Senecia or an agency? Same work, no retainer.
Outbound agencies charge about $3,000 to $10,000 a month with 3 to 6 month minimums. An SDR hire costs about $8,000 to $14,000 a month. Senecia runs your leaders’ LinkedIn posts, LinkedIn outreach, cold email and site visitor outreach to one ICP buyer list, from $249 a month, month to month.
By the Senecia team · Updated October 2026The short answer
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Choose Senecia if you are a B2B company of about 2 to 200 people and want leads and authority together: your founder and leaders post, and the same buyer list gets comments, DMs, email and site visitor follow-up. AI does the volume, people review it, and you can stop any month.
Choose an agency or an SDR hire if you need cold calling, a large team working a big market on a meetings quota, or paid ads at scale, and you can commit to a retainer and a minimum term.
Senecia vs the usual options
Estimated prices and typical terms, October 2026.
| Compare | Outbound agency | SDR hire | AI SDR tool | LinkedIn or ghostwriting agency | Senecia |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price a month | About $3,000 to $10,000 (estimated) | About $8,000 to $14,000 fully loaded | Estimated $1,500 to $3,750, billed yearly | About $1,000 to $7,000 | $249, $499 or $999 |
| Contract | Usually 3 to 6 month minimum | Hiring, notice periods | Usually annual | Often 90 days or a retainer | Month to month, no setup fee |
| Leaders’ posts (authority) | Rarely | No | No | Ghostwriting: yes. Lead gen: rarely | 10 to 20 a month, never more than one a day |
| LinkedIn outreach | Often | Yes | Some tools | Lead gen agencies: yes | Comments, requests and DMs to the whole list, from Pipeline |
| Cold email | Yes | Yes | Yes | Rarely | About 1,000 ICP buyers a month, on Meetings |
| Website visitors | Rarely | Rarely | Some tools | No | Identified and reached, on Meetings |
| Whose voice | The agency’s SDRs | The SDR’s | A generic AI sender | Yours, on posts | Your leaders’, across every channel |
| Who handles replies | Their SDRs | Your SDR | The tool, or you | You | Our team, and we book meetings on Meetings |
| Promised numbers | Often a meetings target | A quota | Often pipeline claims | Varies | None. You see the work instead |
Ranges are estimates from third-party reviews and agency guides (Belkins, CIENCE, Leadium, SalesRoads, Callbox, Cleverly, 11x and Artisan do not publish full pricing), plus typical US SDR salary, tools and management. Check before you sign.
Where the difference really is
- One list, four channels. Agencies run outreach. Ghostwriters run posts. Senecia aims your leaders’ posts, LinkedIn outreach, cold email and site visitor follow-up at the same ICP buyer list, so buyers know your name before the message arrives.
- Your leaders’ voice. An agency’s SDRs and an AI SDR send as strangers. We write as your founder and leaders, and you approve every post.
- AI-led, run by people. AI drafts, finds and enriches buyers, reads signals, sends and sorts replies. A strategist sets positioning, ICP and messaging, our team reviews outreach before it goes and handles every reply.
- No lock-in. No retainer, no 3 to 6 month minimum, no annual contract. If it is not working, you stop.
- What you see. Every post, request, DM, email and reply sits in your private dashboard. No promised numbers, just the work in plain view.
Questions to ask any provider
- What exactly do I get each month: how many posts, requests, emails and comments?
- Whose voice does the outreach use, and who reads it before it goes?
- Who replies to buyers, and how fast?
- What is the minimum term, setup fee and notice period?
- Can I see every message sent in my name?
- Walk away from anyone who promises a fixed number of leads or meetings and will not tell you their daily volumes.
Who should still pick an agency or an SDR
You need cold calling, a team working a large market every day, or a meetings quota you can manage against. Or you have a proven offer and budget to scale with ads. Then a specialist agency or an in-house SDR earns its cost. See outsourced SDR alternatives and the best B2B lead generation companies.
Everyone else gets leads and authority in one plan from Senecia, from $249 a month. See plans.
Leads and authority, through your leaders. From $249 a month.
Your leaders’ posts, LinkedIn outreach, cold email and your site visitors, all aimed at one list of your ICP buyers. AI does the volume, people review it. No setup fee, no minimum term.
Revenue as clients report it. Not a promised result.
Questions about Senecia vs agencies
Is Senecia an agency?
Not in the usual sense. It runs like software: AI does the volume work, people set the strategy, review outreach and handle replies. Fixed work every month, monthly billing, no retainer and no minimum term.
How is Senecia cheaper than an agency or an SDR hire?
AI drafts posts, finds and enriches buyers, reads signals, sends outreach and sorts replies. People spend their time on positioning, review and conversations. That is why plans are $249, $499 and $999 a month, against about $3,000 to $10,000 for an outbound agency.
Does Senecia book meetings like an agency?
On the Meetings plan our team replies to buyers and books meetings from LinkedIn, email and your site visitors. We do not promise a number of meetings. You see every touch and reply in your dashboard.
Does Senecia guarantee results?
No. Nobody can honestly promise a number of leads or meetings, and we do not. We commit to the work, and you can see all of it.
Is an AI SDR tool cheaper?
Sometimes on paper, but AI SDR tools such as 11x and Artisan are usually sold on annual contracts, estimated at $18,000 to $45,000 a year, and they write as a generic sender. Senecia keeps your leaders’ voice and people in the loop, month to month.
Can I cancel?
Yes. Every plan is month to month, with no setup fee and no minimum term.