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The AI SDR bot: launch multichannel sales sequences on autopilot

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Let’s address the reality: traditional SDR workflows are fundamentally inefficient.

Most sales teams operate with fragmented tool ecosystems:

  • $300/month for lead enrichment
  • $400/month for email sequencing platforms
  • Another $150/month for CRM maintenance
  • SDRs manually transferring LinkedIn URLs as if it were 2015

This fragmented technology architecture creates more than budget strain, it systematically undermines operational efficiency.

  • Administrative overhead consumes valuable selling time. Rather than securing meetings, SDRs become occupied with spreadsheet management, data cleanup, and determining which platform contains accurate information.
  • Multichannel coordination becomes compromised. Effective multichannel outreach requires seamless integration across email, LinkedIn, calls, and messaging. Fragmented systems create multiple failure points.
  • Data integrity suffers across system boundaries. When enrichment platforms fail to synchronize properly with CRM or sequencing systems, prospects are lost. Follow-ups experience delays. Leads lose momentum.
Suprava Sabat (Co-founder Acquisition X)

We previously spent weeks determining tool functionality. With an agentic system, all components communicate seamlessly and operate autonomously

Suprava Sabat – Co-founder @ Acquisition X

This explains why modern teams are adopting AI SDR models and intelligent, agentic systems that handle operational complexity.

When sales automation tools function cohesively (enriching leads, launching targeted sequences, updating CRM fields, triggering strategic follow-ups) your SDR automation becomes a genuine growth engine rather than accumulated technical debt.

Why autonomous SDR agents are transforming Outbound sales

What constitutes an agentic, AI-powered outbound engine

Move beyond manual prospecting inefficiencies. The modern AI SDR represents a precisely orchestrated system we term an agentic Outbound engine.

Here’s what differentiates this approach:

AI agents orchestrate complete SDR workflows

  • From lead discovery and enrichment to qualification, hyper-personalized outreach, and retargeting, each workflow component operates autonomously.
  • Rather than SDRs managing multiple tools and transferring data between spreadsheets, AI agents handle operational complexity, enabling representatives to focus on meaningful conversations.


Multichannel by design

This extends beyond automated email.

  • Encompasses LinkedIn, email, voice messages, video content, X (Twitter) DMs, and direct calls, all triggered by intelligent signals including profile engagement, ICP alignment, or intent changes.
  • You can construct multichannel sequences with LGM efficiently. Specialized features enable comprehensive prospect engagement.


Data-driven at every step

  • LLMs manage scoring and segmentation.
  • Intent detection ensures outreach timing optimization.
  • Dynamic icebreakers create highly relevant connections by leveraging current data points, ensuring each outreach feels genuinely personalized.


This is how sales prospecting AI transforms speculation into targeted action, filling your pipeline with qualified, engaged prospects rather than cold leads.

Modular, plug-and-play architecture

The power of an agentic system lies in its adaptability to your specific sales requirements.

Consider it modular construction:

  • n8n (or similar automation orchestrators) functions as the central processor.

    It triggers sequences, manages complex decision logic, and maintains system synchronization, ensuring workflows remain efficient regardless of scale.

  • Your lead enrichment tools and sales automation tools integrate seamlessly via APIs.

    Whether using Clearbit for data, Apollo, or Lusha, the system accommodates them as interchangeable modules.

  • La Growth Machine serves as your multichannel outreach engine, executing emails, LinkedIn interactions, calls, and X DMs within one unified workflow.

The outcome? You’re no longer constrained by rigid sales software. Instead, your technology stack becomes a flexible, agentic system designed to scale precisely to your needs without compromising personalization or workflow integrity.

The new SDR "team" operates as an orchestrated, always-on system

Move beyond the traditional image of SDRs manually working through prospect lists. Today’s SDR team resembles an orchestrated, AI-powered system operating continuously.

It’s an optimized pipeline of intelligent agents working collaboratively:

  • n8n serves as your automation and orchestration hub: the agentic system brain connecting all components.
  • Google Programmable Search identifies fresh leads aligned with your ICP in real time.
  • LGM Waterfall Enrichment features enhance data with direct emails, roles, funding history, eliminating manual research.
  • GPT scores leads, creates hyper-personalized messages, and develops dynamic icebreakers.
  • La Growth Machine transforms this into seamless multichannel outreach, executing campaigns across LinkedIn, email, voice, and additional channels.
  • Slack provides immediate team notifications regarding high-priority leads, responses, or stalled opportunities.

This reaches true sophistication when:

  • Every touchpoint (views, clicks, responses) receives automatic tracking, scoring, and routing.
  • Feedback loops continuously refine targeting, messaging, and timing. The system literally improves with each campaign.

This represents more than SDR automation, it’s an AI SDR workflow that scales outreach with precision, learns from results, and drives higher-quality conversations without team burnout.

