Overloop
An AI SDR in a box: data, copy, and sending from one Belgian vendor
Overloop is a Brussels-built, AI-powered sales prospecting and engagement platform that combines a 450M-contact B2B database, AI-generated email and LinkedIn campaigns written in the sender's voice, email verification, and built-in warm-up into one credit-metered workspace, positioning itself as an AI SDR for founders, small sales teams, and agencies.
Overview
Overloop started life in 2015 as Prospect.io, a Chrome extension for scraping prospect emails, rebranded to Overloop in 2021, and has since repositioned entirely around an AI-first pitch: define your ideal customer profile, and the platform sources prospects from its 450M-contact database, verifies their emails, writes personalized outreach in your voice, and runs the multichannel sequence, with a human review step before anything sends. The tagline is blunt about the intent: let AI book the meetings, stop the manual work.
That makes Overloop a different shape of product from classic sales engagement tools. Mixmax or Outplay assume you arrive with a list; Overloop bundles the 'who' (database sourcing plus email finding, metered by credits) with the 'what' (AI-written emails positioned explicitly against template-based personalization) and the 'how' (email plus LinkedIn steps with platform-limit management, built-in warm-up, and unlimited connected email accounts on the top tier). Analytics cover opens, clicks, replies, bounces, and out-of-office detection, and CRM integrations span HubSpot, Pipedrive, and Salesforce depending on tier.
In December 2025 Overloop was acquired by Sortlist, the Belgian agency marketplace, with founder Vincenzo Ruggiero joining Sortlist's leadership. Both companies describe the deal as structural rather than operational: same product, pricing, team, and Belgian entity, with deeper Sortlist integration planned through 2026. For buyers the practical read is a small, previously long-profitable product now backed by a mid-sized parent, with the usual acquisition caveats about roadmap direction, here, visibly tilting toward agency use cases.
Best for
Founders, small B2B sales teams, and agencies that want prospect data, AI-written outreach, and multichannel sending bought as one subscription instead of assembling a database, a copy tool, and a sender separately.
Not the right fit for
- Teams with strong existing data sources who only need a sending engine; Overloop's price includes a database you would be paying for without using, and cheaper pure senders exist.
- High-volume cold email shops; credit-metered sourcing and measured LinkedIn pacing are built for precision, not for the tens of thousands of monthly sends that unlimited-mailbox tools chase.
- Buyers who want hands-off AI with no review step, or the opposite, writers who want full manual control; Overloop sits deliberately in the middle with AI drafts plus human review.
- Enterprise revenue orgs needing dialer, SMS, conversation intelligence, or SSO; none of that is in the product, and Salesforce sync alone requires the custom-priced Enterprise tier.
- Anyone nervous about post-acquisition roadmaps: Sortlist's stated direction leans toward agency workflows, and non-agency buyers should watch where 2026 investment actually goes.
How it works
- 1
You describe your ideal customer profile and Overloop's AI engine drafts the campaign: sourcing criteria, channel mix (email-only, LinkedIn-only, or both), step timing, and the messages themselves, written from context about you and the prospect rather than a mail-merge template. Everything is editable before launch, and each sequence supports configurable follow-up triggers based on prospect behavior.
- 2
Prospect sourcing runs against Overloop's 450M-contact B2B database on a credit meter: one credit to source a prospect, one credit to find and verify an email address. Credits are included per user per month by tier (250 on Starter, 500 on Growth, 1,000 on Enterprise) and deducted in real time; imported lists can be verified through the same engine.
- 3
Outreach then executes across connected mailboxes with built-in warm-up routing low-volume traffic through third-party networks and sending paced below provider limits. LinkedIn steps are deliberately measured, with platform limits surfaced and a human-review checkpoint so automated social touches stay within LinkedIn's tolerances.
- 4
Replies, out-of-office bounces, and engagement data flow into campaign analytics, and conversations sync to HubSpot or Pipedrive on Growth and to Salesforce on Enterprise. Slack, Calendly, Zapier, a Chrome extension, and a REST API (Growth and up) round out the workflow surface.
