
Autonomous AI sales workers
artisan.co (opens in a new tab)Artisan builds autonomous digital workers that hold real jobs rather than assist with them. Its first, Ava, is an AI business development representative used by hundreds of companies: she researches leads, writes and sends email in the customer's own voice, runs multi-step outbound sequences, handles objections and books meetings. Ava also manages her own deliverability infrastructure and self-optimises over time, which is the part that usually falls to a human operations team. The company has passed ten million dollars in annual recurring revenue and recently shipped a second generation of Ava, widening what a single AI worker can be handed end to end.