Aktify

Aktify is an autonomous AI sales representative that works over SMS, texting inbound and outbound leads at scale, holding natural two way conversations, qualifying interest, handling objections, and booking meetings or transferring warm calls to a human team. The premise is that text messaging is the highest conversion channel in many consumer facing industries but the hardest to scale with people because of working hours and licensing limits, so an always on AI that responds within seconds captures leads that would otherwise go cold. Founded in 2018 in Lehi, Utah by Jacob Carter and Chuck Pettid, Aktify predates the recent wave of large language model products and has run in production for years.

Rather than a generic chatbot, Aktify is purpose built for sales and trained on more than ten million real conversations across over fifty enterprise customers, with each industry getting its own model tuned on real text message exchanges and scheduling. It serves business to consumer and business to business to consumer verticals where SMS converts well, including auto services, insurance, mortgage, home security, pest control, HVAC, roofing, and education enrollment. A central differentiator is compliance: the system operates with TCPA compliant guardrails, which matters in the regulated consumer categories it targets. It reports 99 percent SMS deliverability and responds to new leads in under a minute, around the clock.

The product comes in two tiers of capability. Nurture AI automates lead qualification and appointment scheduling, engaging and qualifying leads at scale, while Closer AI adds deeper product knowledge and more sophisticated conversation to guide leads further through the sales process. When a lead is ready, Aktify books the appointment, delivers a live warm call to a rep, or sends a click to convert link. Getting started is light: teams connect through a CRM integration, an API, or a simple CSV upload, and Aktify integrates with existing CRM systems so qualified, ready to talk prospects flow back to the sales team.

Aktify uses performance based pricing across three tiers and does not publish a public rate card, so prospective buyers engage its team for a quote scoped to their lead volume and use case. A free trial is not readily available. This contact first, outcome oriented model is common among autonomous sales agents, where pricing tends to track leads contacted or qualified rather than messages sent. The company has raised around $26M, is backed by Bonfire Ventures, and counts high volume consumer brands such as Vivint among its customers.