Feature breakdown
21 features in 5 modulesAI campaign generation
The core pitch: AI designs and writes the outbound campaign, humans approve it.- AI-generated campaigns
- The engine designs full outbound campaigns from an ICP description: channel mix, step sequencing, timing, and message drafts, all editable before launch.
- Voice-matched email writing
- Emails are generated in the user's own voice from contextual analysis of sender and prospect, positioned explicitly against fill-in-the-blank template personalization.
- Human review workflow
- Campaigns and messages pass through a review checkpoint before sending, keeping the AI on a leash rather than fully autonomous.
- Behavior-adaptive follow-ups
- Follow-up steps trigger and adapt based on how prospects actually behave (opens, clicks, replies) rather than fixed delays alone.
Data and prospecting
The bundled 'who to contact' layer, metered in credits.- 450M+ contact B2B database
- Hyper-segmented professional contacts with verified emails and contextual data, searchable by ICP criteria; sourcing a prospect costs 1 credit.
- Email finder and verification
- Finds and verifies email addresses (1 credit each) for sourced or imported contacts, with real-time bulk verification to protect deliverability before a send.
- List import and Chrome extension
- Manual and CSV imports plus a Chrome extension for capturing prospects while browsing.
- Included monthly credits
- 250 (Starter), 500 (Growth), or 1,000 (Enterprise) credits per user per month, deducted in real time.
Multichannel outreach and deliverability
Email plus LinkedIn execution with the safety rails built in.- Email sequences
- Multi-step email campaigns from connected mailboxes: 1 email account on Starter, 3 on Growth, unlimited on Enterprise.
- LinkedIn automation with limit management
- Configurable LinkedIn steps paced against platform limits with human review, designed to keep accounts out of LinkedIn's penalty box rather than maximize touch volume.
- Built-in email warm-up
- Low-volume warm-up traffic routes through third-party networks so new mailboxes build reputation before campaign load.
- Sending-limit pacing
- Send volumes are managed below email-provider thresholds as accounts scale, with unlimited connected accounts available at the top tier.
- Campaign caps by tier
- 3 concurrent campaigns on Starter, 10 on Growth, unlimited on Enterprise.
Inbox, analytics, and reporting
What happens after the send.- Reply and conversation tracking
- Replies and conversations are captured per prospect and campaign for follow-through.
- Full-funnel campaign analytics
- Opens, clicks, replies, bounces, and out-of-office detection reported per campaign and step.
- Out-of-office handling
- OOO responses are detected and separated from real replies so sequences and stats stay clean.
Integrations and platform
CRM sync gated by tier, plus the standard workflow glue.- HubSpot and Pipedrive sync
- Native CRM integrations included from the Growth tier.
- Salesforce integration
- Reserved for the Enterprise tier, alongside a dedicated IP and dedicated customer success manager.
- Slack, Calendly, and Zapier
- Reply alerts in Slack, booking via Calendly, and Zapier for everything else; available from Starter.
- REST API
- Programmatic access on Growth and Enterprise plans.
- Dedicated IP and onboarding (Enterprise)
- Enterprise adds a dedicated sending IP, personalized 1:1 onboarding, priority support, and wire/SEPA payment options.
Use cases
4 documentedBootstrapped founder opening a new market
Has no prospect list, no SDR, and no time to write outreach; needs meetings booked with a specific ICP in a country they have never sold into.
One Starter seat sources 250 prospects a month from the database, drafts the campaign in the founder's voice, and runs email plus LinkedIn touches, with the founder only reviewing drafts and taking the replies.
Two-person sales team at a seed-stage SaaS
Reps burn hours a day between a data tool, a copywriting doc, and a sender, and deliverability keeps degrading on their single shared mailbox.
Growth-tier seats consolidate the stack into one subscription with 3 mailboxes per user, built-in warm-up, HubSpot sync, and 500 sourcing credits each, cutting both tool count and manual assembly work.
