Every category where a model named Artisan 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
AI SDR agents	Sales	13%	2 of 71	42%	36	criticized challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Artisan yet. The next is due October 1, 2026. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Artisan across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	0	1	0	2
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	1	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	2	1	0	2	5
Perplexity Sonar	2	0	0	0	2
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	2	0	3	5
Mistral Small	0	2	0	1	3
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	2	1	1	5
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	0	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	0	1	2
Kimi K2	0	1	0	4	5
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	1	0	0	2
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	0	2	3

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

Direct20 labels3

Paraphrase13 labels5

Comparative31 labels7not counted in share

Budget-constrained13 labels1

Scale-constrained7 labelsNone

Negative18 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative102 labels in all, every segment counted; 9 of the 16 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.

“unless your team specifically wants an AI SDR that books meetings more autonomously, in which case Artisan is the better fit” Perplexity Sonar · AI SDR · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Artisan"s AI agent, Ava, is highly regarded for mid-market companies that want a fully autonomous out-of-the-box solution.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · AI SDR · direct prompt · first choice

“or Artisan/Ava if you want more autonomous outbound prospecting with built-in contact data.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · AI SDR · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Choose Artisan if you want a broad, packaged SDR replacement.” Perplexity Sonar · 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.

“Avoid fully autonomous AI SDRs with annual lock-in contracts, no trials, and documented quality problems (Artisan, 11x.ai especially)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · AI SDR · negative prompt · hard negative

“Artisan - LinkedIn restricted their automated outreach in early 2026... G2 rating of 3.8/5 (lowest among reviewed platforms)” MiniMax M2.5 · AI SDR · negative prompt · hard negative

“Artisan was temporarily banned by LinkedIn in late 2025/early 2026 due to platform compliance and data-scraping violations.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · AI SDR · negative prompt · hard negative

“ones to approach with high caution due to recurring complaints ... avoid if personalization or results are critical” Grok 4.1 Fast · AI SDR · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Artisan, over the 102 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Artisan was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

11x82 of 1025Not in the top three

AiSDR63 of 10214Not in the top three

Apollo.io40 of 1029Compare →

Regie.ai36 of 1022Not in the top three

Amplemarket32 of 10212Compare →

Clay32 of 1021Not in the top three

Reply.io23 of 1022Not in the top three

Qualified20 of 1021Not in the top three

Salesforce Agentforce17 of 1021Not in the top three

Agent Frank14 of 1021Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. 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. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 16 of the 102 answers that named Artisan and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

artisan.coYour site9

amplemarket.com7

salesforge.ai7

11x.ai6

getbreakout.ai6

getvoip.com6

monday.com5

saleshandy.com5

salesmotion.io5

lindy.ai4

Fifty-one of the sixty domain citations in answers naming Artisan came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

amplemarket.com/blog/best-ai-sales-agents7

getvoip.com/ai-sdr-agents6

getbreakout.ai/blog/10-best-ai-sdr-agents-20265

salesforge.ai/blog/ai-sales-agents4

artisan.co/blog/the-best-ai-sdrs3

autobound.ai/blog/ai-sdr-tools-guide3

clay.com/guides/best/ai-sdr-tools3

landbase.com/blog/top-ai-sdr-platforms-in-20253

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Artisan

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Artisan; a claim can dispute any of them.

Artisan (Ava) 22Artisan (Ava + Ava Inbound) 1Artisan (Ava AI Agent) 1Artisan AI (Ava) 1

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