Reclaim 10+ Hours a Week with an AI Agent.
It’s 9 AM on a Monday in Melbourne. Your team is back, coffees in hand, planning out the week. Take a quick look at your sales team’s calendar. What’s their first big task?
Is it a discovery call with a promising new lead, or a demo for a client ready to commit? Or is it blocking out the entire morning for “prospecting”—scrolling through LinkedIn, hunting for email addresses, and preparing to send another wave of cold emails?
If you’re like most Australian SMBs, it’s probably the latter. And this highlights a costly paradox at the heart of most sales operations: the vital work of prospecting is often the worst possible use of a skilled salesperson’s time.
Your best people are closers, strategists, and relationship-builders. Yet, they are forced to spend a huge portion of their week being manual data-entry clerks and cold-callers. Today, we’ll show you how to break this cycle and give your team its most valuable asset back: time.
The True Cost of Manual Prospecting
When you’re running a lean business, every dollar and every hour counts. We encourage our clients to look at prospecting not just as a task, but as a significant business expense. It breaks down into three areas:
1. The Time Sink Think about the raw hours. A typical manual outreach process for a single lead includes:
Researching the company and contact: 15-20 minutes
Finding a valid email address: 5-10 minutes
Crafting a semi-personalised email: 10 minutes
Logging the activity in the CRM: 5 minutes
Scheduling and writing follow-ups: 10 minutes per follow-up
That’s nearly an hour of work for one prospect before you even get a reply. For a salesperson targeting 10-15 new prospects a week, that’s 10-15 hours—a huge chunk of their work week, gone.
2. The Financial Drain Let’s put a number on that. A good salesperson in Australia has a total cost to the business of over $120,000 per year, or about $60 per hour. If they spend 10 hours a week on manual prospecting, you are paying $600 per week, or over $28,000 per year, for them to perform a task that isn’t their core strength. Imagine putting that $28,000 directly into a marketing campaign or hiring another specialist.
3. The Morale Killer Cold prospecting is a grind. It’s repetitive, thankless, and filled with rejection. It burns out even the most resilient and talented salespeople, distracting them from the part of the job they love: building relationships and closing deals.
Delegate Prospecting to a Digital Specialist
This is where an AI Sales Development Agent changes the game. This isn’t science fiction, and it isn’t another complicated software you need to learn. Think of it as a dedicated, digital team member that you delegate the entire top-of-funnel process to.
Powered by a secure platform like Retool, our AI Agents work 24/7 to:
Conduct Deep Research: The agent connects to your lead list and instantly scours the web, reading a prospect’s LinkedIn profile, recent blog posts, and company news to find unique, relevant talking points.
Write Hyper-Personalised Outreach: It uses this research to draft compelling, one-to-one emails. No more generic templates. Every message is unique and crafted to resonate with that specific individual.
Automate Intelligent Follow-ups: The agent never forgets. It manages a persistent, polite follow-up sequence that feels human, not robotic.
Book the Meeting for You: Once a lead expresses positive interest, the agent understands the intent, handles the basic scheduling exchange, and places a qualified, confirmed meeting directly into your salesperson’s calendar.
What Could Your Team Achieve with an Extra 10 Hours?
Imagine your salesperson walks in on Monday morning. Instead of facing a blank slate, they open their calendar to see two or three qualified meetings already booked for the week.
The entire dynamic of their job shifts. That reclaimed time is now spent on:
Better Discovery Calls: They have more time to prepare and truly understand the client’s needs.
More In-Depth Demos: They can focus on showcasing the value of your product or service.
Faster Closing: They can dedicate their energy to drafting winning proposals and getting contracts signed.
Higher Morale & Retention: They are focused on what they do best, leading to better results and greater job satisfaction.
Stop Prospecting, Start Selling.
If you’re tired of paying your best people to be data miners, it’s time for a change. Let’s reclaim those lost hours and refocus your team on what truly drives revenue.
At Perk Up Digital, we specialise in building these custom AI Sales Agents for Australian SMBs.
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