Lead-gen agency running campaigns for clients
Needs repeatable outbound for multiple client ICPs without buying a database seat and a sender seat per client.
AI campaign generation per ICP plus credit-metered sourcing lets the agency spin up client campaigns quickly; the Sortlist acquisition explicitly targets this workflow with deeper agency integration planned through 2026.
Marketing lead doing partner and PR outreach
Occasional, precise outreach to journalists and partners where a spam-cannon would burn the brand.
Small verified lists, voice-matched drafts with human review, and measured LinkedIn touches keep outreach personal at low volume, which is exactly the regime credit metering prices well.
Pricing
from $69/user/mo (Starter)Per-user monthly subscription in three tiers, differentiated by included sourcing credits, connected email accounts, concurrent campaigns, and CRM integrations; prospect sourcing and email finding are metered in credits (1 credit each).
| Plan | Price | Includes |
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| Starter | $69 per user/month |
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| Growth | $99 per user/month |
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| Enterprise | Custom contact sales |
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Billing notes
- Prices are listed monthly per user; no annual-billing discount is published on the pricing page as of August 2026.
- Credits meter the data layer, not sending: sourcing a prospect and finding a valid email each cost 1 credit, so a rep who both sources and verifies effectively spends 2 credits per net-new contact.
- CRM access is the real tier ladder: HubSpot/Pipedrive require Growth, and Salesforce is Enterprise-only, which forces Salesforce shops straight to custom pricing.
- All tiers include the 450M-contact database and AI features; the 14-day trial requires no card.
Value assessment: Judged as one subscription replacing three (a data tool, an AI copywriter, and a sender with warm-up), $69 to $99 per user is fair and simple, and for founders and small teams the consolidation is the whole point. Judged as a sending platform alone it is expensive: pure-play senders undercut it badly, and 250 Starter credits (roughly 125 fully sourced-and-verified contacts a month) run out fast for anyone doing real volume. The economics work when you use all three layers; teams that already own good data should not pay Overloop's bundle premium.
Strengths & limitations
Strengths
- Genuine all-in-one scope for SMB outbound: database, verification, AI copy, warm-up, multichannel sending, and analytics under one price.
- AI writing that aims at voice-matched, context-driven drafts with a human review gate, a more honest design than either template mail-merge or fully autonomous AI SDRs.
- Deliverability posture is built in, not an add-on: warm-up, verification, pacing, and measured LinkedIn limits ship with every tier.
- A decade of profitable, bootstrapped operation before the Sortlist deal suggests a product run on customer revenue rather than burn.
- EU-based and EU-hosted, a real consideration for European buyers with GDPR-sensitive prospect data.
- Simple, published pricing at the two self-serve tiers; no per-mailbox or per-warm-up nickel-and-diming.
Limitations
- Credit math is tight at the entry tier: 250 credits covers only about 125 sourced-and-verified net-new contacts a month per user.
- Salesforce integration locked behind custom-priced Enterprise puts the most common mid-market CRM out of self-serve reach.
- No dialer, SMS, or conversation intelligence; multichannel means email plus LinkedIn, full stop.
- Small team (LinkedIn band 11-50, fully remote) means support depth and shipping cadence depend on a handful of people, mitigated but not solved by Sortlist ownership.
- The December 2025 Sortlist acquisition points the roadmap toward agency workflows; buyers outside that profile are betting on continued general-purpose investment.
- Database quality at 450M claimed contacts is unverifiable from the outside; as with all bundled databases, coverage will be uneven by geography and niche.
Head-to-head comparisons
4 alternativesOverloop vs Apollo.io
from Free plan; paid from $49/user/moApollo is the category-scale version of the same bundle: a bigger database, richer filters, a dialer, and a large ecosystem, at aggressive prices. Overloop counters with voice-matched AI campaign generation, EU hosting, and a simpler product a two-person team can actually operate. Data-first power users pick Apollo; European SMBs that want the AI to do the assembling pick Overloop.
