Ava is an AI BDR that runs your entire outbound on autopilot. She sources leads from 250M+ professionals, runs multi-channel outreach, and books qualified meetings. Fully autonomously.
I'm Jaspar, co-founder and CEO of Artisan. I started my first business at 7, selling candy from my bedroom. Since then I've raised $36M+ to build AI employees and we're currently at ~$10M ARR.
Some of you might remember our first PH launch in February 2024 when we first launched Ava the AI BDR.
Today we're releasing Ava 2.0. We rebuilt her from the ground up and she is now fully autonomous and she runs your entire outbound on autopilot. She finds leads, sends personalized outreach, handles objections, and books meetings on your calendar. No human in the loop.
She searches through 300M+ contacts, enriches every lead, and watches for intent signals like funding rounds and leadership changes. She launches personalized multi-channel campaigns, runs continuous multi-variate tests, and auto-optimizes toward what converts. When a prospect replies, Ava reads the response, handles objections, answers questions, and books the meeting.
With Artisan, the entire sales stack lives in one place. Lead discovery, enrichment, signals, sequencing, a dialer, and deliverability infrastructure. All in one platform.
She's already running outbound for thousands of reps at companies like Corgi, SaaStr, Quora, and CookUnity.
🎁 For the PH community: new users get $300 in free credits. No credit card required. artisan.co
The autonomy is impressive. The open question for me is the one Anna raised: what is the failure mode when Ava is confident and wrong? Outbound is unforgiving, because a confidently wrong message still gets sent and the cost lands on your domain reputation, not on a quiet retry. Curious whether 2.0 has a notion of "not sure enough to send," or whether everything above a threshold just ships.
I'm just starting out, I have a quick question: in the connected Gmail account I have multiple accounts set up - I was never asked which account will be used to send emails. This means either the default account will be used, or the main account will be used - but which is it?
Over the last 3 months, I’ve tested 8–9 similar services. All of them had the same problem — the credits disappear within a few days, and the cost per contact ends up being quite high. Have you calculated the average cost per contact or other metrics?
Congrats on the launch! A few questions: - How does she learn about my ICP, the different segments, and their specificities (buying journey, pain, etc.) - Is Ava improving over time? - What kind of outreach volume does she handle (via email & LinkedIn)? How does she ensure great deliverability? - Is phone call on the roadmap? - Among the 300M+ contacts database, what's most represented? (B2B? US?, etc.)
Curious how you think about the economics of outbound if agents become abundant. Historically, the bottleneck wasn’t sending messages, it was hiring, training, and managing SDRs. If every company suddenly has an unlimited number of AI SDRs, does outbound become more effective? or does attention become the new scarce resource?
In other words, does the winner become the company with the best AI, or the prospect with the best filters?
Is this only for B2B ? Also, whats the source of the 300M+ contacts ? Is it across the globe or specific to geography ?
The hard part with an autonomous BDR is not “can it send more?” It is whether the system knows when not to send.
For a tool like Ava, I’d want the review layer to make a few things very visible before outreach goes out: why this account, why now, what evidence supports the angle, what would make this a bad fit, and what the fallback is if confidence is low. Learning from ignores and bad-fit replies matters as much as learning from booked meetings.
That’s the line between useful outbound automation and just scaling the same spray-and-pray problem with better copy.
Congrats on the launch! Going from AI-assisted outbound to fully autonomous outbound is a pretty big leap. Curious to see how Ava handles the messy real-world objections that make human reps earn their coffee.
Wanted to try out, still wasn’t able to pass onboarding page. After feeling all info, didn’t see next step (on mobile)
Looks interesting. The data with Eva covers for niche industries like local small businesses as well or its more relevant for B2B startups and the likes??
Congrats. Since Feb 2024, what has changed and what is upcoming on the roadmap?
fully autonomous outbound with no human in the loop is bold. the personalization has to be genuinely good or you're just automating spam at scale. curious what the reply rates look like vs a human SDR running the same list
I have been juggling around with Apollo/Prospeo + Clay + ChatGPT and that's really messy!
When you say searches contacts and sends outreach messages - which social media handles are included? And how do you measure the output, do you have any numbers around how many of those outreach messages convert? And how it is compared to the traditional manual ways? Thanks!
with ava running fully autonomous multi channel campaigns on autopilot, how are you guys managing local domain safety under the hood? sending huge volumes of automated personalizations can flag spam filters fast if the inbox infrastructure isn't airtight. good job team
How do you keep it from burning your domain reputation or sending the same outbound style to everyone?
About Ava 2.0 on Product Hunt
“Your AI BDR that runs outbound sales autonomously”
Ava 2.0 launched on Product Hunt on May 29th, 2026 and earned 298 upvotes and 28 comments, earning #1 Product of the Day. Ava is an AI BDR that runs your entire outbound on autopilot. She sources leads from 250M+ professionals, runs multi-channel outreach, and books qualified meetings. Fully autonomously.
Ava 2.0 was featured in Productivity (652.6k followers), Sales (21.8k followers) and Artificial Intelligence (469.6k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 241.1k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Ava 2.0?
Ava 2.0 was hunted by Rohan Chaubey. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Rohan Chaubey
Hey PH 👋
I'm Jaspar, co-founder and CEO of Artisan. I started my first business at 7, selling candy from my bedroom. Since then I've raised $36M+ to build AI employees and we're currently at ~$10M ARR.
Some of you might remember our first PH launch in February 2024 when we first launched Ava the AI BDR.
Today we're releasing Ava 2.0. We rebuilt her from the ground up and she is now fully autonomous and she runs your entire outbound on autopilot. She finds leads, sends personalized outreach, handles objections, and books meetings on your calendar. No human in the loop.
She searches through 300M+ contacts, enriches every lead, and watches for intent signals like funding rounds and leadership changes. She launches personalized multi-channel campaigns, runs continuous multi-variate tests, and auto-optimizes toward what converts. When a prospect replies, Ava reads the response, handles objections, answers questions, and books the meeting.
With Artisan, the entire sales stack lives in one place. Lead discovery, enrichment, signals, sequencing, a dialer, and deliverability infrastructure. All in one platform.
She's already running outbound for thousands of reps at companies like Corgi, SaaStr, Quora, and CookUnity.
🎁 For the PH community: new users get $300 in free credits. No credit card required. artisan.co
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