Floworks

Floworks (YC W23) is introducing Alisha, an AI SDR that can run an entire outbound sales campaign with 15x more efficiency. From lead generation to drafting hyper-personalized emails, replying to prospects’ queries, and booking sales meetings, Alisha does it all autonomously, without any human intervention. Sales employees have to perform many mundane, repetitive, and time-consuming tasks. For example, a typical sales SDR would spend 3-4 hours every day drafting and replying to emails. Even with that, an average of 20% of emails still go unanswered. Today, email outbound doesn’t work without personalization, bottlenecking the scale of the GTM team. Floworks addresses these issues using a proprietary, function-calling LLM: ThorV2. ThorV2 outperforms gpt-4o function-calling, achieving 40% higher accuracy at a 2.5x cheaper cost. ThorV2 easily generalizes to complex tasks involving multiple API calls, with hardly any degradation in accuracy or speed. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gdauUsan

Floworks (YC W23) is introducing Alisha, an AI SDR that can run an entire outbound sales campaign with 15x more efficiency. From lead generation to drafting hyper-personalized emails, replying to prospects’ queries, and booking sales meetings, Alisha does it all autonomously, without any human intervention. Sales employees have to perform many mundane, repetitive, and time-consuming tasks. For example, a typical sales SDR would spend 3-4 hours every day drafting and replying to emails. Even with that, an average of 20% of emails still go unanswered. Today, email outbound doesn’t work without personalization, bottlenecking the scale of the GTM team. Floworks addresses these issues using a proprietary, function-calling LLM: ThorV2. ThorV2 outperforms gpt-4o function-calling, achieving 40% higher accuracy at a 2.5x cheaper cost. ThorV2 easily generalizes to complex tasks involving multiple API calls, with hardly any degradation in accuracy or speed. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gdauUsan

🎉 Big open-source model to be launched soon: Meta Llama-3.1-405B 🎉 According to rumours on every tech website, the much-awaited 405B dense model by Meta is due for release within 24 hours. It will be part of the Llama-3.1 family. In addition to 405B, Meta will release 2 new versions of 8B and 70B models (i.e. Llama-3.1-8B and Llama-3.1-70B), which are assumed to be distilled versions of the 405B parent model. These models will deliver massive improvements over the previous generation of Llama models. There have also been leaks of the benchmark performance, which are quite impressive (see the first 2 columns). Moreover, the Llama-3.1-405B model is likely to be the strongest AI model in the world, beating out GPT-4o and tied with Claude-3.5-sonnet on benchmarks. It will be interesting to see how much improvement finetuning can achieve on this model. Of course, finetuning this 405B behemoth will not be easy -- it requires a huge amount of hardware, which only a few companies in the world can afford (e.g. Groq, Mistral). For now, we will probably rely on externally hosted models for testing, most likely through Meta's own API. Excited to try this model out! 😁 #AI #LLama #LLM #405B

We fired our entire SDR team... and our sales skyrocketed. Okay, we didn't actually fire anyone. But we did make a decision that transformed our sales process forever. It all started when our team was drowning in emails and struggling to keep up with lead generation. Late nights, missed opportunities, and burnout were becoming the norm. We thought, "There has to be a better way!" That's when we came up with Alisha, our AI sales assistant. At first, we were skeptical. Could a machine really understand the nuances of human communication? Boy, were we in for a surprise. Within weeks, we started noticing some incredible changes. Our lead qualification accuracy improved significantly, and we were responding to inquiries almost instantly instead of our usual 2-4 hour delays. We couldn't believe how much money we were saving, and the number of booked calls kept climbing week after week. But here's the real kicker: Alisha didn't replace our human SDRs – she supercharged them. With AI handling the repetitive tasks, our team now focuses on what they do best - building genuine relationships and solving complex problems. It's like we unlocked a new level of productivity we never knew existed. The future of sales isn't about choosing between AI and humans. It's about creating a dream team that's 50x more productive. We thought we were just solving an email problem. We ended up reinventing our entire sales strategy. Has your company experimented with AI in sales? What's been your experience? Let's discuss in the comments #AIInSales #FutureOfSales #LeadGeneration #SalesAutomation

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Here is one thing AI is completely changing, which nobody is talking about. The UI/ UX of modern software is transforming entirely. Two reasons-   1. AI can understand our instructions in our own language (e.g English) to reason and plan.  2. AI can collaborate across platforms autonomously. For example, I asked our AI to ask my cofounder Sarthak if he was available for a 30 min meeting at 4pm. Not only did it write the email for me, but it wrote it on the Floworks app itself. All I had to do was click send. Plus, I was able to condition it’s next task based on Sarthak’s response. It even gave me a suggestion for my next step. When we think about the way UX will evolve because of AI, we usually just consider the way it’s going to make it easier for designers. But if we bring cross platform collaborations into the picture, the way you perceive UX is going to change. We are already doing it at Floworks to handle end-to-end sales. —------------------------------------------------------------- Other companies are also pushing the boundaries of AI. For instance, Grammarly’s AI-powered writing assistant improves user writing skills in real-time, offering suggestions for grammar, tone, and style & Google's AI-powered Smart Compose feature in Gmail predicts entire sentences, making email drafting significantly faster. It’s only about time someone thinks of it from the User “Experience” perspective. AI is a powerful tool whose real potential is yet to be fathomed. There could still be a million more ways in which AI can be put to use. I guess the only limit is your imagination. Let me know in the comments examples of such modern applications that you have seen lately? #AI #uiux #genai

