Understory ranks No. 140 on Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies in U.S. Read more
Understory Agency ranked No. 140 on the 2026 Inc. 5000 with 2,231% revenue growth, placing it in the top 3% of the 5,000 honorees.
AI SDRs handle prospecting tasks that consume human reps: list building, initial outreach sequencing, and basic qualification. They excel at volume and consistency, not nuance. SaaS teams see best results when AI handles research and scheduling while humans manage conversations requiring technical depth or objection handling.
Marcel Santilli spent years as a CMO before launching GrowthX, an AI-native agency that codifies marketing workflows like software code. Here's what he learned.
Lindy Drope manages 300 AI agents and doesn't know her HubSpot password. Learn how SaaS teams can eliminate sales admin entirely through agentic workflows.
The highest-converting outbound CTAs reduce friction to a single action. For SaaS with $20K+ ACVs, avoid generic "let's chat" language. Specific asks work better: "15 minutes to show how [outcome]" or "quick question about [specific pain point]." Match urgency to where prospects sit in their evaluation process.
Catch up on our Understory Unfiltered episode where Harris Kenny reveals how OutboundSync recovered a $400,000 Porsche deal and why agency partnerships beat direct sales for GTM.
Catch up on our Understory Unfiltered episode where Robert Yuen shares how he went from sleeping on an office air mattress to building a 100-person SaaS company serving architects.
Discover the GTM tech stack for a coordination hub and automated workflows that deliver higher reply rates.
Best practices to optimize CAC, leverage pipeline attribution, and grow revenue for B2B SaaS growth.
Discover how poor CRM management can hurt outbound campaigns while clean data drives revenue growth.
Stop juggling multiple dashboards. Learn how HubSpot Enterprise eliminates hours monthly of manual reporting while connecting paid media to revenue.
SmartLead founder Vaibhav Namburi shares how 11 failed businesses, WhatsApp community presence, and platform-as-a-service thinking built an email infrastructure managing 5-7 million mailboxes and 110M+ daily warmup emails.
Catch up on our Understory Unfiltered episode where Nick Velkovski shares how he bootstrapped HeyReach to $7M+ ARR from Macedonia after Y Combinator rejected him twice.
Catch up on our Understory Unfiltered episode where Eli Rubel shares how he scaled MatterMade to $4.2M EBITDA, why VCs are not doing good in the AI era, and how he vibe-coded a SaaS product in seven days.
Hyperbound co-founders Sai and Atul share how 25,000 hand-personalized LinkedIn messages led to accidentally building AI sales roleplay, why reinforcement learning discovers behaviors like "negging mid-market prospects," and their prediction that cold outbound will die within five years.
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