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The invoice said leads. The evidence said ingredients. The invoice said leads. The evidence said ingredients. I stopped asking whether the vendor was good and asked a harder question. An agency owner had just re-signed with a vendor he called “our best source.” “Best at what, specifically?” I asked. “Highest contact rate.” “Highest contact rate…

Agents reported the problem. The dropdown swallowed it. Agents reported the problem. The dropdown swallowed it. The agents selected ‘bad lead’ so often that management added a memo explaining why they should stop selecting ‘bad lead.’ The data improved immediately. Reality remained difficult. A label without a definition is a complaint box Disconnected, duplicate, wrong…

A green number appeared. Everyone stopped asking questions. A green number appeared. Everyone stopped asking questions. Our model gave the lead an 87. Nobody could explain the 87, but it was green and therefore emotionally persuasive. I asked the data scientist who built the model to walk me through it in a meeting once. “Why…

We bought intent and assigned it by accident! We bought intent and assigned it by accident. The lead was qualified, reachable, and ready. We sent it to the agent who was offline, unlicensed for the market, and already buried under seventeen older records. I found out about it two days later when I pulled the…

The record came back. Its permission did not! The record came back. Its permission did not. I found a lead labeled ‘fresh’ whose consent language had survived three vendors, two campaigns, and apparently the collapse of its original civilization. The phone number was alive. The provenance was paranormal. I pulled the file myself, because something…