Artisan Alternative: an AI SDR that actually calls your prospects

Artisan's AI BDR, Ava, is one of the best known autonomous outbound agents on the market. She sources leads from a database Artisan says covers more than 250 million verified B2B contacts across 200-plus countries, watches intent signals like hiring and funding, writes and sends multichannel sequences, tests message variations, handles replies and books meetings. For email and LinkedIn prospecting, that is a strong, well-built product.

What Ava does not do is call. Artisan answers this plainly on its own site: "No. Ava cannot legally make calls, she creates a list of qualified prospects for your reps to dial and shows full context and talking points on each lead." There is a native dialer, but a person clicks it. So if the phone is where your deals actually start, Artisan leaves that channel to your headcount. ColdCalls.ai fills exactly that gap: the AI places the outbound call, discloses that it is an AI on the line, qualifies, handles objections and books the meeting into your calendar, with DNC scrubbed in real time and calling kept TCPA and consent aware.