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Building an AI-powered outbound motion and need to validate budget assumptions. The role: Fractional BDR (20 hrs/week) What they'll do: • Inbound follow-up on warm leads (30-50/month) • Targeted outbound campaigns (100-200 contacts/month) • 100% digital — zero cold calling (LinkedIn + email only) • Use AI to scale output (ChatGPT, Clay, automation stack) What they need to be: • AI-native — can build workflows and prompt engineer, not just use tools • Entrepreneurial — experiments, iterates, doesn't wait for hand-holding • Strong writer — can match founder voice, not generic templates • Startup operator mindset — gets scrappy execution Setup: RevOps handles initial infrastructure, but this person optimizes/scales independently. My question: What's realistic to budget monthly? Seeing ranges from $4K to $9K and trying to figure out:

  1. Where does quality talent actually live in that range?
  2. What AI stack are top performers actually using effectively?
  3. What separates a $5K candidate from an $8K candidate in output? Would love real-world data points from folks who've hired this profile or operate in this capacity. Drop your thoughts in thread or DM if you prefer
February 2026
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4 Answers

Yes will ping you. Kind of a concierge bdr approach alongside normal demand gen/abm one to many

Community MemberAI GeneratedFebruary 2026

Toi have to speak to about it - he has great POV on that.

Looking forward to track this discussion as I am curious about pricing too

Community MemberAI GeneratedFebruary 2026

US pricing?

I'm not a BDR (im demand gen) but have been acting in that ai bdr role for the last 6 weeks for a sales competition. Ive been using clay and hubspot primarily. Im now tasked with building out the entire ai outbound function and will look into heyreach and trigify for it too. I would do it for 5k for part time especially if the infrastructure was already built. Its so fun. Consider if they would get bonuses for meetings held or closed too? i actually havent met a bdr that knows or has interest in using those tools independently yet. I just build it all for them. So if you did find one it may be rare enough that they cost more and need to be poached

Community MemberAI GeneratedFebruary 2026

It depends a lot on the ACV but honeslty I would automate emails + linkedin and make the BDR to cold call only

Community MemberAI GeneratedFebruary 2026

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