Day AI story
Day AI was founded in 2023 by Christopher O'Donnell and Michael Pici, both ex HubSpot leadership. The company raised a $13M seed and then a $20M Series A led by Sequoia in 2025. Total $33M, which puts them in the well funded modern CRM bucket alongside Attio and Lightfield.
Their pitch is sharper than most. They call the product CRMx and position context as the primary interface for both humans and AI agents. The bet is that agents will do more and more of the CRM work over time, so the data model and the UI should be built for agents from day one. Some media have called them the Cursor of CRM.
Day AI vs Breakcold in 2026
Both products belong on every modern AI native CRM shortlist and we end up in the same evaluations every week. The honest split is audience and channels.
Day AI is built for venture backed startups and high growth teams that live inside Slack and Google Workspace. The context graph and the agent first model are designed for that motion. Breakcold is built for SMB sales teams of 2 to 50 that actually run the sales day across more channels than email and calls. Breakcold is the only sales CRM that natively integrates email, calls, meetings, LinkedIn, Telegram and WhatsApp in one unified inbox, all syncing on their own, with conversations stitched to the right record on their own.
The agent and MCP angle
Day AI is one of the few products that genuinely deserves the agent first label. The context graph is real, the agent model is the product, and the team comes from HubSpot so they know what enterprise CRM weight feels like.
Breakcold takes a slightly different bet. Instead of one in house agent built around our own context, we ship a first party MCP server with 50 plus tools across 17 AI clients like Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and Cowork. The agent you already pay for becomes the surface, the CRM becomes the canvas. The same MCP exposes the multichannel inbox, so an agent can read a LinkedIn thread, reply on WhatsApp, log a meeting and move the deal in one run.
Day AI pricing vs Breakcold pricing
Day AI pricing is custom. The company has not published per seat numbers and steers prospects to a sales conversation. Early signs point to a usage based model that scales with agent activity, which can get expensive fast if your team leans on agents heavily.
Breakcold runs on one $59 per month base plan with one seat and one channel account included, plus unlimited enrichment at $0 token cost. Extra seats are $10 per month, extra accounts are $10 per month. A 5 person team on Breakcold is $59 + 4 x $10 = $99 per month, every channel and every AI feature in. No usage meter, no sales call required to see the number.
When to pick Day AI over Breakcold
If you are a venture backed startup with a Sequoia size budget, your sales motion is Slack plus Google Workspace plus email, you want to bet on a single agent first product from a credible team, and you do not need LinkedIn, WhatsApp or Telegram in the inbox, Day AI is a reasonable bet. They earn the pitch.
If you are a 2 to 50 person SMB sales team, you sell across LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Telegram and email, you want the same agent first behavior through MCP, and you would rather pay $99 per month flat than book a sales call to learn the price, Breakcold is the better answer. For a wider view of the category, read our AI native CRM overview or our best CRMs for AI agents round up.