Full Overloop vs Apollo.io comparisonOverloop vs lemlist
from $39/user/molemlist is the stronger pure outreach craft tool: deeper personalization (images, video, liquid syntax), a large template culture, and its own lead database. Overloop leans harder on AI doing the drafting from ICP to sequence with less operator effort. Teams that enjoy tuning outreach pick lemlist; teams that want outreach handled with a review step pick Overloop.
Full Overloop vs lemlist comparisonOverloop vs La Growth Machine
from 60 EUR/identity/mo (Basic, monthly; 50 EUR/mo equivalent on annual)Both are European multichannel tools, but they divide cleanly: La Growth Machine is LinkedIn-first (voice notes, social warming, X steps) with enrichment around it; Overloop is email-first with a bundled 450M database and AI copywriting, and its LinkedIn layer is deliberately conservative. Social-selling motions favor LGM; database-driven email motions with LinkedIn assists favor Overloop.
Full Overloop vs La Growth Machine comparisonOverloop vs Mixmax
from $29/user/mo (single copilot, billed annually)Mixmax optimizes everything after you know who to contact: inbox-native sequences, scheduling, and follow-through inside Gmail. Overloop answers the earlier question, supplying the prospects and the first draft. Warm-pipeline and relationship work belongs in Mixmax; cold-start prospecting from zero list belongs in Overloop, and some teams reasonably run both.
Full Overloop vs Mixmax comparisonImplementation & onboarding
- Setup time
- Under a day: connect a mailbox, describe an ICP, review the AI-drafted campaign. Add 2 to 4 weeks of warm-up before real volume on fresh mailboxes, per category norms.
- Learning curve
- Low. The AI does the campaign scaffolding, and the review-then-launch loop is simpler than assembling sequences by hand. Credit budgeting and LinkedIn pacing settings are the only concepts requiring attention.
- Onboarding
- Self-onboarding with chat support on Starter and Growth; Enterprise adds personalized 1:1 onboarding and a dedicated CSM.
- Migration notes
- Prospect lists import via CSV or Chrome extension; campaigns must be rebuilt (or regenerated by the AI, which lowers the cost of starting over). No import of historical campaign metrics from other platforms. Existing customers kept product, pricing, and logins unchanged through the Sortlist acquisition.
Platform, API & security
- Platforms
- Web appChrome extensionREST API (Growth and Enterprise)
- API
- REST API on Growth and Enterprise for prospect, campaign, and reply management; Zapier covers lighter automation on all tiers.
- Compliance
- GDPR (EU-based company, EU-hosted product)
- Data residency
- EU-hosted; the company confirmed continued EU hosting and independent operation under its Belgian entity after the Sortlist acquisition.
- SSO
- No published SAML SSO offering.
- Security notes
- Mailbox connections use standard OAuth; no SOC 2 report is publicly referenced as of this review. The vendor operates under a Belgian entity with GDPR obligations applying to its prospect database.
Support & resources
- Channels
- In-app chatEmail supportDedicated CSM (Enterprise)
- Documentation
- Knowledge base at help.overloop.ai plus an active blog covering outbound practice and competitor teardowns.
- Community
- No large public community; the vendor is small and support is direct.
Company
- Founded
- 2015
- Headquarters
- Brussels, Belgium (fully remote team since 2022)
- Ownership
- Subsidiary of Sortlist (acquired December 2025); operates independently under its Belgian entity
- Founders
- Vincenzo Ruggiero
- Employees
- 11-50 (LinkedIn band, 2026)
- Funding
- Bootstrapped and profitable for a decade before the Sortlist acquisition; no venture rounds disclosed.
Timeline
- 2015Vincenzo Ruggiero launches Prospect.io in Brussels as a Chrome extension for finding prospect emails.
- 2021Rebrands from Prospect.io to Overloop, reflecting the move from email scraping to a full outbound platform.
- 2022The company goes fully remote while keeping its Brussels headquarters.
- 2025Now positioned as Overloop AI, an AI-first prospecting platform with a 450M-contact database; acquired by agency marketplace Sortlist on December 10, with the founder joining Sortlist leadership.
