building relationships — and the systematic work of finding and reaching the right people at the right companies. The first component genuinely requires experienced human BD professionals. The second is well-suited for AI automation.
Strides handles the systematic component of BD: monitoring for partnership opportunities, identifying the right decision-makers at target companies, generating appropriate first-contact outreach, and booking introductory meetings. BD professionals inherit booked meetings with context-rich prospect research rather than spending their time on manual prospecting.
BD teams using Strides consistently report the same outcome: they spend less time finding opportunities and more time pursuing them. The quality of their conversations improves because Strides' research gives them deeper context before each meeting, and the volume of conversations increases because AI runs the top-of-funnel that previously consumed most of their week.
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
Can Strides help with partnership outreach as well as customer BD?
Yes. Strides can run outreach campaigns for partnership development — reaching BD and partnerships leaders at potential partner companies — as well as for customer acquisition. The ICP and messaging differ; the underlying AI infrastructure is the same.
How does Strides handle the longer relationship-building process in BD?
Strides manages multi-touch nurture sequences over extended periods, providing value through each touchpoint and resurfacing opportunities when new signals emerge. BD is a marathon, not a sprint — Strides has the endurance.
Can I target specific companies for BD outreach?
Yes. You can provide a named target list of specific companies for BD outreach. Strides researches each company, identifies the right BD contact, and generates a customized outreach message for each.
Does Strides work for both inbound and outbound BD motions?
Strides is optimized for outbound BD — proactively reaching target partners and customers. For inbound BD (responding to inbound inquiries), the standard Strides response and routing capabilities apply.
How does Strides ensure BD outreach maintains the right professional tone?
You configure messaging parameters and review examples before any outreach goes live. Strides maintains the professional register appropriate for BD — relationship-oriented, not transactional — in all generated content.