Do you actually share the call recordings?
Yes. Every dial. We dial inside Close, so every recording, transcript, and CRM record lands in your portal the same day — no spreadsheet glued on. The agencies that don't share calls are usually the ones whose calls embarrass them. Listen to a few of ours →
What counts as a "conversation"?
A two-way exchange of more than 60 seconds that gives us real intelligence — buyer pain, current solution, timing, budget signals. Voicemail doesn't count. "Take me off the list" doesn't count. We track this honestly because it's how we prove the pilot is working and earn the move to outcomes.
Do you offer a pilot?
Yes — every engagement starts hourly. The minimum is a 10-hour block ($2,000 USD), and you scale up to 40 hours in 10-hour blocks, two weeks at a time. Bring your own clean, validated list and that's the whole bill; if you want us to source or validate it, add data & phone validation at $0.65 USD/contact (~1,000 contacts to start ≈ $650). Every call is recorded and in your portal the same day, and you own the list, the recordings, and the script at the end.
We bill on time, not a meeting count, on purpose — the whole point of going hourly is to find out what we can actually guarantee for your market before anyone promises a number. The hours show us your real connect and booking rates. Once those are solid, we can move to outcome pricing — $750 USD per qualified meeting held, or a $5,000 USD/month retainer. Until then you pay for time and see every call.
What's the data & phone validation add-on?
It's $0.65 USD per contact, and it's optional. If you bring a list that's already clean and validated, skip it. If you don't have a list — or you're not sure your numbers are any good — we source it and run a full process down to a verified mobile for every contact before we dial. That's what guarantees a 20–40% pickup rate instead of the 8–12% you get dialing raw data, so you get more conversations per hour and reach outcomes faster. We usually suggest starting with ~1,000 contacts (≈ $650). For this to work you need a real market — at least 2,000 of the right people, ideally 10,000+ ICP companies or job titles. The validated list is yours to keep.
How is this different from a typical SDR agency?
Most agencies sell volume — dials per day, emails per week — and treat their script as IP. We sell conversation quality, share every call, and once it's proven we bill on meetings booked, not dials. Smaller list. Senior caller. Live portal with every recording. Script pivots in real-time when the data says so — not at contract renewal.
What does an SDR actually cost vs this?
An in-house SDR isn't $60k — once you count employer burden, recruiting, tools, ramp loss, and management time, year one lands around $108k, with a 35% chance they quit inside 12 months. Coda starts at a $2,000 USD 10-hour block (with your own validated list), or about $2,650 USD for a full-service start (the same 10 hours plus ~1,000 sourced & verified contacts at $0.65 USD each), and scales to a $5,000 USD+/month outcome model only once it's proven — first conversations land within a week, and there's no rep churn to absorb. Run your own numbers →
Can you guarantee a number of meetings?
In the hourly phase, no — those hours exist to find what actually works, honestly, and we bill the time, not a number. But once we prove a 10% conversation-to-meeting rate, you move to outcomes: $750 USD per qualified meeting, and you only pay for meetings that actually hold with the right person. No-shows and wrong-fits are replaced, not billed. We won't guarantee meetings we haven't proven we can book — that's how we avoid the garbage-intro game other agencies play to hit a number.
What if I want to bring this in-house later?
Take it. We'll hand over the playbook, the list-building process, the call recordings, the scripts. We'd rather lose you to your own systems than lock you in. Same goes for the stack we run — Close, FullEnrich, ConnectRate.ai, Claude. No proprietary lock-in.
Do you do email and LinkedIn?
No. Cold calling is the core motion — that's where we're best. Email follow-ups happen naturally after a conversation (recap, brief, scheduling), but we don't run email or LinkedIn sequences.