# 0effort > 0effort is an autonomous AI SDR. It sources your buyers, writes and sends every email and LinkedIn touch, answers replies with AI agents over email and phone, and books the meetings — the whole outbound department, one machine. Plans: Launch $99/mo, Growth $349/mo, Scale $999/mo. Web application, no install. ## Pages - [Home](https://0effort.ai/): product overview, how it works, pricing - [Blog](https://0effort.ai/blog/): field notes on AI SDRs and outbound - [Privacy policy](https://0effort.ai/privacy.html) - [Terms of service](https://0effort.ai/terms.html) ## Articles - [SPF, DKIM and DMARC Explained for Sales Teams](https://0effort.ai/blog/spf-dkim-dmarc-for-sales-teams.html): SPF, DKIM and DMARC are a permission list for every tool sending as your domain, not a one-time DNS chore. What each proves, and how sales teams break it. - [AI SDRs for Agencies: Selling Outbound as a Service](https://0effort.ai/blog/ai-sdr-for-agencies.html): How agencies run AI SDR outbound as a service for multiple clients — per-client isolation, pricing models, liability, and 30-day onboarding without burning a brand. - [0effort vs Smartlead — Which Fits Your Outbound Motion?](https://0effort.ai/blog/0effort-vs-smartlead.html): 0effort vs Smartlead — an autonomous AI SDR versus an email, LinkedIn and calling outbound OS built for volume senders and agencies. Who owns each step. - [Outbound Automation in 2026: What to Automate and What Not To](https://0effort.ai/blog/outbound-automation-guide.html): Where the automate/don't-automate line really sits in outbound: automate what's reversible, keep humans on what spends reputation, first impressions, and promises. - [How AI SDRs Handle Replies (and When They Hand Off to You)](https://0effort.ai/blog/how-ai-sdrs-handle-replies.html): What actually happens after a prospect replies to your AI SDR — how it sorts reply types, which ones it must never answer alone, and what a real handoff looks like. - [0effort vs AiSDR — An Honest Comparison (2026)](https://0effort.ai/blog/0effort-vs-aisdr.html): 0effort vs AiSDR compared honestly — a bundled database and vendor-owned domains, against 0effort's flat-rate pricing, and what switching actually costs. - [GDPR-Compliant Cold Outreach in the EU: 2026 Guide](https://0effort.ai/blog/gdpr-compliant-cold-outreach-eu.html): A practical GDPR guide to B2B cold email in the EU — lawful basis, the LIA you actually need, per-country consent rules, and AI SDR provenance. - [Artisan Alternatives in 2026: Pick by Layer, Not by Logo](https://0effort.ai/blog/artisan-alternatives.html): Artisan alternatives sorted by which layer they replace — contact data, the sending engine, or Ava's writing-and-decisioning agent — before you overbuy. - [Are AI SDRs Worth It? An Honest Buyer's Analysis](https://0effort.ai/blog/are-ai-sdrs-worth-it.html): A pre-purchase readiness test for AI SDRs — how to calculate your own break-even, which costs never make it onto the pricing page, and when the honest answer is no. - [AiSDR Alternatives in 2026: What to Check Before You Switch](https://0effort.ai/blog/aisdr-alternatives.html): Evaluating AiSDR alternatives in 2026 — what triggers the search, how to compare CRM-native tools against full-stack AI SDRs, and questions to ask. - [AI SDR Pricing Compared: Seats, Credits and Flat Plans](https://0effort.ai/blog/ai-sdr-pricing-comparison.html): Seat, credit and flat-plan AI SDR pricing decoded — what each unit actually charges for, the hidden costs, and how to convert any plan to cost per reply. - [Switching Off 11x: How to Diagnose Your Trigger Before You Pick an Alternative](https://0effort.ai/blog/11x-alternatives.html): How to diagnose your trigger for leaving 11x — burned domains, contract lock-in, unattributable pipeline — before picking anywhere new, plus what switching costs. - [AI SDR Vendor Due-Diligence Checklist — What to Verify Before You Buy (2026)](https://0effort.ai/blog/ai-sdr-vendor-due-diligence-checklist.html): A due-diligence checklist for evaluating any AI SDR vendor's pricing, database, and reply-handling claims — next to what 0effort actually charges and does. - [The EU AI Act and AI SDRs: What Actually Applies from August 2026](https://0effort.ai/blog/eu-ai-act-ai-sdr.html): What the EU AI Act's August 2026 milestone actually requires from AI SDR tools — risk tier, transparency duties, and what's still unsettled. - [0effort vs Artisan (Ava): An Honest Comparison (2026)](https://0effort.ai/blog/0effort-vs-artisan.html): 0effort vs Artisan's Ava compared honestly — an AI employee positioning versus a self-serve system, and the questions to ask before you sign either one. - [0effort vs 11x — Two Takes on the AI SDR Category](https://0effort.ai/blog/0effort-vs-11x.html): 0effort vs 11x compared honestly — a workload bet that runs your existing outbound motion versus a headcount bet that replaces the rep entirely. - [The Cold Email Deliverability Checklist (2026)](https://0effort.ai/blog/cold-email-deliverability-checklist.html): A tiered cold email deliverability checklist — authentication, reputation, content — plus a 10-minute diagnostic to find which tier is actually broken. - [Cold Email in 2026: The Complete Guide That Assumes AI Exists](https://0effort.ai/blog/cold-email-guide.html): How cold email really works in 2026 — deliverability rules, AI-native workflows, human-sounding copy, sequences, compliance, and the metrics that predict pipeline. - [Best AI SDR Tools in 2026: An Honest Comparison](https://0effort.ai/blog/best-ai-sdr-tools.html): A no-sponsorship comparison of the best AI SDR tools in 2026, ranked by the sales motion each one actually wins — outbound, inbound, enterprise or SMB. - [0effort vs Instantly — Full Outbound Department vs Email Sequencer](https://0effort.ai/blog/0effort-vs-instantly.html): 0effort vs Instantly compared honestly — an autonomous AI SDR that runs the whole outbound loop versus a cold email sending platform. Where each wins. - [What Is an AI SDR? The Complete 2026 Guide](https://0effort.ai/blog/what-is-an-ai-sdr.html): What an AI SDR actually does, how it compares to a human SDR, what it costs in 2026, and the seven questions to ask before you buy one. - [AI SDR vs Human SDR: The Real Cost Math (2026)](https://0effort.ai/blog/ai-sdr-vs-human-sdr-cost.html): A parametric cost model for comparing a human SDR to an AI SDR — fully loaded salary math, hidden costs, break-even points, and when the human still wins.