There’s a reason most people either love or hate sales. For some, it’s the thrill of closing. For others, it’s a high-stress grind filled with follow-ups, cold emails, ignored LinkedIn requests, and the ever-looming fear of missing quota. Holding onto a sales job can feel like balancing on a tightrope with a full inbox in one hand and a dwindling pipeline in the other.

But Gaurav Bhattacharya, founder of Jeeva AI, believes it doesn’t have to be this way.

Jeeva isn’t trying to replace salespeople. Instead, it’s automating the parts of the job no one wants to do — the cold outreach, the data vetting, the prospecting, and even the follow-up cadence — so that reps can actually spend more time talking to potential customers. In other words, it’s a digital co-pilot designed to make sales jobs more sustainable, especially for those navigating the chaos of early-stage startups or solo founder-led selling.

Reframing the Sales Workflow

What Jeeva AI does, at its core, is simple: it eliminates busywork.

Rather than forcing sales reps to spend hours hunting down leads, compiling contact lists, and drafting messages, Jeeva uses AI to handle the research and outreach strategy. A salesperson can input their ideal customer profile — say, VPs of sales at banks in the Bay Area with over $1 billion in annual revenue — and the platform will assemble a vetted, enriched list of contacts, complete with accurate emails, personalized details, and company-specific information pulled from dozens of real-time data sources.

That means no more spending half your day deciphering outdated spreadsheets or trying to remember who changed jobs last quarter. Jeeva builds the list, personalizes the outreach, and even queues up messages in your drafts so that they can be sent in a way that mimics manual human behavior — bypassing spam filters and improving deliverability.

Better Emails, Real Sequences, and Human Touch

If you’ve ever tried cold emailing, you know that writing a message that doesn’t sound robotic (or worse, desperate) is half the battle. Jeeva’s AI goes beyond swapping out first names and job titles. It reads context, analyzes public data, and crafts multi-step outreach sequences that feel tailored, conversational, and credible.

Want to mention a prospect’s recent move from Oracle to Adobe? Jeeva can find that and write around it. Want to name-drop mutual connections without sounding creepy? Done. The AI layers in humor, timing, and structure to keep responses flowing across LinkedIn, email, and even text, while giving reps full control before anything is sent.

Response rates on LinkedIn hover around 20%, with emails landing closer to 5–6%. Those may sound low on paper, but in the world of cold outreach, that’s significantly better than industry standards.

Sales for $20?

Jeeva’s value proposition hits especially hard when you realize the price tag. For just $20 a month, users can unlock functionality that would normally cost hundreds in combined subscriptions for data enrichment, email automation, CRM integrations, and outsourced list building.

But that low cost is just the tip of the strategy.

Jeeva’s freemium model isn’t just a marketing ploy — it’s a pipeline. As individual reps start using the tool and seeing results, company leadership often follows. In one early use case, three sellers at a startup signed up independently; weeks later, the founder reached out asking for an enterprise version. The company now pays significantly more, but only after seeing Jeeva in action.

Beyond Prospecting

While Jeeva is laser-focused on top- and mid-funnel automation, it’s already building tools for what comes next. From auto-generated slide decks to proposal builders, Jeeva wants to be the glue that connects a salesperson’s process from lead to pitch. Features like note summarization and CRM syncing help close the loop.

Still, Bhattacharya is keeping the focus narrow for now. Sales is the battleground. Everything else is a bonus.

A Philosophy Built on Multiplying Time and Money

At the heart of Jeeva’s strategy is a simple mantra: save time, make money. The goal is to free up at least two hours a day for every rep, whether they use that time to chase more deals or, as Bhattacharya jokes, just hang out with their kids. The platform also aims to generate three new opportunities per day, which could translate into dozens of new leads each month.

In industries where a single qualified lead might cost hundreds — if not thousands — of dollars, Jeeva’s ROI is hard to argue with.

The Future of Selling Isn’t Solo

While there’s no AI yet that can close a six-figure deal on its own, Jeeva is betting big on the rise of the full-stack seller. In Bhattacharya’s view, the salespeople of tomorrow will manage their entire workflow — lead generation, outreach, pitching, and customer success — without having to delegate half their job to a tech stack or support team.

That’s what Jeeva is building toward: a system that enables individuals to do more without burning out, one that complements human connection rather than replacing it.

Bhattacharya isn’t chasing buzzwords. He’s not here to disrupt the industry with empty promises. He’s just trying to make sales suck less.

And for every rep still juggling a dozen tools and a dozen follow-ups, that might just be the revolution they’ve been waiting for.

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