11x alternatives for AI-led sales

Why do teams look for 11x alternatives

Teams look for 11x alternatives when they want a different balance of agent autonomy, channel coverage and buying process. 11x builds AI agents, Alice for outbound across email and social and Julian for inbound voice and chat, sold through a demo.

Some buyers want that full hand-off. Others want a person on every message, a self-serve start, or email only at first. Those preferences, more than quality, usually decide the shortlist.

What should you look for in an 11x alternative

Look at what the agent does without asking, and how you review its work. An agent that sends on its own needs tighter guardrails than one that drafts for approval.

Try a worked example during evaluation. Give each tool the same invented brief, such as a firm selling scheduling software to dental groups, and compare who it targets, what it writes and what it does before you approve.

• Autonomy: sends alone, drafts for approval, or lets you choose.
• Channels: email, LinkedIn, phone, SMS or chat.
• Data: where contacts come from and how they are checked.
• Context: what the agent knows about your company and voice.
• Buying: self-serve plans or a sales-led contract.

How do the main 11x alternatives compare

The main alternatives range from agents that send outbound for you to tools that put AI inside a person's workflow. Each line says how much the product does on its own; the cards further down link to their sites.

• Artisan: an AI SDR, Ava, that finds and enriches leads from its own contact database and writes and sends outreach, priced by credits.
• Amplemarket: contact data, multichannel sequences, a dialler, deliverability tools and an AI assistant, Duo, on annual plans.
• Regie.ai: AI prospecting agents and a parallel dialler, connected to HubSpot or Salesforce, with a free start.
• Unify: signal-based outbound with multichannel sequencing, agentic chat and CRM sync, with a free tier.
• Lindy: a general AI agent for inbox, calendar, meeting notes, lead generation and outreach tasks across many apps.
• Pebbles Ai: Marketing and Strategy assistants that research, find leads and draft outreach from your company context, in execution modes you set.

How is Pebbles Ai different from 11x

Pebbles Ai differs by letting you decide how much the assistants do on their own, rather than handing outbound to an autonomous agent. The assistants have Auto, Plan and Manual execution modes; the web app starts in Manual, where actions that reach the outside world wait for your approval.

Outreach of up to seven touches is written from Company Intel and saved as drafts in your connected Gmail or Outlook mailbox; Pebbles Ai does not run automated sequences, calls or SMS. The same workspace covers research, lead finding, a CRM labelled Beta, Smartbox for email, Socialbox for LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Instagram and Telegram chats, and memory, so context travels with the work.

Should you choose an agent or an assistant

Choose an agent when volume matters more than review, and an assistant when each message needs judgement. A team writing to thousands of similar accounts may accept agent-written messages after a careful pilot.

A team selling a complex service to a few hundred named accounts usually wants a person to read every email before it goes. Many teams start with drafts and loosen control only once the output has earned trust.