Manthan Patel (Founder of Lead Gen Man, Strategic Advisor at Maildoso and GTM Partner at Acquisition X)

A single person can now manage what previously required an entire SDR team, working weekends and nights, at global scale.

Manthan Patel – Founder @ Lead Gen Man, Strategic Advisor @ Maildoso and GTM Partner @ Acquisition X

Playbook: step-by-step guide to building your agentic multichannel SDR workflow

Traditional prospecting involved hours on LinkedIn Sales Navigator, manual filtering, copying URLs, and hoping nothing was overlooked.

With an agentic system, that entire SDR workflow becomes automated and continuously operational.

Step 1: automate lead discovery with programmable search & n8n

How it works

  • Tools you’ll use:

    • Google Programmable Search Engine (CSE) to limit queries to LinkedIn profiles exclusively
    • Google Search API for programmatic search triggers
    • n8n for complete flow orchestration
    • Google Sheets for real-time leads database storage and updates


The process

  1. Build a custom CSE

    • Configure to index only LinkedIn profiles, filtered by industry or keywords
  2. Use n8n’s HTTP Request nodes

    • Automate search queries via Google Search API
    • Outcome: dynamically input company names, titles, or niche keywords tied to your ICP
  3. Paginate with Loop nodes

    • Extract 100+ LinkedIn URLs per execution
    • Insert Wait nodes to respect API limits and prevent throttling


Why this matters

This transforms prospecting from manual effort into an automated, AI SDR-like system:

  • Always fresh: your pipeline continuously updates with new profiles.
  • Always targeted: you define exactly who to capture by configuring your CSE and query logic.
  • Always ready: leads populate directly into your sheet, prepared for enrichment and sequencing.


This method fundamentally upgrades lead discovery, establishing the foundation for a multichannel outreach strategy that begins with perfect-fit targets daily.

Test Workflow

Step 2: transform URLs into verified profiles

Now that your agentic system automatically captures fresh LinkedIn URLs, transform them into sales-ready leads complete with verified emails and phone numbers.

This is where lead enrichment tools excel and where your SDR workflow advances from list building to qualified pipeline development.

Tools you’ll use

  • LGM: enriches with work emails, personal emails, mobile numbers, and verification status
  • n8n: orchestrates the complete flow
  • Google Sheets: central repository for enriched, continuously updated leads


How it works step by step

  1. Execute LGM within n8n

    • Input: LinkedIn URL from your previous step
    • Output: Name, Title, Company, Website, LinkedIn handle, all cleanly parsed
  2. Clean & normalize the data

    • Use Set/Function nodes in n8n to:
      • Format phone numbers and emails
      • Standardize job titles for easier filtering
      • Tag records missing critical data
  3. Automate quality gates

    • IF nodes in n8n automatically flag leads missing emails or key fields
    • Output: Only fully enriched, verified records advance to your sales automation tools or outreach campaigns



By the end of this step…

You’ve constructed a dynamic, real-time enriched database, ready to power your AI SDR, fuel multichannel sequences, and eliminate hours of manual prospecting.

Step 3: qualify your leads with GPT

Now that your pipeline contains enriched, verified profiles, determine who merits inclusion in your outreach campaigns.

Tools you’ll use

  • GPT API (or Claude, via OpenAI/Anthropic) for structured reasoning
  • n8n as your automation solution
  • Google Sheets to store scores, fit assessments, and route leads


How it works

  1. Send structured data to GPT
    Each enriched lead record (Title, Company, Industry, Revenue, Region) is sent via n8n’s HTTP node to GPT
  2. Use an intelligent prompt to replicate your SDR assessment
    You’re a sales assistant for a SaaS company. Our ICP: Founders or GTM leads, SaaS, <$10M revenue, US/Canada, hiring SDRs. Does this lead fit? Respond with:
    Score (1–10)
    Match status (Yes/Maybe/No)
    Brief reason

    You receive structured output
    GPT returns JSON like: “score”: 9, “match”: “Yes”, “reason”: “Founder of SaaS company, 5M ARR, hiring SDRs in NY.”
  3. Add a flow component to send results back to Google Sheets

    Now each lead has a match score, status, and rationale, perfect for campaign branching or sales prioritization.

Manthan Patel (Founder of Lead Gen Man, Strategic Advisor at Maildoso and GTM Partner at Acquisition X)

The AI determines fit and reasoning in seconds, so our campaigns target only the strongest prospects.

Manthan Patel – Founder @ Lead Gen Man, Strategic Advisor @ Maildoso and GTM Partner @ Acquisition X

Your agentic system determines which leads advance and how, feeding only the strongest fits into your multichannel outreach stack.

Step 4: scale personalization with GPT-generated icebreakers

Now comes the strategic component: transforming your outreach from generic to genuinely personal, at scale.

Instead of sending identical openers to every lead, your AI SDR uses GPT to craft custom icebreakers that demonstrate research (without actually investing hours in research).

