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B2B Appointment Setting for SaaS. Pay Per Booked Demo.

An AI SDR runs SMS conversations with the owner-operators your product serves, qualifies them against criteria you write, and books demos straight onto your calendar. No retainers, no monthly fees, and a no-show never costs you a demo.

No retainers, ever Demos with the decision-maker Free no-show replacement
1,000+
SMS Conversations / Day
40%
Reply Rate, Our Campaigns
~10/day
Meetings Booked
48-72h
Campaign Launch

Recurring revenue changes the math on every demo

Recurring revenue gives SaaS unusually strong appointment-setting math. A closed demo does not pay you once, it pays you every month the account stays live. One closed deal from one booked demo pays for many meetings. That math only works if you pay for meetings, not for effort.

Most SaaS teams still buy pipeline the expensive way. A fully loaded in-house SDR runs roughly $9,800 to $14,200 a month by industry estimates, which pencils out to about $700 to $1,150 per qualified meeting. Retainer agencies charge $3,000 to $12,000 a month for activity: seats, touches per day, dials logged, with no guarantee a single demo lands. Both models bill you during ramp, during slow weeks, and during months where nothing books.

The In-House SDR

$9,800 to $14,200 /month, industry estimates

  • Roughly $700 to $1,150 per qualified meeting (industry estimates)
  • Months of ramp billed at full salary
  • Data, tools, and management costs stack on top
  • Rep quits, pipeline stalls

Pay Per Booked Demo

One flat rate /booked demo

  • Charged only when a qualified demo is booked and double-confirmed
  • A zero-demo month costs zero
  • No ramp: campaigns live in 48 to 72 hours
  • No-shows replaced free

Want the full head-to-head with ramp time and management burden priced in? Read hire an SDR or buy meetings.

Built for vertical SaaS selling to local service businesses

Our machine texts owner-operators: contractors, cleaners, salons, repair shops, med spas. The people who run local service businesses and answer their own phones. If your product helps them win more jobs, capture missed calls, protect their reviews, or fill a schedule, your buyer is the exact audience behind our 40% reply rate. They live in their text messages between jobs. They do not sit in email.

Lead generation platforms

You sell more jobs. That is one of the easiest outcomes to open an SMS conversation with. The prospect replies about growing their business, and the demo books itself as step two.

Review & reputation management

Owners watch their star ratings closely. A conversation about protecting the rating that feeds them gets replies. A cold pitch about software does not.

Scheduling & field service software

Empty slots and messy calendars cost owners real money every week. We open with that cost, not with your feature list, and the demo is where you show the fix.

Missed-call text back & comms tools

The pitch proves itself. Your prospect experiences a sharp, well-run SMS conversation before they ever see your demo. The channel is the case study.

One honest filter. If your buyer is a VP at a large enterprise, we are not your channel. Enterprise committees do not buy over text. Owner-operators do. We only take SaaS clients whose decision-maker actually picks up their own phone, because that is where our reply rate comes from.

Your prospect hears about more jobs. Never about software.

The fastest way to kill an SMS campaign is to pitch software in the first message. We never do. Every conversation opens with an outcome the owner already wants: more jobs, fewer missed calls, a better rating, a fuller schedule. The prospect replies because the problem is real. The demo gets booked as the natural next step of that conversation, at a time they picked, on your calendar.

Every list is built from scratch, in-house, for your ICP. Six stages: sourced in-house, verified against each business's live website, phone-verified, quality-scored, deduped, and DNC-suppressed. No resold data. If a number is on your list, it belongs to a real business we verified for this campaign, not a CSV that has been sold and resold.

01

Your ICP becomes a one-page doc

We write your qualification criteria with you at kickoff: industry, business size, revenue bar, decision-maker, confirmed interest. You sign it before launch. It decides what you pay for.

02

Conversations open with outcomes

Real two-way SMS about the prospect's problem, never a demo pitch. Our own campaigns hold a 40% reply rate. Interested and qualified owners move to booking.

03

Demos booked and double-confirmed

The prospect picks a slot on your calendar, then gets confirmed at 24 hours, 2 hours, and 15 minutes. 60% baseline show rate, and a no-show is replaced free.

The full machine, from list build to billing, is documented step by step on the how it works page. The other five verticals we run it for live on the industries hub.

One flat rate per booked demo. Quoted for your ICP.

We do not publish a rate card, because a demo with a solo med spa owner and a demo with a multi-truck HVAC operator are not the same unit. Your rate depends on your industry, your qualification depth, and your volume. A 15-minute call gets you the exact number plus a one-time setup quote covering your list build, campaign build, calendar integration, and qualification doc. After that: no retainers, no monthly fees, cancel anytime. Every mechanic is spelled out on the pricing page.

The Billing Trigger

Booked, double-confirmed, on your criteria

You are charged when a demo is booked on your calendar, double-confirmed, and matches the qualification doc you signed. Not for leads, not for touches, not for effort.

The 10-Minute Rule

No-shows are never held against you

If the prospect hasn't shown within 10 minutes of start time, the demo doesn't count as held. We rebook or replace it within 5 business days, free. You never pay for a ghost twice.

Your Written Criteria

Off-criteria means free

One page, signed at kickoff: who counts as a qualified demo, in your words. A meeting that falls outside it is replaced or credited. No argument, no ticket queue.

The Paper Trail

A transcript behind every charge

Every billed demo comes with the SMS transcript where your prospect chose the time, plus the full confirmation log. Card on file, weekly statement, optional weekly cap.

SaaS questions, straight answers

Our product needs a live demo. Can SMS really book those?
Yes, because SMS never tries to do the demo. It books it. The conversation is about the prospect's problem: more jobs, more revenue, fewer missed calls. When the prospect is interested and qualified, they pick a demo slot on your calendar and get confirmed at 24 hours, 2 hours, and 15 minutes before the call. Your team runs the demo. We make sure a qualified owner shows up for it.
We tried SDR agencies before and paid for activity, not pipeline. Why is this different?
Because the billing trigger is different. Retainer agencies charge monthly for seats and touches whether meetings land or not. Here, you are charged per demo that is booked on your calendar, double-confirmed, and matches the qualification criteria you signed. A demo outside those criteria is free. A no-show is replaced free. Every billed demo comes with the SMS transcript where the prospect chose the time.
How do you qualify prospects for our demos?
With a one-page qualification doc we write with you at kickoff: industry, business size, revenue bar, decision-maker on the call, and confirmed interest in the outcome your product delivers. You sign it before launch. Every booked demo either matches it or it is replaced or credited, free.
What does a booked demo cost?
Rates are per booked demo and depend on your ICP, your qualification bar, and your volume. Book a 15-minute call and you get your exact per-meeting rate and a one-time setup quote on the spot. No retainers, no monthly fees, ever. See how pricing works for the full billing mechanics.
What happens if the prospect doesn't show for the demo?
The 10-minute rule applies: if the prospect hasn't shown within 10 minutes of the start time, the demo is not counted as held. We rebook or replace it within 5 business days at no charge. You never pay for a ghost twice.
Who is this a bad fit for?
Enterprise SaaS with committee buyers, product-led tools with no sales team, and products whose buyer never answers their own phone. We also screen for capacity: you need a clear ICP, room to take 10 or more demos a month, and a human who runs them. If your buyer is a local service business owner, this is your channel.
How fast can we launch?
Campaigns launch within 48 to 72 hours of kickoff: qualification criteria signed, list built and verified, campaign live. First booked demos typically land in week one.

Ready to pay per booked demo instead of per month?

A 15-minute call gets you a per-demo rate for your ICP, your qualification criteria drafted, and a launch date within the week.

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