What Is Autopilot AI and Should You Use It in 2025?

Eugene Suslov 11 May 2025

AI is rapidly evolving with new technology and software that transform modern businesses across all industries and departments. Last year, AI was assisting professionals in their work. Nowadays, professionals delegate entire workflows to AI, and it’s looking promising.

One of the latest trending buzzwords in the scene is “AI Autopilot” tools that promise end-to-end automation for all kinds of business processes, with little human oversight.

As a result, numerous companies rushed to name their new sub-products or features ‘AI Autopilot’ to position themselves as early adopters of this tech.

We’ve found this present in all kinds of software, from marketing ad platforms and sales prospecting engines to inbound customer support.

But the main question is: “Are AI Autopilots worth the hype?”, especially given the already-existing AI agents that not only handle certain business processes but integrate as fully-fledged employees into your teams.

Let’s break down the key players offering AI autopilot tools and features and explain exactly what they do for your business, and whether they’re worth investing in.

What is AI Autopilot?

In general, AI Autopilot is an umbrella term that refers to software that automates entire workflows or processes without constant human intervention. Instead of having to explicitly direct every action, these AI systems take full ownership of these tasks by making data-driven decisions.

The main selling point of Autopilot AI is that it can handle routine, time-consuming tasks at scale, so your team can focus on the higher-value strategic and creative tasks at hand.

Key benefits of AI Autopilot include:

Saving time → by automating repetitive tasks, teams can save hours of manual work to handle more customers, campaigns, tickets, etc.
Scalability → AI bots can work 24/7 and handle large volumes of tasks without fatigue or dropping in quality.
Consistency → an AI autopilot tool consistently applies best practices for top-quality output and continuously optimizes its work by learning on the job (for example, tweaking ads based on their performance for better ROI).
Strategic focus → by delegating monotonous tasks to AI autopilots, professionals can focus their efforts on creative, strategic, and other high-impact work.

In short, think of an Autopilot AI tool as a virtual AI assistant that handles certain job functions, just like a human employee would.

We’ll now explore some of the top AI Autopilot software on the market, and then take a look at how they compare with dedicated AI Agents to better understand their value and performance. But first…

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The top AI Autopilot products in 2025

First off, let’s explore the main products that have incorporated AI Autopilot technology and see what they actually do for each part of the business funnel. We’ve found examples that cover marketing, sales, customer support, and general productivity to get a better understanding of how they work in different scenarios.

Autopilot AI by Simpli.fi

First up, we have Simpli.fi’s Autopilot AI which is designed to help marketers who want to improve and automate their digital ad campaigns. It’s a self-service advertising platform that uses AI to run programmatic campaigns across multiple channels with minimal setup. In essence, it promises to act like a virtual media buyer.

According to Simpli.fi’s press materials, Autopilot AI is an “innovative AI-powered platform” that lets advertisers “plan, launch, and monitor targeted ad campaigns in a few minutes, with no training”. In practice, the tool integrates with e-commerce platforms (Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, etc.) and guides the user through a full-funnel strategy:

Brand insights → upon sign-up, Autopilot generates a quick “brand cheat sheet” with recommended keywords, categories, and audience personas.
Audience builder → the AI analyzes Simpli.fi’s vast data library (over hundreds of millions of contacts) to pinpoint the most relevant and targeted personas to drive brand awareness.
Campaign builder → once targets are set, Autopilot automatically sets up, monitors, and optimizes the campaign across your desired channels.
Omnichannel reach → you can run the ads across multiple media (CTV, audio, video, web display, social, etc.) all from one interface.
Transparent reporting → a dedicated dashboard that shows real-time results (impressions, clicks, conversions), enabling you to track performance and make the necessary adjustments in real time.

This bundle of features by Simpli.fi is impressive, empowering small marketing teams to make the most of their advertising budget by delegating virtually the entire ad operation to AI, without the need for numerous specialists.

Simpli.fi claims that any budget can be used, even as little as a few hundred dollars, and users can kickstart their campaigns in under 5 minutes, while the system will keep automatically adjusting bids and placements.

After some digging to find reviews from verified users, we found that Temporary Residence Limited (a record label) said Autopilot AI drove millions of impressions at competitive CPMs to help them sell out their concert tickets.

