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AI SDR — Canonical Workflow
AI SDR: provisional AI workflow implementation reference with candidate models, providers, tools, and architecture.
Overview
An autonomous SDR agent qualifies, books and follows up with prospects end-to-end across email, LinkedIn and calendar, with human-approval gates for high-risk actions. Designed for enterprise sales teams requiring CRM integration, role-based access, and data residency controls. Typically deployed behind a managed API with hybrid fallback for offline regions. Outputs are citation-ready and structured for direct ingestion into Salesforce, HubSpot, or comparable CRM pipelines.
Implementation profile
| Category | agentic-models |
|---|---|
| Implementation maturity | production |
| Primary use cases | agents, enterprise-automation |
| Deployment options | managed-api, hybrid |
| Architectures | serverless-api, managed-container, hybrid-private-cloud |
Candidate models with published references
- BGE-M3
- GPT-5
- GPT-5 Mini
- Claude Sonnet 4.5
- Claude Opus 4
- Gemini 3 Pro
- Llama 4 Scout
- DeepSeek R1
- Mistral Large 2
- Command R+
- o3
- o4 Mini
Coverage means the model is a candidate worth evaluating for this workflow, not a ranking or a recommendation. Models whose reference pages are still in review are omitted.
Benchmarks relevant to this workflow
- Chatbot Arena ELO — LMSYS crowd-sourced pairwise preference leaderboard across open and closed models.
- MT-Bench — LMSYS multi-turn chatbot benchmark across 8 categories, GPT-4 graded 1–10.
- MMLU — Massive Multitask Language Understanding — 57 academic and professional subjects.
These are the benchmarks whose task shape bears on this workflow. Each one only describes its own protocol and date, so confirm the harness matches your workload before treating a score as evidence.
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