- 2026Sortlist integration proceeds progressively, with deeper LinkedIn integrations, AI sequence optimization, and broader CRM connectors on the stated roadmap.
Integrations
- HubSpot
- Pipedrive
- Salesforce (Enterprise)
- Slack
- Calendly
- Zapier
- Chrome extension
- REST API
- Google / Microsoft mailboxes and SMTP
Frequently asked questions
10 questionsWhat is Overloop?
Overloop is an AI-powered sales prospecting platform from Brussels that bundles a 450M-contact B2B database, AI-written email and LinkedIn campaigns, email verification, warm-up, and campaign analytics into one credit-metered subscription. It targets founders, small sales teams, and agencies that want an AI SDR rather than a stack of separate tools.
How much does Overloop cost?
Starter is $69 per user per month with 250 credits, 1 email account, and 3 campaigns; Growth is $99 with 500 credits, 3 email accounts, 10 campaigns, HubSpot/Pipedrive sync, and API access; Enterprise is custom-priced with 1,000 credits, unlimited accounts and campaigns, and Salesforce integration. A 14-day trial requires no card; no annual discount is published.
How do Overloop credits work?
Credits meter the data layer: sourcing a prospect from the database costs 1 credit and finding a verified email costs 1 credit, deducted in real time. A fully sourced-and-verified net-new contact therefore costs about 2 credits, so Starter's 250 credits cover roughly 125 such contacts per user per month.
Was Overloop acquired?
Yes. Sortlist, the Belgian agency marketplace, acquired Overloop on December 10, 2025. Both companies state that product, pricing, team, logins, and EU hosting remain unchanged, with Overloop operating independently under its Belgian entity while deeper Sortlist integration rolls out through 2026.
Is Overloop the same as Prospect.io?
Yes. The company was founded in 2015 as Prospect.io, a prospect-email Chrome extension, and rebranded to Overloop in 2021. It has since repositioned as Overloop AI, an AI-first outbound platform.
Does Overloop automate LinkedIn?
Yes, but conservatively: LinkedIn steps are configurable within surfaced platform limits and pass through human review, a design aimed at keeping accounts safe rather than maximizing touch volume. LinkedIn-first teams wanting voice notes, social warming, or X steps will find more depth in tools like La Growth Machine.
Does Overloop include email warm-up and verification?
Both are built in. Warm-up routes low-volume traffic through third-party networks to build mailbox reputation, sending is paced below provider limits, and the email finder verifies addresses in bulk before campaigns send.
Which CRMs does Overloop integrate with?
HubSpot and Pipedrive natively from the Growth tier, and Salesforce on the Enterprise tier only. Slack, Calendly, Zapier, and a Chrome extension are available on all plans, and a REST API ships with Growth and Enterprise.
Where is Overloop's data hosted?
In the EU. Overloop is a Belgian company subject to GDPR, and following the Sortlist acquisition both parties confirmed the product remains EU-hosted and independently operated, which matters for European teams processing prospect data.
Is Overloop good for high-volume cold email?
No. Credit-metered sourcing, measured LinkedIn pacing, and per-tier campaign caps are built for precise, reviewed outreach at modest volume. Teams optimizing for maximum monthly sends at minimum cost should look at unlimited-mailbox senders instead.
Editorial verdict
Overloop is the most coherent AI SDR pitch in the SMB tier: one subscription that finds the people, writes the outreach in your voice, keeps a human in the loop, and handles deliverability plumbing. For founders and small teams starting from no list, that consolidation genuinely beats assembling Apollo-plus-copywriter-plus-sender. The caveats are the mirror of the strengths: tight credit math at $69, Salesforce held hostage by Enterprise pricing, a deliberately shallow LinkedIn layer, and a small team now owned by an agency marketplace with its own agenda. Buy it as a bundled starting engine for precise outbound; skip it if you already own good data or need volume, phone, or enterprise controls.
Written by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Awards, when shown, are judged against the published criteria in our methodology.