Artisan's Ava is an autonomous AI BDR: in Artisan's words it finds and enriches leads, writes and sends personalized outreach, handles replies and books meetings, which is the whole promise and the whole risk. SealDeal keeps the AI and adds the reader. Every claim in a draft is cited or marked as inferred, nothing sends until a rep approves it, and it leaves from your own mailbox on your own domain, so one bad week cannot burn your sending reputation.
SealDeal is the Artisan alternative for teams that want AI to do the research and the first draft, and a person to read every email before it leaves. Artisan sells Ava, an AI BDR that finds leads and writes and sends outreach on its own; SealDeal writes only from sources it can show you, holds every draft for approval, sends from your own mailbox and domain, does not sell you contacts, and measures the result on your own pipeline with a holdout you control.
| SealDeal | Artisan (Ava) | |
|---|---|---|
| A person reads every email before it sends | ✓ by design | ✗ autonomous by design |
| Grounded: cites evidence, blocks fabrication | ✓ cited or marked inferred | not shown per claim |
| Sends from your own mailbox and domain | ✓ Gmail, Microsoft 365 or SMTP | vendor-managed sending |
| Contact data | you bring the list; never sold | bundled B2B data and credits |
| What happens after the reply | lands in a CRM you own | hands off to your CRM |
| Measured on your own pipeline | holdout you control | vendor-reported results |
| Pricing | $25 a seat · outbound from $49/mo | annual contract, quoted |
| Free tier | CRM for 2 seats + 50-email trial | ✗ |
If Ava sent things you would not have signed, or you never trusted an autonomous BDR with your domain, SealDeal is the version with a reader: grounded drafts, your approval on every send, your own list, your own mailbox, and a result you measure yourself.
There is no direct Artisan connector today. Export the accounts and contacts Ava was working, and the suppression list of everyone who opted out, from the Artisan dashboard or from the CRM it wrote to. You can bring contacts and companies in by CSV, and SealDeal builds the company record and its research from the domain, so the imported rows are the same shape as native ones. If you run Salesforce or HubSpot alongside Artisan, the two-way CRM connection covers those.
Stay with Artisan if you want the lead data and the sending in one contract and zero human minutes per email, and you are willing to accept the deliverability and accuracy risk that comes with nobody reading what goes out. SealDeal is built for the opposite case: a small team with its own list, whose domain and name are worth more than the extra sends.
One thing, applied everywhere: a person reads every email before it sends. Ava sends autonomously. SealDeal researches, drafts from sources it can show you, and holds the draft in a queue until a rep approves it. It also sends from your own mailbox and domain rather than a vendor pool, does not bundle contact data, and measures its own effect with a holdout on your pipeline instead of reporting a number to you.
Grounded outbound means every factual claim in a draft traces to a source you can click, and anything the engine inferred rather than found is labeled as inferred. Claims that cannot cite a source are blocked before a rep ever sees them, so what reaches the rep is short enough to actually check before they put their name on it.
Yes. Bring the list Ava was working, by CSV or from Salesforce or HubSpot, and SealDeal researches each company from public sources and drafts from what it finds. Import the opt-outs too, so nobody who unsubscribed from Ava hears from you again. There is nothing else to migrate: SealDeal does not use vendor lead data, so there are no credits or enrichment records to carry over.
SealDeal is $25 per seat per month for the workspace and outbound is metered from $49 a month for 1,000 researched, written emails, so one seat sending starts at $74 a month and a two-person team at $99, with no contract. There is a free tier with the CRM for 2 seats and a 50-email outbound trial. Artisan does not publish prices; it quotes an annual contract that bundles the Ava seat with a data allotment.
Artisan figures as of 2026. SealDeal's differentiators, the grounded next move, qualification as a gate, and holdout-measured lift, are enforced in the product; this is our comparison, so verify against each vendor's current docs.
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