Artisan

🚀 Artisan is growing 50% MoM 🚀 It's a metric that our team has worked incredibly hard to achieve, including our CEO Jaspar Carmichael-Jack who’s been working from his hospital bed for the past 3 days! We’ve been heads down closing deals, onboarding 10s of customers every week, expanding our GTM strategy, and building out an ambitious product pipeline. We're relentlessly pursuing our mission of becoming the gold standard in software and digital labor. Our growth also means we’re hiring for every pillar of the company. We’re looking for: 💰 AEs who can close deals fast 😊 Customer Success Managers who can manage 100+ accounts 📈 GTM generalists who can execute across the growth stack 🖋 Copywriters who can write high-quality, genuinely interesting SEO articles 🤳 A social media wiz who can manage our LinkedIn & Twitter accounts 🤖 Extremely talented engineers (Full Stack and AI) In a market where new AI GTM solutions arrive every day, this is the time for us to prove why we’re leading the pack. And it’ll take an entire village to do it. If you’re interested in joining this rocketship, the best way to get our attention is by applying through the form on our website: https://lnkd.in/eYHd6kYT Since Jaspar's in a cast for 3 months, he’ll have plenty of time to look through job apps 😉

Last year, before we had any funding (beyond me sinking my entire life savings into the company), when I had no network, and we didn’t even have a working product, I went to TechCrunch Disrupt to meet investors through their networking app and with the dream of raising a pre-seed for Artisan. Safe to say I didn’t secure funding at that time… A lot has changed since then and this year, we’ll be a primary sponsor of the event 🤠 It’s crazy to think that since then we’ve done Y Combinator, built the most comprehensive outbound product on the market, grown our team to 16 people, scaled towards $1M ARR (growing close to 70% MoM), and raised over $8M for amazing investors. Our sponsorship of Disrupt is definitely a full circle moment for me - feeling very grateful for how life has progressed. Anyway, come and see us if you’ll be there! We’ll be in the spot that Google had last year in the second floor entrance hall, next to Mercury. We have a huge product launch that we’ll be announcing at Disrupt, so stay tuned for that 🦄 If you won’t be there, hire our AI BDR Ava anyway 😉 https://lnkd.in/egydpQPd

Excited to announce our $7.3M seed at Artisan! We’re working relentlessly to bring software into the AI age with AI Employees, called Artisans, and consolidated software for them and human teams to work together within. Ava, our AI BDR automates 80% of a human BDR’s workflows - from finding and researching leads, to writing emails and managing deliverability. She works alongside them in our Artisan Sales platform, which contains every tool you need to do outbound - B2B data, email warmup, web scraping, sequences, placement tests, mailbox health monitoring, advanced analytics, and so much more. Interested? Let’s chat: https://lnkd.in/egydpQPd We’re ramping up for a very busy summer and are hiring for full-stack engineering roles - reach out if you think you’d be a good fit 🤠 The round was led by Oliver Jung, with participation from Y Combinator, Fellows Fund, BOND, Sequoia Capital Scout, Soma Capital, Gopher Asset, CoreNest, Mento vc, Anu Hariharan, Paul Daversa, David J. Phillips, Teddy Nwachuku, Lawrence Lin Murata, Nick E. and others. Read more at https://lnkd.in/eCHbbEcT.

Introducing Ava’s multilingual capabilities: she’s the world’s first BDR who can speak in 40+ languages! With Ava, one person can effortlessly reach out to prospects across different countries, cultures, and languages, ensuring that their message is not only heard but resonates. But Ava’s capabilities go beyond just writing emails. She can scrape websites and LinkedIn profiles in any language, so that every interaction is hyper-personalized. Automate your lead discovery, research, email writing, follow ups and full outbound strategy management with Ava, the AI BDR Artisan. Interested in learning more about Ava? Join our webinar at 10AM PT on May 6th: https://lnkd.in/eAU8H7mg

Meet V2 of Artisan: One platform containing every tool you need to take your outbound sales team's productivity to the next level, with the help of Ava - our AI BDR. Interested in transforming your outbound org to be AI-first? Let's talk: https://lnkd.in/ettsPkYN

If your outbound email motion is running on a platform like Outreach or SalesLoft, you’re running inefficiently! Artisan Sales V2 is now live. It’s the centralized hub for your human outbound team to live in, with every tool needed for the entire email demand generation process consolidated into one platform and subscription. Ava, our BDR Artisan, lives inside the platform. She finds you leads, researches them, drafts (and optionally sends) emails, and so much more. Don’t fall behind your competitors by not staying on top of the fast evolving software landscape. https://lnkd.in/djAKgYRt

Two years later, we still think of our Y Combinator experience and the incredible community that supported us along the way. That’s why we’re thrilled to continue our tradition of welcoming the latest cohort to the YC Alumni Community. We’re grateful to be co-hosting this signature YC Community event with Vouch Insurance, Deel, Vanta, and Artisan AI (YC W24) for the Winter ‘24 cohort. If you’re a YC founder in the Bay Area, come join us to connect with new friends on April 9th! Expect cocktails, arcade games, and great conversations as we celebrate the accomplishments of the W24 batch. Make sure to RSVP to save your spot! Huge congrats to the entire YC W24 Batch! As the invite says, “The Best Is Yet To Come”🚀

Demo day is tomorrow! Y Combinator has been an awesome experience for us at Artisan AI (YC W24). We've learned a lot, failed fast, and taken our product & growth to new levels! A big thanks to Pete Koomen who has been insanely helpful despite me occasionally not listening to his advice 👀, and to our group partners Michael Seibel, Tom Blomfield & Tyler Bosmeny. We're luckily in a position where we don't need to raise on Demo Day, so we're using it as an opportunity to gain exposure for our first Artisan, Ava (an AI BDR). If you're part of a company with PMF looking to scale/automate your outbound (or inbound very soon...), ping me a message 🧑🎨

After 10s of hours of meetings and over 1000 team hours in Figma later, Artisan Sales V2 is nearly ready to launch. Ava might be the best AI BDR, but the UX with V1 was lacking. V2 is a genuinely enjoyable experience. Every element of the UI has been meticulously thought through, with micro-animations across the platform - I find myself sitting there playing with the UI. Launching next week - stay tuned...

Artisan Sales V2: Cleaner, Faster, Crisper. Coming next week...