Scores, routes, and qualifies inbound leads against ICP rules.
Activation complexity
Low
Time to activate
7-10 days
Volume share
90% of role volume
Impact range
15-30% sales time allocation lift
Inherited pricing
€0.40 – €1.20 per lead processed
This capability inherits the Sales Development Representative's pricing model. The role's launch fee + monthly retainer + role-level usage cover every capability under the role. Adding this capability to an active deployment does not change the price.
What this capability handles
Inbound Lead Qualification is the always-on filter every form submission passes through, and it decides where your sales team spends its attention. Most inbound funnels waste the same way: leads arrive uneven, reps chase weak ones while strong ones sit, and the time it takes to qualify drifts. This capability gives a mid-market sales team a consistent first read on every lead so good opportunities surface fast and weak ones stop absorbing rep hours. It is built for teams that already get more inbound than they can sort by hand. It works by walking the lead through five stages in order. At capture it picks up each new form submission. At fit-check it scores the lead against your defined ICP rules using the company size, role, and source already on the record. At enrich it fills gaps through your contracted enrichment provider. At route it recommends a path, an urgency, and a next action, and at review it writes that recommendation back so a person can see the reasoning. It runs inside your existing CRM, your forms, and your enrichment tools, and it reads the company size, role, source, form fields, and ICP rules tied to the lead. For each lead it produces a fit decision, a route, and a logged rationale attached to the record. The decision logic uses fit rules and the available context to recommend route, urgency, and next action, and it stays conservative where context is thin. High-potential but incomplete leads are not auto-routed: they go to manual review so a strong opportunity is never discarded on missing data. The capability hands to a human when a lead is ICP-ambiguous, when enrichment results conflict with the submitted data, or when a strategic-tier flag is present. Every action, score, and routing decision is logged back to the lead record and is reviewable. Typical fit: you have a defined ICP, the agent has CRM access, and an enrichment provider is contracted. Because nearly every lead passes through this step, it handles 90% of role volume and carries 60-75% of the qualification-speed improvement the role delivers, contributing to a 15-30% lift in how sales time is allocated.
Workflow summary
Captures lead, applies ICP rules, enriches, decides path.
Stages
Decision logic
Uses fit rules and available context to recommend route, urgency, and next action.
Systems and data
{CRM,forms,"enrichment tools"}
{"company size",role,source,"form fields","ICP rules"}
Exceptions & human handoff
High-potential but incomplete leads route to manual review.
ICP-ambiguous, enrichment mismatch, or strategic-tier flag.
Readiness
ICP defined, CRM access, enrichment provider contracted.
Owner on client side · Head of Sales
Impact contribution
60-75% of qualification-speed improvement flows through this capability.
Primary KPI · Qualified lead rate · 15-30% sales time allocation lift
When this capability shows up
Patterns where inbound lead qualification is part of the launch set, with volume and pricing anchored to each company profile.
Mid-market SaaS with uneven inbound quality
SaaS · 80-250
1,200 / mo
A 180-person SaaS company gets 1,200 inbound leads a month across content downloads, free trials, and demo requests. Rep time is split unevenly, best reps end up on low-fit demos while marketing-qualified inbounds wait for response.
SDR Agent activates qualification + demo routing. Every inbound gets ICP-scored within a minute, routed to the right rep band, and rep calendar quality improves visibly.
Expected outcomes: 15-30% better rep time allocation, sub-minute qualification, qualified-demo rate up, low-fit demo count down. Pipeline quality holds while volume grows.
Monthly cost
€480–€1.4k
vs human anchor
€3.8k–€13k
Savings
0–3%
Services firm with outbound-led growth motion
Services · 40-120
600 / mo
A 70-person B2B services firm runs an outbound-led motion with 600 target accounts in flight per month. Two SDRs spend 15-25 minutes per account on research before every touch, compressing active selling time to roughly two hours a day.
SDR Agent activates inbound-lead-qualification as the always-on filter plus outbound-research to compress per-account intel from minutes to seconds. Reps keep the relationship work and pick up ready briefs with trigger events already surfaced.
Expected outcomes: research-throughput up materially, rep active-selling hours reclaimed per week, inbound routing sub-minute, outbound touches better-timed against trigger signals.
Monthly cost
€240–€720
vs human anchor
€1.9k–€6.5k
Savings
0–3%
Upper-mid SaaS with high-velocity inbound
SaaS · 250-600
3,000 / mo
A 400-person product-led SaaS company captures 3,000 inbound leads per month through free trials, content, and demo requests. Rep calendar quality slips under volume spikes; the team has debated adding three SDRs just to keep up.
SDR Agent activates inbound-lead-qualification and demo-qualification. Every inbound is ICP-scored within a minute, routed to the right rep band, and demo requests are filtered for fit plus urgency before they hit the calendar.
Expected outcomes at this volume: qualified-demo rate rising 15-30%, low-fit demo count dropping, rep time allocation lift sustained through volume spikes, pipeline quality held at baseline or above.
Monthly cost
€1.2k–€3.6k
vs human anchor
€9.4k–€33k
Savings
0–3%
Mid-market SaaS with combined inbound + outbound motion
SaaS · 120-300
1,500 / mo
A 220-person B2B SaaS company runs both inbound and outbound motions with 1,500 leads worked per month. SDR focus splits unevenly across the two, and research quality drops whenever inbound volume spikes.
SDR Agent activates all three capabilities. Inbound-lead-qualification runs the always-on filter, demo-qualification protects the rep calendar, and outbound-research keeps brief quality stable when inbound surges.
Expected outcomes: rep time allocation lift 20-30%, qualified-demo rate up, outbound brief quality stable regardless of inbound spikes, pipeline quality holding at baseline or above.
Monthly cost
€600–€1.8k
vs human anchor
€4.9k–€16k
Savings
0–3%
All scenarios and cost ranges come from the Sales Development Representative role page.
Capability-specific integrations
Beyond the Sales Development Representative's base stack, this capability plugs into:
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