Small business▲+4Since September 2026: 0% → 4%, +4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
4%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 7 pointsRank 68 → 4 of 66
1 category · RankedArtisan Ava
132Judge labels
27First choices
33Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10-05.2, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
24% in AI SDR for mid-market buyers
Rank 2 of 77 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
7 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 26% of its 53 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Artisan Ava →By buyer segmentStrongest at mid-market.
Small business3 of 74
6%39 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market2 of 77
24%53 labels
criticized challenger
Enterprise1 of 77
22%40 labels
accepted challenger
In ai sdr · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading
Standing by category
Every category where a model named Artisan Ava for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI SDR agents | Sales | 24% | 2 of 77 | 26% | 53 | criticized challenger | ▲+8Since September 2026: 13% → 21%, +8 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Artisan Ava held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · AI SDR · by segment
Mid-market▲+8Since September 2026: 13% → 21%, +8 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
21%from 13% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 3 pointsRank 3 → 2 of 70
Enterprise▲+8Since September 2026: 9% → 17%, +8 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
17%from 9% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 3 pointsRank 6 → 2 of 69
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI SDR | 13% | 21% | ▲+8Since September 2026: 13% → 21%, +8 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 3 → 2 of 77 |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Artisan Ava across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Artisan Ava across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
By framing
Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct33 labels17
Paraphrase15 labels7
Comparative38 labels14not counted in share
Budget-constrained16 labels1
Scale-constrained8 labels2
Negative22 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative132 labels in all, every segment counted; 27 of the 42 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Artisan is the strongest fit in the results because it is described as an end-to-end outbound automation platform whose AI BDR handles prospecting, outreach, replies” Perplexity Sonar · AI SDR · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Highly regarded for end-to-end autonomy (sourcing, personalization, sending, reply handling) with good balance of automation and control.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · AI SDR · negative prompt · first choice
“I'd put Artisan's Ava on the shortlist first if you want a more complete outbound agent connected to your CRM” GPT-6 Luna · AI SDR · direct prompt · first choice
“Choose Artisan if you want to fire your SDR team and run a fully autonomous outbound machine.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · AI SDR · comparative prompt · first choice
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
“Artisan faced platform-level enforcement including a LinkedIn ban ... Artisan reviews and third-party reports document concerns around zero quality leads despite high outreach volume” Muse Glimmer 30B · AI SDR · negative prompt · hard negative
“## Specific Platforms to Avoid Artisan (Ava) — Has significant output quality concerns, with a G2 rating of 3.8/5 (lowest among reviewed platforms)” Claude Haiku 4.5 · AI SDR · negative prompt · hard negative
“Good for testing and experimentation, but avoid for production campaigns. The quality and governance issues are significant.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · AI SDR · negative prompt · hard negative
“Artisan: Low scores (35/231), criticized for overpromising autonomy, quality degradation, and platform instability.” Grok 4.20 · AI SDR · negative prompt · hard negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Artisan Ava, over the 132 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Artisan Ava was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Artisan Ava, over the 132 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Artisan Ava was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.
What carried it into the answer
The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Artisan Ava. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 132 of the 132 answers that named Artisan Ava and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
artisan.coYour site97
salesforge.ai88
11x.ai51
amplemarket.com50
pipeline.zoominfo.com41
aisdr.com36
getvoip.com32
salesmotion.io32
coldreach.ai31
unifygtm.com29
390 of the 487 domain citations in answers naming Artisan Ava came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
artisan.co is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Artisan Ava takes 24% of first choices and Apollo.io takes 24%.ShowHide
Search and answers
artisan.co is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Artisan Ava takes 24% of first choices and Apollo.io takes 24%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “ai sdr agent”
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not in the top ten
Position for “best ai sdr agent”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 170 a month (“artisan ava”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 6 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 49,821 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 3,389 · 255 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 3,745
- Paid Google search
- 1 searches its ads show for, about 4 clicks and $266 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
24%
rank 2 of 77 in AI SDR
Segment leader
24%
Apollo.io
- First choices
- 27 across its categories
- Named in
- 132 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 132 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on artisan.co
561
subdomains included
Content
441
counted in the table below
Documentation
77
Product · Integration
3 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 284 | 9 | 2026-08-09 | CRM, ABM | |
| Comparison | 144 | 81 | 2026-09-20 | ||
| Case study | 5 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 4 | 0 | 2026-06-22 | ||
| Template or tool | 2 | 0 | 2026-06-05 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 1 | 0 | 2025-11-14 | ||
| News or press | 1 | undated |
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How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page artisan.co exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.
Names read as Artisan Ava
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Artisan Ava; a claim can dispute any of them.
Artisan 20Artisan (Ava) 19Artisan AI (Ava) 5Artisan (Ava AI BDR) 1Artisan (Ava AI SDR) 1Artisan AI (agent "Ava") 1Artisan's Ava 1
Follow Artisan Ava
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
Artisan Ava is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Artisan Ava is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- The AI BDR that runs in your stack, alongside your team
- For
- go-to-market teams
- Price stated
- Pricing scoped on your plan artisan.co/pricing
- Free plan or trial
- Start free artisan.co/customers
- Certifications
- SOC 2 Type IIGDPR
- Customers named
- Chain of EventsSaaStrSumUpCookUnityZirtualBioaccessRAISE Summit
- Not stated on the pages read
- Starting price, integrations, hosting
What Artisan Ava's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: artisan.co, artisan.co/pricing, trust.artisan.co, artisan.co/solutions/smbs, artisan.co/customers. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Artisan Ava's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Artisan Ava, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Artisan Ava by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Artisan Ava is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Artisan Ava, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where Artisan Ava is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.ShowHide
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where Artisan Ava is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.
ShowHideArtisan Ava is among the products AI models recommend first in AI SDR agents this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.
Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges
Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides
Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer
Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.