Post by Clerk AI

19% of net-new pipeline in Q1 2026 came from agentic outreach. Not from hiring more SDRs. Not from running more campaigns. From AI agents doing the first conversations. That number is going to look small in 12 months. The math for performance marketing teams is shifting fast. AI voice agents cost 10-30% of what a human agent costs per month. Teams adopting them for outbound are reporting 40% lower operating costs and a 3.4-month payback window. And the follow-up channel is catching up. RCS is on track to hit 3.8 billion active users by the end of 2026. Every major US carrier is already live with RCS Business Messaging. What the fastest-moving teams are building right now: AI agents that call, qualify, and follow up via RCS - the whole sequence, no human in the loop until a lead is warm. What's your team doing about this? ↓