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Peter Jackman

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Why AI-Booked Meetings Show Up Less (And How to Close the Show-Rate Gap)

At a glance: Meetings booked by AI SDRs show up less often than meetings booked by humans — one head-to-head test reported a 71% show rate for human-booked meetings versus 52% for AI-booked ones. The gap is not a mystery: it comes from weak expectation-setting, lower perceived commitment, calendar-stuffing incentives and thin qualification. It closes when the agent is optimised for held meetings r

What this covers

  • How big is the AI-vs-human show-rate gap?
  • Why AI-booked meetings show up less
  • 1. Weaker expectation-setting
  • 2. Lower perceived commitment
  • 3. Calendar-stuffing incentives

This is a technical summary. The full guide — with the tables and worked examples — is on our site: *Why AI-Booked Meetings Show Up Less (And How to Close the Show-Rate Gap)*.

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