SmartBound — Premium Conversation Agency

We do the hard work
of talking to your market.

A premium conversation agency for funded B2B teams. We hire, train, equip, and run an elite SDR function on your behalf — deployed in 48 hours, not the months it takes in-house. Real conversations with decision-makers, market intelligence you can act on, pipeline that compounds.

Engagements start at $7,500/month with a 90-day minimum. Most clients begin with a $2,500 Validation Sprint.

Every other path to pipeline has a fatal flaw.

Automation

Sequences tell you nothing when they fail.

They go to everyone and sound like it. They dilute your brand, train your market to ignore you, and return nothing when they fail — no signal, no objection, no insight. Just silence.

Hiring In-House

$162,500. Three to six months. Then you find out.

One SDR costs roughly $162,500 in year one — salary, benefits, recruiting, training, ramp, and tech stack. They take three to six months to reach quota-carrying capacity. Smart Bound deploys in 48 hours.

SDR salary (base)$65,000
Benefits & burden$16,000
Recruiting & hiring$12,000
Training & ramp$27,500
Tech stack$42,000
Year-one total$162,500
Meeting-Setting Agencies

A calendar invite isn't an insight.

Most outbound agencies optimize for "meetings booked" and treat everything else as overhead. You get a calendar invite. You don't get to know what your market is thinking, what competitors they're considering, or why the rest of them said no.

Pipeline starts with conversations. With real people. About real problems.

What you actually get from a conversation.

1

Market intelligence you can't get any other way.

Every conversation surfaces objection patterns, competitor names, budget cycles, and the actual language your buyers use to describe their own pain. You cannot get this from a bounce rate.

2

Doors that automation can't open.

A skilled cold call earns referrals, warm introductions, and follow-ups that get logged as inbound intent. Human contact leaves a mark that an email never will.

3

Meetings that close at a different rate.

By the time a prospect sits with your AE, they've already had a qualified human conversation about their problem. "Per our conversation" beats "just following up" in every market.

15–20
qualified ice-cold meetings per month — average across active clients

Built on speed, skill, and a system you can see.

Deployed in 48 hours.

Hiring an SDR takes months. Onboarding takes weeks. Ramp takes a quarter. Smart Bound deploys an elite SDR team to your account in 48 hours — and surfaces market intelligence within days, not months.

48h
Smart Bound to launch
3mo
Industry avg SDR ramp

Two-way conversations, not script reading.

Our SDRs are trained to handle real conversations with decision-makers: objection handling, qualification depth, business-language fluency. They're not reading from a script and hoping for a callback. They're talking to your buyers about their business — and learning something every time.

Live dashboards, named records, structured debriefs.

Every engagement comes with a real-time view of every dial, every conversation, every outcome. Named conversation records. A structured debrief at campaign close. No black box. You see exactly where your budget went — and what your market told us while we were spending it.

  • Total dials, connect rate, and data accuracy — tracked live
  • Positive conversation rate benchmarked against industry
  • Named records: who we spoke with, what was said
  • Meeting-set rate with benchmark comparison
  • Structured debrief at engagement close
SMARTBOUND VALIDATION SPRINT
Acme Corp
ACTIVE
TOTAL DIALS
355
31 connected
POSITIVE CONV %
55%
of winnable calls
MEETING-SET RATE
10%
on winnable calls
MEETINGS BOOKED
Alex Morrison
VP of Revenue · Acme Industries
Sarah Chen
Director of Operations · Meridian Group
Cold Outbound

Targeted prospecting into decision-makers who don't know you yet. Every call surfaces intelligence whether or not it ends in a meeting.

Marketing Activation

MQLs, event lists, and content leads that went cold. We call them today — with context from whatever they engaged with.

Inbound Response

Sub-five-minute response on demo requests and form fills. Qualified conversation on first contact. Meeting calendared before a competitor picks up.

See all case studies →
Impart Security

"We were able to open up a whole ton of pipeline worth well over one million dollars."

Max · Head of Revenue, Impart Security · 2.5 meetings/week over 6 months
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Informed Medical

"We had more than 50 meetings scheduled and have landed over 5 new paying customers."

Informed Medical leadership · 6+ customers signed · 3-month engagement
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Doppel

"The data went straight into my board meeting plans and shaped our entire go-to-market."

Simon Draper · CRO, Growers Edge · Thousands of dials, dozens of meetings
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Built to deliver a return.

Every engagement starts with a Validation Sprint. See how we work, what your market says, and whether we're the right fit — before committing to a retainer.

Start Here
$2,500
35 targeted conversations · 1–2 weeks

  • 35 qualified conversations in your ICP
  • Objection mapping and interest scoring
  • Go-to-market debrief and recommendations
  • Full credit toward your first retainer month
Start with a Validation Sprint
Full Engagement
$7,500/mo
90-day minimum · $22,500 total

  • Dedicated SmartBound SDR team on your account
  • Cold outbound, marketing activation, and inbound response
  • 15–20 qualified meetings per month average
  • Live reporting dashboard + monthly debrief
Book a Strategy Call

Additional engagement models available for specific pipeline activation scenarios — discuss on a strategy call.

Selective by design.

Smart Bound is built for funded B2B teams with $1M+ in ARR and an existing sales function. Our engagements start at $22,500 over 90 days. If you're earlier than that, we're likely not the right fit yet — and we'll tell you so on the first call.

  • Funded B2B startups (Seed and Series A+)
  • $1M+ in ARR
  • Sales teams with at least 1–2 existing salespeople
  • Prepared to invest $22,500+ per 90-day engagement

Ready to build real pipeline?

Engagements start at $7,500/month with a 90-day minimum ($22,500). Most clients begin with a $2,500 Validation Sprint to confirm fit before committing to a retainer.

Book a Strategy Call Start with a Validation Sprint