

For a thorough understanding of what each option offers, a simplified comparison table isn't enough to grasp all intricacies that come with each tool, so let's dive deeper into what makes SalesTools and Salesforge's Agent Frank unique.
Both products position themselves as AI sales agents that run 24/7 to augment or replace manual SDR work, but the practical differences come down to what gets automated and how the automation connects to your sales process.
Agent Frank by Salesforge is a turnkey solution within a tightly integrated suite (The Forge Stack) - designed to run on auto-pilot and reduce all manual tasks that typically burden SDRs.
SalesTools emphasizes breadth of data, buyer intent, deep research agents, and visitor tracking - features designed to increase the intelligence feeding the outreach and to make personalization and account selection more surgical.
Both approaches matter, but Agent Frank focuses more on the entire prospecting and outreach layer to ensure quality messages actually reach prospects and lead to meetings with appropriate ICPs.
Agent Frank provides flexible pricing oriented around outreach scale. Pricing is charged by Active Contacts (the number of prospects the Agent is processing at any given time), and annual billing includes 2 months free. There is no free trial and demos are required before purchase.
Note that infrastructure to process those contacts via email is not included in this base price. The Salesforge Stack offers multiple infrastructure options based on your budget/needs, so you don't need to stitch third-party products to make it work. The best options for Agent Frank include:
The Forge team will help set up the mailboxes and, additionally, the Mailforge (shared IP) and Primeforge (Gmail and Outlook) email infrastructure options are also available. Additionally, teams can connect their own mailboxes from other providers if desired.
SalesTools prices around outreach scale using Platform Credits. Annual billing saves 20% (roughly two months free), a free trial is offered from the marketing flow.
Both pages emphasize automated prospect discovery and continuous prospecting, but they arrive differently.
That data depth is ideal for teams that just need to flood the top of funnel with accounts, to run sophisticated account-based outreach, or to pivot rapidly into new verticals.
The crucial practical difference is about control and results: Salesforge emphasizes that Agent Frank uses the internal Forge Stack to keep prospecting tightly coupled with deliverability and message execution.
For many teams the problem with big-data prospecting is not necessarily in finding leads, but converting them - and conversion hinges on inbox placement, cadence timing, and contextual personalization.
SalesTools pitches deep research agents that analyze company signals, industry trends and financial health to generate hyper-personalized conversation starters. It touts conversation intelligence and AI-powered analysis to inform messaging and cadence timing.
Agent Frank further focuses on hyper-personalization through its uploadable knowledge base and active prospect signals.
Agent Frank also has adjustable tones and goals, and the co-pilot mode also lets humans review messages before sending, which is important for teams that want the benefits of personalized outreach without the risk of brand tone or informational errors.
Deliverability and infrastructure are where differences become operationally decisive. Deliverability is the linchpin of cold outreach success - a brilliant sequence is worthless if emails land in spam - and this is one area where Agent Frank intentionally differentiates itself.
And more. Building sender reputation gradually while spreading volume across addresses and IPs to avoid single-mailbox throttles or sudden reputation hits is crucial for a scaling business. And that's paired with proprietary infrastructure options:
Those infrastructure features reduce the risk of landing in spam and make multi-channel outreach more reliable, especially when you have a leads database and want to integrate email at scale.
By contrast, SalesTools promotes a broad platform with visitor intelligence and intent data but does not present the same kind of vertically integrated mail infrastructure or a managed warmup service.
For sales teams or lead generation agencies focused on large scale operations and high-volume cold outreach, Agent Frank’s model minimizes the operational burden of maintaining email metrics, domain health, and warm-up cycles so teams can scale sends across many mailboxes with less risk.
Both platforms automate aspects of reply handling and meeting setup, but they frame those automations differently.
Practically, Agent Frank’s strength is that reply handling sits inside a managed system with mailbox controls, warm-up and overseen cadence execution.
That means Agent Frank reduces the common pain point of lost replies due to fragmented stacks or misconfigured mailboxes and pairs reply-handling with a human support layer to maximize pipeline yield.
Customer support is a practical part of the business case for any AI SDR - support quality affects onboarding speed, how reps adopt the tool, and how quickly you can scale outreach without damaging sender reputation or interrupting the outreach process.
SalesTools provides help and documentation, and the SalesTools University, but their site presents a more self-serve, data-driven onboarding posture.
Salesforge's approach further reduces the manual tasks sales teams often struggle with - no separate deliverability vendor, fewer manual data entry steps, and a partner focused on ironing out initial list hygiene and infrastructure.
Besides that, Agent Frank customers also get:
For growing sales teams and lead generation agencies that prefer to shift heavy operational overhead away from internal staff, Agent Frank’s model is a strong fit.
They offload the manual tasks that consume SDR time and let reps focus on higher-value activities like closing deals and handling qualified leads.
Both SalesTools and Agent Frank deliver compelling capabilities:
SalesTools offers scale, intent data and deep research agents for teams that want to invest in highly targeted, data-driven outreach and visitor intelligence.
Agent Frank offers a more turnkey, execution-first AI SDR:
If your pain points are missing replies, poor inbox placement, or a steep learning curve across multiple sales tools, Agent Frank’s integrated stack and human support reduce the risk and streamline the path from lead to meeting to closed deal.
Agent Frank is an outbound-first AI agent that pairs prospecting, sequence automation and deliverability with a tightly integrated platform. Alta’s Katie focuses on multi-source research and CRM-driven insights as part of an AI revenue workforce. Agent Frank emphasizes automation that streamlines tasks for sales reps, integrates with your tech stack, and turns prospect signals into meetings - helping entire revenue teams get smarter outreach, faster pipeline and operational efficiency without rebuilding revenue operations.
Agent Frank primarily automates outbound prospecting, reply handling and meeting scheduling, while integrating with CRM and inbound routing. Alta’s Alex specializes in AI calling and inbound call qualification that books meetings directly. You can combine Agent Frank with inbound workflows in your tech stack to route high-intent inbound leads, sync qualification data, and let Agent Frank or your reps follow up - reducing hiring needs while improving lead-to-meeting conversion and team productivity.
Yes - Agent Frank automates continuous prospecting, multi-source personalization and follow-ups to engage prospects at scale. It captures signals from prospect activity to prioritize sequences, which drives higher engagement and conversion. Paired with your data and CRM, it enables smarter outreach strategies that increase meetings, pipeline and revenue growth while improving team efficiency and freeing sellers from repetitive tasks so they can focus on closing.
Agent Frank integrates with CRM systems and outreach platforms to sync leads, responses, and meeting outcomes. Use cases include outbound list building, personalized follow ups, reply routing, and pipeline acceleration. Examples: a sales team automates ICP-driven prospecting; a RevOps team monitors insights and mailbox health; a customer success team reviews handoffs. Salesforge also provides account managers and onboarding support to align the platform with your revenue operations and growth strategies.
Watch for breadth of data vs. execution focus: Alta excels at CRM + 50+ sources and inbound analytics; Agent Frank bundles prospecting with sending infrastructure, warm-up and deliverability. Evaluate metrics (response rates, meetings/week, pipeline), integration ease with your tech stack, support and scalability, and whether the solution reduces hiring or shifts tasks to automation. Match the platform to your market and growth goals - smarter outreach and cleaning of leads often trumps raw volume for long-term revenue.