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IBM: AI SDRs are redefining B2B sales

IBM lays out how AI SDRs now run the top of the sales funnel on their own, and why sales teams are funding the shift.

Summarized by Anand · from IBM 7 April 2026 1 min read

IBM's Think piece is a clear map of the AI SDR: software that works the top of the sales funnel on its own, then hands warm leads to people. It reads a firm's CRM and behavior data, then decides who to contact, when, and how. IBM's own survey shows the budget is already moving this way.

The takeaway is not humans out, machines in. It is a split: agents take the repetitive top-of-funnel work, people take the conversations that close.

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