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This article details the deployment of an AI sales agent that automates administrative workflows like lead triage, email drafting, and CRM updates, freeing up human agents to focus on high-value interactions. By leveraging a dynamic routing layer to optimize costs, the solution demonstrates significant operational efficiency gains in a specific enterprise application of generative AI.

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How an AI Sales Agent Saved Our Sales Team 600 Hours a Month

OpenRouterOctober 7, 20268 min read

Rasp gives OpenRouter's five-person sales team about 600 hours a month back, adds room for two more calls a day per rep, and runs for about $30 a day on Ori.

Rasp is an AI sales agent built on OpenRouter’s Ori that triages inbound, sends first-touch emails, writes pre-call briefs, drafts notes, and updates the CRM. It runs for OpenRouter’s own 5-person sales team. Given the way the business has grown, “drowning” is an appropriate way to describe those five in 2026. Over the past few months, Rasp has brought some zen back to these frenzied sellers. It took over most of the paperwork/admin and the team now gets back about 600 hours a month. It gave every rep room for roughly two more calls a day at the same level of preparation. It shortened response times, with many leads now receiving a response in under a minute from initial inquiry. The deal cycle has compressed 34%. And because Ori’s routing layer keeps swapping in cheaper models that hold quality, Rasp does all of this for about $30 a day, down from nearly $800 a day for the agents it replaced. ~600…

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