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Outsourced SDR UK

A sales development rep you do not have to recruit, train, manage or replace. One dedicated VA researches, reaches out and books the calls your closers take. Here is what an outsourced SDR delivers.

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✓ From £5/hour ✓ UK-managed ✓ Dedicated VA, not shared ✓ 3-month probation, no penalty to leave
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What They Handle

What an outsourced SDR does for your pipeline

Prospect research

Researches and qualifies leads against your ideal customer profile, sourced from LinkedIn, industry databases and your existing CRM, with a reason on every row.

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Cold email outreach

Runs multi-step email sequences using your tools and your messaging, measured on replies and meetings rather than volume sent.

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LinkedIn prospecting

Sends connection requests and follow-ups, and engages with prospects' content to warm them up before outreach.

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Qualification and call booking

Works the replies, asks the qualifying questions you set, manages your booking link, sends the prep and confirms attendance.

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CRM hygiene

Keeps the pipeline accurate: contact details updated, activities logged, deals moved between stages, duplicates removed.

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Lead nurturing

Re-engages cold and dormant leads with sequenced follow-ups so opportunities do not fall through the cracks.

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Dedicated vs agency

A dedicated SDR VA vs an outsourced SDR agency

An SDR agency sells you a share of a rep and a share of a playbook. When the contract ends the pipeline and the learning leave with it.

A dedicated SDR VA is one person on your account alone, working inside your CRM, so every prospect, sequence and reply stays yours. There is no agency margin on top.

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Dedicated SDR VA

How it works
One person on your account alone
Where the data lives
Inside your CRM and domain, so it stays yours
Over time
Learns your market and gets better month by month
Ant Assist fit
UK team supervises; no agency margin on top

Outsourced SDR agency

How it works
A share of a rep and a playbook
Where the data lives
In the agency's stack
Over time
Pipeline and learning leave with the contract
Ant Assist fit
Not provided by Ant Assist
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Who It's For

Who an outsourced SDR is for

  1. B2B founders prospecting alone An SDR VA fills the top of the funnel; you take the calls.
  2. Sales teams needing pipeline Qualified calls for every closer, at a fraction of a UK hire.
  3. Agencies with a repeatable offer Your VA runs the outreach process every day.
  4. Businesses testing a new market Launch outreach into a new segment, measure, then scale or stop.
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Cost Comparison

What an outsourced SDR costs

With Ant Assist the entry rate is £5 per hour for the first 6 months on the Entry tier, 3 months on Mid, 1 month on Expert.

A dedicated Ant Assist VA compared with a UK in-house hire and a UK agency, full time.
What you get RecommendedAnt Assist UK in-house hire UK agency
Monthly cost Standard price £880 a month, introductory price £800 for the first 6 months ~£3,363 approx. £3,500 to £4,500
Who manages the work IncludedOur UK team supervises Not includedYou do PartlyThe agency
Recruitment and onboarding IncludedIncluded Not includedYou recruit and train IncludedThe agency matches
Employer NI and pension IncludedNone to pay Not includedYou pay both PartlyBuilt into the rate
Office and equipment IncludedIncluded Not includedYou provide PartlyVaries by agency
Holiday and sick cover IncludedCover provided Not includedYou find cover PartlyVaries by agency
Replacement if it is not right IncludedReplaced, no restart cost Not includedRe-hire from scratch PartlyVaries by agency
Contract Included12-month term, 3-month probation Not includedEmployment contract PartlyVaries by agency

Entry offer: standard rate £5.50, introductory offer £5/hour for your first 6 months.

UK agency figures are an approximate range around the £25 per hour agency benchmark our calculator uses.

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What the £5/hour entry rate includes

  • Dedicated VA, never shared
  • UK-hour aligned support
  • Management and supervision included
  • Recruitment and onboarding included
  • Office infrastructure included
  • VA replacement available
  • No NI, pension, or holiday costs
  • 3-month probation, no penalty to leave

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Process

How to hire an outsourced SDR

1
First call
A short call about your tasks, your tools and the hours you need covered.
2
Matching
We pick a VA from our in-house team for your work and introduce them to you.
3
Onboarding
Together we write down your rules and set up your access before day one.
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Live outreach
Your VA starts on your hours from our managed office, supervised from the UK.
5
Ongoing management
A UK team reviews the work each week; hours scale up or down as you need.
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Guides for this service

Why Managed

Why a managed SDR VA beats an agency or a freelancer

Managed, not just placed.
Your VA is recruited, trained and supervised from our own in-house office. Not a shared rep, not a freelancer profile.
Replaceable without restart cost.
If the fit is wrong, we replace the VA and carry the handover. No re-recruitment, no starting from zero.
No NI, pension, or holiday overhead.
One hourly rate; the employment costs sit with us.
Language and cultural alignment with UK prospects.
Trained on your tone and your market before they send a word on your behalf.
Your data stays yours.
Every VA signs an NDA and a data-processing agreement, works inside your CRM and domain through password managers, and you can revoke access at any time.
3-month probation, no penalty to leave.
The initial term is 12 months, including a 3-month probation in which you can end the engagement without penalty. After 12 months it continues monthly with 30 days' notice.
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FAQ

Common questions about hiring an outsourced SDR

Researches prospects against your ideal customer profile, runs cold email and LinkedIn sequences from your domain and your accounts, qualifies the replies, books discovery calls into your diary, keeps the CRM clean, and nurtures the not-yet leads on a schedule. You get a short weekly line: prospects added, messages sent, replies, calls booked, and what is waiting on you.

Yes. Every VA is recruited, supervised and managed from our own in-house office in Cairo with a UK team supervising quality, works your UK business hours, and is dedicated to you rather than shared. The messaging is yours, approved by you before a sequence goes live, and sent from your domain in your name.

An agency sells pipeline as a retainer or a price per meeting, with a rotating team and a playbook that is theirs. A dedicated SDR VA is one named person on your pipeline every day, using your list, your messaging and your CRM, at an hourly rate. When the agency contract ends the pipeline goes with it; with a VA the data and the history are already yours.

Anything you have not approved. Sequences are drafted to your tone and reviewed by you before they go live, and a new angle or a new segment is a new approval. Claims about your product, pricing or clients come from material you provide; the VA does not invent them. Replies that need a decision are escalated with the thread attached.

Yes. The VA builds the first list from your ideal customer profile and the tools you already use, and if you have no CRM a simple one is set up in your name so the data belongs to you from day one. Most clients have their VA active within 5 to 7 working days of signing up, and the first sequence follows your approval.

The entry rate is £5 per hour for the first 6 months on the Entry tier. After the promotion the lead generation rate card applies: £5.50 per hour full time, £880 a month for 160 hours, or £6.50 per hour part time, £520 a month for 80 hours. No platform fees; your outreach tools and your CRM stay in your name.

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