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Thursday, August 7, 2025: No Quota, No CRM Drama. Just Bots That Close.
Founders are firing SDRs and installing bots that close while you sleep. Zoom calls, SMS funnels, and AI reps that actually pitch
Omar Abed
August 07, 2025
In partnership with
☕ ESPRESSO SHOT
Morning, gap-hunters.
AI’s done being “generative.” It wants your job. Specifically, your sales team’s.
While the big dogs are still trying to get their SDRs to hit quota, smaller teams are quietly dropping bots into outbound, nurturing with SMS, and even pitching on Zoom. without a human in sight.
Today’s issue: AI closers that don’t choke, pipelines that build themselves, and why your next top rep won’t have a LinkedIn.
No BS, no webinars, just revenue.
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GAP OF THE WEEK: “Your Sales Rep Doesn’t Need a Desk”
The hole:
Most outbound dies in the CRM. SDRs forget to follow up. Leads go cold. And nobody opens your “just circling back” email.
The wedge:
Drop in AI sales agents trained on your own landing pages and pitch calls. They don’t sleep. They don’t forget. And they’re now taking sales calls solo—yes, on Zoom.
Why now:
43% of B2B buyers say they prefer no human contact until they're ready to buy (HubSpot, 2025)
At least 11 AI agent startups launched in the last 60 days (FutureTools.io)
Truebase AI users report 3x more booked calls compared to manual outbound (Truebase.io)
Exit vision:
Spin up an AI rep that sells one thing well (your course, your productized service, your strategy session).
Or package one for a niche: realtors, CPAs, landscapers, logistics—whatever vertical still lives in spreadsheets.
This isn’t replacing your SDR. It’s skipping the whole org chart.
⚡ TWO‑MINUTE GAPS
Truebase AI Sales Agents
→ Drop in your Calendly + offer = fully automated outbound.
Used by 2,000+ lean teams. Great for founders who hate follow-ups.
🔗 truebase.io
Zoom Closers (LiveDemo AI)
→ AI shows up on Zoom and pitches like it’s been on your team for years.
Testers say clients didn’t know it wasn’t human. Spooky.
🔗 livedemo.ai
Text > Chatbot > Conversion (Twilio + Botpress)
→ Nurture with SMS, then pass leads to a smart demo bot that closes.
Botpress reports 2.4x lift over traditional email + form flows.
🔗 botpress.com
SPOTLIGHT: B2Bots
The startup:
B2Bots lets you train a sales agent that sounds like you, then puts it to work selling digital products, courses, or consulting calls 24/7.
The stack:
Learns from your website, DMs, testimonials
Talks like your brand voice, not a support bot
Connects with Stripe, Notion, Zapier—clean.
Why it matters:
It’s not a chatbot. It’s a closer with receipts.
Lesson: Don’t hire a rep. Launch one.
🐦 WEEK IN 3 TWEETS
Why hire 5 SDRs when a bot booked 27 sales calls last week, while I was on a beach in Malta?
→ AI outbound isn’t a “hack.” It’s a layoff plan.
“Can I talk to someone?”
You just did.
→ The bot closed while you were asleep. Keep sleeping on this and your leads will too.
Built a sales funnel with Airtable + Claude + Voiceflow.
Beat our junior rep’s close rate by 40%.
→ The tools are ready. The humans aren’t.
(Note: All tweets are fictional but inspired by real trends and founder posts.)
🤯 STAT OF THE DAY
43% of B2B buyers prefer zero human interaction until they’re ready to buy.
(That includes your leads. Give them a bot, or lose them to someone else’s.)
(Source: HubSpot State of Sales 2025)
From Solo Founder to AI-Powered Sales Machine
Alexa Stathakis, a 29-year-old entrepreneur in Brisbane, founded Tea Industries, a healthy drinks brand. Instead of hiring a sales team, she handed the keys to “Sarah,” an AI sales agent.
Here’s what happened:
Sarah called 8,000 schools in just one week to pitch free sample packs.
1,000+ schools placed orders.
In just 3 days, Tea Industries was stocked in IGA supermarkets nationwide.
Sarah now handles wholesale orders, logistics, and customer support, all as a solo operator’s backbone.
(tiktok.com, cfotech.com.au)
Why it matters:
A solo founder used AI not just for outreach, but as a full-stack sales and ops team, no SDRs, no overhead.
⏭ CLOSING LOOP
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