Key takeaways
- Artisan's agent, Ava, finds and enriches leads and writes and sends personalised outreach.
- Artisan describes its database as 250M+ verified contacts; Pebbles Ai finds leads at named companies from its own GDPR-compliant B2B contact database.
- Pebbles Ai saves outreach emails as drafts in your Gmail or Outlook and runs no automated sending sequence.
- Pebbles Ai writes from Company Intel, your business knowledge and brand voice.
What is each product built for
Artisan is built to act as an AI sales development rep that prospects and sends for you, and Pebbles Ai is built to give your team assistants for the same work while people keep the send. Artisan describes Ava as finding and enriching B2B leads and writing and sending personalised outreach, with credit-based pricing scoped to lead volume, mailboxes and dialler seats.
Pebbles Ai is a workspace where the Marketing and Strategy assistants research accounts, find leads, keep records in a CRM, labelled Beta, and write outreach from your Company Intel, beside Smartbox for email and Socialbox for LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Instagram and Telegram chats.
Where Artisan is stronger
Artisan is stronger if you want an agent that sends outbound email itself and draws on a built-in contact database. Artisan sizes its database at 250M+ verified contacts in its own materials, and open search across a database of that kind is a different job from how Pebbles Ai finds leads at the companies you name.
If your plan is to hand prospecting and sending to an agent and review results rather than individual emails, Artisan matches that plan more closely.
- An agent that sends outbound email itself.
- A built-in contact database it sizes at 250M+ verified contacts.
How do the two find leads
Artisan searches its own contact database, while Pebbles Ai starts from the companies you describe or name and serves leads from its own GDPR-compliant B2B contact database. Ask an assistant for companies that match your ideal customer by keyword, headquarters country or region, industry and headcount, and it returns 25 by default and up to 50 a search; Find fresh leads then finds people by role and location at 1 to 10 named companies, up to 100 a run.
Each lead lands as a CRM contact with a work email where one is found, a confidence score and a catch-all flag, plus personalisation angles drawn from public LinkedIn posts or, failing that, role and company. There are no phone numbers.
Where Pebbles Ai differs
Pebbles Ai differs by keeping a person in charge of what is sent and by writing from your own company context. The assistants work in Auto, Plan or Manual mode, and the web app starts in Manual, where actions wait for your approval.
Outreach of up to seven touches is written from Company Intel, which holds your business knowledge and brand voice built from your website, files and pasted text, and emails are saved as drafts in your connected mailbox. Socialbox adds LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Instagram and Telegram chats in the same workspace, with LinkedIn network tools, posts and search.
Which should your team pick
Pick Artisan if you want an agent to own outbound from list to send, and Pebbles Ai if you want help with each step while your team sends. Before switching, check how your team feels about autonomous sending, because Pebbles Ai saves outreach as drafts in your mailbox and runs no automated sending sequence.
As an illustration, a seed-stage company without a sales hire may want an agent running outbound in the background. A consultancy that wins work through a founder's relationships may prefer drafts in the founder's voice, sent from the founder's own inbox, with replies handled in Smartbox.
Pebbles Ai and Artisan side by side
How the two compare on finding leads, writing and sending.
| Pebbles Ai | Artisan | |
|---|---|---|
| Primary job | A workspace of AI assistants for research, leads, outreach drafting, CRM and inboxes. | An AI SDR that finds leads and writes and sends personalised outreach. |
| Free plan | No; Pro and Team start with a 1-month free trial. | See their site |
| Pricing model | Per seat, with monthly AI credits and leads included. | Credit-based, scoped to lead volume, mailboxes and dialler seats. |
| Finding prospects | Describe your ideal customer to find companies, then find people by role and location at 1 to 10 named companies. | A contact database the vendor sizes at 250M+ verified contacts. |
| Outreach | Writes email and LinkedIn outreach up to seven touches and saves emails as drafts in your Gmail or Outlook; no automated sequences or warm-up. | Ava writes and sends personalised outreach. |
| AI control | Auto, Plan and Manual modes; the web app starts in Manual, where actions wait for approval. | An agent that prospects and sends on your behalf. |
| Company context | Company Intel holds your business knowledge and brand voice; three memory levels carry context between chats. | See their site |
Checked 2 November 2026 on each vendor's public pages and the Pebbles Ai product records. Where their pages say nothing on a row, the cell reads See their site.
About Artisan
AI SDR for outbound email
An AI SDR product whose agent, Ava, finds and enriches B2B leads from a contact database Artisan sizes at 250M+ and writes and sends personalised outreach, priced by credits.
Best for: Teams that want an AI agent to prospect and send outbound email on their behalf.
What its own pages say
- Ava finds and enriches B2B leads and writes and sends personalised outreach. Source: Artisan
- A contact database the vendor sizes at 250M+ verified contacts. Source: Artisan
- Credit-based, scoped to lead volume, mailboxes and dialler seats. Source: Artisan
Where Artisan is stronger
- An agent that sends outbound email itself.
- A built-in contact database the vendor sizes at 250M+ verified contacts.
Where Pebbles Ai differs
- Marketing and Strategy assistants plus the Guider, with Auto, Plan and Manual execution modes; the web app starts in Manual, where actions wait for your approval.
- Writes email and LinkedIn outreach, up to seven touches, from your company knowledge and brand voice; emails are saved as drafts in your connected Gmail or Outlook mailbox and LinkedIn messages are drafted for you to send; it drafts, it does not run an automated sending sequence.
- Company Intel holds business knowledge and brand voice built from your website, files and pasted text, and the assistants write from it.
- Socialbox brings LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Instagram and Telegram chats into the same workspace, with LinkedIn network tools, LinkedIn and Instagram posts, LinkedIn search and pacing guards.
Before you switch
- Pebbles Ai drafts into your mailbox rather than sending autonomously.
We make Pebbles Ai. Facts about other products come from their own public pages, checked on .
Where Pebbles Ai fits
- CapabilityProspecting & customer recordsDescribe your ideal customer and an assistant finds matching companies, then the right people at up to ten of them.
- FoundationCompany IntelCompany Intel holds your business knowledge and brand voice, and the assistants write outreach from it.
- CapabilityAI workspaceAuto, Plan and Manual modes set how much the assistants do without asking; the web app starts in Manual.
Common questions
Does Pebbles Ai have a contact database like Artisan?
Yes, its own growing B2B contact database, GDPR compliant, though it works from the companies you name: Find fresh leads finds people by role and location at 1 to 10 named companies per run and returns a work email where one is found.
Does Pebbles Ai send outbound email on its own?
Its outreach is saved as drafts in your connected Gmail or Outlook rather than sent as an automated sequence. Sending from a connected mailbox follows your execution mode, and a template send to a CRM segment always asks for approval.
Does Artisan have a free plan?
The Artisan pages we checked do not say, so check their site. Pebbles Ai has no free plan; Pro and Team start with a 1-month free trial.
About this page. Written by the Pebbles Ai team for people who run sales, marketing and growth. Last updated .
