Artisan (Ava) vs 6sense

Artisan (Ava)

Ava taps into a curated database of over 300 million verified B2B contacts, pulling data from dozens of sources (technographics, funding events, hiring news, social signals). The AI enriches each prospect in real time, ensuring that outreach is based on the latest firm‑level intelligence. This depth of data reduces manual research time, improves targeting accuracy, and enables hyper‑personalized messaging that resonates with the prospect’s current context. Higher prospect relevance and faster pipeline building

✓ Higher prospect relevance and faster pipeline building

6sense

6sense's predictive account scoring engine analyzes over 50 distinct buying signals to automatically rank and prioritize accounts based on their likelihood to purchase. The system continuously monitors behavioral indicators including website engagement patterns, content consumption across the web, technology stack changes detected through technographic data, hiring trends that signal growth initiatives, and competitive research activities. Machine learning models trained on billions of historical data points assign dynamic scores that update in real-time as new signals emerge, ensuring sales teams always have current intelligence on which accounts deserve immediate attention versus those requiring continued nurturing. Sales teams can focus 100% of their outreach efforts on accounts demonstrating genuine purchase intent, dramatically improving conversion rates and reducing time wasted on unqualified prospects.

✓ Sales teams can focus 100% of their outreach efforts on accounts demonstrating genuine purchase intent, dramatically improving conversion rates and reducing time wasted on unqualified prospects

Artisan (Ava)

Using a proprietary LLM pipeline, Ava writes emails and LinkedIn messages that adapt tone, style and call‑to‑action to each individual prospect. The system employs a "Personalization Waterfall" that selects the most specific data point (e.g., recent funding, product launch) for inclusion, creating messages that read as if drafted by a senior sales rep. This results in higher open and reply rates compared with generic templates. Improved engagement metrics and response rates

✓ Improved engagement metrics and response rates

6sense

6sense operates one of the largest B2B intent data networks in the industry, capturing and analyzing buying signals from millions of websites, publications, review sites, and digital properties where business professionals research solutions. The platform tracks topic-level intent across thousands of keywords and categories, identifying when specific accounts are actively researching solutions in your market category. This third-party intent data combines with first-party signals from your own digital properties to create a comprehensive view of account engagement that reveals not just interest, but the specific problems prospects are trying to solve and the solutions they're evaluating. Revenue teams gain visibility into prospect research activities happening outside their own properties, enabling proactive engagement before competitors even know an account is in-market.

✓ Revenue teams gain visibility into prospect research activities happening outside their own properties, enabling proactive engagement before competitors even know an account is in-market

Artisan (Ava)

Ava orchestrates multi‑step sequences across email and LinkedIn, automatically adjusting timing based on recipient behavior (opens, clicks, replies). At Level 2 autonomy she can send messages, follow‑up, and even book calendar slots without human approval, while providing a live dashboard for managers to monitor performance. Scalable outreach with minimal manual oversight

✓ Scalable outreach with minimal manual oversight

6sense

6sense's account-based advertising capabilities enable marketing teams to deliver highly targeted display, video, and social advertisements exclusively to accounts matching their ideal customer profile and demonstrating relevant buying signals. The platform integrates with major advertising networks and demand-side platforms to orchestrate campaigns that reach specific companies and even specific personas within those organizations. Advanced audience segmentation allows marketers to create distinct messaging for different buying stages, serving awareness content to early-stage researchers while delivering competitive differentiation messaging to accounts actively evaluating solutions. Marketing budgets are invested exclusively in reaching accounts with genuine revenue potential, eliminating wasted spend on impressions served to companies outside the target market.

✓ Marketing budgets are invested exclusively in reaching accounts with genuine revenue potential, eliminating wasted spend on impressions served to companies outside the target market

Artisan (Ava)

The platform includes built‑in warm‑up, mailbox health monitoring, dynamic sending limits, and signature rotation to keep sender reputation high. Bounce testing and placement analytics ensure that high‑volume campaigns land in the inbox rather than spam folders, a common pain point for outbound teams. Higher inbox placement and reduced spam complaints

✓ Higher inbox placement and reduced spam complaints

6sense

6sense automatically identifies and maps the complete buying committee within target accounts, surfacing not just the obvious decision-makers but the hidden influencers, technical evaluators, and executive sponsors who impact purchase decisions. The platform analyzes engagement patterns, job titles, organizational hierarchies, and historical deal data to predict which personas typically participate in purchasing decisions for your solution category. Contact enrichment capabilities provide verified email addresses, phone numbers, and social profiles for identified buying team members, enabling multi-threaded outreach strategies that engage all relevant stakeholders. Sales teams can execute comprehensive multi-threading strategies that engage entire buying committees rather than relying on single-threaded relationships that stall when champions change roles.

✓ Sales teams can execute comprehensive multi-threading strategies that engage entire buying committees rather than relying on single-threaded relationships that stall when champions change roles

Artisan (Ava)

Every new customer receives a dedicated Customer Success Manager who runs a kickoff call, configures integrations (Slack, HubSpot, Salesforce), and fine‑tunes the AI’s messaging style. Ongoing quarterly business reviews and custom SLA options help enterprises align Ava’s performance with revenue goals. Rapid time‑to‑value and ongoing optimization

✓ Rapid time‑to‑value and ongoing optimization

6sense

6sense's Revenue AI continuously analyzes pipeline data, engagement patterns, and historical outcomes to surface actionable insights that help revenue leaders optimize their go-to-market strategies. The system identifies patterns in successful deals, highlights accounts showing signs of stalling or competitive threat, and recommends specific actions to accelerate opportunities through the funnel. Automated alerts notify sales managers when high-value accounts exhibit significant behavioral changes, while AI-generated summaries provide executives with clear visibility into pipeline health, forecast accuracy, and team performance metrics. Revenue leaders gain predictive visibility into pipeline risks and opportunities, enabling proactive intervention before deals stall and strategic resource allocation to maximize quarterly outcomes.

✓ Revenue leaders gain predictive visibility into pipeline risks and opportunities, enabling proactive intervention before deals stall and strategic resource allocation to maximize quarterly outcomes