How We Doubled Our Leads in 90 Days Using an AI Sales Agent
Case Study How We Doubled Our Leads in 90 Days Using an AI Sales Agent
Every business hits a plateau. It is that frustrating point where your product is solid, your team is ready, but your pipeline just freezes.
Three months ago, that is exactly where we were. I head up business development for a small B2B SaaS company. We knew our product could help e-commerce businesses, but we just could not get in front of enough of them.
We were stuck in the "Manual Trap." My days were spent scouring LinkedIn profiles, copying emails into spreadsheets, and sending one-off messages that rarely got opened. It was slow, demoralizing, and expensive in terms of time.
We did not have the budget to hire a full-time Sales Development Representative (SDR) or an expensive agency. We needed a growth hack.
That is when we decided to test a new technology: The AI Sales Agent. specifically, a platform called Lead Gen Z Ai App.
The promise was that this "AI SDR" could handle the grunt work of finding leads and sending emails, letting us focus on closing. I was skeptical. Could an AI really replace the intuition of a human prospector?
We ran a 90 days experiment on this Lead Gen Z Ai SDR Sales Agent App. The results shocked us with sales we made below:
We doubled our inbound leads and saved over 15 hours of work every single week. Here is the step-by-step breakdown of how we did it.
The Challenge Manual Prospecting Was Killing Our Growth
Before we deployed the AI, our numbers were stagnant.
We were averaging about 23 qualified leads per month5. To get those 23 leads, I was spending hours every day on "busy work." I would search Google for "fashion boutiques," look for their contact page, verify the email, and then draft a message.
The worst part was the data quality. We even tried buying a pre-made list once, but half the emails bounced because the data was months old.
We needed a solution that was:
Automated: No more manual copy-pasting.
Fresh: Real-time data, not stale lists.
Affordable: Something that cost less than a new hire.
Phase 1 Setting Up the AI SDR
We onboarded with Lead Gen Z and treated it like a new digital employee. The setup was surprisingly fast. The first task was to define our Ideal Customer Profile (ICP).
Since we sell to online retailers, I set the AI to search for "E-commerce stores" and "Retail businesses" in specific regions. I started with a test batch: "Fashion boutiques in California".
Unlike a static database, the Lead Gen Z AI went out and scraped live data from sources like Google Maps. Within minutes, the dashboard filled up with dozens of contacts.
It didn't just give me a company name. It gave me:
Store Names
Owner or Manager Names
Phone Numbers
Verified Email Addresses
Location Data
It felt like striking gold. In ten minutes, the AI had done what would have taken me ten hours of manual Googling.
Phase 2 The Automated Outreach Engine
Finding the leads is only half the battle. You have to contact them.
Lead Gen Z has a built-in email automation engine. I connected our business email via SMTP to ensure high deliverability.
I crafted a simple, value-driven email template. I focused on a specific pain point for our niche: inventory management headaches. I did not want it to sound robotic, so I used the platform's personalization tags to insert the business name and location automatically.
I hit "Send" on a batch of 50 leads.
The AI "drip fed" the emails, spacing them out so we didn't trigger spam filters13. This is a crucial feature that many growth hackers overlook. If you blast 500 emails at once, Google will block you. The AI handled this pacing perfectly.
Phase 3 The Inbound Bonus (Auto-Blogger)
While the outbound email campaign was running, we decided to test the "Auto-Blogger" feature.
Our goal was to create a "Content Flywheel." If a prospect received our email and checked our website, we wanted them to see active, authoritative content.
We used the AI to generate articles like "AI Trends in Online Retail" and "5 Tips for Managing Inventory". The AI wrote full-length, SEO-friendly posts in minutes. We published three of these articles on our blog during the experiment.
This created a secondary stream of leads. We actually had a prospect find one of the AI-written articles via Google search and fill out our contact form. That was a purely inbound lead generated by content that took us almost zero effort to create.
The Results 90 Days Later
Fast forward to the end of the quarter. We pulled the numbers, and the data was undeniable.
1. Lead Volume Doubled- In the previous quarter, we generated roughly 70 leads total (23/month). In the 90 days with Lead Gen Z, we generated 150 new leads (50/month). We literally doubled our pipeline volume.
2. 10% Response Rate- Because the AI allowed us to target very specific niches (e.g., "Home Decor Stores in the Midwest" 19), our message relevance was high. We saw a cold email response rate of nearly 10 percent20. In the world of cold outreach, that is exceptional.
3. Massive Time Savings- The AI took over the research and initial outreach. I estimate this saved me 10 to 15 hours every week 21. instead of data entry, I spent that time doing product demos and closing deals.
Why It Worked The Human AI Hybrid Model
The biggest takeaway from this experiment wasn't that "robots are taking over." It was that AI empowers humans.
Lead Gen Z acted as our "opener." It did the heavy lifting of finding the door and knocking on it. When a prospect opened the door (replied to an email), I stepped in as the human to build the relationship and close the sale.
We created a workflow where the AI provided consistency. It never got tired. It never forgot to follow up. It ran background searches every two weeks to find new businesses that just opened.
Conclusion A New Standard for Growth
If you are a small business owner or a marketing manager, you are likely wearing too many hats. You do not have time to be a full-time researcher.
Our experience proves that using an AI Sales Agent like Lead Gen Z is the most efficient way to scale a small team. We achieved the output of a three-person sales team with just one person and one smart piece of software.
We went from struggling to fill our calendar to having a "good problem" too many demos booked.
If you are looking to double your leads without doubling your budget, it is time to stop the manual grind and hire an AI SDR.
