Sheetgo vs Artisan

An AI sales rep, or virtual employees across your operations

Both offer AI workers with a name and a job. Artisan’s Ava is an AI BDR that finds leads, sends outreach, and books meetings. Sheetgo Virtual Employees cover operational roles across your organization, including sales operations, finance, and inventory. They work in the Google Sheets files your team owns, with governed access and human approval for consequential actions.

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The short answer

Choose by the job you need covered

Artisan focuses on outbound sales. Sheetgo Virtual Employees handle operational jobs across departments. Sheetgo sets up and trains each role with your team to work on your own data.

Choose Sheetgo if

✓You need the process built, not only an agent
Sheetgo maps your process in a discovery call, builds its workflows, data, and reports in your spreadsheets, then trains the virtual employee that runs it.
✓You need help beyond outbound sales
Sheetgo has roles for lead generation, sales operations, finance, inventory, HR, and reporting, plus custom roles.
✓Your operations run on spreadsheets
Virtual employees read, update, and automate the Google Sheets files your team already owns. Sheetgo does not keep a separate copy of your data.
✓You need control over what it does
Each virtual employee sees only the sheets you grant access to and logs every action. A person approves anything consequential.

Choose Artisan if

✓Outbound prospecting is the job
Ava finds and enriches leads from Artisan’s own contact database, sends personalized messages, and books meetings.
✓You want a guided rollout
Every Artisan plan includes onboarding sessions and CSM support.
✓You want control over outreach messages
Artisan has approval mode, tone and call-to-action locks, banned phrases, and escalation rules for each campaign.

At a glance

Sheetgo and Artisan side by side

Sheetgo

Artisan

Best for

Organizations with operational jobs across departments

Sales teams automating outbound prospecting

Roles

Lead generation, sales operations, finance, inventory, HR, reporting, and custom roles

Ava, an AI BDR

Setup

Sheetgo sets up and trains each role with your team

White-glove rollout with CSM support on every plan; a strategist on Enterprise

What gets built

A discovery call, then the process built in your spreadsheets, plus the virtual employee that runs it

Ava, an outbound sales agent, with CSM support and guided onboarding

Where it works

Requests and reports in Slack, Gemini Enterprise, and Google Chat

Reps’ mailboxes; Slack performance updates

Your data

Your own Google Sheets and Drive; Sheetgo keeps no copy

Contact database; two-way Salesforce and HubSpot sync

Oversight

Human approval for consequential actions; every action logged

Approval mode and campaign message controls

Governance

Sees only the sheets you grant; every action logged; data stays in your Google Workspace; US or EU AI processing

SOC 2 Type II; SSO, SAML, and audit logs listed for Enterprise

Pricing model

Per virtual employee; implementation and training included

Startup plans by credits, from a free plan; business plans sized to lead volume

What the price covers

A whole role run end to end, such as the full money cycle or inventory; setup, training, and ongoing evaluation by the Sheetgo team included

One sales role, an AI BDR, sized by the number of leads contacted

Competitor prices as of October 2026. Sheetgo Virtual Employees are priced per role for your team; talk to us for a quote.

Frequently asked questions

What teams ask before they choose

What is the difference between Sheetgo and Artisan?

Artisan’s Ava is an AI BDR. She finds leads, sends outreach from your reps’ mailboxes, and books meetings. Sheetgo Virtual Employees cover operational roles across your organization. The Sheetgo team sets up and trains each role to work on your own Google Sheets files and report in Slack, Gemini Enterprise, or Google Chat.

Does Sheetgo build the process, or only the agent?

Sheetgo builds both. A discovery call maps how your team works today, the problems you face, and what you need. Sheetgo then builds the process in your own spreadsheets, including workflows, data, and reports. It also sets up and trains the virtual employee that runs it.

Does Sheetgo have a sales virtual employee?

Yes. The team includes a Lead Generation Specialist and a Sales Operations Specialist, alongside roles for finance, inventory, HR, and reporting. They work on your own Google Sheets files and take requests and report back in Slack, Gemini Enterprise, or Google Chat.

Does Artisan offer AI employees beyond sales?

Yes. The same company now offers Artie, a separate self-serve platform of AI employees for roles such as marketing, recruiting, and engineering. See Sheetgo vs Artie.

Where does our data live?

Your data stays in your own Google Sheets files and Google Drive, under your Google Workspace admin controls. Sheetgo does not keep a separate copy, and neither Sheetgo nor its AI providers train general AI models on your data. You can choose the United States or Europe for AI processing. Sheetgo also operates an accredited European Data Space suitable for EU data sovereignty requirements.

How long does it take to start?

Onboarding starts in days. Sheetgo matches roles to your jobs, then sets up and trains each virtual employee with your team. The subscription includes implementation, training, and ongoing evaluation.

What do you get for the price of a virtual employee?

A whole role, not a tool to configure. Owen Billings, for example, sends quotes and invoices, matches payments against the bank feed, books bills, tracks budget against actuals, and projects cash flow. The Sheetgo team sets him up, trains him with your team, and keeps evaluating his work, all within the subscription.

Is Sheetgo new to AI agents?

Sheetgo’s Virtual Employees are new. They run on the same platform that 5 million users rely on for spreadsheet workflows. Each comes trained on a decade of Sheetgo’s field experience. A person approves anything consequential, and Sheetgo logs every action.

How are Sheetgo Virtual Employees priced?

Sheetgo prices the subscription per virtual employee for your team. We show the role running on your own data before providing a quote. Implementation, training, and ongoing evaluation are included.

Find a virtual employee for your team

Talk to us about the job you need covered, or meet the team of virtual employees to explore the roles. We can help match a role to your team’s work and show it running on your own data before providing a quote.

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