Agent Frank vs SalesAPE: Sales AI Agents Compared

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 SalesAPE's APE AI workers and Salesforge's Agent Frank unique.

SalesAPE vs Agent Frank: AI Sales Agent Key Features

At the highest level, the two offerings have different core specialties:

SalesAPE's APE AI workers are squarely focused on inbound leads:

• Reaching out to website visitors via form submissions and chat conversations
• Following up via email and other SMS/WhatsApp/Messenger
• Converting them into booked sales calls
• Qualifying prospects

And freeing your sales team to handle closing and high-value meetings.

SalesAPE emphasizes quick lead response, human-like conversations, and syncing notes into CRM systems so marketing and sales can measure conversion.

It promises faster response times, automatic qualification of customers and handing off hot prospects to humans, which makes it strong where your priority is immediately engaging potential inbound interest across multiple channels like email, SMS, chat and WhatsApp.

Agent Frank, by contrast, is built to forge an outbound pipeline. Some 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)

If your goal is generating leads proactively, increasing the number of booked sales calls from outreach, and running automated sequences that blend email and LinkedIn sends at scale, Agent Frank is purpose-built for that pipeline-first approach.

That positioning influences lead quality and lead engagement differently:

• SalesAPE optimizes inbound conversion
• Agent Frank optimizes fully automated prospect discovery, lead qualification through tailored outbound sequences, premium deliverability, a seamless workflow, and keeping your sales funnel full with new leads.

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. Additionally, teams can connect their own mailboxes from other providers if desired.

SalesAPE requires booking a call and joining a demo with the team to settle on pricing depending on your needs.

Onboarding & Time-To-Value

Marketing spends, onboarding costs, weeks of internal setup and whether your investment rapidly yields more sales calls, meetings and revenue.

• SalesAPE positions itself as fairly easy for non-tech teams and estimates roughly four to five weeks to train an Agent and go live. That pace and emphasis on training is valuable when your main goal is converting inbound leads to booked calls with guaranteed high-quality exchanges.

It’s a natural fit for companies with existing inbound marketing that need fast response times, fewer wasted human hours, and better conversion from marketing-generated leads into qualified opportunities. Though it can also prove to be a major time sink if the training ends up being unsatisfactory.

But Agent Frank’s onboarding is designed for teams that want even faster outbound ramp and infrastructure control.

• Agent Frank involves a demo-first approach and pairs every deployment with a dedicated Account Manager who guides setup. Everything from creating a knowledge base and configuring Auto-Pilot vs Co-Pilot to selecting availability, personalization sources and even helping you settle on the appropriate infrastructure type and amount for your goals.

Where SalesAPE's timeline emphasizes lengthy training to mimic your best salespeople for inbound, Agent Frank emphasizes getting outbound deliverability and infrastructure right while also minimizing the training period substantially.

While with SalesAPE you have to connect your own domains and mailboxes, with Agent Frank you can also choose Mailforge, Infraforge or Primeforge.

Email Deliverability & Infrastructure

Email deliverability is one of the silent levers of sales efficiency: more inbox placement means more people actually see your messages, which directly impacts conversion and booked meetings.

• SalesAPE focuses on inbound speed and does not offer a dedicated proprietary email infrastructure.

That’s a natural fit for inbound-first flows where prospects initiate contact, but when you rely on heavy outbound activity to generate new leads, deliverability becomes a business-critical concern.

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.

• 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.

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.

Lead Qualification

• SalesAPE's APE AI workers specialize in inbound qualification, separating money-makers from time-wasters in real time, responding across email, chat, SMS and WhatsApp, and handing the best prospects to human sales reps.

They advertise dramatic improvements in booked sales appointments and conversion rates by turning web traffic and inbound leads into scheduled meetings, improving your sales efficiency for marketing-driven prospects.

