11x

AI sales reps for outbound — rebuilt after a credibility hit

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RECATOOLS Score
4.5 / 10
Capability
5
Value for money
4
Ease of use
6
ASEAN readiness
4
API quality
5
Founded
2023
HQ
London, UK
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Launched
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Overview

11x sells autonomous AI sales reps — Alice for email/LinkedIn outbound, Julian for inbound and outbound calls — aimed at extending or replacing SDR teams, backed by Benchmark and a16z on custom enterprise contracts.

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Use cases

AI SDRs Outbound automation Recruiting

What you can produce with 11x

  • Alice: AI SDR for email + LinkedIn outbound
  • Julian: AI voice agent for inbound/outbound calls
  • ICP-based targeting and message personalization
  • Alice 2.0 rebuilt agent architecture
  • CRM integrations for pipeline handoff
  • Multichannel outreach orchestration
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ASEAN Perspective

11x in Southeast Asia

ASEAN-region availability and pricing notes coming soon. Drop the editorial team a note via /contact/ if you can supply local context (Singapore/Malaysia/Indonesia/Thailand/Vietnam).

RECATOOLS Verdict

11x's pitch — AI digital workers that run outbound prospecting end to end — is squarely on-trend, and the company is well-funded (Benchmark, a16z) with real technical investment behind Alice 2.0, a rebuilt version of its email/LinkedIn SDR agent, alongside Julian for inbound and outbound calls.

The caveats here are unusually serious. A March 2025 TechCrunch investigation found inflated customer logos and disputed ARR figures — ZoomInfo and Airtable both said they'd never used the product in production and demanded their names removed — followed by a founder exit and a new CEO in May 2025. Independent G2 reviews since then run reasonably positive (4.4/5 across 32 reviews), and Alice 2.0 gets credit for a stronger architecture, but the most repeated complaint is still generic-sounding outreach despite detailed ICP inputs. Verify any case study independently, pilot on a measurable slice of pipeline, and don't take the sales deck at face value.

Independent AI-assisted assessment by RECATOOLS.

What people say

11x's reputation took a real hit in March 2025, when a TechCrunch investigation reported that the company had displayed customer logos — including ZoomInfo and Airtable — that both companies said were false; ZoomInfo said it was never a customer, Airtable said the product had never gone into production use, and multiple former employees told reporters that the self-reported 79% retention figure the company cited was optimistic at best. The founder stepped down two months later, in May 2025, with CTO Prabhav Jain taking over as CEO — a change the company framed as a shift toward operational discipline ahead of enterprise sales.

A year on, the product side looks different from the headlines. Alice, the email/LinkedIn AI SDR, went through a 2.0 rebuild that reviewers describe as a genuine architectural overhaul rather than a repaint, and Julian now handles both inbound and outbound calls. G2 shows 32 reviews averaging 4.4/5, with users praising fast setup, time saved on manual prospecting, and personalization that in one independent multi-vendor test scored 4.3/5 — the highest in that cohort — alongside a 5.7% reply rate, second-best in the same comparison.

Set against that: the single most repeated complaint across G2 and Reddit threads in 2026 is that Alice's messages still read as generic AI output even when fed detailed ideal-customer-profile data, and some buyers report deliverability problems and meaningful churn after the first year. Pricing is entirely custom — public estimates range widely, from roughly $25,000-$200,000 a year in enterprise-contract terms to reported month-to-month figures in the $5,000-$15,000 range depending on outreach volume, and several reviewers flag the opacity itself as friction during evaluation.

Net: the AI-SDR category hasn't proven durable ROI yet as a class, and 11x's specific history makes independent verification of any claim — reply rates, retention, logos — more important here than with most vendors in this list.

Summary of public user & expert reviews, compiled by RECATOOLS.

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