How Idomoo Cut Sequence Creation Time by 75% Without Losing the Human Touch

Delaney Beam worried AI would make her outreach feel robotic. Instead, Apollo helped her save more than 45 minutes per sequence and increase outreach volume by 465%.
Katie Parkes
by Katie Parkes
Published on Mar 18, 2026
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Idomoo Sales Development Representative Delaney Beam built her career on the belief that sales requires a human touch. She feared AI threatened that approach.

“When AI started showing up in sales, I was honestly terrified,” Delaney remembers.

Delaney used to spend over an hour meticulously crafting every sequence to ensure it felt personal, but got stuck trying to scale that approach. Using Apollo to bring the entire prospecting workflow into one place saved hours of manual effort and made scaling possible.

Now, Delaney sends 5x more emails while maintaining a 6% response rate. What was once a manual grind is now an efficient, repeatable playbook with Apollo.

The perfectionist’s bottleneck

At enterprise video tech company, Idomoo, authenticity is the product, not just a preference. That’s why Delaney has always leaned into the human element of sales development and outreach. It’s also why she approached the rise of AI in sales with a heavy dose of skepticism. 

“Originally, I was super apprehensive of AI because I felt like it was going to replace the humanistic element that I like to bring to sales," Delaney explains.

This commitment to authenticity was hard to sustain. Delaney would spend 45–60 minutes building a single hyper-personalized sequence, manually inputting prospect details and obsessing over the tone, voice, and sentiment to ensure it felt conversational.

While her outreach was high quality, it was impossible to scale. She was trapped in a cycle of manual work that drained her internal motivation and limited Idomoo’s reach.

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I thought AI would turn my outreach into a robotic spray-and-pray mess. Instead, it scaled my voice.

- Delaney Beam, SDR

Teaching AI to sound like her

The turning point came when Delaney stopped viewing AI as a replacement and started using it to accelerate her work. Instead of jumping between disparate tools, she consolidated her entire workflow within Apollo. By qualifying segments, building lists, and generating sequences in one place, she eliminated the effort of jumping between tabs and programs.

The breakthrough wasn’t just in the automation, but in the control. 

Delaney began feeding the Apollo AI Assistant her pitch, tone, and style, along with specific goals, framework, and targeted vertical. By sharing that context, including a blacklist of specific buzzwords like “synergy” to avoid, Apollo builds multi-step sequences that sound and feel just like her — not a corporate handbook.

“Apollo takes everything I share and creates the sequence for me in a matter of minutes,” Delaney explains. 

This acceleration allowed her to move from building one sequence an hour to launching multiple hyper-personalized campaigns a day whenever mandates change.

Something that used to take me an hour now takes me 10 minutes.

- Delaney Beam, SDR

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5x the outreach, same personal voice

Within five months of adopting the Apollo AI Assistant, Delaney’s outreach volume skyrocketed 465%.

Despite the boost in volume, engagement stayed high. By using AI to segment lists and address the exact pain points of specific verticals, Delaney maintained the high response rates typically reserved for low-volume manual outreach. Her first targeted batch with the AI Assistant saw a 6% response rate, and she booked her first meeting within 24 hours of launching the sequence.

“I’m sending 5x the emails I used to, and they’re still hyper-personalized,” Delaney notes. 

Beyond the hard numbers, consolidating her tech stack has eliminated the “brain drain” of manual research. With the ability to prospect, conduct outreach, and analyze performance in one place, she has more time to focus on what she loves: building deep connections with clients.

The results

  • 465% more emails sent: Delaney grew her monthly email volume while keeping the unique tone that makes her successful.
  • 6% response rate: achieved through hyper-personalized AI-generated sequences tailored to specific vertical pain points.
  • Meeting booked within 24 hours: Booking a meeting on day one proves how effective an AI-assisted sequence can be.
  • Reclaims 45+ minutes per sequence: Faster end-to-end workflows allow Delaney to pivot strategies and launch new campaigns in less than 15 minutes rather than an hour.

No longer afraid of AI, Delaney is now a champion for tech stack consolidation. Apollo has become the foundation of her daily life and she views her experience as a blueprint for the future.

“Using Apollo’s AI assistant has revolutionized how I think about my role as an SDR,” she says. “Apollo’s AI assistant didn’t replace my voice. It amplified it.”

AI didn’t make me less consultative. It made me faster.

- Delaney Beam, SDR


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