Vercel's internal AI agent let one person do the work of a 10-person SDR team
By Drew Bredvick (Vercel)Built and shared by Drew Bredvick (Vercel), not by me. Summarised from the public sources below. Check them before you rely on a number.
- Who
- Drew Bredvick (Vercel)
- Category
- Sales & CRM
- Source
- X · Web
- Dates
- Published 5 Jan 2026 · Found 17 Oct 2026
Drew Bredvick, who leads GTM engineering at Vercel, built the company's first AI SDR agent. Within about six weeks it took over the work of a 10-person sales development team, and the other nine people were moved to new roles.
What they built
An internal AI agent that screens and qualifies inbound leads, runs outbound outreach and analyses lost deals. It replaced the manual, repetitive qualification work the SDR team used to do.
The result
Reported: a 10-person team reduced to one person in about 6 weeks. The agent costs about $1,000 a year against more than $1M in payroll, the remaining salesperson is about 10x more productive, and nobody was laid off.
Sources
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