Starlight vs
Hiring an SDR

The outbound of a full-time SDR, live this week, for less than half the salary. No recruiting, no ramp, no managing.

$2,800 a month, no term. Live within 36 hours or a full refund.

We find and reach your best-fit buyers with the tools you already use

See the difference

Where Starlight pulls ahead of Hiring an SDR, row by row.

Starlight vs Hiring an SDR: a feature-by-feature comparison
Feature	Starlight	Hiring an SDR
Time to first outreach	Within 36 hours of setup, guaranteed with a full refund	Two to three months of hiring and ramp
Cost	$2,800 a month, everything included	About $60,000 a year base, plus benefits, tools, and management
Commitment	Month to month, pause or cancel anytime	An employee, with everything that implies
Sends from your accounts	Your Gmail or Outlook and your LinkedIn	Yes, once you set them up
Personalization	Written for each person from research on them	Depends on the rep and the day
Coverage	Outreach and follow-ups every business day	Vacations, sick days, quiet Fridays
Reporting	A portal with volumes and outcomes, and a Friday update	Whatever the rep logs in the CRM
When it stops working	Pause or cancel from settings	A performance plan, then rehiring

Why Starlight wins

Live within 36 hours of a twenty-minute setup, or a full refund.
$2,800 a month, all in. No recruiting fees, no tools budget, no benefits, no ramp.
Outreach written for each person, in your voice, from your own email and LinkedIn.
Pause or cancel anytime. No annual plan, no setup fee, no minimum term.

What you'd still do in Hiring an SDR

You still recruit, interview, and onboard, and start over when they leave.
You still buy and stitch together the data, sequencing, and deliverability tools.
You still manage the person: coaching, quotas, one on ones, and the quiet weeks.

What using it actually looks like

You tell us who you sell to. Starlight does the rest, and shows you the numbers every Friday.

Tell us who you sell to. That's the setup. Your website, your LinkedIn, the accounts we send from, and a short note on who you want to meet. About twenty minutes, then it is our job.

Outreach written in the customer's voice, sent from their own accounts

Sent as you, from your accounts. Email goes from your Gmail or Outlook and LinkedIn messages from your LinkedIn, written for each person, so every reply and every relationship stays yours.

The Friday update: messages sent, people reached, replies, and meetings booked

You'll know if it's working. Meetings land on your calendar with prep notes, your portal shows volumes and outcomes, and every Friday you get a short update with the numbers and what is next.

Live within 36 hours or a full refund.

Every other way of buying business development asks you to pay first and hope: a hire ramps for months, an agency wants a term. Starlight is live within 36 hours of you finishing setup, and if it is not, your first payment is refunded in full, no questions asked.

Fast
Setup takes about twenty minutes. Outreach is running within 36 hours of that, not after a hiring cycle or a kickoff call, or you get a full refund.
Yours
Sent from your own email and LinkedIn, in your voice, to buyers who look like your best customers. Nothing goes out under a vendor's name.
Honest
We never promise a number of meetings. We promise the work is live, actively run, and improved every week, and we refund in full if it is not.

Pause or cancel anytime. No annual plan, no setup fee, no minimum term.

Outreach in the customer's voice, ready to send from their own accounts

36hLive within 36 hours or a full refund

2xLeads, meetings, and customers

$2,800A month, less than half a $60k rep

0Contracts, setup fees, or minimum terms

Why you switch from Hiring an SDR

Hiring an SDR is buying a job title when what you wanted was a calendar with meetings on it. The salary is the visible cost. The hidden ones are the three months before the first booked call, the tools, the manager's time, and the restart when they move on.

Starlight is the job without the hire. Setup takes about twenty minutes. Within 36 hours outreach is going out from your own accounts, written for each person, followed up on schedule, or your first payment is refunded in full. Meetings land on your calendar with prep notes. Every Friday you get the numbers.

If you wanted a colleague, hire one. If you wanted meetings this month, sign up. You are live within 36 hours or you get a full refund.

Frequently
asked questions

For the top of the funnel, yes. Starlight handles targeting, research, writing, sending, follow-up, reply handling, and booking. You still run the calls, demos, and deals, the same as you would with an SDR feeding you meetings.

$2,800 a month is $33,600 a year. A junior SDR base salary in the US is around $60,000 before benefits, tools, and management, so Starlight is a little over half of the salary alone and well under half of the loaded cost.

No honest partner can guarantee a number, and a quota does not guarantee one either. What Starlight guarantees is that you are live within 36 hours of setup or you get a full refund, and that your outbound is actively run and improved every week.