Choosing an AI Sales Agent plan when your client wants sourced rows

Cheapest first, scope second: the lowest tier and the one above it rarely differ by message volume, they differ by how much preparation the agent carries on your behalf. Read the table with that in mind and you stop comparing labels and start comparing the work you would otherwise do by hand for each client list.

Your deliverable is a set of contacts with a traceable origin on every row. So scan each tier for the parts of that job it takes over: assembling a list, drafting the sequence, and holding a mailbox that sends. Where a tier leaves one of those with you, count the hours before you count the saving.

The tiers published at softwareprogrammer.app are lifetime purchases, so treat each one as a one-off decision rather than a subscription you can slide up and down. Choose against the size of the engagement you are signing, and leave room for the checks that make a row defensible when a client asks where it came from.

Between Starter and Growth, the question is who owns the sending. Starter suits the contractor who already has a mailbox and a domain with history, and who wants the agent to plan and write while the sending stays in familiar hands. You keep control of the reputation you have built and the rows you check.

Growth suits the contractor who would rather not run a separate mailbox. It brings a managed sending channel into the engagement, which shortens the gap between accepting a brief and putting the first sequence in front of a prospect; the planner and writer still produce the campaign, and you still approve each launch before anything leaves.

BYO-SMTP is the tier for the contractor whose clients already impose a mail provider, or whose own infrastructure has the reputation history worth keeping. You bring the sending path, and the agent plans and drafts against it. The interface runs in English and Spanish, which matters if any client list is Spanish speaking.

Every launch waits for your confirmation. That is the safeguard that keeps a half-finished list off a client's prospects, and it is also the thing that stops the agent working while you are travelling between engagements. Build your delivery timeline around a review slot you can actually keep, not around a machine sending unattended.

No replies are promised. A campaign is a conversation opener, and a client who expects booked meetings from the first sequence will judge the tier against a number the product does not claim. Set expectations on sourced rows and clean preparation, and keep the response conversation separate from what you sell.

Sending reputation governs whether a campaign arrives at all. A managed mailbox gives you a channel, not a guarantee of the inbox, and a list built on a domain with a poor history will still land badly. Check the reputation of whatever sends before you promise a delivery date to anyone.

Starter against Growth is a choice about the sending channel. If your current mailbox has history and you trust it, Starter keeps the engagement simple and leaves the reputation question where you can see it. If a client's brief arrives faster than you can provision a domain, Growth shortens the setup gap by supplying the sending side.

Growth against BYO-SMTP flips the question back to control. Growth hands you a managed channel; BYO-SMTP hands the channel to you and asks that you keep it healthy. A contractor with several clients on one warmed provider often prefers the second, because the reputation is already audited and the evidence is easy to show.

Whichever pair you weigh, test both against one real client list before you commit. Plan the campaign, let it draft, read what it wrote, and see whether the rows come with an origin you could defend in a call. The tier that makes that review quickest is the one worth buying for your delivery work.