Are AI agents actually booking qualified demos?

Outbound sales feels harder than ever. Cold email open rates are dropping, response rates are down, and manually finding good leads takes hours.

We are looking into deploying AI agents to handle the top-of-funnel work identifying accounts, enriching prospect data, and writing personalized cold outreach.

For teams actually running AI sales agents for outbound: are you seeing real booked meetings and pipeline, or is it mostly low-quality leads and burned domain reputations?

What is your biggest bottleneck when getting these agents to work?