Pipedrive knows who needs a call. Nobody makes it.
Rotting is one of the few features people actually configure: set a number of days per stage, and Pipedrive marks the deals nobody has touched. It works perfectly and changes nothing, because the deals still need someone to pick up the phone, and the reps are working the deals that are moving.
A Retell AI agent can make that call. A deal that rots, or a lead that lands out of hours, gets a call with your questions and your booking rules; the summary goes on the deal, the stage moves or an activity is created, and a rep only steps in where there is something to step into. The connection is the part that has to be careful, because Pipedrive counts automations — 50, 150 or 250 active ones depending on plan, none at all on Lite, and 10 actions per path — so this cannot be built as a sprawl of automations nobody can later untangle.