Agent Frank vs Ken AI: 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 Ken AI and Salesforge's Agent Frank unique.

Ken AI vs Agent Frank: AI Sales Agent Overview

When deciding between Ken AI and Agent Frank, start by understanding the product model. Ken AI presents itself as a technology-first outbound agency. They combine:

• Human-like copywriters
• Prompt engineers
• And AI models

To build and run precision email campaigns for clients. Ken searches the web for your ideal clients, pulls data from LinkedIn, Google, websites and 20 other platforms, and delivers human-level personalization in each message.

Ken also sells results with statistics (open/click/reply rates) and promises to protect your main company domain by sending from independent domains and dedicated servers.

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.

• A complimentary Salesforge account to manage the Agent
• 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)

Agent Frank reads like a plug-in replacement for an entire SDR hire, while Ken reads more like outsourcing your outreach to a specialist team that brings its own data and writers.

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.

Ken AI offers done-for-you, subscription pricing oriented around monthly campaign volume and outcome-based performance fees.

• ~$4,000/mo (+$100-300/meeting) - you get: 10,000 contacts, Slack, email & Zoom support, 30 day delivery, LinkedIn & website data sourcing, copywriting, AI qualification, AI personalization, email sending and email infrastructure (proprietary and dedicated IP)

Onboarding & Ramp

Speed to impact is crucial for growth and marketing teams.

• Agent Frank emphasizes a guided onboarding: a demo to discuss specific infrastructure needs and company goals, an assigned Dedicated Account Manager, an accompanying Salesforge subscription, and an infrastructure setup that includes unlimited free in-house warm-up handled by Warmforge.

That model is explicitly designed so the agent can be customized (tone, languages, work hours, even availability) and have a safe, managed warm-up period before full sending starts.

The combination of human support + an in-platform agent reduces the operational friction new hires or co-founders would otherwise face as they add outreach to their stack.

• Ken AI promises a similarly hands-on start, but from the opposite direction: Ken builds a custom software instance and campaign for you, the team of copywriters and engineers writes and manually personalizes initial sequences - pretty much a DFY setup.

Ken’s onboarding is implicitly heavier on Ken’s team doing the initial lift, while Agent Frank’s onboarding model gives buyers a hybrid choice: human setup + a persistent AI SDR that lives in your Salesforge account and can be freely adjusted by your team.

Messaging Quality & AI Personalization

Both vendors highlight the same business problem - poor generic outreach - and both emphasize personalization and brand voice, but they operationalize them differently.

• Ken AI foregrounds human copywriters and prompt engineers: copy is written or heavily reviewed by humans, then AI personalization “speaks like you do,” and the team manually tunes campaigns so messages land in prospects' inboxes as high-quality, human-feeling interactions.

That model is effective when your priority is bespoke scripts and the knowledge that copywriting was written and approved by individuals.

• Agent Frank focuses on prospect-aware personalization sources though. You can feed sources to the agent, anything from prospect websites, blog posts and documents, to LinkedIn signals, that the Agent can read and reference.

Agent Frank’s approach is more automated multi-source hyper-personalization: combine uploaded knowledge bases and in-platform personalization logic to create high-volume, consistent outreach that still references prospect specifics.

Where Agent Frank stands out for many growth teams is the balance between scale and brand control. You get a persistent AI SDR that uses your brand’s knowledge base and the prospect’s public information to keep messages relevant, while Ken’s approach tends to be higher-touch per message because of manual copywriter involvement.

For companies that need to scale dozens of campaigns across many markets and want to preserve brand voice while minimizing the human-hours per message, Agent Frank’s in-system hyper-personalization is a practical advantage.

Outreach Channels

Understanding which channels each solution covers matters for a sales organization that expects omnichannel touches.

• Ken AI chiefly positions itself as an email outreach tool. Their features center on sending personalized emails into the prospect’s inbox, with only the ability to pull data from LinkedIn, as well as other websites to enrich campaigns.
• Agent Frank, on the other hand, supports both email and LinkedIn outreach, with unlimited mailboxes and unlimited LinkedIn senders being a core operating point. Agent Frank seamlessly integrates with the broader Forge Stack to streamline lead discovery, infrastructure, deliverability, and even offers the Primebox for managing LinkedIn messages and email in one place.

Email Deliverability & Infrastructure

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.

• 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.

Ken AI advertises its own dedicated IP email infrastructure with independent domain names to protect your primary domain and a spam checker. They even claim better deliverability than Gmail/Outlook. Otherwise, Ken AI's email deliverability capabilities are fairly lackluster.

For sales teams or lead generation agencies focused on large scale operations and high-volume cold outreach, the difference matters. 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.

Data Enrichment & Prospect Discovery

• Ken touts a massive proprietary lead database and pulls detailed lead information from LinkedIn, Google, and 20 other platforms + you can upload your own lists.

Their approach is to combine LinkedIn Sales Navigator with AI cross-referencing the web to validate and rank prospects, and then run human-plus-AI qualification to ensure fit.

• Agent Frank is positioned to be more of an in-platform execution engine: you can upload contacts or set up continuous prospecting using the built-in automated lead discovery, verification and qualification capabilities. Afterwards, the agent pushes the leads into an outreach sequence inside one system (reducing disparate data sources to stitch together).

Moreover, Agent Frank uses numerous data providers and waterfall enrichment to ensure high quality leads that fit a company's ICP as closely as possible.

Customer Support & Resources

When picking a tool to drive pipeline at the company level, support and learning resources aren’t just comforts. They determine how fast new hires ramp, how well revenue teams capture intent signals, and whether your sales organization can turn intent data into meetings without months of engineering work.

• Ken AI pairs email and live chat customer support with a self-service resource set and a Slack channel. Support priority depends on the customer's plan - an enterprise track also includes a dedicated account manager. The knowledge base and documentation are fairly robust, stocked with guides, code samples, and troubleshooting articles. Regular webinars and tutorial videos further help teams learn best practices and share solutions.

Overall, Ken AI follows the basic path of balancing human support with documentation and learning resources to minimize friction and accelerate value.

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:

• 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 - Sending Emails & Follow Ups Via Ken... Or Choosing The Agent Frank Option

Both Ken AI and Agent Frank solve the same core problem - turning prospects into warm meetings through personalized outreach - but they map to different buyer priorities.

Choose Ken AI if you want a managed, copywriter-driven outbound program where Ken’s team handles part of the discovery, script creation, manual personalization and sends from a vendor-managed infrastructure.

Choose Agent Frank if you want a dedicated AI SDR that lives inside a sales execution platform and:

• Offers extensive personalization options (including autopilot/co-pilot modes, tone and goal controls, and can respond in 20+ languages)
• Supports unlimited email mailboxes and LinkedIn senders
• Includes a Dedicated Account Manager and consultation to help decide the required infrastructure amount and type for your team's needs
• Gives you clear proprietary infrastructure choices (Mailforge, Infraforge, Primeforge)
• Provider unlimited free integrated warm-up (via Warmforge) among many other deliverability tools and capabilities.

If you value speed to scale and an efficient agent that can act continuously inside your tech stack while your reps focus on closing, Agent Frank is the perfect fit.

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