Vercel Lead Agent: inbound research, qualify, draft, Slack approve
Vercel open-sourced Lead Agent: researches submitted leads, qualifies with structured output, drafts personalized email, and requires Slack approval before send. Operator commentary (Tunguz / Grosser) describes consolidating inbound SDRs while keeping conversion.
- Business problem
- Inbound lead processing required a large SDR layer for research, qualification, and first-touch email.
- Function
- Sales
- Tools
- VercelAI SDKSlack
- Effort / time to value
- Deploy open-source Next.js agent template; wire Slack approval; tune qualification rubric.
Result
Reported result
Vercel replaced 9 of 10 inbound SDRs with an AI agent in six weeks using one part-time GTM engineer; conversion held flat while speed improved (Tomasz Tunguz write-up).
Label: operator-reported (third-party write-up of Vercel)
Vercel replaced 9 of 10 inbound SDRs with an AI agent in six weeks using one part-time GTM engineer; conversion held flat while speed improved (Tomasz Tunguz write-up).
Label: operator-reported (third-party write-up of Vercel)
Sources
- GitHub — vercel-labs/lead-agent
- Tomasz Tunguz — Vercel AI sales agents
- Tomasz Tunguz — How to automate inbound
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