We have had reply rates of 21-25% on most of our outbound email campaigns. Over the last few days, our customers have used Alisha (AI powered SDR by Floworks to send over 100k cold outreach emails. The biggest differentiator between successful and unsuccessful campaigns was hyper-personalisation of emails. Interestingly, SDRs do not realise that personalisation can be done at each and every step of cold outreach. First email is something which everyone personalises, but sending personalised follow-ups and replies is what differentiates a great SDR from a mediocre one. With Alisha, you can do all this at scale. Just tell her some basic details about your prospect and she will handle end to end personaisation for you. It’s that simple! #GenAI #AISDR #Floworks

We recently got covered by Analytics India Magazine for being “Better than OpenAI's GPT-4o”. No, it’s not a Clickbait. We developed Alisha, the world’s best AI-Powered Sales Agent. So how is it better than GPT-4o”? TLDR; Our architecture Thorv2 easily beats GPT-4o at tool usage & function calling on every benchmark, including Accuracy, Reliability, Latency and Cost. —-------------------------------------- Current LLM can't do certain basic things despite their impressive knowledge base, like sending an email, updating your CRM etc!!! Whereas, Alisha can automate the entire lead generation process, from prospecting and qualification to scheduling meetings and sending emails, allowing human sales representatives to focus on more concrete tasks. → Alisha can get you 10x more leads every day. How? It is 100% reliable and can interact with external tools such as emails, CRMs, Google Search, and Calendars. It can also parse through one’s email for leads and update the CRM - which ChatGPT cannot do. Plus if you provide the same prompt twice to ChatGPT, chances are you’ll receive different answers each time. But what about sales use cases like booking a meeting, sending a calendar invite & updating data in your CRM? You cannot send the calendar invite to the wrong person or update data in your CRM incorrectly as these are critical functions and we are 100% reliable in them. → Alisha is powered by Thorv2 Thorv2 is not only 36% more accurate than OpenAI’s GPT-4o but also 4x cheaper and almost 30% faster in terms of latency. ThorV2 costs just $1.60 per 1000 queries. In the near future, companies will not require sales teams. They will create a good product and then actually train an AI system to sell the product. I feel it’s very easy to build a prototype and woo the audience, but then to actually build and release a production version, where everyone can use it scalably, that’s a whole different challenge. We believe in shipping the product and are growing our revenue at 100% every month, with customers spanning across geographies, including India and the US. Super proud of the team for putting in so much effort and hard work. And, thank you AIM for covering our story! Link is in the comments below What do you guys think? Would love to hear your thoughts in the comments below #startups #founder #ai #chatgpt

We are thrilled to share some really exciting news! As featured in a recent article by Analytics India Magazine, our proprietary model Thor-V2, is making waves in the AI community by being the best generative AI model for tool usage. It’s beating state of the art models like GPT-4o and Claude 3 Opus on accuracy, reliability, speed and cost. Floworks has been backed by Y Combinator, a testament to our innovative approach and potential in the AI industry. Our AI-SDR Alisha is designed to enhance email marketing strategies through automation and personalization. By leveraging advanced AI capabilities, Alisha optimizes send times, tailors content based on user behavior, and generates engaging email copy, resulting in more effective campaigns and higher engagement rates. Our technology has been recognized for its superior performance and efficiency, positioning us at the forefront of AI advancements. We are committed to continuously improving our solutions to meet the evolving needs of businesses and marketers. Read the full article on Analytics India Magazine to learn more about our journey and the impressive capabilities of Alisha: https://lnkd.in/gdauUsan

Keeping your prospects engaged and feeling special isn't always a walk in the park. 👊 Inconsistent messaging can leave your leads disconnected, even if you're using sales/marketing automation software. 🤐 But what if every interaction felt tailored and personal?🤔 Enter Alisha – the solution to streamline your entire sales outreach process. Alisha ensures a consistent, tailored experience for each lead by: 📧Dynamically personalizing emails with prospect data (name, company, industry, etc.) ✍️ Creating personalized content blocks like P.S. for personal value propositions 🔄Automatically adjusting messages based on prospect behavior and engagement 🎤Maintaining a consistent brand voice and tone across all communications 📈Boosting open and response rates with hyper-relevant content 🌱Nurturing leads more effectively by addressing their specific needs and pain points 🏆Standing out with a truly tailored, white-glove experience Click here to get started: https://lnkd.in/gw4jz3qu 🚀 #SalesAutomation #LeadEngagement #Personalization #FloworksAI