Subcategory · AI Citation Index
AI SDRs
AI SDRs is a fragmented category with three consensus picks — Reply, regie.ai, and qualified.com — each visible across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity, but no single brand captures more than 57% of discovery share. AiSDR is the kingmaker: it appears in 21 head-to-head comparison queries despite rarely surfacing in top-of-funnel discovery prompts. The evaluation floor is surprisingly flat — Reply wins 43% of matchups, regie.ai 41%, AiSDR 38% — which means buyers asking AI to compare two tools get no clear verdict, just a coin toss. This is a contested category: AI attention is split among a dozen brands, and head-to-head wins offer no consensus pick.
81 discovery queries · 193 head-to-heads · refreshed Aug 16, 2026
Discovery stage
The shortlist
Across 81 buyer-style "AI SDRs" queries
Reply shows up in 57% of discovery queries and surfaces across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity. Regie.ai and qualified.com each appear in 43% and 42% of the same prompts, also visible on all four engines. Pipegen.ai and apollo.io tie at 40%, with four-engine coverage, while sequencehq.com, triggerapp.com, instantly.ai, handoff.ai, and nextapp.co cluster between 28% and 33% — all with full engine diversity but thinner mention volume.
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Signal by intent
By topic
Top 5 most-cited brands per intent cluster. Brands with zero citations in a topic are not shown.
Evaluation stage
Head-to-head
How often AI cites each brand across uniform category evaluation prompts · median 9/100
When buyers ask AI to compare two AI SDR tools, Reply wins 43% of those matchups, regie.ai 41%, and AiSDR 38% — a statistical tie across 24, 23, and 21 comparison queries respectively. Qualified and pipegen.ai each win roughly one-third of their head-to-heads, while Clay, 11x, and apollo.io land in the mid-20s. No brand clears 50%, which means AI engines rarely pick a clear winner when asked to judge one tool against another.
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Each brand's score is the share of category evaluation prompts where AI cited them across all four engines — the same prompt pool for every brand. Brands above the median citation rate have stronger presence in evaluation-stage queries.
Brands to know
In this category
Citation sources
Where AI pulls citations from
610 citations captured across AI SDRs prompt runs.
Vendor pages
311Product, help, and marketing pages from tracked vendors
Independent sources
105Reviews, encyclopedias, forums, press — not vendor-owned
Buyer questions
What AI cites for top AI SDRs questions
Buyers ask AI for tools that 'handle prospecting, outreach, qualification, and meeting booking in one platform' and 'generate hyper-personalized outreach sequences automatically'. A smaller set of prompts digs into evaluation logistics — 'how to ensure compatibility with existing sales processes', 'what are the potential downsides of using AI SDRs', 'how do I determine the effectiveness of AI SDR tools for my team'. The questions stay workflow-oriented, focused on automation breadth and integration fit rather than pricing or specific vendor comparisons.
Discovery
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Evaluation
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