How it works. App or your own agent.How SDR Pilot Works.
SDR Pilot (sdrpilot.ai) is an AI SDR from $97 a month that runs on your own LinkedIn account and can be driven by your own AI agent. Enter your website and it writes your playbook, connect your LinkedIn and it gets a dedicated residential IP, then it researches people and sends up to 20 requests a day.
- Nothing to approve
- No sequences to build
- Hours you set
Say you are an AI before you send a link.
Step 1. Enter your website
Onboarding reads your website and drafts the playbook from it: company information, your offer, the persona you sell to, the rules you want followed, the goal of a conversation, and a set of FAQs. It also drafts a knowledge base and a first ideal customer profile, meaning the titles, industries, company sizes and countries a person has to look like before they are worth a request.
Then you edit all of it in the app
This is the part worth spending an hour on, because the same document does three jobs: it writes the replies, it qualifies the leads, and it writes the connection note on the rare occasions you have asked for one. You can test the agent on sample prospects before it talks to anybody real.
Step 2. Connect your LinkedIn account
Before the first login, a dedicated residential IP is bought in your account's own country and assigned to that sender alone. Then you connect. SDR Pilot holds an encrypted session cookie rather than your password, and captures the browser identity from the real login so every later request carries the same user agent, timezone and locale.
The sender then warms up
It sends 5 connection requests on its first day and one more each day after, reaching the default of 20 on day 16. Messages start at 30 a day and reach 100 on day 15. Profile reads and searches ramp on the same schedule. You set the hours and days it is allowed to act, on your own calendar.
A new account starts at 5 requests a day and adds one a day until it reaches 20 on day 16.
- 5
- Requests on day one
- 20
- Requests a day
- 100
- Messages a day
- 250
- Profiles read a day
One more each day after.
The default, reached on day 16.
From 30 on the first day, reached on day 15.
Every one read in full before anything is sent.
Step 3. It gets to work
Within minutes it is reading posts in your niche, pulling the people who engaged with them, and opening profiles. Every profile is read in full and scored against your ICP before anything is sent, and most people get a no. The ones that pass go into the day's queue of connection requests, paced across your active hours, one action at a time.
The connection request goes out with no note
A note is what makes a stranger read the invitation as a sales pitch, so the personalisation waits for the opener message after they accept. If you would rather send a note, the AI writes one from the person's profile and the live business context.
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What happens when somebody replies
The agent answers, from the playbook and from what it read on their profile. It holds the conversation, answers questions, qualifies, and hands the thread to you when the lead is ready. Put your booking link in the playbook and it will send it when the playbook says so. It does not connect a calendar of its own and it does not book meetings by itself.
Answer a lead yourself and it stands down
Reply from the app or from LinkedIn on your phone and the agent stands down on that thread. It does not talk over you and it does not start again behind you.
The other way in: your own agent
Everything above is the app path, and it is how most people will use it. There is a second path for people whose planning already lives in an agent: point Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor or n8n at SDR Pilot over MCP, ask for the work in your own words, and let SDR Pilot execute it.
What an agent can ask for
- Search people on your ICP.
- Add and research leads.
- Queue a connection request.
- Read the inbox.
- Reply in a thread or hand it over.
- Post and pull the engagers in.
What an agent cannot change
- The caps.
- The warm-up.
- The one action at a time lock.
- The active hours.
- The ICP score.
The two paths share one product, and what an agent cannot do is go faster. None of those five are parameters, so an agent asking for two hundred requests gets the day's twenty and a queue.
The MCP server and the API are included on every plan. Create an API key in the app under Settings, then API, and point your MCP client at https://mcp.sdrpilot.ai/mcp. Setup steps are at help.sdrpilot.ai/api/api-and-mcp/. The MCP page explains what the surface does.
The daily loop, in order
- 1
Find
Five lead sources feed candidates in, in a priority order you can change.
- 2
Research
The profile is opened and read, up to 250 profiles a day.
- 3
Score
The profile is scored against your ICP, with a different pass mark per source if you want one.
- 4
Decide
Below the bar, the person is disqualified and never contacted.
- 5
Send
The ones that pass get a connection request, up to 20 a day, paced inside your hours.
- 6
Talk
On acceptance the agent opens, then answers every reply until the lead is ready for you.
- 7
Hand over
You take the thread whenever you want and it stands down.
What you do each week
Nothing is required to keep it running. There is nothing to approve, nothing to schedule and no sequence to build.
Open the inbox when you feel like it and read what it has been saying.
Take over the threads that matter to you.
Adjust the playbook when you notice it answering something in a way you would not have.
FAQQuestions people ask
How long does it take to get SDR Pilot running?
The setup itself is the same day: signup and the trial checkout, the playbook drafted from your website and edited by you, and the LinkedIn connection. What takes time is the warm-up, which brings the sender from 5 requests a day to the default 20 over 16 days.
Do I have to write message templates or build sequences?
No. There are no templates and no sequences in SDR Pilot. It writes each message from your playbook and the person's own profile, which is why two people in the same industry do not get the same opener.
Does SDR Pilot send a note with the connection request?
Not by default. An empty invitation avoids the someone is selling me reaction, so the personalisation waits for the first message after they accept. You can switch on an AI written note, which is capped at 300 characters.
What happens if I answer a lead myself?
The agent stands down on that thread, whether you replied in the app or from LinkedIn on your phone. It will not talk over you and it will not resume behind your back.
Can I drive SDR Pilot from my own AI agent instead of the app?
That is the MCP and API path, and it is included on every plan. Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor and n8n are the clients it is built for. The agent asks; SDR Pilot still decides the pace, the caps and whether the person passes your ICP at all.
Can I see what it is doing?
Yes. The app shows the funnel, every conversation in one inbox, every lead it scored and the reason it said no, the day's caps and how much of them is spent, and the warm-up day the sender is on.
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Every plan starts with a 14-day free trial. Create an account, add a card at checkout and connect LinkedIn; nothing is charged before day 15, and you can cancel in the billing portal any time. Plans start at $97 a month for one LinkedIn sender.