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OpenRouter's Rasp sales agent returns about 600 hours a month to a five-person team

OpenRouter built Rasp, an in-house agent that qualifies inbound leads, drafts first emails, writes call briefs and fills the CRM. The company reports about 600 hours a month saved at about $30 a day.

Organization
OpenRouter
Industry
AI infrastructure
When
Oct 2026
Evidence
Company reported
Agents and tools
OriGLM 5.2Slack

Reported outcome

About 600 hours a month returned to the sales team and a 34% faster deal cycle, at about $30 a day, per OpenRouter. The post says not all of the gain is Rasp.

  • ~600 (company)
    Hours returned per month
  • ~$30 (company)
    Cost per day
  • 34% faster (company)
    Deal cycle
  • 93% (company)
    First-touch emails sent without help

Caveats

Stated by the company that uses the agent (blog, earnings call, interview). Not independently audited.

  • OpenRouter says close-rate gains happened at the same time as pricing and market changes, so 'not all of this is Rasp'.
  • The post is the company's own marketing, and the numbers come from its internal data.
  • Follow-ups, re-engaging quiet deals and dropped-deal detection are still done by hand.
  • The post has small inconsistencies, for example the per-call time savings add to about 40 minutes while the text says about an hour.

What the agent does

Rasp researches and qualifies inbound leads, sends first-touch emails, writes a pre-call brief, drafts notes from call transcripts and fills most CRM fields. It flags edge cases and sensitive items for a person to approve. Slack is the place where briefs, drafts and flags show up.

Why this works

The work it takes over is prep and paperwork around sales calls, not the calls. People keep calls, negotiation and final approval. OpenRouter also built it as one pipeline with a feature flag on each feature and metrics logged from day one.

What to copy

  • Automate the prep and notes, and keep the human on the call.
  • Put each new feature behind a flag that starts off.
  • Log cost and time saved from the start, and say when other changes may explain a result.

Starter prompt

Written by us, not by OpenRouter.

Lead form: {lead_form}
Company website text: {site_text}

1. Is this a sales lead, a support question, or spam? Say why in one line.
2. If sales: write a 5-line pre-call brief (who they are, what they asked, likely need, 2 questions to ask).
3. Draft a short first email. Mark it NEEDS_REVIEW if the lead is large, unusual, or sensitive.

Sources

  1. How an AI Sales Agent Saved Our Sales Team 600 Hours a Month — OpenRouter, Oct 7, 2026

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