How big a human team would it take to match the engine?
Drag the slider to scale a traditional sourcing team (callers, dialers, operations) and compare it with one origination engine running one, two or three mandates in parallel. Cost catches up long before output does.
The assumptions behind the bars.
Every input is anchored to a published industry benchmark, not a vendor pitch deck. The chart shows where a human-staffed sourcing team keeps up and where it cannot.
- ~600 personalised cold emails
- ~1,100 outbound dials (≈50 per working day, net of gatekeepers, voicemail and admin overhead)
- ~280 unique targets meaningfully touched across multiple channels
- ~$7,500 fully-loaded monthly cost (salary, benefits, tooling, management overhead, ramp)
- ~30,000 warm emails across 50 authenticated sending domains
- ~105,000 outbound dials (~4,800/day across the bot network, 22 working days)
- ~12,000 unique targets touched in coordinated cadences
- ~$20,000 fully-loaded monthly engine cost, per mandate
Atlas scales into a second parallel mandate past 50 humans on the comparison side, and a third past 100, modelling the way the engine scales when a firm runs more theses at once. The cost line crosses Atlas long before output catches up.
Talk through your own numbers.
Thirty minutes with the managing partner. Bring the thesis (sector, size band, geography) and we will show what the engine would map for it.