How it works

  • GPT analyzes each prospect’s website, using the company URL pulled by LGM in your enrichment step
  • It generates a concise, sharp personalized introduction line, tailored to that company’s positioning, messaging, or recent developments
  • n8n pipes this directly into your outreach sheet (under a column like [icebreaker line]), ready for your multichannel sequences in La Growth Machine


Example output

Appreciated how your product positions as ‘Notion for IT teams’, very clear value proposition.

Or:

Noticed you recently raised a $2.5M seed to expand your AI team. Curious about your GTM approach.

Why it’s transformative

This means:

  • Every message begins with a highly relevant hook, not a random introduction.
  • Your sales automation tools now send outreach that feels researched and human, while your agentic system handles it automatically.
  • Your response rates increase because buyers immediately recognize you’re not sending generic copy.

Step 5: import & launch multichannel campaign in La Growth Machine

This is where everything integrates. Your leads are enriched, qualified, and personalized, now connect them to an agentic, always-on outbound system that handles the operational work for your SDR team.

Import your leads

  • Go to Leads → Import leads → Import CSV
  • Upload your final CSV (or connect via API) directly into La Growth Machine
  • Output: Every lead now carries comprehensive data: first name, company, title, LinkedIn URL, icebreaker, match score, all prepared for hyper-targeted sequencing


Build your multichannel sequence

  1. LinkedIn Social Warming:

    • Choose the dedicated Social Warming template or build your sequence from scratch and add “Like” and “Follow” blocks. Ensure proper time variables for the “Like” block.
    • Launch your campaign.
  2. Connection request:

    • Use your GPT-generated icebreaker.
    • Test with or without notes to determine optimal conversion.
  3. DM sequence:

  4. Email outreach:

    • If no LinkedIn response, move to intelligent email follow-ups, leveraging the same personalization data.
  5. Voice notes & call tasks:

    • Add human elements with brief LinkedIn Voice Notes.


Use personalization at every step

Utilize dynamic variables like:

  • [first name], [company name], [role], [icebreaker], [score]

Each step pulls this data automatically, making your multichannel outreach feel handcrafted while running autonomously.

Delays, branching, and A/B testing

  • Add spacing: +3 hours, +1 day, +4 days to feel natural
  • Branch:
    • If they respond, trigger tailored follow-up
    • If no response, automatically switch channels or escalate to more direct CTA
  • Use built-in A/B testing on emails and DMs, with inbox rotation and out-of-office detection to maximize deliverability and responses
Divyanshi Sharma

You can design, test, and optimize any sequence, automating routine tasks, humanizing critical interactions, and driving responses at scale.

Divyanshi Sharma – Co-founder @ Acquisition X

You’ve built a modular, AI-driven outbound engine that personalizes at scale, frees your team from administrative work, and books more meetings continuously.

Step 6: use Lookalike triggers to target a wider audience

This is where your agentic system evolves from efficient to unstoppable.

How it works

  • Every time a prospect responds positively, books a meeting, requests a demo, or shows serious interest, your AI SDR stack doesn’t stop there.
  • Lookalike Engine identifies similar companies based on:

    • Industry & keywords
    • Technology stack signals
    • Employee count or hiring velocity

Consider it an always-on clone finder: the moment you identify one perfect-fit lead, your system seeks 50 more with similar characteristics.

LGM automatically enriches, scores, and places them into fresh multichannel campaigns, using all the same personalization workflows that proved effective.

The result?

Your SDR workflow becomes a self-reinforcing growth loop:

  • Win a response → trigger Lookalikes → launch new sequences → capture more high-fit accounts → repeat
  • All orchestrated by your AI SDR + sales automation tools, running seamlessly across channels

LGM’s Lookalike Search

Find new leads

Step 7: monitor, optimize, and continuously improve your SDR workflow

This is where your agentic system demonstrates its true power: not just launching campaigns, but learning and evolving with every new conversation.

Monitor in real time

  • Use La Growth Machine’s dashboards to track every touchpoint (LinkedIn DMs, emails, calls) plus see team ownership of next steps.

It provides complete visibility into each prospect’s journey, making handoffs and follow-ups seamless.

Optimize what matters

  • Iterate your GPT scoring prompts as you gather more data on actual conversions.
  • Refine your sales messaging, icebreakers, and sequence architecture directly in LGM based on actual response and conversion rates.
  • Adjust your sales automation tools to prioritize optimal next actions, informed by live funnel performance.


Repeat and scale intelligently

  • Clone your most successful campaigns for new verticals, geographies, or offers.
  • Simply swap in fresh case studies, new targeting filters, and updated personalization tokens.

Takeaways

Your SDR workflow becomes a learning system. It observes, learns, and improves, turning every campaign into a test case for more intelligent, faster, more precise outbound sales, all orchestrated by your agentic AI-powered stack.

You stop wasting time pursuing unqualified leads or recreating campaigns. Instead, your team focuses on high-intent conversations that actually close deals, while your agentic system handles the operational complexity in the background.

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