There are numerous other positive case studies available, with another retailer reporting a 464% return on ad spend, thanks to automated targeting and optimization. These anecdotes suggest Simpli.fi’s marketing claim holds up—Autopilot AI delivers strong awareness and conversion without the usual tedious manual campaign-building.

Any business with an online audience can leverage Simpli.fi’s AI Autopilot to discover the best customer segment for ad targeting, launching ads on the most relevant channels, and ultimately driving traffic. In all cases, marketers will spend far less time designing the campaign while AI handles the heavy lifting.

Autopilot by Seamless.AI

Next up, we have the AI Autopilot by Seamless.ai which focuses on the very top of the sales funnel—building targeted prospect lists. It’s no secret that sales and marketing teams often spend numerous hours manually looking for potential leads, which is no easy task. In fact, there are numerous AI lead generation tools designed specifically for this complex process.

With Seamless.AI’, you can simply define your target criteria (by industry, job title, location, etc.), enable the “Autopilot” feature, and the system will scrape the web to compile thousands of contacts with verified emails and phone numbers.

In practice, Autopilot by Seamless works something like this—you tell it, for example, to “Find all marketing directors at fintech companies in California.” The AI then continuously searches internal and external databases, LinkedIn, news sources, and other data sources to find all the contacts that fit your criteria.

According to Seamless.ai, it can build lists of “1,000, 10,000, or even 100,000 contacts in minutes”, which can be a huge time-saver for sales teams. As a result, they get bulk lists of validated emails and phone numbers which can then be exported directly into your CRM or cold outreach tools.

The business value is clear—Seamless’s AI Autopilot creates steady funnels of fresh, targeted leads, with virtually zero effort from the user.

As one user puts it: “Seamless.AI has become an indispensable tool in my workflow. The platform’s ability to generate accurate and comprehensive contact data quickly is exceptional. I appreciate how it streamlines prospecting, allowing me to build targeted lists effortlessly.”

There are numerous other testimonials from sales professionals out there that all highlight a common trend—Autopilot spares them from tedious data entry and prospecting so they can focus on crafting effective cold emails and building meaningful relationships with buyers.

The only thing to keep in mind is that, while Seamless’s AI Autopilot is impressive, its powers are limited to prospect list-building, whereas dedicated AI sales agents like Jason AI can not only identify prospects, but also generate personalized outreach campaigns at scale, handle responses, and book meetings on your behalf (more on that shortly).

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AI Autopilot by TheLoops

Moving on from sales and marketing, we step into customer service operations with the AI Autopilot by TheLoops. Think of this as a virtual support agent that lives on your website and helps customers solve their issues, either by offering actionable tips to get the job done on their own, or automating customer support ticket workflows.

By providing instant, context-aware answers and self-service options, TheLoops’ AI Autopilot empowers customers to get their issues resolved faster, all while reducing the manual ticket volume for support teams.

Here’s a closer look at its main features:

Smart resolution suggestions → this AI autopilot tool thoroughly understands the context of each customer’s issue, and then analyzes historical support data, existing help articles, and knowledge databases to suggest the most appropriate answers.
Contextual responses → it will tailor its responses based on the customer’s previous interactions, reducing duplicate tickets. For instance, if the customer in question has already chatted about their order in the past, the AI will remember that context.
Seamless ticket creation → if the AI can’t fully resolve an issue or believes it would be best to assign a human agent, it will automatically generate a support ticket with all the details (customer info, issue summary), ensuring that nothing is lost in the handoff.
Configurable embedding → TheLoops can be seamlessly integrated as an interactive widget, such as a chatbot, expanded help menu, etc., on your website, community pages, and so on, to make the customer experience more accessible and enjoyable.

In summary, TheLoops’ AI Autopilot handles the entire front-end of support, answering FAQs, troubleshooting common issues, and escalating complex cases when needed.

If your business handles a lot of inbound support queries, this may be a natural addition to your existing tool stack. Once again, the only thing to keep in mind is that there are numerous dedicated AI Chatbots that may have even more impressive features, depending on the scope of your customer support needs.

