AEQI vs Artisan
July 18, 2026 · Luca Eich
Choose Artisan if you already run a sales team with reps to take meetings, and want an AI BDR adding outbound volume without another hire.
Choose AEQI if there is no sales team yet, and you want a website today and a team that finds leads and writes the emails for you to approve.
What Artisan is
Artisan’s product is Ava, marketed as “the autonomous AI BDR”. Ava finds leads from a database Artisan puts at more than 250 million B2B contacts, watches signals such as funding rounds and leadership changes, runs outreach across email, social and phone, handles replies and books meetings, syncing with Salesforce and HubSpot. In mid-September 2026, its Team, Scale and Enterprise plans were priced after a call, scoped to lead volume, mailboxes and dialer seats.
Side by side
| Question | Artisan | AEQI |
|---|---|---|
| Who it's for | Sales teams already running outbound | First-time and solo founders with no sales team yet |
| Where it lives | Inside your stack: Salesforce, HubSpot, email, phone, social | A web app where you talk with your team, and your website at yourname.aeqi.ai |
| Agents and roles | One agent, one role: Ava, the AI BDR | Eleven AI agents, one job each: the website, sales, marketing, finance and more |
| Approval | Not stated in what we checked | Every email and post waits for you to Approve, Edit or Skip; so does spending money |
| Memory | Ava improves within campaigns: messaging, timing, replies | One memory the whole team reads and adds to |
| Works with | Email, social and phone (dialer add-on), with CRM sync | Gmail, Calendar, Slack, Notion, Stripe and more |
| Hosting and data | SOC 2 Type II; hosting location not stated in what we checked | Its own server for your company alone, hosted in Germany (4 GB of memory on Start) |
| Pricing | Quoted after a sales call, scoped to lead volume and seats | $120 a month (€100 in Europe) with 5,000 credits a month. Bigger plans at $300 and $750 |
| Trial | Not stated in what we checked | 7 days free, card required, nothing charged today; cancel anytime, no contract |
Artisan is the better choice when
- You already have a pipeline and reps ready to take meetings, and the gap is outbound volume.
- You want a large contact database, intent signals, a dialer and two-way Salesforce and HubSpot sync, which AEQI does not have.
- You want a specialist with years in one lane, with a dedicated success manager on the larger plans.
AEQI is the better choice when
- There is no sales team yet: you need a website and your first leads, not more volume.
- You want sales alongside the website, marketing and finance, one job each, sharing one memory.
- You want every email to wait for you to approve, edit or skip it.
- You want a price you can see before you commit, and to cancel anytime.
Updated 24 September 2026. Competitor facts checked 14 September 2026 on their public pages; they may have changed since.