Agent Frank vs Qualified: AI Agent Comparison

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 Qualified's Piper and Salesforge's Agent Frank unique.

Piper vs Agent Frank: AI Sales Agent Overview

Agent Frank is the #1 purpose-built AI SDR agent for forging outbound pipeline and booking meetings continuously. Agent Frank highlights include:

• A complimentary Salesforge account to manage the Agent
• Unlimited email mailboxes, LinkedIn senders, workspaces and even seats
• 24/7 automated prospecting (with adjustable working hours if necessary)
• A Dedicated Account Manager
• Auto-Pilot & Co-Pilot modes
• Automatically generated multi-source hyper-personalized messages
• Fully customizable Agent personality
• Availability in 20+ languages
• Premium deliverability capabilities (including unlimited free warm-up via Warmforge)

This centers on augmenting or replacing routine SDR tasks so teams can generate more pipeline with fewer human hours and more predictable deliverability control.

Piper is described slightly differently: it’s an AI SDR agent built on the Qualified platform to prevent leaving inbound buyers unworked. Piper dynamically:

• Thinks across GTM data in real time
• Engages buyers on the website (voice, video, guided tours)
• Instantly follows up in the email inbox

And books meetings - all to convert inbound prospects into pipeline and create a seamless buying experience for buyers and marketing teams.

In plain terms:

• Agent Frank is purpose-built for aggressive and high quality outbound/pipeline generation and for teams that want infrastructure-level control and scale.
• Piper is purpose-built to convert inbound leads, improve inbound pipeline efficiency and enable a richer website-to-email-to-meetings flow.

Pricing Plans

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.

• From $599/mo for the base monthly billing plan (1,000 Active Contacts), where you get 1,000 active contacts maintained throughout the month (the agent will reach ~2,000 - 2,500 new leads per month and send ~6,000 - 7,500 personalized emails)

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:

• Infraforge (dedicated IP email infrastructure) - starts at $33/month (billed annually) for 10 mailboxes.
• Megaforge (premium, multi-ESP distribution with smart distribution to maximize deliverability) - starts at $69/month for 20 mailboxes.

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. Teams can also connect their own mailboxes from other providers if desired.

Qualified requires contacting the team and attending a demo to settle on Piper's pricing depending on your needs.

Outreach Channels

Channel coverage is a critical decision factor.

• Agent Frank highlights outbound sequencing via unlimited LinkedIn senders and unlimited mailboxes, seamless and consolidated reply management via the Primebox, multi-ESP distribution, and state-of-the-art deliverability (via Warmforge).

That makes Agent Frank a natural fit when your playbook depends on large-scale email and LinkedIn outreach with automated follow-ups across a multi-channel prospecting pipeline.

• Piper instead focuses on inbound website visitors + email outreach. Piper engages buyers on the website with live chat, voice and video, then performs instant follow-ups, nurtures warm leads in the inbox, and converts those interactions into scheduled sales meetings.

In short, if your GTM play is centered on converting inbound buyers and creating a web to email funnel, Piper is the more direct fit.

If your aim is outbound pipeline generation - mass lead generation, verification and qualification, list processing, heavy mailbox rotation, and LinkedIn + email multi-channel sequences - Agent Frank is the ideal choice.

Email Infrastructure & Deliverability

Deliverability is crucial for cold outreach success - a brilliant sequence is worthless if emails land in spam - and this is one area where Agent Frank differentiates itself.

• Unlimited free warm-up via Warmforge
• Dynamic IPs
• Rotating mailboxes
• Spam checkers
• Placement tests
• ESP matching
• Mailbox health monitoring
• Deliverability metrics

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:

• Mailforge (shared infra)
• Infraforge (private infra)
• Primeforge (Google/Outlook)
• Megaforge(multi-ESP premium infrastructure that combines the aforementioned infras to maximize deliverability)
• Or your team can connect your own infrastructure

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.

• Piper sends from your own connected mailboxes and handles deliverability via third-party tools, but otherwise its deliverability capabilities are fairly lackluster.

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.

Autonomy, Personalization & Customization

Both platforms claim advanced AI behavior, but they use that capability differently.

Agent Frank is sold as an autonomous outbound agent that can operate 24/7 to find and process new leads based on your specific criteria, with:

• Modes for Auto-Pilot (no supervision) and Co-Pilot (human review)
• Source personalization (prospect website, blog, LinkedIn posts, uploaded files, etc.)
• Multi-language support
• Adjustable working hours and goals

And even multiple tone options to make sure the AI SDR matches your brand voice. Agent Frank can be configured and then left to scale pipeline without constant oversight - ideal for teams wanting the agentic marketing approach to outbound.

• Qualified states that Piper “dynamically thinks, reasons, and strategizes the most effective way to convert inbound buyers” by synthesizing GTM data in real time and choosing the best engagement - website conversation, email follow up, or a meeting.

Piper’s strength is context-rich, inbound personalization and acting across live web sessions and inbox threads to create a seamless buyer experience.

But if your measurement of success is autonomous outbound prospecting that scales with clean data, unlimited senders and a dedicated infrastructure to ensure messages land, Agent Frank is the superior option.

Customer Support & Resources

Customer support and onboarding resources materially change how quickly GTM teams, reps, and revenue leaders can extract value from an AI SDR - and they also shape how confidently businesses scale the technology across pipelines and CRM processes.

• Qualified positions Piper inside a broader Qualified Platform with product docs, FAQs, and how-to articles (PiperX FAQ, integration guides, and playbook content) that explain connecting GTM data, CRM syncs and deploying Piper on the website and inbox.

Qualified’s support emphasis is on enabling marketing teams and sales reps to use Piper to convert inbound prospects via documentation, with published guidance about integrating Piper into teams and using Piper Goals to steer behavior (although they do offer email and live chat support in case issues arise).

• Salesforge takes customer support & resources very seriously, while coupling product tooling with a people-first enablement stack that’s designed to reduce onboarding friction.

Salesforge focuses on customer support and convenience and 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 get:

• 24/7 email and live chat support
• Extensive documentation
• Youtube tutorials
• An active Slack community
• And even weekly AMA sessions

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.

Final Verdict - Which AI SDR Agent Should You Pick To Maximize Pipeline Generation?

Ultimately, there’s no universal winner. The best AI SDR agent depends on whether your mission is outbound pipeline generation or whether your mission is to convert inbound prospects.

But Agent Frank’s strengths (outbound focus, integrated Forge infrastructure for deliverability and scale, a managed onboarding model that reduces the operational work to run mass outreach - advantages that make it the stronger choice for teams prioritizing autonomous outbound SDR agents and pipeline creation) make it a great pick for an AI SDR.

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