All these AI SDRs who raised $17M will fail

All these AI SDRs who raised $17M will fail.

I say this as someone who previously built a LinkedIn AI SDR myself.

AI SDR was never a new category. It's a new iteration on outbound tools, and that market commoditizes fast.

Most of these companies are VC-pumped on tech they shipped 2 years ago. The big lie is that these are not agents, but actually they are just AI workflows and they still require human handholding.

So we decided to built OXYGEN, a GTM CLI and MCP for GTM Engineers.

We got great traction from the most cracked GTM engineers at the top agencies and YC-backed startups. But the majority of our inbound customers don't want another tool that they need to orchestrate.

They just want results...

And our product actually demands a cracked GTM engineer to run it. You need 3 things:

1) Your full GTM stack, connected. 2) You actually use Claude Code or Codex. 3) Enough scale that building a system like this is worth it.

Most of the market isn't there yet.

We love the tech. We're two nerdy guys who could build this stuff all day. But what actually matters is the outcome. The value we create. The tech is kind of a commodity, and we want to sit closer to the thing customers actually pay for.

So we're releasing a service tier with outcome-based pricing:

→ Email: per verified email delivered to the inbox → LinkedIn: per person actually contacted

The reason why we are uniquely positioned to release this offering is because we are AI native SaaS company, but delivering the results of an agency.

Philipp and me we'll be handling the first few customers ourselves, so I'll keep you updated;).