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Written by people who actually dial.

Teardowns of real call recordings. Playbooks pulled from customer transcripts. Honest experiments that didn't always work.

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"It calls the second they fill the form."
Featured · Customer story

How Roof Pros shut down their 4-person SDR team in six weeks.

A teardown of the transcripts, the numbers, and what the founder would do differently if he started over. Includes the actual call recording.

By Marin Cole · Head of CustomerMay 12, 2026 · 8 min read
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The 9-second opener that out-dials humans
AI calling

The 9-second opener that beat our human SDR script.

After 11,200 calls, here's the opener that landed transfers 38% better than our top-performing human script. With audio.

Marin ColeMay 8 · 6 min
A field guide to TCPA in 2026
Sales playbooks

A plain-English field guide to TCPA in 2026.

What changed in the FCC rules this March, which lists are now off-limits, and how to keep your spam-score clean across phone pools.

Priya ShahMay 4 · 12 min
Apollo + intent signals, ranked
Lead gen

We tested 9 lead sources. Only 3 paid back.

$48k spent across Apollo, ZoomInfo, intent vendors, and a few scrappier scrapers. Connect rate, cost per qualified lead, and which we kept.

Andre ColeApr 30 · 9 min
What's new in Hunter v2.4
Product updates

Hunter v2.4 — persona templates, smarter retries, faster transfers.

Sub-6-second warm transfers, 14 persona templates for common B2B roles, and a 2x reduction in voicemail false-positives.

Sasha LiuApr 24 · 4 min
Why "AI-powered" is the worst headline
Sales playbooks

Stop saying "AI-powered." Start saying what it does.

A tear-down of 200 SaaS hero sections and the one pattern that consistently beats every other on conversion.

Marin ColeApr 18 · 5 min
Persistence levels, A/B'd
AI calling

We A/B tested persistence levels 1 through 5. Level 3 won.

More aggressive doesn't book more meetings — past a point it just spikes opt-outs. Here's the curve.

Andre ColeApr 11 · 7 min

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Three things we learned from real customer calls this week, one experiment we ran, one piece of writing we'd recommend.