Microsoft Autopilot AI

Lastly, let’s take a look at the Microsoft Autopilot AI—a third-party add-on by Smart Barn Technologies. We’ll keep it brief since it’s a pretty simple and straightforward piece of software, only relevant to existing Microsoft users.

Despite the name, this is not Microsoft’s Copilot—their proprietary generative ChatGPT alternative.

Instead, this “Autopilot” is essentially a generative AI integration inside the Office apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).

According to the AppSource listing, Autopilot “seamlessly integrates into your favorite applications, enhancing your creativity and productivity with cutting-edge AI”.

It allows you to integrate GPT-4, Google Gemini, and other models directly in Office to automate content generation. For example, in Word, you might ask it to draft a report section or rephrase text, in Excel, it could suggest formulas or analyze data, while in PowerPoint, it might generate design slides.

If your business already uses the Microsoft suite, this could potentially be a decent addition to your tool stack, but in all honesty, leveraging a more powerful generative AI tool like ChatGPT or even Microsoft’s own Copilot may be the better choice, even though it involves switching tabs.

AI Autopilot vs AI Agent

We’ve explored AI autopilot tools that automate single segments of the business funnel. Now, what if you want a fully autonomous AI engine that runs across entire operations?

This is where next-generation AI Agents come in. Instead of niche autopilots, these are end-to-end AI assistants that join your sales, marketing, and customer support teams and become new (and trainable) members of the workforce.

This is especially prominent in modern sales, where AI sales agents, also known as AI SDRs, can identify targeted buyers, engage them with personalized outreach, and nurture leads toward a purchase.

One of the top AI sales agents on the market is Jason AI—built to act as a fully-fledged and highly intelligent SDR on autopilot.

To best understand how these AI Agents compare to AI Autopilot tools, let’s take a closer look at how Jason AI measures up against Seamless.ai’s Autopilot (the sales autopilot tech we covered above).

Here are the key reasons why Jason AI would be the more suitable option for sales teams:

While Seamless.ai helps users build prospect lists, Jason AI finds targeted buyers on your behalf from over 1 billion contacts, along with enriched data for comprehensive customer profiles;
Jason AI enables users to create tailored multichannel sequences for each unique lead, including emails, LinkedIn, SMS, calls, and more;
Jason AI hyper-personalizes each message by researching relevant prospect and/or company data from external sources and staying alert for any shifts or intent signals;
Jason AI handles responses on your behalf by answering questions, handling common objections, and booking meetings on your behalf, something that no AI Autopilot could dream of doing!
AI SDRs like Jason AI are highly trainable—as they learn more about your product, customers, what kinds of channels & messages produce the best results, etc. — they only get more effective over time;
Brand new AI SDR Playbooks that enable you to train your AI sales agent to sell exactly how you want it to;
Powerful analytics, email deliverability, and many more features that supercharge every sales team.

All in all, if you’re looking for a lightweight AI tool to delegate a certain process that takes up too much time—AI Autopilot tools like the ones we covered in this article will get the job done just fine.

However, if you’re serious about integrating AI into your core business operations, we’d highly recommend you consider standalone AI agents and AI multi-agents, especially for your sales and marketing operations.

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The state of AI technology in 2025

From Autopilot software to powerful email assistants, AI tools are only getting more impressive by the day—it’s almost like every time you’ve caught up on the latest trends, new AI tech has come to life.

AI Autopilot tools are great products that enable businesses to delegate entire processes with no concern for the quality of output. In 2025, there are options for every business department created for different needs.

These tools have the power to significantly drive productivity and efficiency while ensuring data-driven precision in every task they perform.

However, it’s important to remember that while AI Autopilot tools are great at what they do, these solutions are focused on individual tasks, automating just a slice of your workflow.

If you’re looking to take it to the next level, we highly recommend you consider incorporating AI agents into your business. Once trained, they can handle entire workflows no worse than your human workforce, 24/7.

So, are AI Autopilot tools worth the investment in 2025? Absolutely. But depending on your business needs, you may be better off with a standalone AI Agent like Jason AI.

If you’re ready to explore them in practice, we invite you to book a demo of Jason AI and see a live example of a full-funnel sales autopilot. It’s the most complete, scalable AI sales agent on the market, and it could be the competitive edge your team needs to achieve new heights.