AI for Founders with Ryan Estes Zero to $6M ARR with AI SDRs
Sep 5, 2025
01:00:46
AI for Founders — Show Notes
Guest: Gaurav Bhattacharya, CEO & Co-founder, Jeeva.ai
Topic: Agentic AI for sales. From zero to $6M ARR in under nine months.
Episode Snapshot
Jeeva.ai builds agentic AI that behaves like a sales teammate. It finds lookalike accounts, enriches contacts, drafts outreach, manages calendars, and pushes structured notes to CRM after calls. We cover deliverability, pricing alignment, and the exact workflow behind rapid growth.
Who This Is For
- Founders, indie hackers, B2B sales leaders, SDRs, AEs
- Teams replacing tool sprawl with an agentic stack
- Operators who need deliverability and measurable outcomes
What You’ll Learn
- How agentic AI replaces six sales tools
- Inbox “draft then manual send” deliverability tactic
- Lead discovery, enrichment, sequencing, booking, follow-ups
- Outcome-based pricing that aligns with results
- PLG plus enterprise as an AI go-to-market
Key Takeaways
- Manual-send drafts restore deliverability at scale
- Waterfall enrichment lowers bounces and raises match rates
- Multi-channel sequencing increases response rates
- Agents handle 95% of the work. Humans approve and close
- Outcome pricing and PLG drive efficient growth
Frameworks
Agentic Sales Loop
- Define ICP and lookalikes
- Waterfall enrichment
- Personalized copy by role and trigger
- Multi-channel sequencing
- Inbox triage and live calendar booking
- Post-call notes and follow-ups drafted automatically
- Iterate on reply and positive outcome rates
Deliverability Playbook
- Aged domains and inboxes
- Low bounce rates via verification
- Avoid API-tagged bulk sending
- Draft then manual send to protect reputation
Outcome-Aligned Pricing
- Credits tied to verified outcomes
- Percent-of-revenue where attribution allows
- PLG tiers for prosumers and enterprise plans for teams
Playbooks and Tactics
- Write to role and industry change
- Use agent search for context that earns replies
- Offer real availability to compress cycles
- Auto-draft follow-ups and push structured CRM notes
Notable Stats
- Zero to $6M ARR in under nine months
- Hundreds of organic daily signups
Resources
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