Subcategory · AI Citation Index

AI SDRs

The AI SDR category exhibits mature market recognition—34 consensus brands and 12 evaluated options signal established buyer awareness—yet shortlist rates reveal modest enthusiasm. Reply's 57% rate stands apart, but the 30-43% cluster among competitors like Regie, Qualified, and Apollo suggests buyers perceive limited differentiation in core prospecting and outreach automation capabilities. Universal 4-model diversity across top brands indicates consistent cross-LLM recognition without preference fragmentation, pointing to well-defined category boundaries but unclear performance leaders.

81 discovery queries · 208 head-to-heads · refreshed Jul 13, 2026

Discovery stage

The shortlist

Across 81 buyer-style "AI SDRs" queries

4%7%11%14%17%Coverage — share of discovery prompts where the brand surfaces44%57%69%82%95%Engine diversity

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X = coverage across discovery prompts · Y = engine diversity · Bubble size = total mentions
Tracked acrossChatGPT,Gemini,Claude

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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.

1Clay
5/5
2Apollo.io
5/5
3Sales Engagement
3/5
4Trigger
3/5
5Reply
3/5
1Sequence
5/5
2Reply
5/5
3Apollo.io
5/5
4Sales Engagement
5/5
5Clay
5/5
1NEXT
5/5
2Qualified
4/5
3Reply
4/5
4Conversica
3/5
5Instantly
3/5
111x
5/5
2AiSDR
5/5
3Reply
5/5
4Artisan Sales
5/5
5Qualified
5/5
1Drift
5/5
2Qualified
5/5
3Conversica
5/5
4Reply
5/5
5AiSDR
5/5
≥50% cited
25–49%
<25%
Topics are discovery-stage prompt clusters · ai-sdrs

Evaluation stage

Head-to-head

How often AI cites each brand across uniform category evaluation prompts · median 7/100

0255075100Evaluation citation rate — % of category evaluation prompts citing this brand06121824Evaluation prompts cited inmedian citation ratemedian exposure

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X = evaluation citation rate · Y = evaluation prompts cited in · Bubble size = citation exposure
Median citation rate 7/100

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.

Citation sources

Where AI pulls citations from

610 citations captured across AI SDRs prompt runs.

Vendor pages

311

Product, help, and marketing pages from tracked vendors

Independent sources

105

Reviews, encyclopedias, forums, press — not vendor-owned

Buyer questions

What AI cites for top AI SDRs questions

Most-cited prompts across the buyer journey. Click any prompt to see the actual URLs AI engines link to.

Discovery

Buyers exploring the category

Evaluation

Buyers comparing options

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