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David Walker is the co-founder and CEO of Spara, the conversational GTM agent platform powering inbound motions for some of the fastest-growing B2B companies.

In this episode, he makes a case most GTM leaders are dodging: for the last 20 years, your revenue was capped by how many humans you could put on a phone.

That constraint is gone. And if your front door is still a static website with a "Contact Us" form, buyers are already treating you like a dead end.

David breaks down:

Why the old front door (your website plus an SDR team) no longer matches how buyers actually buy

The "10X Horsepower" thought exercise that reframes AI strategy from "automate a task" to "redesign the motion

"Why 99% of Spara customers now lean INTO telling prospects it's AI (up from 50/50 at launch) and why buyers get MORE direct, not less

Live demos: inbound web form to phone call in 2 seconds, agentic email that replies back at 11pm, prompt tuning with an AI that tunes your agent

The Kayak vs Wedding Planner filter for deciding which GTM moments should be human and which should be AI

Real customer results: 3X MQL rate, 80% drop in unqualified leads, doubled sales team headcount BECAUSE the agent worked

Why narrow point-solution demos look sexier but platforms are what actually move KPIs (A/B testing tone and prompt down to conversion)

Where the roadmap goes next: agent-to-agent selling, co-pilot reps, and browser/computer-use agents that actually run the demoIf you are rethinking inbound, debating whether to replace or augment your SDR team, or trying to figure out what a "GTM AI motion" actually looks like in 2026, this is the most direct, founder-grade breakdown you'll get.

Timestamps:

00:00 — Intro and who David is beyond the resume

02:00 — The one takeaway: if you're not using conversational agents, you're missing the boat

03:00 — The core problem: GTM has been capped by sales team capacity for 20 years

04:15 — Why the old front door is no longer enough

04:45 — What Spara is and who it's built for

05:00 — Clay vs n8n vs Spara: how the market splits up

06:00 — Agent-to-agent selling and the new top of funnel

07:00 — LLMs as the new discovery layer and what that means for your website

08:30 — Live demo: web form fills to phone call in 2 seconds

09:45 — Why 99% of customers now say "this is AI" (up from 50/50)

11:00 — Agentic email: replying at 11pm and progressing the deal overnight

13:00 — Knowledge retrieval (RAG), prompting inside the product, and why "answering questions" is the easy part

15:00 — Optimizing agents: prompt tuning, red-teaming, simulated personas

16:00 — Post-sale and PLG upsell workflows across chat, email, and voice

19:30 — The roadmap: sales rep assist, co-pilot agents, and browser/computer use for live demos

22:30 — What Spara, Clay, and Agency do for David internally

24:00 — The mistake David sees most: "I just want to automate one small piece"

25:00 — The 10X Horsepower thought exercise

28:00 — Kayak vs wedding planner: the hybrid motion filter

31:00 — Case study: 3X MQLs, 80% drop in junk

32:00 — Case study: doubled sales team BECAUSE the agent worked

33:00 — Why point-solution demos mislead and platforms move KPIs

34:45 — Close and where to find David