Apollo hands you a list; Fasrad works it — drafts each email from real context, sends ~100/day staggered, and sorts the replies worth your time.
An agent that drafts each outreach email from real context, sends ~100/day on a human stagger, and sorts the replies so you only see the ones worth answering.
Apollo.io is two things bolted together: a contact database and a sequencer. You filter for VP Eng at Series-B SaaS, export a few hundred rows, drop them into a four-step sequence with a couple of merge tags, and let it fire. The problem isn't the data — it's that the emails all read like they came out of a sequencer, because they did. {First name}, I saw {Company} is hiring. Prospects have seen that template a thousand times.
Fasrad starts from the row you already have. Point the agent at a Google Sheet of leads — pulled from Apollo, LinkedIn, a conference list, wherever — and tell it the angle. It reads each row, optionally browses the company site or a recent post to find one true detail, and writes that email as a person would. Then it sends them out spread across the day, watches the inbox, and tells you which replies are interested, which are 'not now,' and which are an out-of-office to ignore.
Where the two part ways:
What Fasrad is not: a prospecting database. It has no 275M-contact directory to filter, and it can't tell you a CFO's verified work email out of thin air. If finding the names is your bottleneck, Apollo wins that half cold. Bring Fasrad the list and it runs everything that happens after.
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No. This is the one place Apollo is flatly better. Apollo's whole foundation is a directory of hundreds of millions of contacts with verified emails and filters for title, headcount, tech stack, and funding. Fasrad has none of that. It works the list you bring it. If your bottleneck is finding the names, keep Apollo for sourcing — and let Fasrad run the outreach on the export.
Apollo fills {First name} and {Company} from its database row. Fasrad reads the row and, when it helps, browses the company's site or a recent post to find one real detail — a product they just launched, a job they're hiring for, a stat on their homepage — and writes a line around it. The email reads like you researched them, because the agent did.
Both. A new reply fires a trigger and the agent reads it: it tells an interested 'tell me more' apart from a 'not now,' ignores the out-of-office, drafts your response for the warm ones, and logs the interaction in its CRM. The sending is the easy half — triage is where the time actually goes, and that's handled.
The agent sends from your connected inbox, staggered across the day up to roughly 100, rather than one burst. Because each email is genuinely different per recipient instead of one template with swapped names, it doesn't carry the fingerprint of a sequencer blast. That said, Fasrad doesn't manage warmup pools or rotate domains the way a dedicated sending platform does — for very high volume, that's a real gap.
Export your list to a Google Sheet — Apollo does that natively — and share it with the agent. Tell it the campaign in a sentence and it goes. There's no rebuild of sequences or fields; the sheet is the interface. Setup runs about four minutes start to finish.
$49/month or $490/year — cancel anytime Apollo prices per seat and tiers the good data and sending volume behind higher plans. Fasrad is one agent that does the drafting, sending, triage, and CRM work without seat math — it's in public beta now.