GLOBAL DIRECTORY · v1 · AUGUST 2026

Sales & Marketing Capital

A working directory of the CRM, marketing automation, sales intelligence, ad tech, and global agency holding groups that run modern go-to-market — and the AI-native platforms now automating outbound, creative, and campaign work outright. This is a first pass, built to be appended, not a finished census.

31
Firms & platforms catalogued
$37B+
Salesforce annual revenue, FY2025
$13.5B
ZoomInfo → sales-intelligence sector value
30%+
Of outbound SDR work now AI-assisted or AI-run, 2026 estimates
NEW · THE CAPITAL SHIFT

AI isn't just scoring leads anymore. It's running the pipeline.

Through 2025 and into 2026, a wave of AI-native "digital worker" platforms — Artisan, 11x, Clay, Regie.ai — moved from lead scoring and email drafting to running entire outbound sequences: prospecting, personalised outreach, meeting booking, and follow-up, with little to no human SDR in the loop. Incumbent CRM and marketing-automation vendors responded by embedding agentic AI directly into their platforms — Salesforce's Agentforce, HubSpot's Breeze, and Microsoft's Copilot for Sales all launched or expanded through this window — while the global agency holding groups (WPP, Omnicom, Publicis, IPG) restructured creative and media-buying teams around AI-generated assets and programmatic automation.

The result is a profession bifurcating fast: a shrinking layer of strategic, relationship-led sales and brand work at the top, and an expanding layer of AI-run execution underneath it — sales intelligence, campaign ops, ad buying, and increasingly the first outbound conversation itself. The AI-Native Disruptor tier below tracks the platforms doing that displacing.

2025–26
Agentic AI SDR platforms scale rapidly (Artisan, 11x, Clay)
Agentforce
Salesforce's agentic AI layer, launched into core CRM
4 holdcos
WPP, Omnicom, Publicis, IPG restructuring around AI creative
30%+
Estimated share of outbound SDR work now AI-assisted
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This is v1. It covers the major CRM and sales platforms, the leading marketing-automation and demand-gen suites, the primary sales-intelligence and prospecting tools, the largest ad-tech and programmatic platforms, the global agency holding groups, and the AI-native disruptors now automating outbound and creative work. It does not yet include boutique agencies, regional ad networks, or the long tail of point-solution martech — the natural next layer once a CSV is appended.