ElevenLabs deploys AI agents to enhance sales and recruiting efficiency

The AI voice startup is running sales qualification, onboarding, recruiting and internal support through its own agents ElevenLabs has put its own product to work inside its own walls, and the early numbers are hard to ignore. The AI voice startup’s inbound sales agent has processed over 3,000 customer leads this year. It qualified over 90% of them, in 32 languages, with no human stepping in. That sales bot is one of several. ElevenLabs is also using AI agents to coach new sales hires, run first-round job interviews and answer staff questions in Slack. A company staffed partly by its own product The flagship example is the inbound sales development representative, or SDR, agent. In a typical software company, an SDR is the person who answers a new inquiry, figures out whether the prospect is serious, and decides whether to pass them to a closer. ElevenLabs handed that first filter to software. Over 3,000 leads went through the agent this year, and it qualified over 90% of them without a person touching the conversation. The 32-language figure matters more than it might seem. Staffing a human sales desk that can field leads in 32 languages would require a large, geographically scatt...