Akadi vs a managed SDR agency
Choose a managed SDR agency if you want humans owning every conversation and are comfortable with retainer pricing. Choose Akadi if you want qualified meetings you only pay for once they are booked, with evidence-linked learning.
Best fit
An agency fits teams that want outsourced humans on the phones. Akadi fits teams that want an autonomous worker that stays inside guardrails and bills on outcomes.
Core difference
An agency’s quality varies by who is staffed on your account. Akadi applies the same gated, evidence-linked process every time, and surfaces what it did in an auditable timeline.
Pricing / outcome model
Agencies price on monthly retainer regardless of outcomes. Akadi charges when a meeting is booked on your calendar, and credits it if the meeting does not hold or is not a fit.
Safety & guardrails
Akadi default-denies side effects: compliance, suppression, eligibility, caps, and approval gate every send. You approve the first batch and every qualification.
Proof
Every learned claim resolves to its outcome IDs and sample size; there are no anonymous case-study metrics here. Mechanism examples are labelled illustrative.
FAQ
- Who approves outreach?
- You do. Akadi proposes drafts and a first batch; sending starts only after your approval.
- How is qualification decided?
- Against your rubric, with an evidence list, and you confirm each qualified meeting.
The market scan sends zero emails. No prospect export and no Niche Brain contribution happen before you accept terms.