Outsourced sales development, run as one accountable pod.
Most outsourced sales development is a rented SDR with a bought list. We send the engineering layer with the execution layer: the person who builds the targeting, the person who works the replies, and one weekly report on accepted meetings.
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What is outsourced sales development and when does it work?
Outsourced sales development means paying an external team to run the top of your funnel: targeting, list building, sequencing across email, LinkedIn, and phone, reply handling, and meeting qualification. It works when the provider owns the whole motion under one contract and reports on accepted meetings, and it fails when you buy disconnected pieces from separate vendors or hire an activity-based SDR shop with no engineering layer behind the data.
- One vendor owns targeting, sequencing, reply handling, and reporting.
- Accepted meetings are the unit of measurement, not emails sent.
- Foundation in seven days, first accepted meetings in weeks 3 to 6.
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What outsourced sales development includes here.
A GTM engineer on the account
Builds the signal and enrichment workflows that decide who gets contacted each week, instead of handing an SDR a static list.
Dedicated SDR capacity
Named humans working your accounts only, handling replies, objections, and qualification against criteria you approve.
List building and data validation
Accounts and buying committees sourced, enriched, and re-verified before every send, so bounce rates stay under control.
Infrastructure and deliverability
Separate sending domains, warmed mailboxes, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and inbox placement monitoring. Your primary domain never sends cold.
Email, LinkedIn, and calling
One sequence across three channels, coordinated on the same accounts in the same week rather than run as separate programs.
CRM integration and weekly review
Salesforce, HubSpot, or Pipedrive kept clean, with a weekly readout on accepted meetings, pipeline, and cost per meeting.
The same stack, framed for different buyers: SDR as a service, outbound prospecting, and managed outbound sales.
When outsourcing sales development beats hiring.
The question is rarely cost alone. It is how fast you need a working motion and whether you can staff the engineering, data, and management around a new SDR.
Hire in house
- $95,000 to $130,000 fully loaded per SDR, before tooling and data.
- Three to five months to ramp, longer without an existing playbook.
- Needs a manager, a data owner, and someone who owns deliverability.
- Right when the motion is already proven and you want it permanently in house.
Outsource to a managed pod
- $14,500 per month for the engineer, the SDR capacity, and the infrastructure.
- Foundation delivered in seven days, first accepted meetings in weeks 3 to 6.
- Management, tooling, data, and deliverability included in the retainer.
- Right when the motion is unproven or you need pipeline before headcount.
Working through the comparison in detail? Hiring SDRs versus a managed pod walks through cost, ramp, and risk side by side.
Three ways to start, priced publicly.
We guarantee the operating work, not a meeting count.
Meeting volume depends on your ICP density, offer, and market timing, so promising a number is a promise nobody can keep honestly. What we can commit to in writing is the work that produces meetings, the speed we learn at, and the quality bar every meeting has to clear.
Infrastructure live by an agreed date
Sending domains, mailboxes, warmup, data enrichment, and CRM wiring are live by a date written into the engagement, not a vague first month.
A defined number of accounts researched
Each month we research and enrich an agreed account volume with verified buying-committee contacts. The number is stated per tier and reported against every week.
Reply-handling SLA
Every prospect reply is worked by a human within one business day, including objections, referrals, and out-of-office reroutes.
Weekly experiments
A minimum number of documented experiments run every week across list, offer, message, and channel, with results logged so you can see what we learned.
Transparent accepted-meeting criteria
We agree the definition of an accepted meeting before launch and publish it in the weekly report. No moving goalposts on either side.
Replacement for meetings that miss the bar
Any meeting that fails the mutually agreed qualification rules is replaced at no additional cost.
What counts as an accepted meeting
- The contact matches an agreed title, function, and seniority in the target ICP
- The account matches agreed firmographic and technographic fit rules
- The prospect stated a relevant problem, initiative, or evaluation timeline
- A real calendar hold exists with your AE, with context notes attached
- No existing open opportunity or active inbound conversation for that account
We report accepted meetings rather than bookings. Anything that fails these rules is replaced at no cost.
What we do not guarantee
- A guaranteed monthly meeting count
- Guaranteed closed revenue, which depends on your AEs, product, and pricing
Published meeting ranges are forecasts based on observed conversion, not commitments.
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