# Sailes

> Sailes is a New York and Kansas City based AI company that builds autonomous, personality-driven "Sailebots" to automate the entire B2B sales prospecting lifecycle - from finding contacts and researching accounts to writing outreach and booking meetings. Founded in 2018 by Nick Smith, the venture-backed firm trained its own sales-focused AI model to replace roughly a dozen point solutions, and its Sailebots are deployed across dozens of countries for enterprise and mid-market sales teams at companies including Staples, Wiley, and Rogers Electric.

- **Founded:** 2018
- **Headquarters:** New York, New York, United States (with an office in Kansas City)
- **Founders:** Nick Smith (President, CEO & Founder)
- **Team size:** Approximately 30 employees
- **Products:** Sailebot, Sailebot 2, Starboard, Digital Labor, AiQL
- **Notable:** Built and trained a proprietary sales-focused AI model replacing roughly a dozen prospecting point solutions, Reported 130% year-over-year growth and a 130% prospecting-efficiency gain with Sailebot 2, Fortune 500 adoption including Staples, Wiley, and Rogers Electric

## Products & services

- **Sailebot** — A personality-driven, autonomous AI that automates the full prospecting lifecycle - identifying prospects, researching accounts, validating data, generating personalized outreach, following up, and booking meetings while reflecting each rep's individual selling style.
- **Sailebot 2** — Second-generation Sailebot with enhanced sales cognition (including referral identification and multi-layer AI intelligence), delivering a reported 130% increase in prospecting efficiency.
- **Starboard** — A control-room platform described as the first CRM built to manage AI rather than people, featuring Digital Labor Live (real-time visualization of bot activity) and ROI Live (real-time return metrics).
- **Digital Labor** — Sailes' framing for autonomous AI workers that take over repetitive SDR tasks, prioritizing prospects with data-driven signals.
- **AiQL** — An AI query language purpose-built for sales, used to surface and act on revenue signals.

## Achievements

- Built and trained a proprietary sales-focused AI model replacing roughly a dozen prospecting point solutions
- Reported 130% year-over-year growth and a 130% prospecting-efficiency gain with Sailebot 2
- Fortune 500 adoption including Staples, Wiley, and Rogers Electric
- Selected for the Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Enterprise AI Accelerator
- Named a G2 Fastest-Growing and High Performer across sales engagement and lead-capture categories
- Sailebots deployed across roughly 25-29 countries with multi-language support
- Raised $6.45M+ in total venture funding across seed and Series A rounds

## Latest updates

- **2024-03** — Launched Sailebot 2 with enhanced sales cognition and a reported 130% increase in prospecting efficiency.
- **2023-09** — Closed a $5.1M Series A led by Lewis & Clark Ventures to give enterprise reps their own AI.
- **2023-11** — Featured by Comcast LIFT Labs for using AI to supercharge sales prospecting.
- **2023-06** — Introduced Starboard, positioned as the first CRM built to manage AI rather than people.

## Links

- Website: https://sailes.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/saile

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Last updated: 2026-07-18