Is AI Lead Qualification for Cold Outreach Already Solved?

Quick validation question for the group:

Agencies doing cold email outreach get 50-200+ replies/week but struggle to respond fast and qualify them properly. I'm seeing tools like Lemlist AI, Instantly, Smartlead doing basic auto-responses.

My question: Is there still a gap for intelligent qualification (asking budget/timeline, routing hot leads, booking qualified meetings), or is this already solved?

Would agencies still pay for this?

Thinking about building a custom qualifier using n8n + open ai API, but don't want to build something that already exists.

For those building in this space: Real need or saturated market?

Honest feedback appreciated! 🙏

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