• Agent Frank’s approach to qualification is outbound-centric. Rather than waiting for inbound leads to show up, Agent Frank finds and processes new leads based on your ICP, enriches contact lists, verifies emails, runs sequences and monitors replies.

Because Agent Frank controls the entire outbound stack, he is tuned to produce not only higher volumes of new leads, but leads whose lead quality is preserved by various aspects, such as multiple provider sourcing, email verification, list cleaning, and smart distribution across mailboxes to protect sender reputation.

This means fewer false positives and fewer wasted human follow-ups caused by poor deliverability or low-quality contact data.

Automation, Control & Autonomy

• SalesAPE markets APE AI workers as a self-improving engine that learns from your sales cycle and trains itself to be your best team member. The emphasis is on continuous optimization for inbound qualification, which can drastically increase conversion and reduce the need for human intervention.

Their “no humans until you ask for one” stance aims to remove friction and let the AI handle low-value leads, so your sales team works fewer cold calls and more warm conversations.

• Salesforge’s Agent Frank offers two operational modes - Auto-Pilot and Co-Pilot. This gives teams a clear choice between hands-off outbound prospecting and a review-and-approve flow.

Agent Frank’s combined automation + deliverability approach also means your outbound automation is less likely to be flagged or throttled. You get the power of automation with the systems-level safeguards that help maintain long-term sender reputation and conversion performance.

For sales teams that must balance scale with predictable outcomes, that kind of control is a force multiplier.

AI Customization

Both vendors emphasize training the AI on your business, but they approach it differently.

• SalesAPE's onboarding involves deep training so the APE AI worker knows your product inventory and services, crawls your website and produces FAQs.

Their promise is an agent that can then carry natural, human-like conversations that qualify leads and book meetings.

That detailed tailoring benefits companies that want the AI to mirror the best human reps handling inbound leads and to keep follow-ups and qualification consistent.

Agent Frank requires a knowledge base as well, and in this case, the onboarding has a clear checklist you can choose to follow:

• Upload product brochures, website information or other documentation
• Set goals
• Choose personalization sources
• Customize tonality
• Choose operating hours

Because Agent Frank sits within a platform that also manages lead discovery, infrastructure setup and sequence optimization, that customization can change the whole outbound process: which prospects are discovered, how they’re enriched, how many mailboxes are used, which sending pattern is chosen to preserve deliverability and so on.

Customer Support & Resources

Customer support and resources are a practical part of the sales process that directly affect how quickly your sales team sees value. Faster onboarding and clearer channels for troubleshooting reduce wasted time, improve lead engagement, and speed up the pace at which automation converts into booked sales calls and real revenue.

SalesAPE and Salesforge both provide support, but they do it in different styles.

• SalesAPE's support channels are fairly limited. They include email support, some articles and a Slack channel.
• Salesforge's approach to customer support is much more serious and overall 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:

• 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 Will Book More Sales Calls & Help Conversion Rates Skyrocket?

• If your sales strategy depends mainly on inbound leads - SalesAPE's APE AI workers are built to engage across multiple channels, qualify leads instantly, sync notes into CRM systems, and hand over only the high value leads to your sales rep.

That reduces wasted time, improves follow-ups, and increases booked sales calls for inbound-heavy funnels.

• But if your priority is building and sustaining a high-quality outbound pipeline - discovering and converting new leads proactively, maintaining high deliverability, and avoiding the extra effort and wasted time that come from stitching many tools together - Agent Frank is the stronger option.

Agent Frank’s 24/7 automated prospecting, dedicated account manager, Auto-Pilot/Co-Pilot modes, seamlessly integrated Forge Stack, unlimited email + LinkedIn senders and multi-language support let sales teams scale outreach while protecting sender reputation and conversion.

In short, for teams that need more leads, more sales calls and consistent conversion from outbound activity, and who want infrastructure and deliverability treated as first-class concerns - Agent Frank offers the control, systems and processes that translate into measurable pipeline growth and less wasted spend.

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