Comparison
Founderloop vs Hiring an SDR
$120K. 14-month tenure. 3-month ramp. There's a better way.
Hiring an SDR
- —$120K+ fully loaded cost (salary + benefits + tools)
- —3-month ramp before meaningful pipeline
- —14-month average tenure — then you start over
- —Management overhead: 1:1s, coaching, territory planning
- —One person, one channel, limited hours per day
Founderloop
- —Fraction of the cost — no salary, benefits, or tool stack to buy
- —Pipeline from Week 1, not Month 4
- —Never quits, never ramps, never has a bad quarter
- —Zero management overhead — it manages itself
- —All 5 outreach layers running simultaneously, every day
Why these aren't the same thing
Speed to pipeline
A new SDR needs 3 months to ramp: learning your product, building lists, testing messaging. By month 4, they're producing. By month 14, they leave. Founderloop activates your network in Week 1 and runs warm outreach before your SDR would finish onboarding.
True cost comparison
An SDR costs $120K+ per year when you add salary ($65-85K), benefits ($15-20K), tools ($5-10K), management time ($10-15K equivalent), and recruiting costs ($15-20K amortized over tenure). That's before they generate a single meeting. Founderloop costs a fraction and starts immediately.
Consistency and scale
SDRs have good weeks and bad weeks. They get sick, take vacation, lose motivation. The best ones get promoted or leave. Founderloop runs the same quality outreach every day, across all five layers, without performance dips.
What changes when you move to Founderloop
Hire for closing, not prospecting
When you're ready to hire, hire an AE who closes deals — not an SDR who fills a pipeline. Let the agent do the prospecting, and put a human where humans matter most: in the room.
Eliminate the ramp cycle
Every time an SDR leaves, you lose 3 months of ramp, institutional knowledge, and momentum. Founderloop's knowledge compounds — it gets better at your voice, your market, and your buyers over time.
Founder-grade messaging from day one
Your SDR will never know your product, market, and story as well as you do. Founderloop writes in your voice because it learns from you. The quality of outreach stays at founder level without requiring your time.