An Artisan alternative: a digital employee beyond outbound sales
An EmAGI digital employee is an AI personality that works as a full member of your company: it remembers the right person, decision or rule at the right moment, learns from every correction, is curious about what it does not know yet, reflects on its own work and comes back with the next step before anyone asks. If you are comparing it with Artisan, here is what each one is, where Artisan is the better choice and where EmAGI is, from the official pages of both, checked on 17 October 2026.
What Artisan is
Artisan builds AI employees for go-to-market teams. Its first, Ava, is an autonomous AI BDR that runs outbound end to end: it finds and enriches B2B leads, sends personalised email and social campaigns, handles replies and books meetings, while your reps take the calls with its dialer. On 17 October 2026 its pricing page shows Team (about 2,500 leads a month), Scale (about 6,000) and Enterprise plans, priced on request: "Talk to sales". Source: artisan.co, artisan.co/pricing, checked 2026-10-17.
Artisan and EmAGI side by side
| Artisan | EmAGI | |
|---|---|---|
| What you get | An AI BDR that runs outbound and books meetings | One digital employee who does the work itself and reports back |
| Memory | Not described on its official pages | Persistent memory that belongs to you; learns from every correction; reviews its own day every night |
| Where it acts | Email and social campaigns from its platform, a dialer for your reps | Wherever a person would: the browser, email, documents and company systems, on a full machine of its own; it can also work on your computer |
| Setup | Sales-led, with guided onboarding and a customer success manager | Nova, our agent, designs and launches it; on the Assisted plan we help connect your accounts |
| Price | Credit-based, on request | The first employee costs $350 a month, each next one $15, and it runs on your own AI subscription |
When Artisan is the better choice
- You need outbound at volume, with B2B lead data and sending infrastructure built in.
- You want a tool dedicated to the BDR function and have reps who take the booked meetings.
- You want a vendor team running the rollout with you.
When EmAGI is the better choice
- You want one ready employee rather than separate parts you assemble yourself: memory, learning, curiosity, reflection and initiative come together in one.
- You want the work done, not suggested: a digital employee that acts in the browser, email, documents and company systems the way a person would.
- You want a memory that belongs to you and an employee that learns from every correction and reviews its own work every night.
- You want it to work on a full machine of its own, with your data never mixed with anyone else's, and to be able to work on your computer too.
- You want one employee to run many conversations and tasks at once, with the team and with outside people, and stay one person with one memory.
- You want the employee to belong to your company together with its memory, with its data able to stay on your own server.
What EmAGI costs
Plans are $350, $500 and $1,000 a month per account, with one agent included and each additional agent at $15 a month, up to five agents per account before a capacity upgrade. The agent connects to your own AI subscription when you create it: we recommend Claude Max; ChatGPT Pro or a DeepSeek key work too, though the agent thinks less sharply on them. Current prices are always on the pricing page, and a free trial week is available on request from the main page.
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Questions people ask
What is the best Artisan alternative?
It depends on what you want to hand over. For outbound at volume with lead data built in, Artisan itself is a strong choice. If you want one digital employee who takes sales along with follow-ups, documents, research and the rest of the work, and keeps a memory that belongs to you, EmAGI is built for that.
How much does Artisan cost compared with EmAGI?
Artisan does not publish prices: its plans are credit-based and scoped on a call with sales. EmAGI publishes its price: $350 a month per account plus your own Claude Max subscription.
Can an EmAGI employee do sales outreach?
Yes, as part of its work: it researches companies and people, writes personalised messages, follows up and books the next step, and remembers every conversation.