AI lead response · Comparison
Fieldsta replies to every inbound lead, qualifies it against criteria you set, and books the meeting — with a human reviewing every booking before it's confirmed.
$500/month · human review on every booking · cancel anytime
Bringing on a person whose job is specifically to answer and qualify inbound leads — sourced, interviewed, trained on your product and your qualifying bar, then managed like anyone else on the team.
A good SDR reads tone, handles genuinely ambiguous situations, and builds real rapport in a way nothing automated does. For complex, high-value inbound where every lead deserves a real conversation, a person is often the right call outright.
One person has one inbox and one set of working hours — a lead that arrives at 11pm waits until morning regardless of how good they are. Hiring, training and ramping takes real time, and turnover means doing it again.
Fieldsta covers the hours a hire structurally can't — nights, weekends, the gap between someone leaving and the next hire starting — using the same qualifying criteria you'd train a person on. It isn't a replacement for judgment on a complicated lead; it's coverage for the ones that are actually routine, which is most of them, so the hours a person does work go further.
Before deciding anything: run the free check. It reads one public page of your site the way a customer would and tells you what they can actually see — how many ways they can reach you, and what happens if they land there at 9pm. No signup, and the result shows in full.
That's the common setup — Fieldsta covers first response and qualification around the clock, and a person takes it from the qualified handoff, or reviews every draft before it sends if you'd rather keep full control.
For a team that's genuinely outgrowing its lead volume, no — it buys time and covers the hours nobody's staffed for, not a permanent substitute for headcount once volume justifies it.