Using AI Agents to Hunt Prospects 24/7
You are about to interact with AI bots very deep into the funnel...
Most people hate hustling, so why not have AI agents hustle for you?
When people hear “AI for prospecting”, they imagine using AI for drafting outreach emails, enriching leads, or building some Clay or Apollo automations.
But these are still point solutions that rely heavily on you to drive the process, through either prompting or evaluating. You own all the key decisions: who to target, when to reach out, and how to write emails, etc. This is what I’d call AI-assisted sales, and not an “AI-native” one.
While useful, “AI-assisted” processes are ultimately limited in bandwidth. As long as you are driving the workflow, the bottleneck is you.
AI-native prospecting flips that dynamic. Instead of using AI to speed up human tasks, you delegate to the AI agents to do most of the prospecting, uninterrupted—and escalate to humans when it’s time for humans to shine (caveat: humans are still needed to build and tweak the agents, for now).
The result is a continuously running system that isn’t bottlenecked on human input. This way, prospecting becomes an elastic, “always-on” exercise as opposed to a proactive endeavor by humans (which is exhausting).
In this post, I’ll share an example of what this means, using a system any VC firm can use to streamline its founder tracking and outreach efforts.